Professional Learning
Online Learning
VABB Academy
Inform. Influence. Inspire.
VABB Academy is the online professional learning space for cultural and linguistic responsiveness (CLR).
Start with the foundation courses, such as Focus on Culture or CLR Classroom Management, or delve into a deep dive with the Cultural Behavioral Tutorials (CBTs). Either way, build your knowledge and develop your skills with the flexibility of learning online.
CLR Online
Online Learning Workshop
This workshop will demonstrate strategies and tools that teachers can use, to validate and affirm students’ culturally, in their online teaching.
Participants will also be given a bank of resources, including video tutorials, for further support after the training.
CLR Distance Learning Recommended Activities
CLR Recommended Activities are here to assist and explore ways to build communities in our virtual classrooms. Every student needs to feel a sense of belonging, that they are connected, accepted and that they are a part of an OUTRAGEOUSLY loving and engaging classroom community.
CLR Online
Cultural
Behavior Tutorials
Using a cultural lens to view students’ behavior allows you to see your students differently in many ways. The process here is to learn how to recognize if the behavior as cultural, practice validation and affirmation, and teach the situational appropriate behavior.
By acknowledging these cultural behavior differences, and teaching students about the situational appropriateness of certain behaviors, teachers help students learn to navigate different situations in the mainstream culture effectively.
CLR Responds to R.A.C.E
Experiences, Not Events. Radical Change, Not Reactionary.
Deep introspection that provides an indication of where you are with race/racism, individually. In short, radical change starts with you.
Silence is complicity. The big elephant in the room has to be acknowledged through conversation, of course, but with conversations that lead to action.
The difference in our activism and advocacy, ”this time,” has to be tangible, measurable actions at the individual level, as well as the institutional level. Do something!
Ignorance is not bliss and knowledge is power. The number one correlation to biased thinking is level of ignorance. Reading, listening, and/or watching texts, videos, webinars, podcasts, etc., and then discussing them. Rinse and repeat
FAQs
We Are Often Asked
The course starts now and never ends! It is a completely self-paced online course – you decide when you start and when you finish.
How does lifetime access sound? After enrolling, you have unlimited access to this course for as long as you like – across any and all devices you own.
We would never want you to be unhappy! If you are unsatisfied with your purchase, contact us in the first 30 days and we will give you a full refund.
Over half of our Foundation workshops are currently available on Teachable: Focus on Culture, Culturally Responsive Classroom Management, and Culturally Responsive Academic Vocabulary. We are currently working on creating Culturally Responsive Academic Literacy and Language. Stay tuned!