Educating the Whole Child Conference

2018 Educating the Whole Child Conference

Tuesday, August 21, 2018 | 8:00 a.m. - 4:30 p.m. | Jackson Conference Center 

This one-day conference focuses on helping educators understand the needs of historically underserved students and provides culturally relevant educational techniques. Workshop topics include Motivational Framework for Culturally Responsive Teaching, Integrating Culture into the Classroom, and Teaching with Poverty in Mind, as well as many other topics.

Mission: We want participants to be better prepared to serve and educate the whole child. This conference provides K-20 educators with educational tools and knowledge relevant to the unique needs of the students they will teach in the upcoming school year. We hope the conference positively impacts teacher retention in the critical K-12 years, and improves student success throughout their educational journey.

Background: This conference was created in 2014 by Michael Hansen, an Everett Community College student whose wife is a teacher on the Tulalip reservation. He saw the negative impact of high teacher turnover at Quil Ceda / Tulalip Elementary School and other schools serving historically underserved populations. He was inspired to create a program to better prepare K-12 teachers to truly educate the whole child--for success in the upcoming school year and beyond.