Developed in partnership with ELA founder, Dr. Stephanie Curenton, Branagh Group is launching online professional development courses based on the Conversation Compass and the Assessing Classroom Sociocultural Equity Scale (ACSES).
These courses provide educators with tools to enrich their conversations with children and be more culturally responsive in their learning environments.
Dr. Stephanie Curenton
Dr. Stephanie Curenton is a developmental psychologist and author who studies the social, cognitive, and language development of marginalized children.
Conversation Compass tackles the overuse of directives and closed-ended questions in early childhood learning environments. Access to rich, stimulating dialogue in conversation is required for children to develop language and reasoning skills.
Conversation Compass gives educators the tools to build children’s language, critical thinking, and problem-solving skills through instructional peer conversations.
The course identifies:
Social inequity has serious consequences for how education is delivered in the real world today. ACSES was designed to shed light on the experiences of marginalized learners in their learning environments.
The ACSES course provides administrators, program directors, and educators with a framework to create equitable environments that support all children.
The course identifies:
