Institutes

Walking the Walk Institutes are intensive, 3-day working sessions that provide an opportunity to talk about how to best promote cultural diversity within early childhood/early intervention communities in North Carolina.

Three Action Teams from Walking the Walk's cohort two came together May 28-31, 2002 at Wrightsville Beach, N.C. for a week of sharing, learning and discussion about cultural diversity issues in early childhood education and intervention. The teams were:

1. Greensboro/Guilford County Community Action Team;
2. Winston-Salem/Forsyth Community Action Team; and
3. a State Action Team for Walking the Walk.

Participants included representatives from universities, community colleges, Historically Black Colleges & Universities (HBCUs), local early childhood partnerships, resource & referral agencies, the NC Department of Public Instruction and NC Department of Health and Human Services, among others.

For downloading institute session handout materials, please go to the PRESENTATIONS section of this web site. To view team Action Plans developed while at the institute, please go to the COMMUNITIES section of this web site.

Session Handouts Spring 2002

Community Action Plans Spring 2002

See the Spring 2002 Institute photos NOW!

WTW Institute 2001 was a great success!

The institute for Cohort One of the Walking the Walk Project was held September 26-28 at the Montreat Conference Center in Montreat, N.C. Each community involved, Wake, Durham and Orange-Chatham, developed a Community Action Plan while at the institute. You can view these on the individual community pages of this web site. In addition, each person developed an individual Back-Home Plan. As part of the institute evaluation and follow-up, our staff will contact each of the institute participants in six months for an interview about their individual progress. Also in six months, each Community Action Team (CAT) will meet with their respective Campus-Community Diversity Consortium (CCDC) to share details about the institute and to discuss the progress of their Community Action Plans.

See the Fall 2001 Institute photos

Detailed Institute Schedule Fall 2001 (PDF)

Session Handouts Fall 2001

Community Action Plans Fall 2001

Purpose of Walking the Walk Institutes

Planned to meet the priorities identified in advance by the Campus-Community Diversity Consortia, the three-day Walking the Walk Insititute will include unique learning opportunites. The institute is designed to be different from traditional content-focused workshops or conferences, by offering many different kinds of interactions and resources. Some of these include:

• presentations organized around increasing the cultural and linguistic diversity and cultural competence of the workforce serving young children (with and without disabilities) and their families through efforts that include recruitment, preparation, support and linkages;
  
  
• opportunities to learn by doing, as many sessions will involve participants in the activities being illustrated;
  
  
• access to human resources selected to match the interest and planning priorities of participants;
  
  
• dedicated blocks of time for participants to meet, discuss, think and plan
  
  
• an interactive library of instructional resources to read, watch and use.
  
  

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