SCIRA Winter Virtual Conference 2/24/21
Dr. Gilo Kwesi Logan
Wednesday, February 24th
6:00 to 7:30 pm via Zoom
Culturally Competent Teaching: The Power, Profile, and Place of the N-word
In recent years, school communities have reported various incidents where students employed the N-word in school and with peers. Teachers, staff, and parents/caregivers have been at a loss as to how to effectively address these challenges. Dr. Gilo Kwesi Logan was compelled to develop the nation’s first Curriculum and Resource Guide for school communities around the N-word—its use, its meaning, its impact, and how to leverage it towards learning. In this workshop, Dr. Logan will share his groundbreaking research and resources for structured learning experiences and developing cultural competence surrounding the N-word.
Dr. Gilo Kwesi Logan is an internationally recognized consultant, author, and speaker. With experience spanning over twenty years and throughout twenty-three countries, Dr. Logan has provided expertly researched and demonstrably effective leadership and diversity training to multinational corporations, nonprofit organizations, school districts, college campuses, and government agencies.
In an increasingly diverse, interconnected, and at times, seemingly polarized society, Dr. Logan helps leaders and teams develop skills in cultural intelligence in order to achieve their goals of inclusive leadership, recruiting and retaining diverse talent, antiracism, and facilitating an equitable and inclusive organizational culture, for the overall growth of their business and employees.
As a public speaker, Dr. Logan combines this professional specialization in multicultural education, with his research expertise in racial identity development and own personal history. Growing up in Evanston, Illinois, he learned of social justice not from watching the news, but from watching his father serve as the first Black police chief of Evanston and go onto serve as a bodyguard to Dr. Martin Luther King Jr.