SAGE and Dr. William A. Howe, author of Becoming a Multicultural Educator, will be hosting a free Education Webinar on March 15th at 12:00 PM PST//3:00 PM EST on “Teaching Students What They Really Need to Know: Using Multicultural Education to Prepare Students to Be Competitive in a Global Workplace.”

For more information and to register, please click here. We hope you can join us!

Different cultural expectations can place business students
in uncomfortable situations. By learning to “switch”
behaviors, they can adapt more successfully to another
country’s value system while staying true to their own.

http://people.brandeis.edu/~molinsky/documents/32-37%20F-Switching%20Cultural%20Codes.pdf

This is a classic example of not knowing or understanding aspects of culture.

Sharing skin color with their principal makes life better for many American teachers, according to a major new study from the University of Missouri.

The report, which surveyed more than 37,000 teachers and principals from 7,200 schools across the country, found that black teachers who work for a black principal are generally happier with their jobs, are less likely to leave and say they receive more support, encouragement and recognition from their superiors.

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