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Wichita's 5-year plan incorporates the essential elements of behavioral standards for moving toward a culturally proficient organization.
These elements include: assessing cultural knowledge, valuing diversity, managing the dynamics of difference, adapting to diversity, and institutionalizing cultural knowledge. The essential elements will be managed through four core areas of organization: curriculum & instructions, professional development, assessment & accountability, and parent & community communication and outreach.
- Celebrate and encourage the presence of a variety of people in all activities.
- Recognize differences as diversity rather than as inappropriate responses to the environment.
- Accept that each culture finds some values and behaviors more important than others.
- Learn effective strategies for resolving conflict, particularly among people whose cultural backgrounds values differ.
- Understand the effect that historic distrust has on present day interactions.
- Realize that you may misjudge others' actions based on learned expectations.
- Change the way things are done to acknowledge the differences that are presenting the staff, clients and community.
- Develop skills for intercultural communications.
- Institutionalize cultural interventions for conflicts and confusion caused by the dynamics of difference.
- Incorporate cultural knowledge into the mainstream of the organization.
- Teach the origins of stereotypes and prejudices.
- For staff development and education, integrate into systems information and skills that enable all to interact effectively in a variety of intercultural situations.
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