Leverage the Power of Diversity
Expand academic, social and emotional learning for all students!
Engaging Hard-to-Reach Families
Eileen empowers schools with proven strategies that build partnerships with families of diverse backgrounds, a critical factor in student success. Moving beyond negative blame or pity for parents, Eileen respectfully identifies why parents are disconnected from school and what educators can do to change it.
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Inspiring Corporate Leaders
Eileen invigorates corporate leadership with insights on leveraging the diversity of today’s workforce through successful diverse school models. With decades as an Aha! Catalyst on diversity in education, Eileen shares solutions from visionary educational leaders that promote creativity, deeper thinking and better collaboration.
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Clients Include:
“You said what we needed to hear, in a way that we could hear it, and planted the seeds for further action.”
P.H., Multi-school Principal, Sioux City
Blue Ribbon Schools Summit
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“Eileen brought up ideas I had never thought of – ideas I can use to move forward”
Teacher leader, Metropolitan Nashville Public Schools
Latest News and Publications
Respect and Accountability in the Covington High School confrontation
By: Eileen Kugler
The teens from Covington High School need to be held accountable for their decisions. They didn't need to say, 'Build that wall,' because their hats said it all. If we don't teach the boys about respecting and learning from people who are different from them, they will grow up to be the white privileged men abusing power that we see all around us.
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How Immigrant Students Strengthen American Schools
By: Eileen Kugler
A high school chemistry teacher engaged his students in a discussion of the relationship of science and society, which quickly evolved into safety testing and animal rights. A student in the back shyly raised his hand. “What are ‘animal rights’?” he asked. Recently emigrating from an African country to escape starvation, his deep connection to […]
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Featured Articles
Building Positive School Climate: Needed Today More Than Ever
By: Eileen Kugler
Are you seeing increased tensions among students? Do you hear name calling and see bullying more this year than ever before? These are challenging times, where students hear hurtful comments in the media, or maybe at home as well. Since schools reflect our broader society, it makes sense that we are experiencing more hurtful interactions […]
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Supporting Our Immigrant Families in a Time of Fear
By: Eileen Kugler
The work of schools is to teach children. Yet schools do not operate in a vacuum. They reflect what is happening around them. And in many communities, immigrant families are living in fear, not knowing whether they will be able to remain in the country from day-to-day. Teachers and counselors reported students weepy or disengaged. […]
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