Training for Educators

Professional Development Training for Teachers, Youth Workers and Early Childhood Educators

Think Different, Do Different!

Professional development training services

Professional development training workshops
Networking and peer-learning opportunities
Site-based consulting services

NdCAD’s professional development training services, called Think Different—Do Different, are designed to help educators and program providers expand their thinking on how they work with diverse children and families. Using culture-centered and experiential learning approaches, training participants gain transformative insights for integrating culturally-responsive approaches, practices, and curricula into their learning environments.

The purpose is to strengthen the connections between home, school and community by sharing our lessons learned and equipping educators and community organizations to THINK DIFFERENT and DO DIFFERENT.

Our goals

Improve education for children
Strengthen and stabilize families
Build cultural competencies

Our professional development services are uniquely crafted to allow us to share our best practices for reaching, teaching and engaging children, parents and community members. Through professional development, we share lessons we have learned from our culturally-based programs, working with our children and families.

Upon evaluating lessons learned from the past two decades, we have identified 7 Key Principles that cut across the organization's programs. Our professional development training services are based on these principles, which are instructive to those who aspire to adopt our approaches and best practices to meet the education, cultural and developmental needs of children and families.

7 key principles