W ho W e A re “If you have a purpose for which you can believe, there’s no end to the amount of things you can accomplish." ~MARIAN ANDERSON~
A t Cultural Practices That Are Relevant (CPR) our work focuses on “Breathing New Life Into Ourselves, Our Children and Our Instructional Practices.” In an effort to promote, honor and protect the wealth of Black and other culturally relevant educational practices and promote increased racial identity and achievement in Black and other children of color, Cultural Practices That Are Relevant is a national education consulting firm that provides culturally relevant conferences, coaching, workshops, curriculum development and public speaking to early childhood, k-12 and higher education institutions across the United States. Our signature event is the annual Black History Education Conference, with an ever-increasing number of participants across Wisconsin and wider growing participation across the United States. Our 1,000 plus past attendees have included early childhood representatives, K-12 school personnel, higher education institutions including Edgewood College, the University of Wisconsin Madison, the University of Wisconsin Eau Claire and the University of Wisconsin Whitewater. Also in attendance were church members, community organizations such as the Urban League of Greater Madison, Overture Center of the Arts, PBS Wisconsin, UW Health, Unity Point Health- Meriter & Quartz and Wisconsin State Historical Society, among others. State officials in attendance have included but is not limited to former State Superintendent Carolyn Stanford Taylor, Lieutenant Governor Mandela Barnes, Dane County Executive Joe Parisi, Interim Chief Diversity Officer of UW-Madison, Cheryl Gittens and Representative Shelia Stubbs. National figures, Dr. Gloria Ladson-Billings, the Grammy award winning
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