This interactive professional learning experience will provide participants with an opportunity to develop the knowledge, skills and understandings necessary for working effectively with students, employees and community members from diverse cultural backgrounds (i.e. race, ethnicity, gender, language, sexual orientation, religion, SES, etc.) Areas of focus will include: 1) Assessing Culture; 2) Valuing Diversity; 3) Managing the Dynamics of Difference; 4) Adapting to Diversity; and 5) Institutionalizing Cultural Knowledge.