What We Do
TeenDIVERSOPHY® provides learning tools, programs, products and resources for teachers, schools and organizations that are striving to build strong, healthy, inclusive, affirming environments for high-school age students in the US.
What We Believe
We believe all students deserve peaceful, vibrant learning environments.
We believe culturally diverse school communities provide a rich forum for cognitive, socio-emotional, behavioral and character growth.
We believe students can learn the skills of living and thriving together at school, in the community and in the world.
We believe schools and youth-serving organizations need to develop and model in their adult environments what they hope to create for their students.
We believe teachers who are life-long learners of their own and other cultures can provide exciting avenues for students to learn these skills.
Our Team
TeenDIVERSOPHY’s team is a diverse, inclusive and dynamic one.
Our network of consultants is a group of experienced educators and administrators who have worked in public, independent and parochial schools. They possess a wide range of expertise. Anyone who calls us can be sure to get best-practice answers quickly.
Our younger educators keep us informed on real issues in real classrooms. They also provide us the insight and idealism of their generation.
Our interns are inquisitive, energetic and innovative high school and college students who contribute immensely to our work. They are our cultural informants into the world of American teenagers.
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Our Director
Malati Marlene Shinazy, M.Ed. has worked in the learning arena for over twenty years. Her academic positions include N-K and 9-12 teacher, Director of Diversity and Community Relations, pre-service teacher trainer and parent educator.
Before starting TeenDIVERSOPHY, Malati was a senior consultant for workplace diversity firm, George Simons International (www.diversophy.com). She conducted employee culture audits, diffused group racial tensions and developed workplace diversity initiatives.
Her many research projects include studying the philanthropic patterns of six ethnic groups under a Ford Foundation grant and a comprehensive study on the needs of high-risk ethnic minority students’ parents.
A well-known keynote speaker, Malati recently spoke at the California and Nevada School Safety Symposium. She is contributing author to Global Competence: 50 Training Activities for Conducting International Business, HRD Press. She also appears as a quest expert in the Crisp Learning Publications training video, Working Together II, Succeeding in a Multicultural Organization.
Malati developed TeenDIVERSOPHY the learning game with 18 public high school students and college interns over the course of two academic years.
Her degrees include a master of education, Cabrini College, Radnor, PA and a bachelor of arts in psychology, University of California, Davis.
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