CIBI Services
CIBI Accreditation

Accreditation, as it is envisioned within CIBI, will require Full Institutional membership status and a site visit by a CIBI accrediting team. Our goal is for all of CIBI's Full Institutional members to be actively applying our Standards for Evaluating Afrikan-Centered Educational Institutions throughout their operations and engaging in an ongoing process of self-evaluation and action planning based upon those standards.  More details on CIBI's accreditation process is forthcoming to its web site. Asante (thank you) for your patience and support of our mission.

CIBI Consulting Services

CIBI's Consultant Service was formed to offer advice, assistance, recommendations, references or research in areas related to the education of Afrikans in America. The membership of this select group of educators and leaders who have demonstrated the skills and expertise necessary to start and sustain community-based educational institutions and programs. This service also provides educators from CIBI schools and elsewhere opportunities to benefit from the knowledge and insights gained from experiences and in-depth research related to Afrikan-centered thought and values, praxis and Afrikan historiography during the past 30 years. Currently, those interested in consultant services can contact CIBI directly at contact@cibi.org. Please be specific in what your needs are, your expectations, and how we might assist you best as a family, individual person, institution or group.

CIBI Speakers' Bureau

The CIBI Speakers' Bureau and Consultant Service was formed to offer advice, assistance, recommendations, references or research in areas related to the education of Afrikans in America. The membership of this select group of educators generally consists of individuals who have demonstrated the skills and expertise necessary to start and sustain community-based educational institutions and programs. We strongly recommend that organizations and/or individuals send their requests for speakers at least 30 days in advance. Any requests made in less than 30 days can only be confirmed based upon the availability of the speaker. Interested parties can e-mail us.

Speakers' Bureau Broad Topics List:

  • Educational Trends, Issues and Prospects
  • Political Trends and Issues
  • Economic Theory and Systems
  • Culture and World View
  • Technology and Science
  • Martial Arts and Self-Defense
  • Parenting and Relationships
  • Family Development and Nationbuilding
  • Institutional Building
  • Spiritual Systems and Personal Transformation
  • Historiography and African Historical Developments

CIBI's Walimu (Teacher) Development Institute

Background

Top priority was given to the established of a teacher training agency. CIBI organized its first national Teacher Training Institute (TTI) in Philadelphia, Pennsylvania from July 23 to August 13, 1972. The fifteen graduates completed the first step in qualifying for appointment to the Afrikan Teachers Corps. Since that time, CIBI has continued to sponsor national, regional, and local teacher training institutes to develop qualified teachers for Independent Black Institutions (IBIs).

In recent years, CIBI's teacher training Institutes have also included teachers and administrators on the faculties of public or private schools, undergraduate and graduate students who may or may not be in the teaching preparation studies, and other members of the Afrikan American community who are interested in teaching in independent Black institutions, or who want to learn the teaching methods used in these schools.

Mission

We are proposing here a reformatted TTI (Teacher Training Institute), the Walimu/Teacher Development Institute (WDI), that builds on the efforts undertaken in the last twenty-five years by various institutional and individual members of CIBI in the development and implementation of TTI. The CIBI WDI being proposed would augment and facilitate the current cultural/ideological posture of CIBI including the nationbuilding and sovereignty emphasis of the formal definition of Afrikan centered education. The proposed WDI would also augment and facilitate the curriculum design being used in the ongoing curriculum development project. In addition, it would augment and facilitate the implementation of the CIBI standards for evaluating Afrikan centered educational institutions.

Participants and Startup Date

Historically the teacher development opportunities offered by CIBI have been directed toward those persons who were actually teaching in an IBI or who had plans of doing so. The focus of WDI would be the same. The initial session of WDI was scheduled for August 7 - 10, 2002, but instead took place at CIBI's 30th year anniversity convention at Penn Center, South Carolina. The WDI occur at each bi-annual conference and convention, with separate workshop tracks for WDI participants. WDI sessions were a part of CIBI's 2003 conference at Fort Valley State University, Fort Valley, Georgia and it is anticipated that they will also be a part of the next conference or convention.


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