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Beyond Diversity: Continuing the Journey

Beyond Diversity: Continuing the Journey. Administrative and Supervisory Meeting December 2, 2010. Goals. As educators, examine how race impacts students and what teachers, principals, and others can do to improve student learning across racial groups.

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Beyond Diversity: Continuing the Journey

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  1. Beyond Diversity:Continuing the Journey Administrative and Supervisory Meeting December 2, 2010

  2. Goals • As educators, examine how race impacts students and what teachers, principals, and others can do to improve student learning across racial groups. • Delve deeply into Glenn Singleton’s work in Courageous Conversations in order to deepen participants’ understanding of race and culture and lead to more effective teaching and learning.

  3. Goals • Work to define the personal significance and social significance of belonging to a particular racial group. • Support educators in developing the requisite cultural proficiency necessary to appropriately serve our increasingly diverse schools and society.

  4. Administrative and Supervisory Meeting Structure • 60-90 minute sessions in the morning for whole group, assisted by consultant Donna Graves. • Facilitated conversations in small groups in the afternoon around Courageous Conversations.

  5. The Compass

  6. Two Stories… • Julio • Brandon

  7. Personal Reflection • What was powerful for you in the students’ stories? • Anything surprising? • What questions do their stories raise for you?

  8. Partner Conversations • What are your reactions to the students’ stories? • What surprised you? • What may be troubling you? • What questions do their stories raise for you?

  9. Table Conversations • What are implications for the work in which we are engaging as educators to address the racial achievement gap? • What do we already know? • What do we still need to know? • How can we find out what we need to know?

  10. Personal Reflection What might be parts of your own “racial autobiography”?

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