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Today’s Agenda

Today’s Agenda. 9:00 Welcome/Overview – Mike & Isreal 9:05 Teaching and Learning – Lori Simon, Steph Skelly, and Cathryn Peterson 9:35 Q-Comp Update – Tracy Mena 9:55 Seven Dreams Education Foundation 10:15 Break 10:25 Group Norms – Bruce Beidelman

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Today’s Agenda

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  1. Today’s Agenda • 9:00 Welcome/Overview – Mike & Isreal • 9:05 Teaching and Learning – Lori Simon, Steph Skelly, and Cathryn Peterson • 9:35 Q-Comp Update – Tracy Mena • 9:55 Seven Dreams Education Foundation • 10:15 Break • 10:25 Group Norms – Bruce Beidelman • 10:35 Special Education: Curriculum, Collaboration, Communication, and Behavior – Ellen Woit and Michelle Bethke-Kaliher • 11:00 Insisting and Persisting for Equity in Robbinsdale Schools – Marcellus Davis • 11:30 Principals Only: Listening Time • 12:00 Wrap Up/Adjourn

  2. Subcommittee Work… Agreeing to Behaviors Aligned with our Beliefs.

  3. Institute Beliefs • We guarantee an equitable education by radically changing an institutionally racist school system. • We have the responsibility to guarantee all students, families and staff are valued and belong. • We have the responsibility to guarantee a learning environment where all students and staff are held to high expectations and achieve at high levels. • We must persevere with a clear vision and purpose to be a racially conscious courageous agent of change. • We play a critical role in educating all students, thus every moment and interaction with a child impacts learning.

  4. 1. We guarantee an equitable education by radically changing an institutionally racist school system. We will: • Speak your truth. • Remain open and engaged. • Laser focus on race, prior knowledge and experiences. • Respectfully listen to all perspectives. • Create open dialogue through courageous conversations. • Continually question, reflect and research alternatives to current practices.

  5. 2. We have the responsibility to guarantee all students, families and staff are valued and belong. We will: • Reserve judgment. Invite/encourage people to come as they are. • Listen for understanding. Ask clarifying questions to seek multiple perspectives. • Embrace the four agreements of BD. • Demonstrate the four agreements in all of our actions. • Actively listen without judgment. • Affirm cultural norms and beliefs.

  6. 3. We have the responsibility to guarantee a learning environment where all students and staff are held to high expectations and achieve at high levels. We will: • Commit to sharing strategies that are proven by data to be successful at improving learning. • Be fully engaged and present at all times. • Reflect and be courageous in implementing strategies.

  7. 4. We must persevere with a clear vision and purpose to be a racially conscious courageous agent of change. We will: • Challenge the status quo. • Be reflective and deliberatively take action. • Share stories and invite feedback.

  8. 5. Play a critical role in educating all students, thus every moment and interaction with a child impacts learning. We will: • Value multiple perspectives. • Be conscientious of our own and others’ behavior on the group. • Value all adults to build a positive climate and culture.

  9. 4 Agreements • Speak your truth • Stay engaged • Experience discomfort • Accept and expect non-closure 6 Conditions • Focus on PERSONAL local and immediate • ISOLATE race • Normalize SOCIAL CONSTRUCTION & multiple perspectives • Monitor agreements, conditions and ESTABLISH PARAMETERS • Use a “WORKING DEFINITION” for race • Examine the presence and role of “WHITENESS” • Challenge the status quo • Be reflective and take deliberate action • Share stories and invite feedback • Share evidence-based strategies & be courageous in implementation • Invite and encourage people to come as they are • Actively listen for understanding and ask clarifying questions to seek multiple perspectives • Share and celebrate racial and cultural norms & beliefs • Be conscientious of our own and others’ behavior in the group (be purposeful or intentional with our own)

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