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Colorado Staff Development Council April 10, 2008 Scott Capron Rob Nickerson

Colorado Staff Development Council April 10, 2008 Scott Capron Rob Nickerson. Expanding Racial Consciousness. "My humanity is bound up in yours, for we can only be human together." Desmond Tutu. Expanding Racial Consciousness. Learning Goals:

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Colorado Staff Development Council April 10, 2008 Scott Capron Rob Nickerson

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  1. NSDC: Capron and Nickerson: Expanding Racial Consciousness Colorado Staff Development Council April 10, 2008 Scott Capron Rob Nickerson Expanding Racial Consciousness

  2. NSDC: Capron and Nickerson: Expanding Racial Consciousness "My humanity is bound up in yours, for we can only be human together." Desmond Tutu

  3. NSDC: Capron and Nickerson: Expanding Racial Consciousness Expanding Racial Consciousness Learning Goals: Explore how the dynamics of student’s race and racial self identity impact learning Examine how teachers’ consciousness about race and racial self-identity impact their effectiveness

  4. NSDC: Capron and Nickerson: Expanding Racial Consciousness Expanding Racial Consciousness Learning Goals: Explore frameworks and structures for schools to become more culturally responsive Examine staff development strategies that support educators in closing achievement gaps

  5. NSDC: Capron and Nickerson: Expanding Racial Consciousness Building A Community Be Present Allow Disequilibrium Speak Honestly Walk Away with Understanding and More Questions

  6. NSDC: Capron and Nickerson: Expanding Racial Consciousness Common Terms In groups, choose two or three of the common terms and discuss your interpretation of them. How would the teachers in your school define these terms? Source: Office of Educational Equity, Jefferson County Public Schools

  7. NSDC: Capron and Nickerson: Expanding Racial Consciousness Common Terms Anti-racism Colorblind Equity Ethnicity Institutional Racism Race Racism White Privilege

  8. NSDC: Capron and Nickerson: Expanding Racial Consciousness Common Terms White Privilege Institutional and cultural preferential treatment toward people with European ancestry over people of color. 

  9. NSDC: Capron and Nickerson: Expanding Racial Consciousness Common Terms Racism Racial prejudice plus institutional and systemic power to dominate, exclude, discriminate against or abuse targeted groups of people based on a designation of race. “System of advantage based on race” Beverly Daniel Tatum PH.D

  10. NSDC: Capron and Nickerson: Expanding Racial Consciousness Common Terms Colorblind Makes race irrelevant and invisible by erasing racial categories and ignoring differences to achieve an illusory state of equality.  A belief in the sameness of humans can deny the existence of differences.

  11. NSDC: Capron and Nickerson: Expanding Racial Consciousness Common Terms Anti-racism Our conscious and deliberate, individual and collective action that challenges the impact and perpetuation of institutional White racial power, position, and privilege.

  12. NSDC: Capron and Nickerson: Expanding Racial Consciousness Common Terms Ethnicity A basis for social categories that are rooted in socially perceived differences in national origin, language, and/or religion.

  13. NSDC: Capron and Nickerson: Expanding Racial Consciousness Common Terms Race A classification of humans created by Whites which assigns the status ‘White' as the height of human achievement for the purpose of maintaining privilege and power.

  14. NSDC: Capron and Nickerson: Expanding Racial Consciousness Common Terms Institutional Racism The way institutions systematically afford White people an array of social, political, and economic advantages, while marginalizing people of color.  These institutions generate and maintain racial discrimination, segregation, and inequalities of opportunity that keep people of color apart from the mainstream of American economic and political life.

  15. NSDC: Capron and Nickerson: Expanding Racial Consciousness Common Terms Equity The state, quality, or ideal of being just, impartial, and fair.

  16. NSDC: Capron and Nickerson: Expanding Racial Consciousness Common Terms Partner Task: Why might it be important to seek common understanding of vocabulary when talking about equity with colleagues?

  17. NSDC: Capron and Nickerson: Expanding Racial Consciousness Practical Idea #1: Another Layer of Professional Learning Interview Season How do we make the Diversity Question truly important? What answers do we want to hear?

  18. NSDC: Capron and Nickerson: Expanding Racial Consciousness Interview Questions What are some ways you worked to be culturally responsive in your teaching? Knowledge and understanding of the community, culture, and use different strategies to meet the needs of various people while maintaining high expectations for all learners.

  19. NSDC: Capron and Nickerson: Expanding Racial Consciousness Interview Questions What do you understand about the achievement gaps of various racial groups? Think of a time when the issue of race came up in your classroom, how did you facilitate the conversation?

  20. NSDC: Capron and Nickerson: Expanding Racial Consciousness Colorado Data Colorado Math and Reading at 3rd and 10th grade disaggregated by race What do you notice? Group Task: Share 2 observations per slide

  21. NSDC: Capron and Nickerson: Expanding Racial Consciousness 3rd Grade CSAP ReadingColorado 2007

  22. NSDC: Capron and Nickerson: Expanding Racial Consciousness 10th Grade CSAP ReadingColorado 2007

  23. NSDC: Capron and Nickerson: Expanding Racial Consciousness 3rd Grade CSAP MathColorado 2007

  24. NSDC: Capron and Nickerson: Expanding Racial Consciousness 10th Grade CSAP MathColorado 2007

  25. NSDC: Capron and Nickerson: Expanding Racial Consciousness Data Reflection Partner Conversation: What are some factors that contribute to this data? What would your colleagues say?

  26. NSDC: Capron and Nickerson: Expanding Racial Consciousness Avoidance Responses Poverty Family Language Mobility What about……..race?

  27. NSDC: Capron and Nickerson: Expanding Racial Consciousness SAT Achievement ScoresAverage Scores by parental income and race/ethnicity

  28. NSDC: Capron and Nickerson: Expanding Racial Consciousness Race Why not talk about race? How do we keep the conversation about race and data real? Partner Task: How do you identify yourself? (1 minute per person)‏

  29. “The key here is not the kind of instruction but the attitude underlying it. When teachers do not understand the potential of the students they teach, they will underteach them no matter what the methodology.” Lisa Delpit

  30. NSDC: Capron and Nickerson: Expanding Racial Consciousness Practical Idea #2: Another Layer of Professional Learning Study Group which Evolves to Action Leadership Example: Read “Why Do All the Black Kids Sit Together in the Cafeteria” by Beverly Daniel Tattum

  31. NSDC: Capron and Nickerson: Expanding Racial Consciousness Racial Self Identity The psychological construct of an individual to determine identity based on race in a larger social context. For adolescents, this identity develops in response to messages from peers, adults, family, the media, and the community at large.

  32. NSDC: Capron and Nickerson: Expanding Racial Consciousness Racial Self Identity Why are all the Black Kids Sitting Together in the Cafeteria? By Beverly Daniel Tatum Defining Racism Multiple Identities Identity Development in Adolescence Understanding Racial Identity Development Developing a healthy sense of white identity

  33. NSDC: Capron and Nickerson: Expanding Racial Consciousness Racial Self Identity Text Based Protocol Part I Read your assigned excerpt Look for two major ideas Part II Gather in a group where all 6 excerpts are represented Share the major ideas

  34. NSDC: Capron and Nickerson: Expanding Racial Consciousness Racial Self Identity Table Group Conversation: Connections to our schools Do we nurture a positive racial self identity for our students? What do we need to think about as we nurture positive racial identity in our students? How might we encourage teachers to talk about racial self identity?

  35. NSDC: Capron and Nickerson: Expanding Racial Consciousness Practical Idea#3: Another Layer of Professional Learning Placement of Students in Programs (academic and student leadership)‏ Get involved in the process and ask lots of questions

  36. NSDC: Capron and Nickerson: Expanding Racial Consciousness “Class, race, sexuality, gender and all other categories by which we categorize and dismiss each other need to be excavated from the inside.” Dorothy Allison

  37. NSDC: Capron and Nickerson: Expanding Racial Consciousness Summary and Break Insights from the morning Hopes for our remaining time together

  38. "The point is not to pay back kindness, but to pass it on." Julia Alvarez

  39. NSDC: Capron and Nickerson: Expanding Racial Consciousness Time to take a pulse: 1. Is there anything that has made you uncomfortable up to this point? 2. What do we do about it?

  40. Good intentions are not a plan.

  41. NSDC: Capron and Nickerson: Expanding Racial Consciousness Practical Idea #4: Another Layer of Professional Learning Analyze and review school norms, policies, and discipline procedures Are they culturally proficient and equitable?

  42. NSDC: Capron and Nickerson: Expanding Racial Consciousness Culturally Responsive Teaching Teaching and leading in such a way that more of our students across more of our differences achieve at a higher level and engage at a deeper level more of the time without fundamentally giving up who they are. Source: Office of Educational Equity, Jefferson County Public Schools

  43. NSDC: Capron and Nickerson: Expanding Racial Consciousness Culturally Responsive Tools “Cultural Proficiency is a way of being that enables one to effectively respond in a variety of cultural settings to the issues caused by diversity.” Source: Cultural Proficiency: A Manual for School Leaders page 84.

  44. NSDC: Capron and Nickerson: Expanding Racial Consciousness Culturally Responsive Tools Table Group Conversation: Reflect on your school and school district What programs and practices are you using to address culturally responsive teaching? Describe the informal and formal conversations you have about race?

  45. NSDC: Capron and Nickerson: Expanding Racial Consciousness Culturally Responsive Tools Essential Elements of Cultural Proficiency Assess Culture: Name the Differences Value Diversity: Claim your Differences Manage the Dynamics of Difference: Frame the Conflicts Caused by Differences Adapt to Diversity: Change to Make a Difference Institutionalize Cultural Knowledge: Train About Differences

  46. NSDC: Capron and Nickerson: Expanding Racial Consciousness Culturally Responsive Tools Essential Elements of Cultural Proficiency Table Group Task: Why is this element important? How would this element ‘look’ and ‘sound’ in your school? What is the first step towards making this element a reality?

  47. NSDC: Capron and Nickerson: Expanding Racial Consciousness Culturally Responsive Tools Essential Elements of Cultural Proficiency Whole Group Task: Why is this element important? How would this element ‘look’ and ‘sound’ in your school? What is the first step towards making this element a reality?

  48. NSDC: Capron and Nickerson: Expanding Racial Consciousness Culturally Responsive Tools Background of the Continuum Highlight each descriptor Cultural destructiveness Cultural Incapacity Cultural Blindness Cultural Pre-competence Cultural Competence Cultural Proficiency

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