Culturally Responsive Leadership Pt.2

Learning Academy - All Admin Institute 2018

agenda

In your notebooks, write: What did you leave thinking about, what are thinking about coming in today?

Introductions

• Share your Name and temperature

Mario Savio

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Leader in the Free Speech Movement at UC Berkeley in 1960s

Reading on White Supremacy Culture

• What resonates with you?
• What challenges you?
• What do you agree with?

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Opening Moves

Goals:

• Tackle difficult topics like white supremacy
• Plan hacks and long term
• Sharing of best practices colleague:colleague
• Share resources, readings, and tools for transformation

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SFUSD Norms:

• Keep LIBERATION FOR THE OPPRESSED at the center
• Be part of the solution, towards anti-racism
• Be present and comfortable in discomfort

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Our Ongoing Questions

• How do I deal with white fragility?
• How do I get them to care? How do I tap into emotions?
• How do I prevent shutdown or derailing/hijacking?
• Where do I start? What is the formula or order?
• What about our ILT?
• How do we close the gap and infuse social justice issues?
• How do I unearth and learn from teacher mindsets?
• How do we share these ideas with others?
• How do we create a liberatory culture?
• What about our classified staff?

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4 Corners

Round 1 (10 mins)

• Which of the following have had the biggest effect on you as an individual?
• Go to corner
• Talk with other folks to find out why they selected this aspect of WSC

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Round 2 (10 mins)

• Which of the following has up most in your school?
• Go to corner
• Talk with other folks to find out why they selected this aspect of WSC

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Share Out Discussion

• What came up for you?
• What do you want to do next?
• Where do you get started?

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BREAK

LIBERATING STRUCTURES

Lessons Learned from Mission High’s Anti-Racist Teaching structures

• First developed structure for an Anti-Racist (Leadership) Committee
• Aligned PD
• Re-designed bell schedule and master schedule including addition of Ethnic Studies Pathway and addition of teacher -collaborative structures
• Implemented grade disaggregation and looking at student work protocols and set clear expectations for these
• De-Tracked virtually ALL classes and created anti-racist driven AP/Honors enrollment and retention policies and structures

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LIBERATING STRUCTURES

Bell Schedule ReDesign

• 72 minute block scheduling
• Time for PBL and conversations
• Early Release for 5.5 hours of afternoon collaboration time

Master Schedule ReDesign

• Ethnic Studies/Af Am History
• 7th period added for intervention
• Reading or ELD
• All Newcomer and struggling readers also get access to Arts

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Intended Outcomes

1. Project Based Learning
2. Culturally Responsive Teaching
3. Student Collaboration
4. Teacher Collaboration and looking at student work
5. Deeper long term planning

�Engagement, Achievement, and Attendance

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CHEW - Meaning Making

LIBERATING STRUCTURES

Pair Share (5 mins)

• How can you connect this with your work and context?
• What other ways have you made impact on structures? What impacted you?
• Could you see your school using these frameworks, tools, or readings?

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Record 2 ideas on a post it to add to our shared list of resources

LIBERATING MINDSETS

Additional Tools, Frameworks, Readings from the group

LIBERATING MINDSETS

CHEW - Planning

1. Take 20 minutes to plan short term and long term actions to take towards changing the mindsets of your staff�
2. We will share these in a tuning protocol and share updates to the 3 month plans the next time we have All Admin

CHEW - Tuning Protocol

LIBERATING MINDSETS

1. Person A shares their plan, context, and any relevant details, as well as any places they are stuck (4 min)
2. Persons B&C ask clarifying questions (3 min)
3. Persons B&C ask probing/deeper questions (5 min)

If questions go quickly, open discussion by B&C

• Person reflects on feedback (2 min)

Closing Moves

Looking Ahead:

• 3 month plan
• Liberation buddy (exchange numbers and plan to talk)

SFUSD Norms:

• Keep LIBERATION FOR THE OPPRESSED at the center
• Be part of the solution, towards anti-racism
• Be present and comfortable in discomfort

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• Feedback Form

Celebrations