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Culturally & Linguistically Sustaining Practices

in the Elementary Setting

LEARNING SITE

Virtual Session Follow-Up #1

Virtual Dates: 4/25, 5/9, 5/23

Time: 5-6 pm

Virtual Session Facilitators:

Kadian Simmonds

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TIME FOR CONNECTION:

Remind us of your:

  • Name
  • School
  • Role

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  • Tell us something you’ve been thinking about since the Learning Site
    • Something around our focus question: How do we leverage cultural identity to support the delivery of curriculum with authentic CLSP experiences in the secondary classroom?
    • Something from the peer observation ?
    • Something else?

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Community Agreements

  1. Confidentiality: maintain confidentiality; share learning outside group but not details

  • Psychological Safety: no blame, no shame, no attack, share airtime, always okay to pass

  • Fully Present: listen actively, share honestly, respectful use of technology

  • Growth Mindset: adopt a learning orientation for students and for adults
  • Equity Lens: aim to reduce our own biases/blind spots and increase access and agency for all learners.

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Other norms to add today?

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Purpose and Agenda

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Agenda:

  • Welcome and Overview (10 min)
  • Change Idea Brainstorm (10 min)
  • Feedback Protocol (30 min)
  • Closing (5 min)

The Process:

The Purpose:

A professional learning experience that is educator-driven with collaborative team coaching to keep us accountable and help move teaching practices forward.

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“How do educators of color leverage their cultural identity to support the delivery of curriculum with authentic CLSP experiences?”

Aim

What are we trying to accomplish?

Primary Drivers

What students need [to influence the aim]

Classroom Relationships

learning atmosphere shows respect for students, staff, and diverse populations

Secondary Drivers

What needs to happen [to influence driver]

Student Opportunity for Self-Assessment

Change Ideas

...changes in practice?

High Quality Instructional Materials (HQIM)

HOW

WHY

Leveraging Identity for CLSP:

Driver Diagram

Daily Work with Enabling, Complex Text

Instructional Practices

Instruction is contextualized in students’ lives, experiences, and individual abilities

Access for All Learners / Specially Designed Instruction (SDI)

Critical Consciousness

Planned learning experiences incorporate opportunities to confront negative stereotypes and biases

Culturally and Linguistically Sustaining Instructional Practices

SEL Integrated w/ Academic Instruction

Teacher encourages students to share their stories with one another and to have pride in their history and linguistic and cultural identities

Teacher routinely models making connections between personal or professional identity and curriculum where relevant

student and teacher input is given equal weight in driving the learning.

“Definitely incomplete, possibly incorrect”

Discourse

Lesson promotes active student engagement through discourse

Assessment Practices

Students are able to demonstrate their learning in a variety of ways

Critical Consciousness

Learning experiences integrate or provide opportunities for expression of diverse perspectives

Classroom Relationships

Educator communicates high expectations for all students

Modeling Vulnerability

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EDUCATOR PRESENTS

(3-5 min.)

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03

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FEEDBACK FOR PRESENTER

(3-5 min.)

PRESENTER REFLECTION

(1 min.)

CHANGE IDEA:

TEAM FEEDBACK & REFLECTIONS

Presenter shares information about his/her “Change Idea”, including:

• Context

• Goals

• Focusing question for feedback

• One piece of warm feedback (something positive or strong about the change idea)

• One piece of cool feedback or a suggestion (something that might be improved)

  • Presenter reflects aloud about what she/he/they is now thinking after hearing the participants’ feedback.

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10 min per person = 30 min

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Change Idea Feedback Reflection

Take two quiet minutes to reflect on the feedback and then write on slide #13:

  • What are you going to try out next week? (Adopt, Adapt, Abandon)

  • What data will you collect?

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Data Menu

(pick one to document whether your change is working)

  • Student Survey (for reflections)
  • Exit Ticket (checking for student understanding)
  • Observation Data (low inference observation or checklists - focus on a student)
  • Student Work (w/assessment tool/rubric)
  • Formative/Summative Assessments

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HW:

  • Implement Change Idea 2+ times

  • Reflect on its implementation in Slide #16.

See you in 2 weeks!

4/25, 5/9, 5/23

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Culturally & Linguistically Sustaining Practices

in the Elementary Setting

LEARNING SITE

Virtual Session Follow-Up #2

Virtual Dates: 4/25, 5/9, 5/23

Time: 5-6 pm

Virtual Session Facilitators: Garcie Champagne & Malcolm Andrews

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MOMENT OF CONNECTION:

Two-Word Check-in:

What are two words that describe how you are feeling today?

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Community Agreements

  • Confidentiality: maintain confidentiality; share learning outside group but not details

  • Psychological Safety: no blame, no shame, no attack, share airtime, always okay to pass

  • Fully Present: listen actively, share honestly, respectful use of technology

  • Growth Mindset: adopt a learning orientation for students and for adults
  • Equity Lens: aim to reduce our own biases/blind spots and increase access and agency for all learners.
  • JOY: Let’s aim to embed joy in our work including celebrating our wins, big and small!

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Other norms to add today?

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Purpose and Agenda

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Agenda:

  • Welcome and Overview (10 min)
  • Shared Study: Team Reflections (30 min)
  • Refine Change Ideas (10 min)
  • Closing (5 min)

The Process:

The Purpose:

A professional learning experience that is teacher-driven with collaborative team coaching to keep us accountable and help move teaching practices forward.

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“How do educators of color leverage their cultural identity to support the delivery of curriculum with authentic CLSP experiences?”

Aim

What are we trying to accomplish?

Primary Drivers

What students need [to influence the aim]

Classroom Relationships

learning atmosphere shows respect for students, staff, and diverse populations

Secondary Drivers

What needs to happen [to influence driver]

Student Opportunity for Self-Assessment

Change Ideas

...changes in practice?

High Quality Instructional Materials (HQIM)

HOW

WHY

Leveraging Identity for CLSP:

Driver Diagram

Daily Work with Enabling, Complex Text

Instructional Practices

Instruction is contextualized in students’ lives, experiences, and individual abilities

Access for All Learners / Specially Designed Instruction (SDI)

Critical Consciousness

Planned learning experiences incorporate opportunities to confront negative stereotypes and biases

Culturally and Linguistically Sustaining Instructional Practices

SEL Integrated w/ Academic Instruction

Teacher encourages students to share their stories with one another and to have pride in their history and linguistic and cultural identities

Teacher routinely models making connections between personal or professional identity and curriculum where relevant

student and teacher input is given equal weight in driving the learning.

“Definitely incomplete, possibly incorrect”

Discourse

Lesson promotes active student engagement through discourse

Assessment Practices

Students are able to demonstrate their learning in a variety of ways

Critical Consciousness

Learning experiences integrate or provide opportunities for expression of diverse perspectives

Classroom Relationships

Educator communicates high expectations for all students

Modeling Vulnerability

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EDUCATOR PRESENTS

(3 min.)

01

03

02

FEEDBACK FOR PRESENTER

(5 min.)

PRESENTER REFLECTION

(2 min.)

CHANGE IDEA:

TEAM FEEDBACK & REFLECTIONS

  • Share slide 16 in deck (put link in chat)
  • Remind the group of your change idea
  • Adjustments I made since last session…
  • What happened (share observations & data)

Optional)

  • 1 or 2 clarifying questions

(Discuss):

  • I notice…
  • Something I noticed about the data is…
  • I wonder…
  • One thing you may want to try…
  • Presenter reflects aloud about feedback.
  • What I heard in the discussion…
  • What I’m thinking about now…
  • What I might try next…
  • What additional/ alternative data do I need to collect?

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Change Idea Feedback Reflection

Reflection

(Take 2-3 quiet minutes to reflect on the feedback. Capture your thinking on slide #17-18)

  • What are you going to try out next week? (Adopt, Adapt, Abandon)
  • What data will you collect?

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Data Menu

(pick one to document whether your change is working)

  • Student Survey (for reflections)
  • Exit Ticket (checking for student understanding)
  • Observation Data (low inference observation or checklists - focus on a student)
  • Student Work (w/assessment tool/rubric)
  • Formative/Summative Assessments

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HW:

  • Implement Change Idea 2+ times

  • Reflect on its implementation in Slide #21.

  • See you in 2 weeks!

4/25, 5/9, 5/23

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Culturally & Linguistically Sustaining Practices

in the Elementary Setting

LEARNING SITE

Virtual Session Follow-Up #3

Virtual Dates: 4/25, 5/9, 5/23

Time: 5-6 pm

Virtual Session Facilitators: Malcolm Andrews and Garcie Champagne

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Change Idea Input:

As you come in, take five minutes to update what you tried in your slide #23 of your artifact; “Describe what happened when you tried your change idea…”

We will use this information in our discussion later in this session.

If you have already updated your slide, you can look at other participants’ artifacts in the drive.

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CLSP Virtual Session # 3

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MOMENT OF CONNECTION:

Two-Word Check-in:

What are two words that describe how you are feeling today?

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Community Agreements

  • Confidentiality: maintain confidentiality; share learning outside group but not details

  • Psychological Safety: no blame, no shame, no attack, share airtime, always okay to pass

  • Fully Present: listen actively, share honestly, respectful use of technology

  • Growth Mindset: adopt a learning orientation for students and for adults
  • Equity Lens: aim to reduce our own biases/blind spots and increase access and agency for all learners.
  • JOY: Let’s aim to embed joy in our work including celebrating our wins, big and small!

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Other norms to add today?

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Purpose and Agenda

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Agenda:

  • Welcome and Overview (10 min)
  • Shared Study: Team Reflections (30 min)
  • Refine Change Ideas (10 min)
  • Closing (5 min)

The Process:

The Purpose:

A professional learning experience that is teacher-driven with collaborative team coaching to keep us accountable and help move teaching practices forward.

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“How do educators of color leverage their cultural identity to support the delivery of curriculum with authentic CLSP experiences?”

Aim

What are we trying to accomplish?

Primary Drivers

What students need [to influence the aim]

Classroom Relationships

learning atmosphere shows respect for students, staff, and diverse populations

Secondary Drivers

What needs to happen [to influence driver]

Student Opportunity for Self-Assessment

Change Ideas

...changes in practice?

High Quality Instructional Materials (HQIM)

HOW

WHY

Leveraging Identity for CLSP:

Driver Diagram

Daily Work with Enabling, Complex Text

Instructional Practices

Instruction is contextualized in students’ lives, experiences, and individual abilities

Access for All Learners / Specially Designed Instruction (SDI)

Critical Consciousness

Planned learning experiences incorporate opportunities to confront negative stereotypes and biases

Culturally and Linguistically Sustaining Instructional Practices

SEL Integrated w/ Academic Instruction

Teacher encourages students to share their stories with one another and to have pride in their history and linguistic and cultural identities

Teacher routinely models making connections between personal or professional identity and curriculum where relevant

student and teacher input is given equal weight in driving the learning.

“Definitely incomplete, possibly incorrect”

Discourse

Lesson promotes active student engagement through discourse

Assessment Practices

Students are able to demonstrate their learning in a variety of ways

Critical Consciousness

Learning experiences integrate or provide opportunities for expression of diverse perspectives

Classroom Relationships

Educator communicates high expectations for all students

Modeling Vulnerability

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EDUCATOR PRESENTS

(3 min.)

01

03

02

FEEDBACK FOR PRESENTER

(5 min.)

PRESENTER REFLECTION

(2 min.)

CHANGE IDEA:

TEAM FEEDBACK & REFLECTIONS

  • Share slide 16 in deck (put link in chat)
  • Remind the group of your change idea
  • Adjustments I made since last session…
  • What happened (share observations & data)

Optional)

  • 1 or 2 clarifying questions

(Discuss):

  • I notice…
  • Something I noticed about the data is…
  • I wonder…
  • One thing you may want to try…
  • Presenter reflects aloud about feedback.
  • What I heard in the discussion…
  • What I’m thinking about now…
  • What I might try next…
  • What additional/ alternative data do I need to collect?

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5-7min per person = 25 min

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Change Idea Feedback Reflection

Reflection

(Take 2-3 quiet minutes to reflect on the feedback. Capture your thinking on slide #24-25)

  • What are you going to try out next week? (Adopt, Adapt, Abandon)
  • What data will you collect?

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Data Menu

(pick one to document whether your change is working)

  • Student Survey (for reflections)
  • Exit Ticket (checking for student understanding)
  • Observation Data (low inference observation or checklists - focus on a student)
  • Student Work (w/assessment tool/rubric)
  • Formative/Summative Assessments

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CLOSING:

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Share your one big takeaway from this process. What are you thinking about now?

AND

What do you think the impact on your students is from your learning during this Learning Site?

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Final Artifact (for ALC credit) and rubric

On the slide deck:

  • What was the challenge?
  • What did you try?
  • What was the impact?
  • What did you learn?
  • What are your next steps?

“How do educators of color leverage their cultural identity to support the delivery of curriculum with authentic CLSP experiences?”

Create a presentation to synthesize your learning.

What happens with this artifact after submission?

What happens here stays here, what’s learned here leaves here

  • We may share your artifact with other BPS educators who face a similar challenge
  • If you do not give permission for us to share your learning out with others, please let us know when you submit

Due by

June 7th 2024

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HW:

  • Complete: Synthesis of learning and final reflection
  • Slides #25-33.
  • Submit for credit

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THANK YOU!

Thank you so much for participating in this Learning Site!

We hope to see you at another Telescope Network event!

If you have any questions please contact us at telescope@bostonpublicschools.org

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THANKS

Do you have any questions?

telescope@bostonpublicschools.org

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