Logistics

Vision Statements - Highlights

1. Variety of engagement strategies
2. Authenticity
3. Personal stories
4. Stance and delivery
5. Memorizing
6. Values
7. Dedication to addressing educational inequities

Framing

Dyad

• How is our educational system, similar to the machine that Mario Savio is describing?
• As a leader, what part of the machine are you?
• What do you expect your role to be?

Essential Question for PLI

What is my leadership vision for a more liberating education system?

Challenge - Equity Audit

You work in the Office of Equity and Social Justice of San Francisco Unified School District. Your office is tasked with performing an equity audit of Visitacion Valley Middle School. Today your team is looking at the following artifacts:

1. Professional Development Plan/Theory of Action
2. Hierarchy of Change

Your job is to determine how much progress VVMS is making towards addressing equity and promoting its mission. Your team members must use research based frameworks for assessing both the school and leadership.

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Celebrating our Adult Culture

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We have reached a new level of upholding and reflecting on our Norms, as shown through our deeper process checks.

Next up:

• Mid-meeting process checks
• Analyzing our team dynamics
• Addressing Racial/Gender Microaggressions

Our Student-centered Model and Results

• Quiet Time, PSF
• 7 Periods

-Acceleration for All

-6th grade Elective wheel

• Block Scheduling
• Deeper Learning/PBL
• Early Release
• Common Planning Time

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Staff have more time to collaborate, build specialized skills, make connections, and create cohesion. Students experience more consistency.

Students reading scores have increased at triple the pace of last year! 3x speed

Newcomers get ELD and electives!

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Students have more time for conversations, projects, group work,

and more opportunity to check for understanding.

Where have we been? Where are we going?

Challenge & Heuristic

You work in the Office of Equity and Social Justice of San Francisco Unified School District. Your office is tasked with performing an equity audit of Visitacion Valley Middle School. Today your team is looking at the following artifacts:

• Professional Development Plan/Theory of Action
• Hierarchy of Change

Your job is to determine how much progress VVMS is making towards addressing equity and promoting its mission. Your team members must use research based frameworks for assessing both the school and leadership.

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Come by for clarifying or probing questions that will help you in the audit

Discussion

So where is VVMS at?

Where are there elements of Social Justice Leadership?

What evidence would you like to see?

What do you think informed the school’s Theory of Action?

What was missing from the plan?

What would push it to the next level?

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Debrief