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Getting to Good Schools

Getting to Good Schools. NAACP’s Education Agenda. Our Goals. Attack institutional racism in education with a national campaign for Excellence & Equity A campaign is a sustained plan for change using strategies that impact our issues. Identify issues in agenda Identify promising strategies

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Getting to Good Schools

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  1. Getting to Good Schools NAACP’s Education Agenda

  2. Our Goals • Attack institutional racism in education with a national campaign for Excellence & Equity A campaign is a sustained plan for change using strategies that impact our issues. • Identify issues in agenda • Identify promising strategies • Apply known tactics to each strategy • Target our campaign to turnaround schools

  3. Turnaround Schools • Bottom 5% of a state’s schools, ranked by test scores • Includes dropout factory high schools • Annual federal School Improvement Grants given to reform • States choose which districts get funds to help low performing schools

  4. Turnaround Models • Schools must either: • Fire and rehire staff, change instructional program, • Be turned over to a charter management organization • Be closed and students are dispersed elsewhere • Fire principal, change instructional program in specific ways ( extended learning time, community services); • only ½ schools eligible • Potential Implications: • Staff shortages worsen; shuffle among low performing schools • Growth in number of charters outpaces capacity • Overcrowding at recipient schools, achievement suffers

  5. Our request – Each unit/branch picks one • Participate in the Campaign for Equity & Excellence by: • Adopting (at least) one issue area in education • Committing to (at least) one strategy • Targeting turnaround schools • Applying tactics that fit your community • Working to perfect our education organizing capacity

  6. Our Issue Agenda • Increasing Resource Equity • Target funds to neediest kids • Ensuring College & Career Readiness • Path to success after graduation

  7. Our Issue Agenda • Improving Teaching Grow our own great teachers now • Improving Discipline Eliminate zero tolerance; keep kids in school *All applied to turnaround schools

  8. Focus on teaching Focus on teaching

  9. Teachers who close the achievement gap • fully prepared when they entered teaching, • had taught for more than two years, • certified in field &/or by National Board

  10. Strategies to improve teaching • Strategies: • Stronger, More Diverse Pipeline (preparation) • Tactics: ID future teachers, TEACH grants, residencies • More Mentoring & Coaching (slows turnover) • Tactics: Lead Teacher, mentoring, new teacher supports • More teachers with Advanced Certification(certification) • Tactics: Support for National certification, changes to state licensing

  11. Local tactics by function & engagement

  12. Putting it all together – medium engagement • Branches with a medium interest in advanced certification • Arrange a local media profile (communications) • Conduct & share a survey of teachers(education) • Form an advisory board (advocacy) • Hold ascorecard rally(grassroots)

  13. Putting it all together – escalating tactics • Branches interested in strengthening & diversifying the teacher pipeline could: • Distribute information about TEACH grants (low, education) • Appeal to the school board for incentives (med, advocacy) • Raise funds & challenge board to supplement TEACH grants (high, direct action)

  14. Strategies to improve discipline • School Leader Intervention – make aware of impacts • Education Tactics? • Racial Disparities Report – highlights disparate impact in school/district • Advocacy Tactic? • Cross School Policies Review – review school/district policy & compare to more beneficial models • Direct Action Tactic?

  15. Putting it all together: discipline policy review • With a medium level of member interest, a branch might choose: • A tale of two students (communication) • Town hall for parents (education) • Group meets with district administrator (advocacy) • Petition the school board for policy change (direct action)

  16. It takes a whole village (branch or unit)… • The Political Action Committee can • attend school board meetings in support of education committee members • help keep units informed of laws, rules and budget decisions impacting schools • advocate for more favorable laws, rules and budget decisions impacting schools • Legal Redress can: • help evaluate and prepare legal claims, Title VI complaints, requests to join lawsuits or file friend of the court briefs. • help interpret and describe constitutional and civil rights dimensions of education issues • Membership? Young Adult?

  17. Q & A • Whole Group: • Name, from, query • Table specific: • What are the most pressing issues in your community? • What do you consider your greatest success? • What do you consider your greatest challenge? • Sharing what’s in common

  18. Thanks for participating! tbethglenn@naacpnet.org 410-580-5104 (direct) 410-358-3385 (fax)

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