Michigan Department of Education The Office of Education Improvement and Innovation

1. The African American Young Men of Promise Initiative (AAYMPI)Website at: www.tinyurl.com/aaympiMaterials at www.tinyurl.com/aaympi-si-13 Michigan Department of Education The Office of Education Improvement and Innovation Office of Career and Technical EducationMarch 12, 2014

2. Focus: Turning Action into Results • Using our past to inform the future • Developing a fresh look to bring enthusiasm • Shifting perception creates a new reality

3. www.youtube.com/watch?v=CLEVVH-ZO0M Achievement Gap – An MDE Priority

4. Mission and Priorities 2013-2015 MISSION: All students graduate ready for careers, college, and community. MDE PRIORITY 1: Close achievement gaps in reading and math, with an initial focus on African-American young men for whom data show are Michigan’s persistently lowest achieving student group. ACTIVITY 1.2 Continue internal professional learning community discussions on achievement gaps among all student groups through June 2015. ACTIVITY 1.3 Initiate and support a social networking dialogue about best practices for reducing achievement gaps in reading and math for all student groups, with an initial focus on African-American young men by November 2013. ACTIVITY 1.4 Collect and disseminate best practices for reducing achievement gaps to all school districts and Educator Preparation Institutions by January 2014. ACTIVITY 1.6 Implement the statewide plan and evaluate its impact on the achievement gap for African- American young men, as well as other student groups in school years 2014-16. ACTIVITY 1.7 Design, conduct, and evaluate pilots for schools that target interventions to close the achievement gap for African-American young men in reading and math by August 2016. ACTIVITY 1.8 Disseminate the findings, strategies, and tools from the pilots that successfully closed the achievement gap to all Michigan schools to apply to all their student groups with gaps, such as Latinos, students with disabilities, and economically disadvantaged.

5. Achievement Gap Workin Committees • Research • Data • Messaging • Architects • Format • Brown Bag PLCs • Overall Results • Identified 12 Overall Areas to Address at State-Level • Identified 4 Strategies for Schools, • Led to 2 Achievement Gap Pilot Studies, 2013 and 2013-2015 • State Board of Education declared that closing the Achievement Gap for African American Young Men of Promise is a Priority Achievement Gap – Background

6. Intentional Instructional Practices AAYMPI Interventions – Part 1

7. Intentional Instructional Practices • Climate and Culture Strategies AAYMPI Interventions – Part 1 • CAP Program What are the origins of Intentional Instructional Practices?

8. When Standards, Instruction, and Culture intersect we’ll see… Curriculum with Higher Cognitive Demand (Increased Rigor) and Career and College Ready Characteristics Lessons that Address appropriate grade level standards and Include content relevant to student lives Standards Culture Intentional Instructional Practices Instruction Teaching that is engaging, culturally responsive, and provides for experiential learning

9. Four (4) Intentional Instruction Practices

10. Climate and Culture Strategies • Intentional Instructional Practices AAYMPI Interventions – Part 2 • CAP Program What are the origins of Climate and Culture Strategies?

11. Five (5) Climate and Culture Strategies

12. Climate and Culture Strategies • Intentional Instructional Practices AAYMPI Interventions – Part 3 • CAP Program What are the origins of the College Ambition Program?

13. The College Ambition Program AAYMPI Interventions – Part 3 Website

16. Intentional Instructional Practice Contact Information Brandy Archer Content Literacy Consultant archerb2@michigan.gov Jill Griffin Urban/Math Education Consultant griffinj9@michigan.gov www.tinyurl.com/aaympi

17. Climate and Culture StrategiesContact Information Gloria Chapman Zena Lowe School Reform Officer/Consultant Ed. Consultant chapmang1@michigan.govLoweZ@michigan.gov Kazee, Lauren (MDE) Mental Health Consultantkazeel@michigan.gov www.tinyurl.com/aaympi

18. “Shapely” • Choose a shape that best represents you • As a group spend 1-2 minutes discussing these questions: 1. Why did you choose this shape? 2. How does the shape represent you? 3. What is your best guess about the attributes of the shape you have chosen? * Be prepared to share group findings

19. The Shape of Things to Come • Square – hard worker, dependable, detail oriented; collector of data, likes to work independently • Triangle – upwardly mobile, shows leadership qualities, energetic, task and result oriented • Rectangle – in transition, can’t decide what shape it wants to be; explorer, risk-taker • Circle – interested in harmony, wants people to feel good about themselves; nurturer, people pleaser • Squiggle – innovative, unique, can be a bit disorganized, multi-tasker; likes several things going on at once

20. Climate and Culture Strategies • Intentional Instructional Practices AAYMPI Community: All Shapes • CAP Program • The EduGuide Team Forums • There’s one fundamental way that we support all these interventions… • Community! (=> building right connections)

21. Professional Learning Community • Ensure that learning occurs (data, information, knowledge, understanding, wisdom (operative in worldview) • Be collaborative – teams (two-four) that work via cycle of questions to analyze and improve practice • Focus on results (effective practice)

22. The big “Aha” • A professional learning community’s ultimate mission is to actively advocate for the enactment of the common good/value of education for all citizens (students). 1. systems 2. structures 3. policies 4. practices

23. MSU Webinar Connecting With Educators

24. http://www.huffingtonpost.com/2013/07/22/media-kids-racial-stereotypes_n_3624740.htmlhttp://www.huffingtonpost.com/2013/07/22/media-kids-racial-stereotypes_n_3624740.html Let’s talk about Community for a sec

25. The Community Voice Connecting With Communities

26. Community Connecting With Communities

27. Community Connecting With Communities

28. Participate in a Webinar: 1-877-873-8017 Access Code: 9898475# ================= MSU Webinars Websitehttp://remc.adobeconnect.com/AAYMPI2013 For more info, contact Ted Ransaw (ransaw@msu.edu) Connecting With Communities

29. Student Voice Program Connecting thru Student Voice

30. Four Main Insight Areas: 1) “Relationships are primary…” 2) Professional Development 3) Schools Structures 4) Culture Discussion of Student Voice

31. Goal: Validate all the processes in closing the Achievement Gap • Metrics for Change Connecting AllThe Points • Use of Outside Partners • Harvard Strategic Data Program Fellows (Build metrics) • American Institutes for Research (Collect and analyze data)

32. What We have Learned So Far… • There are significant historical and social structural/organizational barriers to the work that require changes • Resource allocation (time, money, people) changes are necessary • High expectations are espoused but low expectations are the norm (asset v. deficit thinking) • Race (more than poverty) is an issue that must be addressed • Experienced leadership (or leadership support) is necessary due to substantive nature of problems

33. New Population Statistics • MI gained 13, 103 residents from 2012-13 • MI population is 9,895,622 • MI has 3.13% of US population • 9th largest state • Out migration is 11, 051 people • 113, 202 births with 88,718 deaths

34. Students in Michigan (2014) Michigan Public School Statistics

35. Michigan Merit Curriculum • 4 – ELA • 4 – Mathematics • 3 - Science • 3 – Social Studies • 1 – Phys. Ed. and Health • 1 – VAPA • Online Experience • 2- Language other than English

36. NCES: Trends in CTE Coursetaking

37. HS Grads Earning Credit

38. MI Costs: School to Prison Pipeline • Approximately 93,000 young people are held in juvenile justice facilities across the US • 2,115 of these youth are held in MI state-funded, postadjudication, residential facilities • Average US costs of $240.99 per day; MI costs $391 per day • Total MI total costs per day $827,451.45 • 365 days = $302,019,779,25

39. MI Costs: AA Unemployment • Unemployment rate for African Americans tops in nation, more than double the state’s white rate, • EPI researchers find that the African American unemployment rate in Michigan reached 18.7 percent—nearly one in five of the state’s black workers—in the fourth quarter of 2012, about two-and-a-half times that of the white unemployment rate of 7.5 percent. • Is 4.7 percentage points higher than the national black unemployment rate of 14 percent • Is ranked highest among the 24 states with large enough black populations to measure unemployment. Michigan’s white unemployment rate was ninth highest in the nation. (Retrieved from http://www.mlpp.org/michigan-african-american-unemployment-highest#sthash.ZrPG0ymF.dpuf)

40. Assets and Cultural Relevancy Two Strategies:

41. Asset v. Deficit Thinking • Listen: Hip Hop Pedagogy – international voice of the oppressed • Understand relationship between truancy suspensions, dropouts, and unemployment • Dropouts 1. (17 days missed per year in grades 1-7) 2. 11% of MI high school students per year (10-12K students)

42. Cultural Competency • Using the cultural knowledge, prior experiences and performance style of student to make learning appropriate and effective • Engaging student using multiple means of presentation • Connecting new learning to prior knowledge • Including diverse cultural representations and perspectives • Using multiple means to assess studentknowledge

43. Lessons in AAYMPI that can betransferrable for schools • Webinars you can attend in Community Voice Summary… • Summary & Q/A

44. Dr. Theresa Saunders Coordinator of AAYMPIsaunderst@michigan.gov It was our pleasure to meet with you today… Thank you!!