A SEASON FOR TRANSFORMATION: A TIME FOR VOICE, ADVOCACY, and M.A.G.I.C.

1. A SEASON FOR TRANSFORMATION: A TIME FOR VOICE, ADVOCACY, and M.A.G.I.C. Bradley Scott, Ph.D. Education Consultant, “Rising Futures” San Antonio, Texas bsirise@aol.com

2. Session Objectives Participants will: • Examine components of educational equity that impact quality schools for learners with disabilities; • Determine considerations and implications for advocacy and making M.A.G.I.C. for learners with disabilities.

3. Sixth Generationof Civil Rights and Educational Equity 2012-Future • Systemic equity is the transformed ways in which systems and individuals habitually operate to ensure that every student has the greatest opportunity to learn enhanced by the resources and supports necessary to achieve competence, excellence, independence, responsibility and self sufficiency for school and for life. Focus:

4. Educational Equity The application of resources, adequate and appropriate educational supports and other required educational interventions to assure a learner’s academic success and excellent educational outcomes in response to their identified differing learning and other characteristics.

5. The Equity Context The systems and structures an education organization (SEA, school district, LEA) puts into place to ensure that no learner is denied the fair and equitable benefit of a quality, sound educational experience afforded to all other students regardless of race, gender, national origin, economic level, disability, and religion.

6. The Equity Lens • The equity lens is the view through which all of the business of the organization is filtered. • Important questions: • How does this (activity) impact all learners? • What might create a negative or adverse impact on any identifiable population? • How might that adverse impact be avoided? • What precautions should we take as we move forward? • How do we hold all responsible stakeholders accountable? • How do we monitor our work and the comparable high outcomes for all students?

7. Sixth Generation of Civil Rights and Educational Equity Equity Concerns and Challenges: • Strategic and focused achievement in the attainment of the Goals of Educational Equity. Goal 1: Comparably High Achievement and Other Student Outcomes Goal 2: Equitable Access and Inclusion Goal 3: Equitable Treatment Goal 4: Equitable Opportunity to Learn Goal 5: Equitable Resource Distribution Goal 6: Equitable Shared Accountability

8. Sixth Generation of Civil Rights and Educational Equity (Continued) Equity Concerns: • Technology equity for management, instruction, creation and development • Heightened educational stakeholder collaboration • Parental involvement and engagement • Safe, secure, non-hostile learning environments

9. Pre-kindergarten through grade 20 education and school completion. • Resolution of persistent “gap” issues. • Reformed, expanded, and targeted professional development, staff renewal and staff support systems • Institutionalizing innovations that create comparable high achievement for all diverse learners

10. Transformed curriculum that is relevant, meaningful, powerful, and dynamic to produce excellent outcomes • Mastery of English language literacy • Mastery of math, science and other core content areas at a global competence level

11. Confronting new discrimination • Confronting “isms” in school • Creating cultures of change • Building 21st century efficacy for communities and schools • Creating community and school health • . . .

12. A Context for Equity and Excellence Institutional Norms Board Policy Hidden Curriculum School Educational Experience of Learners ??? Attitudes and Expectations Formal Course of Study Assessment Placement Methods and Materials

13. The Stakeholder Skills to Support Educational Equity • Pro-actively protecting the civil rights of learners • Creating culturally tolerant and respectful learning environments (curricular, co-curricular, extra-, hidden, and explicit) • Building vision for equity and excellence • Defining and shaping a high equity context • Creating an open communication environment • Creating equity-based environmental scanning • Implementing competent curriculum and relevant pedagogy • Keeping stakeholders informed, involved, and trained in the skills and competencies for school reform.

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15. Making M.A.G.I.C. • M = Meaning • A = Action • G = Giving • I = Involvement • C = Caring

16. “For the Children ” Composed by Bradley Scott

17. BRADLEY SCOTT, Ph.D. CONSULTANT RISING FUTURES bsirise@aol.com 210-673-0684 “Building Fair and Equitable Futures for All”