What do YOU say ?

1. Welcome to the 2017 Read Your Heart Out Professional Development Session 2Materials: http://www.wisconsinrticenter.org/read-your-heart-out.html

2. “I say, every child should have a chance no matter who their parents are, what their parents are doing, how much money their parents earn or, where they live.” - Ronald Weathersby What do YOU say?

3. FOR THE LOVE OF FAMILY

4. Read Your Heart Out February 2016 • 18 Madison Metropolitan School District Elementary Schools Kennedy Lake View Lapham Leopold Lincoln Lowell Allis Falk Glendale Gompers Hawthorne Huegel Mendota Midvale Muir Schenk Stephens Van Hise • Beloit School District Hackett Merrill • Sun Prairie School District Westside

5. It’s our Time to Shine! It’s our Time to Shine! OBJECTIVES • Build common understanding of the purpose and history of RYHO • Prepare Implementation Sites for organizing event and calendar planning for 2018 • Assist Demo Sites in leading and modeling for Implementation and Mentorship Sites

6. It’s our Time to Shine! It’s our Time to Shine! AGENDANovember 4, 2016 | December 2, 2016 | January 6, 2017 • Welcome/Community Building • Purpose • Keeping “Read Your Heart Out” Alive • Aligning Mission, Vision, and Values • Logistics: Google Docs/Google Community/GTM • “Read Your Heart Out” Guidebook • Connectedness of Levels • Sankofa Closing

7. Community Building • Kelly Price: It's My Time Introduce Yourself: • Name/position • Think about a time when you were allowed or able to shine in your work. • Who helped make that happen?

8. Read Your Heart OutPURPOSE National African American Parent Involvement Day Priority Area 1: Coherent Instruction • Provide every students with well rounded, culturally responsive, and coherent instruction. • Reading Literature Standards not only contain rigor but require our students access a variety of texts. Priority Area 3: Family and Community Engagement • Engage families and community members as partners.

9. Read Your Heart OutNGUZO SABA • Unity • Purpose • Collective Work and Responsibility • Cooperative Economics • Faith • Self-Determination • Creativity

10. CULTURALLY RESPONSIVE PRACTICES Dr. Gloria Ladson-Billings • Key components of culturally responsive practices are: • Teachers who are culturally competent about their students’ cultural beliefs and practices; • Teachers who think of all of their students as capable learners, have high expectations for them, and help the students set short and long term goals for themselves; • Teachers who know each student and draw on the students’ own experiences to help them learn; • Teachers who have a wide variety of teaching strategies and skills to engage the students; • Teachers who can help the students deal with the inequitable treatment of students of color and other underserved populations by helping them become critically conscious and knowledgeable about the students' culture; and • Teachers who can create a bridge between the students’ home and school lives while meeting district and state curricular requirements. • https://videos.madison.k12.wi.us/node/756 • https://videos.madison.k12.wi.us/node/756 https://videos.madison.k12.wi.us/node/756

11. Read Your Heart OutKEEPING IT ALIVE!

12. I Am Because We Are Read Your Heart OutTHE SPIRIT OF UBUNTU • Ubuntu

13. Read Your Heart OutWISCONSIN RtI CENTER Vision All Wisconsin students will learn and be successful in life. Mission The Center’s mission is to build the capacity of Wisconsin schools to develop and sustain a culturally responsive multi-level system of support to ensure success for all students.

15. Partnering with Families in a Culturally Responsive Multi-level System of Support Embrace! • Honor family values, culture and beliefs • Consider families and communities as Experts on their Children • Families are intentionally and authentically included in culturally responsive decision making at the school and individual level Engage! • Create a welcoming and engaging environment • Foster strong relationships and communications between families and school staff • The school enables ongoing authentic and meaningful participation, professional learning and two-way communication with families and community members and agencies. Empower! • Champion improved learning opportunities for their children, schools, and community • Model lifelong learning • Family Engagement connects to students’ academic/social emotional learning

16. Read Your Heart OutFamily and Community Engagement FYCE Standard 1 Welcoming all Families into the School Community Objective 1: Create a Welcoming Climate Do families feel the school is inviting and that they “belong”? -Develop trust and personal relationships with families -Create a family-friendly atmosphere -Provide varied opportunities for volunteering Objective 2: Build a respectful, inclusive school community Do the school’s policies and programs reflect, respect, and value the diversity of the families in the community? -Create a climate of respect for all families, with focus on all dimensions of diversity-ethnicity, language, sexual orientation, culture, disability, etc. -Remove economic obstacles to participation -Remove language barriers to engagement

17. Resource Folder RYHO 2016 School Schedule Community Reader List Read Your Heart OutFamily and Community Engagement

18. Read Your Heart OutFamily and Community Engagement • Contacting your guests • Preparing for your guests • Feedback from your guests • Thanking your guests

19. Read Your Heart OutBOOK LISTS Supplementary Texts Qtr. 1 Ethnic Melodies Supplementary Texts Qtr. 2 CPR Mentor Texts Supplemental Texts Qtr. 3 http://www.blackchildbooks.com/ Supplementary Texts Qtr. 4 University of Minnesota Article

20. Read Your Heart OutGUEST READERS!

21. You are invited to Glenn Stephens Elementary for Read Your Heart Out Day Friday, February 7, 2014 Program: 12:30-2 PM Dessert will be served in room 28 starting at 2 PM A celebration honoring National African American Parent Involvement Day (February 10, 2014) Parents and Community Members will be reading African American history and literature in all of Stephens’ classrooms. SANKOFA Schools and Neighborhoods Keep Our Families Alive Sankofa means “go back and fetch it.” The concept of learning from the past and bringing all that is good to the future.

22. Read Your Heart OutLOCATION LOGISTICS https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=aKFANmAmnFA

23. Read Your Heart OutWELCOME SESSION AND LUNCHEON – PROGRAMME EXAMPLE National African American Parent Involvement Day Friday, February 12, 2010 11:00 – Greeting Lynn Winn, Falk Principal 11:15 – Entertainment Sorida He’s Got the Whole World in His Hands We Are the Drum Mrs. DeVries’s 2/3 class | Liz Soules, Music Teacher 11:30 – Words from Michelle Belnavis, District Literacy Instructional Resource Teacher Entertainment – Open Mic Open to all Falk students Parent’s Pledge 12:30 – Closing Words from Amy Covey, Instructional Resource Teacher Chatter With the Angels Now Let Me Fly Mrs. Hanson’s 2/3 class | Liz Soules, Music Teacher Your support means the world to us. Please take a moment to fill out Climate Survey and Read Your Heart Out Survey before leaving. At Falk Elementary School we value your involvement as parents and as community members. Thank you for joining us as we celebrate NAAPID.

24. Read Your Heart OutDATA COLLECTION • Sign in sheets • Survey

25. Burning Questions • Establish Implementation and Demo Site Partnerships • Invite Mentorship Site to Demo Site RYHO event • Ask and answer questions • Bring any unanswered questions to group

26. Read Your Heart OutNEXT STEPS TO DO LIST: • Review RYHO Guidebook • School work group • Reader contact list • Flyer/Reminder/Invite • Start building schedule & program • Books • Surveys • REFINE and SHINE!!!

27. Read Your Heart OutSANKOFA SYMBOLS • Students • And • Neighborhoods • Keep • Our • Families • Alive • SANKOFA

28. In closing, whip around with. . . In what ways can Read Your Heart Out foster the philosophies of UbuntuSankofaPrinciples of Kwanzaa

29. What does RELEVANT mean? When teachers make things relevant – students are engaged! Relevant… …having a connection to your life and the way that you learn… "Educational researchers have proven time and again that culturally responsive teaching methods increase student achievement. So if our teaching is not culturally relevant, then we as educators are not relevant.” - ChikeAkua

30. Michelle Belnavis Culturally Responsive Practices Technical Assistance Coordinator Wisconsin RtI Center belnavism@wisconsinrticenter.org 608-566-3762

31. Thank You!