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Getting Beyond Technical Solutions to Disrupt Systemic Racial Disparities in K-12 Education Deanna Hill, West Wind Ed

With a partner, share your very first memory of race in your life. Now, on the back of your handout, write down the percentage (0-100%) that race impacts your life today.. Let's Talk About Race. 2. %. come to deeper understandings about race in our personal and professional livesmake visible,

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Getting Beyond Technical Solutions to Disrupt Systemic Racial Disparities in K-12 Education Deanna Hill, West Wind Ed

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    2. With a partner, share your very first memory of race in your life. Now, on the back of your handout, write down the percentage (0-100%) that race impacts your life today.

    6. Multiple Intersections District University School Community Classroom State Student Adult “White” “Of Color” Theory Practice Statewide/Regional Conversations (the power in numbers!) Coaching Support Cohort Support Job-Alike Support

    7. Our focus is on how do we fix the system, not on how do we fix the children, their families, or their communities.Our focus is on how do we fix the system, not on how do we fix the children, their families, or their communities.

    9. We don’t share a common and compelling direction or shared sense of current reality. We disagree about the cause of major problems in the system. We lack the skills to talk about race. We lack the skills to analyze the presence, role, and implications of race in our systems.

    11. How we are to have the conversation.How we are to have the conversation.

    13. Focus on the personal, local and immediate Isolate race Normalize social construction & multiple perspectives Monitor agreements, conditions and establish parameters Use a “working definition” for race Examine the presence and role of “Whiteness” What we will talk about and be mindful of.What we will talk about and be mindful of.

    15. Consider the following topics: Affirmative action Bilingual education Jena 6 “Indian” mascots Initially, where do you locate yourself on the compass? As you ponder each topic, where do you travel on the compass? Do you experience significant or minimal movement? Jena 6 in LAJena 6 in LA

    17. Systems are perfectly designed to get the results they get Systems involve structures, policies, procedures, cultures, and people; exchange information, energy, resources; and reflect and reinforce attitudes, beliefs, values, and feelings Systems thinking examines the linkages and interactions between elements of the entire system

    18. This is not only a problem of individuals; it is a problem of the system The system is structured by its histories, stories, norms, and understandings What stories do we tell about disproportionality?What stories do we tell about disproportionality?

    20. Use the lens of race to look anew at the system Use tools like the iceberg to discover the mental models underlying certain attitudes and behaviors

    25. Leadership is an activity, not a person or a trait Leadership and authority are not the same (and authority can be both a resource and a constraint on leadership) Leadership is about disrupting the system that produces what we don’t want to get

    26. Technical Problem or Adaptive Challenge? Technical problems can be solved in agreed upon ways with current know how Adaptive challenges require stakeholders to change their values, beliefs, and behaviors A common leadership mistake is to treat adaptive challenges as if they were technical problems

    27. It challenges values, beliefs, and behaviors It requires loss, uncertainty, and sometimes disloyalty to one’s people and culture Some discomfort is necessary, but too much can be immobilizing

    29. What is your role in disrupting patterns of racial disparity in your schools? What changes are you willing to undergo in order to improve student experiences? What role will your leadership play in bringing about racial equity in your district?

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    31. Participating districts, universities, and the state department convene an Equity Leadership Team of 10-12 members Each Team will also identify (with PEG and West Wind) 1-2 Local Apprentice Coaches Equity Leadership Teams engage in an intense year of professional development and strategic planning

    32. Throughout the year, PEG and West Wind provide: Program Customization (Research) Leadership Institute Equity Leadership Team Development Workshops Intersession Coaching Training of Local Equity Leadership Coaches Evaluation

    33. The knowledge and skills to educate all children already exist. Because we have lived in a historically oppressive society, educational issues tend to be framed as technical issues, which denies their political origin and meaning…. There are no pedagogical barriers to teaching and learning when willing people are prepared and made available to children. Asa Hilliard, 1995.

    34. Are you willing? Are you prepared? If not now… then when?

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