Transcript Startling Statistics

Educating the African
American and Latino
Male Child
by Jawanza Kunjufu
Aaron Shelby
Descatur Potier
Danny Lora
Rebecca Johnson
Tufts Colleagues with Dr. Jawanza
Kunjufu
Professions
NBA
Doctors, Dentists,
Engineers or
Teachers
84%
1%
African American
Other
NFL
67%
African American
Other
African
Americans
Other
NBA: What are the odds?
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1,000,000 boys and girls
wish to be in the NBA
400,000 make their high
school basketball team
4,000 play in college
35 make it to the NBA
ONLY 7 starters
Average NBA career is 4
years
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What’s your back up
plan?
What’s your back up
career?
African American Males in Penal
System
1,500,000
1600000
1400000
1200000
1000000
800000
600000
400000
100,000
200000
0
1980
Today
70% drug
related
Difference in spending
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United States
$28,000 annually
per prisoner with
85% recidivism
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Europe
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$6,000 on drug
treatment
programs with
66% efficacy
What’s the cost?
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In Maryland…
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Mentoring one youth in a one-to-one program for
$1000-$1500 per year
Vs.
Spending up to $80,000 a year to house one
youth in a correctional or rehabilitation facility.
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Raising expectations
for every student
Curriculum
Create culturally relevant curriculum for all
students in the classroom.
 Use current trends and ideologies to your
advantage in terms of lesson plans.
 Have students play an active role in
creating curriculum.
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How should you create your
lessons?
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Tailor your lessons to the characteristics
and needs of the young, Black male
children:
 High
activity
 Hands-on learning
 Non-verbal and verbal communication,
 Colorful language
 Link it to social context
What else should be in your
lessons?
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Character education must be included in
the curriculum
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Teachers must know the students are
intelligent
Avoiding Special Education
 Assessing
for right brain learners and plan a
proportional amount of lessons them
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If 50% are right-brain learners then 50% of lessons should be
right brain lessons
 Non-traditional
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forms of assessment
Oral presentation of knowledge for projects rather than
written testing of knowledge
 Teach
how to study in groups
 Looping Teachers
 Incorporate Multicultural Curriculum
Application in School
Multi-cultural history courses as electives
 Incorporate multicultural perspectives into
lessons when missing from current
curriculum.
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 Help
plan and teach a non “white man’s
history” course. Focuses on the contributions
of African, African American, and Latin
societies.
Application in School
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Cut achievement or curriculum gap?
 Replace
questions with predetermined
answers with open ended questions in all
classes, not just the honors and AP classes
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Multicultural friendly atmosphere in school
office makes parents more receptive to
involvement.
What is the schools’ job?
PSAT/NMSQT in the10th and 11th grades
 Assure curriculum back mapping from
high school to middle school
 instructional supports first time AP
students
 professional development for middle
and high school teachers
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Exposure to positive
male role models
Mentoring Programs
Be developmental in nature
 Provide for the presence of competent
adult Black males (mentors)
 Capitalize on the strengths of African
American families
 Incorporate African/African American
culture
 Include a Celebratory/"Rites-of-Passage"
experience
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What should be in the
Rites of Passage Program?
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Culturally relevant curriculum that empowers
students
Teachers must re-teach what it means to be a
man
Developmentally appropriate
Responsive to cultural diversity
Provided by high-quality teachers
Nurtures social-emotional competence
Nguzo Saba
Unity
 Self Determination
 Collective Work and Responsibility
 Cooperative Economics
 Purpose
 Creativity
 Faith
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Results of Mentoring Program
Better attendance
 Improved academic performance,
 Positive relationships with peers and
adults
 Reduced criminal acts, substance abuse,
and suspensions from schools for youth
who participated in mentor programs
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How to support mentoring
programs?
Become an ambassador for mentoring
 Create a mentoring program through a
club, association, fraternity/sorority, Faithbased institution or place of employment
 Hold National Mentoring Month events on
campus
 Hold a Job/University Shadowing Day
 Consider supporting mentoring programs
with financial or in-kind resources
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Mentorship
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Call Me Mister Program
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The Call Me MISTER program is an effort to address the critical shortage of African American
male teachers particularly among the State's lowest performing schools. Program
participants are selected from among under-served, socio-economically disadvantaged and
educationally at-risk communities.
The project provides:
 Tuition assistance for admitted students pursuing approved programs of study at
participating colleges.
 An academic support system to help assure their success.
 A cohort system for social and cultural support.
Booker T. Dubois Role Model Program
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Schools can provide a time and space for Black and Latino
males from a variety of professions to speak to and mentor
students.
Identify outside organizations and businesses to work with the
schools in regards to a mentor/tutor program.
Understand your
students
Culture
Learning
Strategies
Is this the Ideal student?
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Quiet
Can sit still for a long period of time
Works independently
Long attention span
Likes ditto sheets
Left- brain learner
Passive
Teacher pleaser
Mastered reading before second grade
Neat
Well developed fine motor skills
Well organized
Likes multiple choice exams
Mature
White
Female
Middle-class
Two parent home
Mother works at home
Post- Traumatic Slavery Disorder:
Is there a correlation between internalized
racism (self hate) and black on black
violence?
 If so, how are schools as institutions
perpetuating a “white is right” and or white
is the norm culture?
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Hip Hop VOCAB: Can you identify
at least five of these words?
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Bling Bling
Audi
1812
Benjamins
Buggin’
Crew
Five finger discount
Jack
Juice
Wack
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Glory
Jimmy Hat
Of the hook
Crash
Dog
Frontin
Ill or illin’
Forc’in
Step off
Up North
Hip Hop: Rank’in or the Dozens
Yo mama so fat when she has wants
someone to shake her hand, she has to
give directions!
Oh ok…
 Yo mama so fat she got to iron her pants
on the driveway
 Yo mama so stupid that she tried to put
M&M's in alphabetical order!
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Hip Hop: N…word
Latin word for “Black.”
 Used during slavery and Jim Crow by
whites to insult African Americans.
 Adults have not properly taught history so
that is why HIP HOP artists use the word.
 Hip Hop has tried to embrace the word as
a term of endearment.
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Hip Hop: N…word
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You know enough about
the word to stop those
outside of the race from
using it!
You use it to refer to
people you don’t like,
which is the same way
white people used it 200
years ago.
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Questions:
When people outside of
the black race use the
word, why do they feel
comfortable enough to
use it?
Do you think you have
the right to use it?
Should you use the word
in front of your elders?
Program Breakdown in Schools
African Americans in School
17%
African
American
Youth
...
Education
... in
in Special
Gifted and
Talented
3%
African
American
Youth
African
American
Youth
Other
Other
41%
Other
Staff Training
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Role Play Exercises
Black Intelligence Tests/Teacher Opinion Survey
As a staff, discuss and cultivate the strategies of a
Master Teacher
Reflect on personal beliefs versus your own practices
Books to read: Black Students Middle Class Teachers
and Conspiracy to Destroy Black Boys (Vols. I-IV)
Characteristics of at Risk Schools
Develop a Fourth Grade Intervention Team
Discuss solutions
What is a Master Teacher?
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Knowledgeable about subject matter
Provides congruent lessons plans between pedagogy and
learning styles using written, oral, pictures, artifacts, and fine
arts
Bonds, motivates, enhances self-esteem, listens to students
and is in close proximity to all students
Décor of classroom is inspirational and culturally reinforcing.
High level of self-respect; therefore, students are not
distracting or sleeping.
High expectations transcending race, income, gender, and
appearance.
Equitable response opportunities for all students.
What is a Master Teacher
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Maximizes time on task
Assertive, consistent, complimentary and clearly
established rules and consequences.
Provides cooperative learning experiences.
Attempts to make curriculum relevant, provides practical
experiences, field trips and role models.
Students ask more questions than the teacher.
Develops critical thinking skills by asking open-ended
questions.
Characteristics of At-Risk
Schools
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Ineffective administrators
Low expectations
Incongruence between pedagogy and learning styles
Irrelevant and inaccurate curriculum
Tracking
Lack of parental involvement and support
Low student self-esteem and motivation
Negative peer pressure
Lack of African-American male teachers and role models
Lack of safety
“Judge the success of your
schools based on the success
of your African American and
Hispanic male students.”
- Dr. Jawanza Kunjufu
The Mis-education of the Negro
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“If you can control a mans thinking you do not have to
worry about his action. When you determine what a man
shall think you do not have to concern yourself about
what he will do. If you make a man feel that he is inferior,
you do not have to compel him to accept an inferior
status, for he will seek it himself. If you make a man think
that he is justly an outcast, you do not have to order him
to the back door. He will go without being told; and if
there is no back door, his very nature will demand one.”
Dr. Carter G. Woodson
Critical Points
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Understand your students
 Culture
 Learning
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Raising expectations for every student
 All
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styles
students graduate at college entry level
Exposure to positive male role models
Resources
https://www.education.umd.edu/institutesa
ndcenters/MIMAUE/
 Hip Hop Street – Curriculum: Author Dr.
Juwanza Kunjufu
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