Transcript Courageous Equity Leadership

ASCD Pre-Conference Institute
Implementing
Professional Learning Communities
&
Equity
March 25, 2011
Learning Goals
 The participants will be able…
 Examine implementation strategies to incorporate
Equity within PLCs.
 Review quality indicators for implementing Equity
professional development at the district and site level.
 Sharpen teacher-leader skills to critically examine
instructional practice to increase rigor.
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Data
We know the score!
How do we change the score?
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The Excellence Gap
“When we choose excellent performance as
the goal, academically and socially, we
change the teaching and learning paradigm
in fundamental ways. By setting the
required performance level at excellence,
we require excellent performance to be
articulated.”
Dr. Asa Hilliard
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The greatest barrier to learning is not
what the student knows, but what the
teacher believes!
Dr. Wade Nobles
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What is Educational Equity
& Excellence?
Educational Equity is the belief that quality
instruction for all students will be
achieved when the results of deliberate
actions to close the racial achievement
gap becomes the driving force of the
organization; by pushing the top
performing groups to accelerate student
achievement for all students
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Equity means…
Applying additional or different resources
to ensure all students receive what they
need to exceed grade level standards.
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Key Principles of Equity
Awareness
Mind-Set
75%
Attitude
Analysis
Action
Strategies
25%
Accountability
Closing the Achievement Gap
75% Mind-set
(what I believe)
25% Instructional Strategies
(What I do)
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Adding Equity
To Professional Learning Communities
Consciousness
Professional Learning Community
Culture
Color
Adding Equity
To Professional Learning Communities
 Culture
 Values, behaviors and norms of a particular group
 Color
 Skin color, race
 Consciousness
 Mind-set, purposeful, intentional, deliberate
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Missing Element of PLC
 How do we explicitly develop positive
racial identity development in students
through our teaching? (EQUITY)
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Adding Equity
To Professional Learning Communities
 Understanding Equity is not a strategy, but a mind-set,
researchers of Educational Equity and school reform have
extended the research of PLCs to include; PLCs do not
explicitly address the need of how race and culture impact:
 transforming school culture
 teacher collaboration
 instruction and student learning
 Adding Equity to PLC is a researched based approach to
assist educators in being culturally conscious in
implementing the key elements of Equity. (Ladson Billings, 2002 Gay, 2004).
 This Equity approach to PLCs requires educators to integrate
cultural assets and courageous conversations as a means to
closing the achievement gap for the traditionally underserved students of color.
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Adding Equity
To Professional Learning Communities
 Ensure Students Learn
 Equity Element
 The entire school must have explicit guiding
principles to address culture and race and its
influence on student learning. The classroom is
committed to integrating cultural/racial assets as a
means to connect powerful learning with students
of color.
 Collaborative teams will analyze current promising
practices that support students of color.
 Asset model not a deficit model
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Adding Equity
To Professional Learning Communities
 Culture of Collaboration
 Equity Element
 Collaborative teams must be willing to have a
culturally conscious mind-set as they plan,
design and implement culturally conscious
lessons and activities that support powerful
learning for students of color.
 Culturally Conscious lessons are aligned to key
standards and measured by district assessments.
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Adding Equity
To Professional Learning Communities
 Focus on Results
 Equity Element
 Teachers must be willing to extrapolate qualitative
and quantitative student achievement data by race
and engage in courageous conversation to enhance
the quality of instruction.
 PLC teams will learn how to use student
interviews to inform classroom instruction.
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Adding Equity
To Professional Learning Communities
 Racial Identity Development
 Equity Element
 PLC teams members are cognizant of their own
racial identity as teachers and how students’ view
them racially.
 PLC teams understand that race does not impact
student achievement rather how the adult’s view
of race impacts student achievement.
 PLC teams overtly discuss how instruction and
materials should support the cultural and
linguistic experience of students.
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Traditional School Story Map
Climax/Conflict
Plot
Character Development
Introduction/Setting
Antagonist/ Protagonist
Resolution
Ending
African American Student Story Map
Climax
Setting
Supporting
Details
Main Character;
Character development
Plot
Supporting
Details
Resolution
Conflict
Antagonist/Protagonist
Conflict
More Characters
some development
It’s O.K. not knowing;
But it’s not O.K. to be
O.K. not knowing.
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Data Questions
 What is the data telling us about instruction?
 Are there any trends among the grade levels?
 What are the prerequisite skills needed for the
lowest performed standard(s)?
 How was the standard presented on the
benchmark (context)?
 What instructional action will be taken by the
grade level?
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Culturally Conscious
Instructional Strategies
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Strategy #1
Use a variety of instructional
strategies and learning activities
Strategy #2
Consider students' cultures and
language skills when developing
learning objectives and instructional
activities
Strategy #3
Incorporate objectives for affective
and personal development.
Strategy #4
Communicate expectations
Strategy #5
Provide rationales
Strategy #6
Use advance and post-organizers
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Strategy #7
Provide frequent reviews of the
content learned
Strategy #8
Facilitate independence in thinking
and action.
Strategy #9
Promote student on-task behavior
Strategy #10
Monitor students' academic progress
during lessons and independent
work.
Strategy #11
Provide positive descriptive frequent
feedback.
Strategy #12
Require mastery
Making Cultural Connections
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Culturally Conscious
Teaching Principles
 Conscious teaching is about being…
 Intentional
 Deliberate
 Purposeful
 The outcome of Culturally Conscious Teaching (CCT) is
to have students demonstrate knowledge/skills of the
identified content standards.
 Don’t let the activities/materials of the lesson overshadow the skills that need to be taught.
 Culturally Conscious Teaching (CCT) is an engagement
strategy to access standards.
Culturally Conscious
Teaching Principles
 CCT is more than just the student’s culture, it is also
about the learning preferences of the students and
relational strategies.
 The design of Culturally Conscious lessons need to have
explicit examples of what strategies would look like in
instruction (throughout the lesson not just at the
beginning).
 Be explicit with students (the intentional approach)
including culture in the lesson.
Culturally Conscious
Teaching Principles
 Don’t assume culture is understood by students in the
lesson.
 You may need build cultural knowledge
 Add rigor to instruction.
 Look to fortify positive racial identity development in
students with instructional materials and highlighting
main characters.
 Be willing to supplement materials to add “Lawrys” to
the lesson.
Culturally Conscious Lesson Design
When using Culturally Conscious Lesson Design as the
framework for planning, the teacher increases his/her
effectiveness when considering the nine elements of lesson
planning and design . They “bring alive” the content and
help “scaffold” the learning needs for students.
When planning lessons as the 4 following questions:
 How do I add rigor to my learning objectives?
 What vocabulary will students need to know and use to engage the learning
objective?
 How will I explicitly teach/model the instructional objectives to ensure students
have a clear understanding of what is expected of them?
 What will students need to demonstrate during the lesson to exceed my expectations
of the learning objective(s)?
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Teaching with language objectives
 Supports academic language learning within the context
of content instruction.
 Accelerates content learning by providing explicit
instruction in the vocabulary and language structures
specific to the content.
 Provides a simple framework for organization and
assessment
 Develops the teacher’s awareness and understanding of
the language needs of her students
 Promotes a positive learning environment and
collaborative culture in the classroom.
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Cultural Consciousness
During teacher collaboration and planning of a specific
lesson, the teacher(s) need to identify explicit intentions
of how to connect with the student’s learning
styles/preferences. Cultural consciousness IS NOT just
materials of the student’s cultural experiences; it is a
variety of instructional strategies which allows the
student(s) to make deeper connection and
understanding to the lesson.
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