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Equity Leadership SET A
Monday, September 29
10:00 am – 11:30 am

A01 An Answer to America's Perfect Storm: Equity/Anti-Racist Leadership Development and Systemic Equity Transformation

Transformational leaders emerge when given the time, space--and the right conditions--to rediscover their passion and will to educate all students. Learn and practice new skills (Courageous Conversation) in an authentic, experiential setting and develop greater capacity and resolve to do "whatever it takes" to eliminate racial disparities in education. Understand how to develop a district-wide professional learning organization that is focused on achieving equity and excellence for ALL learners.

Cynthia Hays, Pacific Educational Group, San Francisco, CA; Barbara Adams, Boston Public Schools, Boston, MA; and Greg Baker, Portland Public Schools, Portland, OR.

Strand: Equity Leadership

A02 Building Regional Capacity for Equity, Excellence, and Anti-Racism Work

Eliminating racial achievement disparities and learning how to be anti-racist leaders is the ambitious goal of the West Metro Education Program's (WMEP) Leaders in Equity and Anti-Racism Network (L.E.A.R.N.). Discover how a large urban/suburban coalition of school districts leverages resources to influence equity transformation; understand how L.E.A.R.N. works towards these ends in a challenging political and fiscal environment; and hear first hand from superintendents about the intensity and challenges of the work, and the uplifting stories of success. Compare notes, share experiences, and engage in thoughtful dialogue about the rewards and challenges of a regional equity initiative.

Daniel Jett, Superintendent, West Metro Education Program; Debra Bowers, Superintendent, St. Louis Park Public Schools; and Julie Sweitzer, Chair, West Metro Education Program Joint Powers Board; Minneapolis, Minnesota

Strand: Equity Leadership

A04 The Black Kids Used to Come in the Back Door: Systemic Anti-Racist Leadership for Suburban High Schools

Achieving racial equity in high schools requires strong leadership and unique systemic planning. Learn about the Hopkins High School anti-racist leadership model and how it can be implemented in other schools. Discover the important role of administrative and teacher leadership, collaborative action research, systemic staff development, and programs that address student empowerment, academic support, and family engagement. Interact with equity leaders as we grapple together with the challenges and opportunities that come with focused, intentional equity work in secondary schools.

Willie Jett, Principal; Patrick Duffy, Equity Coordinator; Jennifer Heimlich, teacher--PASS Team representative; Terrall Lewis, Equity & Integration Specialist; Lydia Kabaka, Guidance Counselor, and Maggie Temple and Valarie Jones, teachers--Equity Team representatives; and Natalia Costa-Roberts, teacher--CARE Team representative, Hopkins High School, Hopkins, MN.

Strand: Equity Leadership

A06 Is NCLB a Civil Rights Act?

The Elementary and Secondary Education Act (ESEA) was passed in 1965--less than one year after the Civil Rights Act--as a part of the Great Society. Responses to the 2001 reauthorization of ESEA, referred to as No Child Left Behind (NCLB), appear to miss the Act's civil rights legacy. Consider the major provisions of NCLB and investigate the extent to which those provisions serve an equity agenda. Describe portions of the law you find problematic and analyze whether the law itself or implementation of the law creates problems.Consider what equity-minded educators can do during reauthorization to promote racial justice.

Circe Stumbo, President, and Deanna Hill, Senior Policy Analyst, West Wind Educational Policy, Inc., Iowa City, IA.

Strand: Equity Leadership

A09 Engaging with Racist-Anti-Racists: The Complexity of Engaging in Courageous Conversations with aSocially Conscious, Predominately White Staff and our         Struggles to Interrupt Oppression within this Environment

The Youth Empowerment School (Y.E.S.) in Oakland, CA, has been using Critical Race Theory (CRT) to analyze curriculum, respond to student perceptions about their classroom experiences, and interact with families about student success. Learn how the Y.E.S. Equity Team has worked to build habitual use of CRT into our analysis of achievement (or lack thereof) and identify how we allowed our intent to hide our impact. Explore the dangers of engaging in Courageous Conversations with a liberal, white staff, and discover our process of unpacking how we disguised our involvement in the oppression of students of color.

Maureen Benson, Principal; Tim Bremner, Teacher/Advisor/Community Organizer; Hilary Hays, Teacher/Advisor; Afreen Malim, Teacher/Advisor; and Marcus Moore, Instructional Assistant/Advisor, Youth Empowerment School, Oakland, CA.

Strand: Equity Leadership

A12 Equity Transformation Online: Using Technology to Transform Ourselves and Our Schools

Explore the effectiveness of the online venue as a tool to help us grapple with issues of race, racism, equity, and diversity as we strive towards equity transformation. See examples of model programs and student work, as well as new technologies being implemented by Pacific Educational Group. Experience, reflect, and discuss the merits and/or disadvantages of using technology to facilitate personal and professional growth and transformation in the area of equity.

Nancy Dome, Director of Online Programming, Pacific Educational Group

Strand: Equity Leadership

Equity Leadership SET B
Monday, September 29
1:20 pm – 4:30 pm

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B02 How Do We Translate Our Commitment to Racial Justice and Equity into Powerful Policy?

Much of the best work about racial justice in our schools logically focuses on educational practices, but the policies that shape the parameters for practice may be neglected. Learn about tools for developing policies that truly align with and support racial justice. Engage in exercises that start with fundamental beliefs about racially just schools; translate these beliefs into policy; and review and assess district-level equity policies.

Yvonne Liu, Policy Analyst, and William Romero, Research Analyst, Justice Matters!, San Francisco, CA

Strand: Equity Leadership

B05 White Privilege: Getting In on the Conversations

Using the White Privilege Conference as a model, this interactive, informational, challenging, and energetic session will examine and explore the topic of white privilege, white supremacy, and the imperative that those promoting diversity "get in on the conversations." Learn how administrators, teachers, and students can be positive role models, powerful leaders, and effective agents of social and institutional change, if they have the tools to do so. Leave with the skills and knowledge necessary to begin addressing issues of white privilege individually and institutionally, confidently and effectively.

Eddie Moore, Jr., Director of Diversity, The Bush School, Seattle WA, America and Moore, LLC, Founder/Program Director of The White Privilege Conference

Strand: Equity Leadership

B06 Waking Consciousness: Lessons from a Predominately White, High-Performing District Engaging in Courageous Conversations

What happens when a district wakes up and starts to see race? Hear stories from teachers and administrators engaged in Courageous Conversations, and exchange ideas to bring transformation to your own district. Learn how the Compass will help your students and staff enter the conversation and how the Agreements and Conditions will keep them in the conversation. Develop strategies to help White students and staff see the benefits of confronting systemic racial disparities for Black, Brown, and White students. Understand how critical self-reflection will help students and staff emerge as anti-racist leaders.

Mirah Carmichael, Diversity Coordinator, and Josh Seldess, Freshman Boys Adviser Chair/SEED Facilitator, New Trier High School; Dan Cohen and Christine Saxman, English Teachers/SEED Facilitators, Deerfield High School; and Andrea Johnson, Administrator, High School District 113, Highland Park, IL

Strand: Equity Leadership

Equity Leadership SET C
Monday, September 29
1:20 pm – 2:50 pm

C01 Q & A with Tim Wise

Tim Wise is among the most prominent and respected antiracist writers and educators in the U.S. and has been called, "One of the most brilliant, articulate, and courageous critics of white privilege in the nation," by best-selling author and professor Michael Eric Dyson of Georgetown University. Wise has spoken in 48 states and on over 400 college campuses. He has trained teachers as well as corporate, government, media, and law enforcement officials on methods for dismantling institutional racism, and has served as a consultant for plaintiff's attorneys in federal discrimination cases in New York and Washington State.

Wise is the author of White Like Me: Reflections on Race from a Privileged Son and Affirmative Action: Racial Preference in Black and White. A collection of his essays, Speaking Treason Fluently: Anti-Racist Reflections from an Angry White Male, will be published in the fall of 2008.Wise has contributed essays to twenty books, and is one of several persons featured in White Men Challenging Racism: Thirty Five Personal Stories, from Duke University Press. He has appeared on hundreds of radio and television shows worldwide to discuss race and racism.

Strand: Equity Leadership

C02 Facing Race Together: Sharing the Power of Regional Collaboration

Six school districts, the Ohio Department of Education, and two universities have come together to create conditions to transform education in southwest Ohio. Learn how the Consortium on Racial Equity in K-12 Education has been tilling the ground and planting the seeds of anti-racism--and help them to see how much more they have to do. Explore the strengths and challenges of cross-district and cross-sector collaboration. Generate together the power and passion needed to exercise anti-racist leadership.

Steve Price, Superintendent, Middletown City School District, Middletown, OH; Deanna Hill, Senior Policy Analyst, West Wind Education Policy, Inc. Iowa City, IA; Glenn Singleton, President, Pacific Educational Group, Inc., San Francisco, CA.

Strand: Equity Leadership

C03 Lessons in Courage--Leading the Change for Equity

Engage with members of the District Equity Leadership Team from Eden Prairie Schools as we share key lessons in developing and implementing a framework for change. Learn how change means shifting the status quo of racial predictability and disparity as to which students achieve academic success in our schools, to a culture where all students achieve to their fullest potential. Learn how the team uses data, resources, courage, guided conversations on race, core beliefs, and professional development to inspire a new path toward a school system that is free of institutional racism, bias, and favoritism.

Melissa Krull, Superintendent; Nanette Missaghi, Integration Program Coordinator; Kamarrie Davis Gooding, Director of Testing and Assessment; Derrick Agate, Transportation Director; and Angie Roesner, High School Math Teacher; Eden Prairie Public Schools, Eden Prairie, MN.

Strand: Equity Leadership

C05 Passion, Practice and Persistence: Doing Whatever It Takes to Eliminate Racial Disparities in Our School Systems

Systemic transformational change will only come about when educators examine their individual and collective roles in perpetuating racial educational disparities and muster sufficient passion, practice and persistence to do whatever it takes to achieve educational equity! Learn how to exercise passion and engage in the design and delivery of innovative practice. Develop the will, skill, knowledge and capacity to persist toward achieving equity at all levels of the system--from the district office to the classroom and throughout the community.

Cynthia Hays, Director of Leadership, Organizational and Strategic Development, Pacific Educational Group, San Francisco, CA

Strand: Equity Leadership

Equity Leadership SET D
Monday, September 29
3:10 pm – 4:40 pm

D01 An Impromptu Dialogue on Race

Tim Wise and Glenn Singleton

Strand: Equity Leadership

D05 Transforming Leadership for Equity: A State System Approach.

The State of Oregon has revised the state administrator standards for educational leadership to reflect a policy and practice priority for equity. From licensure program development, to licensure standards, to district and classroom practice, discover how the Oregon Leadership Network has transformed leadership development with equity at the center. Engage in a highly interactive examination of system strategies for equity; explore statewide collaborative approaches; and investigate critical methods to support the transformation of leadership for equity.

Rob Larson, Executive Leadership Team, Oregon Leadership Network, Portland, OR.

Strand: Equity Leadership

Equity Leadership SET E
Tuesday, September 30
8:45 am – 12:00 pm

E02 The Tragedy of "Non-ness"--How Language Damages Our Quest for Social Justice

We have a rich and devastating history of exclusionary language and attitudes that must be addressed and banished from our organizations. Learn about the forms of exclusionary language that are found in educational settings; reflect on the use of exclusionary language in your workplace, and identify where and when it takes place; and develop an action plan to take back to your workplace to interrupt the use of exclusionary language.

Nancy Dome, Director of Online Programming, Pacific Educational Group, San Francisco, CA.

Strand: Equity Leadership

E04 SERC's Transformational Journey to Equity and Anti-Racist Leadership

The State Educational Resource Center of Connecticut (SERC) has been on a five-year journey to develop racial consciousness, unmask systems of dominance and privilege, and collaborate with the Connecticut Department of Education to provide training, coaching, and technical assistance for schools engaged in Courageous Conversations. Explore the lessons SERC has learned on its journey to restructure and re-culture the organization around equity and anti-racist leadership. Learn how SERC's Courageous Conversations Consortium works, and about efforts to develop a statewide system to eradicate the racial predictability of achievement gaps in Connecticut.

Staff from the State Resource Center of Connecticut, Middletown, CT.

Strand: Equity Leadership

E05 Alas, Can We Have a Courageous Conversation About the Systemic Educational Destruction and Demise of Black Boys?

In his powerful research, Garrett Duncan wrote that black boys are "Beyond Love" as it relates to their experiences in schools. This unapologetic, laser-like focus on the plight of Black males in schools today will provide greater understanding of the unique circumstances facing Black males in our society; show how this societal experience plays out in schools; and explore ways in which the system institutionalizes practices that marginalize, and perhaps criminalize, Black Boys. Participants will also discover and examine ways to transform our environments into places that nurture the spirit and foster high-level engagement and achievement of our lowest performing, yet most disregarded student population.

Glenn Singleton, Will Walker, and Courtlandt Butts, Pacific Educational Group, Inc., San Francisco, CA; Willie Jett, Principal, Hopkins High School, Hopkins, MN.

Strand: Equity Leadership

Equity Leadership SET F
Tuesday, September 30
8:45 am – 10:15 am

F01 Courageous Conversations in Fits and Starts (and Stops)

Bringing Courageous Conversations to the Minneapolis Public Schools has been an on-again, off-again struggle plagued by changes in leadership and a resistant district culture. And still, the work goes on! Learn how a determined and courageous group of district leaders is keeping the focus on equity. Understand the importance and challenge of aligning equity work with current and competing initiatives. Engage in thoughtful dialogue and share strategies for starting, supporting, and sustaining equity/anti-racism work in a difficult environment.

Erin Glynn, Assistant Chief Academic Officer, and other members of the District Equity Leadership Team, Minneapolis Public Schools, Minneapolis, MN.

Strand: Equity Leadership

F02 Got Equity? An Approach to Anti-Racist Leadership and the Systemic Implementation of Courageous Conversations in the Institution of Alternative Public Education

Learn from a diversified team about the process of ensuring that equity becomes a district's core focus. Explore programs that ensure equity encompasses not only students' education, but the continuing growth of faculty and staff, as well. Engage in varied culturally responsive, interactive activities as a way of gathering and sharing knowledge and understanding about Courageous Conversation, systemic change, contemporary adaptive leadership theory, and equitable educational practices.

Leilah Armour, Administrator; Jeffrey Heil, Educator; Stephanie Johnston, Student Transition Specialist; Penny McNeil, Educator; and Tammy Reina, Educator, San Diego County Juvenile Court and Community Schools (JCCS), San Diego, CA.

Strand: Equity Leadership

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F07 Moving Beyond Participation to Action: Learning to Lead Others in Courageous Conversation

Energized by Beyond Diversity and Courageous Conversations? Passionate about sharing your knowledge, but struggling with how to bring others into the conversation? Learn how to facilitate small group discussions on race with students, teachers, administrators, and others. Explore the necessary skills for facilitating Courageous Conversations. Examine what personal strengths you possess to help lead your school, district, and state in reducing the racial achievement disparity among the highest and lowest performing students. Share with other participants the successes and challenges of engaging in Courageous Conversations about race.

Terrlyn L. Curry Avery, Connecticut Regional Director, Pacific Educational Group, Hartford, CT.

Strand: Equity Leadership

Equity Leadership SET G
Tuesday, September 30
10:30 am – 12:00 pm

G01 District Equity Leadership Teams: A Guiding Coalition Driving Systemic Equity Transformation--A Roundtable Discussion

Unlock the passion (will), practice (knowledge and skill) and persistence (capacity) of your district's equity/anti-racist leaders, and empower them to create the conditions for district, school, and classroom equity transformation. Learn how equity/anti-racist leaders develop persistence that is strong enough to overwhelm institutional inertia and resistance against change. Engage with a panel of educational leaders who have reclaimed their hope and belief in the possibility of a future devoid of racial injustice.

Cynthia Hays, Director of Leadership, Organizational and Strategic Development, Pacific Educational Group, San Francisco, CA; Alan Elko, Superintendent, West Chester Area School District, West Chester, PA; Daniel Jett, Superintendent, West Metro Education Program, Edina, MN; Barbara Adams, Chief Academic Officer, Boston Public Schools, Boston, MA; Phyllis Young, Principal and Equity Coach (retired), North Sacramento School District, Sacramento, CA.

Strand: Equity Leadership

G02 Reflections On Our Journey to the Starting Line: WCASD's Closing the Gap Strategic Plan

Since voluntarily desegregating in the 1970s, the West Chester Area School District has claimed the diversity of its student body as an asset. Despite that claim, and the efforts of groups of dedicated and passionate educators, the district had failed to address the achievement of its students of color in any systemic manner. Discover how two arduous years of Courageous Conversation has built the district's capacity for equity and a readiness to finally begin closing the gap.

Angela Williams, Monica McHale-Small, and Pat Verbovszky, West Chester Area School District, West Chester, PA

Strand: Equity Leadership

G03 Why Do We Resist Change? Distinguishing Between Technical and Adaptive Change

In this session, we examine one of the basic tenets of Adaptive Leadership™ articulated by Ronald Heifetz: distinguishing between technical and adaptive change. Share challenges you face and get help identifying the technical and adaptive aspects of those challenges. Learn how people do not resist change, but rather feelings of loss, disloyalty, and incompetence. Practice identifying losses in reforms such as block scheduling and anti-racist curriculum changes--and in some of your own equity leadership priorities. Explore work avoidance strategies that groups employ to resist loss and how you can keep them in a productive zone of disequilibrium until they address the adaptive challenges at hand.

Circe Stumbo, President and David Davidson, Consultant, West Wind Educational Policy, Inc., Iowa City, IA.

Strand: Equity Leadership

G05 How the Phrase "Closing the Achievement Gap" Reinforces Systemic Racism

NCLB and other accountability policies frame the "problem" of achievement gaps as the failure of students of color to achieve as well as their white peers. This framing reinforces deficit thinking about students of color. It further leads to policies and practices that ignore the significance of race and how the system fails to provide students of color with opportunities and experiences afforded to their white counterparts. We describe how policymakers and educators can relocate the problem and stop trying to "fix the kids" instead of fixing the system.

Deanna Hill, Senior Policy Analyst, West Wind Education Policy, Inc., Iowa City, IA

Strand: Equity Leadership

G08 California's Statewide Work on Equity: Triumphs and Challenges

California's State Superintendent of Public Instruction has made closing the racial achievement gap the top priority of the California Department of Education. Learn about California's work to bring about Courageous Conversation regarding the impact of race on student achievement. Explore the Superintendent's P-16 Council's Report and its fourteen recommendations on what the state must do to create the conditions necessary to assist counties, districts, and schools in their efforts to help all children succeed academically. Engage in a dynamic discussion of the state's progress, next steps, and lessons learned in stimulating systemic change to eliminate educational inequality.

Gavin Payne, Chief Deputy Superintendent of Public Instruction and Rick Miller, Deputy State Superintendent for Policy Development and External Affairs, California Department of Education, Sacramento, CA.

Strand: Equity Leadership

Equity Leadership SET H
Tuesday, September 30
3:05 pm – 4:35 pm

MOVED TO SESSION I08

H05 Moving From Random Acts of Anti-Racist Leadership to District-Wide Systemic Equity Reform

San Leandro Unified School District is creating a learning community focused on anti-racism that improves educational instruction for all students. Learn about the district's 5-year Equity Framework and how Courageous Conversations about race have helped to close the racial predictability of the achievement gap. Explore how the District's use of race-based, data-driven walkthroughs; culturally responsive teaching strategies; relationship-building; inclusion of student voice; and the strategic training and engagement of under-represented parents has contributed to significant gains on state tests, especially for African American and Latino students.

Christine Lim, Superintendent; Lori Watson, Vice Principal, John Muir Middle School; Mary Ann Valles, Principal, Bancroft Middle School; and Amy Furtado, Principal, San Leandro High School; and Judith Cameron, Director of Curriculum and Instruction; San Leandro Unified School District, San Leandro, CA..

Strand: Equity Leadership

H08 Using the Critical Friends Protocol Toward Disrupting Systemic Racism

Anti-racist leaders reveal the forces within systems that have created racial inequities in education and they exercise leadership to disrupt those systems. Witness an actual case consultation that uses techniques adapted from the Annenberg Institute and Harvard's Ronald Heifetz. Make connections to your own experience as our superintendent presents a dilemma he currently is facing and our team shares observations about his case, interprets what we observed, and offers suggestions for action steps. Join the analysis by sharing your own observations and reflecting on both the content and process of the session.

Steve Price, Superintendent, Kee Edwards, Principal, and Lisa Lowery, Human Resources Director, Middletown City School District, Middletown, OH; Circe Stumbo, President, and Bonnie McIntosh, Chief Operating Officer, West Wind Educational Policy, Inc., Iowa City, IA

Strand: Equity Leadership

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H10 Race to Freedom! Student Anti-Racist Leadership Development

A multi-racial group of adults and students will share a collaborative model for developing anti-racist student leaders in suburban school districts. Discover the essential ingredients for implementing successful student leadership programs in your district, and understand the lessons learned through piloting such programs at the high school, middle school, and elementary school levels. Hear from student leaders about their program experiences, and explore models and curriculum for student leadership retreats and activities focused on racial equity, including Underground Railroad simulations and mentorship activities that build culturally competent student leaders.

Anthony Galloway, "Choice Is Yours" and Student Programs Coordinator, West Metro Education Program, Edina, MN; Patrick Duffy, Equity Coordinator, Hopkins High School, Hopkins, MN; and students from Hopkins High School.

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H14 Beyond the Classroom: Engaging Non-Licensed Staff in Your Equity Work

When it comes to equity initiatives, everyone matters – including non-licensed staff such as bus drivers, custodians, food service workers, playground supervisors, paraprofessionals, and technology workers. Review real school experiences to learn how non-licensed staff can help or hurt our efforts to eliminate racial disparities in education. Discover important adaptations to the Courageous Conversation framework for effectively engaging non-licensed staff in equity efforts. Examine a model for including non-licensed staff as essential equity partners who help accelerate the work and make a meaningful difference in students’ school and classroom experiences.

Derrick Agate, Sr., Director of Transportation, Eden Prairie Schools, Eden Prairie, MN.

Strand: Equity Leadership

Equity Leadership SET I
Wednesday, October 1
8:30 am – 10:00 am

I02 So What Does It Really Look Like? Incorporating Equity Into the Recruiting and Hiring Process

After four years of equity work, Middletown City Schools is changing how we recruit and hire teachers and administrators. Learn how we are explicitly seeking candidates who can effectively intertwine racial awareness and instructional/administrative decision-making to transform their practice and accelerate student achievement district-wide. Examine the changes we have made to our recruitment and interview procedures--and find out why they are making a difference. Participate in the process of constructing and discussing equity-focused interview questions and hiring practices.

Steve Price, Superintendent, and Lisa Lowrey, Human Resources Director, Middletown City Schools, Middletown, OH.

Strand: Equity Leadership

I03 Tackling Color Blind Racism and Other Harmful Liberal Educational Ideologies

"I don't see color"; "We need to go slow to go fast": and, "I treat all of my students the same"...are just a few of the debilitating actions that spring from unexamined, often unconscious racist belief systems. Learn how Critical Race Theory encourages deep investigation into the delusion of colorblindness; examine our comfort with gradualism and incremental change, and our struggle to welcome equity into unequal racial circumstances. See how a "Critique of Liberalism" serves as an essential and continuous stopover on our respective anti-racism journeys. Venture deeper into the theory; uncover some harmful practices in state departments, districts, schools and classrooms; and discuss alternative strategies for accelerating equity transformation system-wide.

Glenn Singleton, President, Pacific Educational Group, Inc. San Francisco, CA.

Strand: Equity Leadership

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I08 Making the Status Quo Seem More Dangerous than Resisting Transformational Change

In this roundtable discussion, learn with and from anti-racist leaders who are engaged in examining the policies, practices, programs, and procedures where institutionalized racism may exist. Challenge and support one another to develop and accelerate the will, skill, and capacity needed to eliminate barriers that contribute to racial achievement disparities and the diminished capacity of ALL children. Acquire strategies for engaging others in leveraging leadership and networks of practice to bring about systemic equity transformation.

Cynthia Hays, Director of Leadership, Organizational and Strategic Development, Pacific Educational Group, San Francisco, CA

Strand: Equity Leadership

I10 Engaging with Racist-Anti-Racists: The Complexity of Engaging in Courageous Conversations with aSocially Conscious, Predominately White Staff and our         Struggles to Interrupt Oppression within this Environment

The Youth Empowerment School (Y.E.S.) in Oakland, CA, has been using Critical Race Theory (CRT) to analyze curriculum, respond to student perceptions about their classroom experiences, and interact with families about student success. Learn how the Y.E.S. Equity Team has worked to build habitual use of CRT into our analysis of achievement (or lack thereof) and identify how we allowed our intent to hide our impact. Explore the dangers of engaging in Courageous Conversations with a liberal, white staff, and discover our process of unpacking how we disguised our involvement in the oppression of students of color.

Maureen Benson, Principal; Tim Bremner, Teacher/Advisor/Community Organizer; Hilary Hays, Teacher/Advisor; Afreen Malim, Teacher/Advisor; and Marcus Moore, Instructional Assistant/Advisor, Youth Empowerment School, Oakland, CA.

Strand: Equity Leadership

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