To address the Board's goal of developing a strategic plan, the district put together a committee consisting of 30 family members, community members, staff, Board and students to meet regularly throughout the 2018 spring semester.
The committee met five times in early 2018 into the summer, reviewing the following items to determine major themes the District might desire to address in its strategic plan:
•Data from additional questions on strategic plan-related topics added to the annual Perception Survey that each family and staff member received. Responses in this survey help the district set its goals not only for the Strategic Plan, but for your school’s Continuous Improvement Team.
The perception survey press release can be found here.
•Data collected following the District's number of focus groups held in late February, consisting of more than 120 students, staff, and family members that represented a cross section of our district.
•Internal data collection on a variety of District-related topics was assembled.
Listed below are various resources the committee utilized in the process of creating the District's strategic plan...
Books:
Courageous Conversations
About Race (Glenn Singleton)
Diversity, Equity and
Inclusion (Caprice Hollins and Ilsa
Govan)
Race Matters (Cornel West)
Whistling Vivaldi (Claude Steele)
Despite the Best Intentions:
How Racial Inequality Thrives in Good Schools (A. Lewis & J. Diamond)
“Why are all the Black Kids
Sitting Together in the Cafeteria?” (Beverly Daniel Tatum)
Other People's Children (Lisa Delpit)
Critical Race Theory (Richard Delgado & Jean Stefancic)
Buried
in the Bitter Waters: The Hidden History of Racial Cleansing in America (Elliot Jaspin)
Sundown
Towns: A Hidden Dimension of American Racism (James W. Loewen)
The New Jim Crow: Mass
Incarceration in the Age of Colorblindness (Michelle Alexander)
An Indigenous Peoples’
History of the United States (Roxanne Dunbar-Ortiz)
The History of White People (Nell Irvin Painter)
Lies My Teacher Told Me:
Everything your American History Textbook Got Wrong (James W. Loewen)
Black Indians: A Hidden
Heritage (William Loren Katz)
Just Mercy: A Story of
Justice and Redemption (Bryan Stevenson)
Tears We Cannot Stop: A
Sermon to White America (Michael Eric Dyson)
Racism Without Racists:
Color-Blind Racism and the Persistence of Racial Inequality in America (Eduardo Bonilla-Silva)
Blindspot: Hidden
Biases of Good People (Mahzarin R. Banaji & Anthony G. Greenwald)
Worked to the Bone: Race, Class Power & Privilege in Kentucky (Pem
Davidson Buck)
Why We Drop Out: Understanding and Disrupting Pathways to Leaving
School (Deborah Feldman, Antony smith, Barbara Waxman)
White
Awake: An Honest Look at What It Means to Be White (Daniel Hill)
The
Myth of Equality: Uncovering the Roots of Injustice and Privilege (Ken Wytsma)
Roadmap
to Reconciliation: Moving Communities into Unity, Wholeness and Justice (Dr. Brenda Salter
McNeil)
Lives
in Limbo: Undocumented and Coming of Age in America (Roberto G.
Gonzales)
White Rage: The Unspoken Truth of Our Racial Divide (Carol
Anderson, PhD)
Stamped from the Beginning: The Definitive History of Racist Ideas
in America (Ibram X. Kendi)
Black Stats: African Americans by the Numbers in the Twenty-first
Century (Monique W. Morris)
The Invention of the White Race (Theodore W. Allen)
Between the World and Me (T-Nehisi Coates)
Slavery by Another Name: The Re-Enslavement of Black Americans
from the Civil War to World War II (Douglas A. Blackmon)
Choke Hold: Policing Black Me (Paul Butler)
Yellow: Race in America Beyond Black and White (Frank
H. Wu)
Citizen: An American Lyric (Claudia Randine)
Racism Without Racists: Color-Blind Racism and the Persistence of
Inequality in America (Eduardo Bonilla-Silva)
White Like Me: Reflections on Race from a Privileged Son (Tim
Wise)
How Does it Feel to Be a Problem?: Being Young and Arab in America
(Moustafa Bayoumi)
The Color of Law: A Forgotten History of How Our Government
Segregated America (Richard Rothstein)
They Can’t Kill Us All: Ferguson, Baltimore, and a New Era in
America’s Radial Justice Movement (Wesley Lowery)
Our
Kids: The American Dream in Crisis by Robert Putnam
American
Nations: A History of the 11 Rival Regional Cultures of North America (Colin Woodward)
Dear
White America: Letter to a New Minority (Tim Wise)
“All
the Real Indians Died Off” and 20 Other Myths About Native Americans (Roxanne
Dunbar-Ortiz)
The
New Minority: White Working Class Politics in an Age of Immigration and
Inequality
(Justin Gest)
Evicted:
Poverty & Profit in the American City (Matthew Desmond)
White
Trash: The 400 Year Untold History of Class in America (Nancy Isenberg)
We
Were Eight Years in Power: An American Tragedy (Ta-Nehisi Coates)
Enrique’s
Journey: The Story of a Boy’s Dangerous Odyssey to Reunite with his Mother (Sonia Nazario)
White Fragility: Why
it’s so Hard for White People to Talk About Racism (Robin DiAngelo -
being released on 6/23/2018)
Feature Articles:
•Curb Cut Effect
•Educational Equity
•What is Resource Equity
Other Articles:
*
White Privilege: Unpacking the Invisible
Knapsack (1989 classic essay by Peggy McIntosh): http://www.cirtl.net/files/PartI_CreatingAwareness_WhitePrivilegeUnpackingtheInvisibleKnapsack.pdf
* Should
wealthy PTAs have to share funds with poorer schools?:
http://kuow.org/post/should-wealthy-ptas-have-share-funds-poorer-schools
* We can draw school zones to make
classrooms less segregated (article and interactive
graphs): https://www.vox.com/2018/1/8/16822374/school-segregation-gerrymander-map
*
Why Do Cartoon Villains Speak with
Foreign Accents: https://www.theatlantic.com/education/archive/2018/01/why-do-cartoon-villains-speak-in-foreign-accents/549527/
*
The Show was Supposed to Bring Black and
White Students Together - It Almost Tore Them Apart:
https://www.washingtonpost.com/politics/the-show-was-supposed-to-bring-black-and-white-students-together-it-almost-tore-them-apart/2017/12/30/d2a17d44-c4c1-11e7-afe9-4f60b5a6c4a0_story.html
*
The Intrusion of the White, Middle Class
in Bi-Lingual Schools:
https://www.theatlantic.com/education/archive/2017/12/the-middle-class-takeover-of-bilingual-schools/549278/
* How Effective Is
Your School District? A New Measure Shows Where Students Learn
the Most (article and interactive graphs): https://www.nytimes.com/interactive/2017/12/05/upshot/a-better-way-to-compare-public-schools.html
* Special
Education’s Hidden Racial Gap: http://hechingerreport.org/special-educations-hidden-racial-gap/
* At Maryland’s
Historically Black Schools, the Pursuit of Equity Without Forgoing Identity:
https://www.washingtonpost.com/local/education/at-mds-historically-black-schools-the-pursuit-of-equity-without-forgoing-identity/2017/11/27/9ba494c2-cae6-11e7-aa96-54417592cf72_story.html
*
Private School Enrollment Contributes to
School Segregation (article with link to study):
https://www.washingtonpost.com/local/education/private-school-enrollment-contributes-to-school-segregation-study-finds/2017/11/24/b34aa654-d142-11e7-81bc-c55a220c8cbe_story.html
*
What Happened When Denver Prioritized
Enrolling Low Income Students at Some Affluent Schools:
https://www.chalkbeat.org/posts/co/2017/11/22/what-happened-when-denver-prioritized-enrolling-low-income-students-at-some-affluent-schools/
*
Sorry, Being Born Rich Still Leads to
Success More Than Working Hard in School:
https://impact.vice.com/en_us/article/evbgqk/sorry-being-born-rich-still-leads-to-success-more-than-working-hard-in-school?utm_source=impactfb
*
5 Tips for Helping Angry Children Have a
Better Day: http://www.bamradionetwork.com/teaching-teens-tweens/five-tips-for-helping-angry-children-have-better-days
*
Principals Like SEL - Here’s Why Schools
Struggle with It: http://blogs.edweek.org/edweek/rulesforengagement/2017/11/principals_like_social-emotional_learning_heres_why_schools_struggle_with_it.html
*
Education Inequalities at the School
Starting Gate (report): http://www.epi.org/files/pdf/132500.pdf
* Muster the Political Will to Close the Achievement Gap
Now, Not Later:
https://www.seattletimes.com/opinion/muster-the-political-will-to-close-the-achievement-gap-now-not-later/
* High
school student's science project linking race, low intelligence spurs investigation: http://www.latimes.com/local/lanow/la-me-race-high-school-20180211-story.html
*
Type-Casting for School Plays: https://www.nytimes.com/2018/02/08/theater/hunchback-of-notre-dame-ithaca-high-school.html
*
Institutional Racism - Changing the
Narrative: https://psmag.com/magazine/bryan-stevenson-ps-interview
* How Mass Incarceration
Contributes to the Achievement Gap: https://www.theatlantic.com/education/archive/2017/01/how-mass-incarceration-pushes-black-children-further-behind-in-school/513161/
* The Warm Demander: An
Equity Approach: https://www.edutopia.org/blog/warm-demander-equity-approach-matt-alexander
* Creating
an Inclusive Classroom: https://www.edutopia.org/article/creating-inclusive-classroom
* Black Disparities in Youth
Incarceration:
https://www.sentencingproject.org/publications/black-disparities-youth-incarceration/
* New federal civil rights
data show persistent racial gaps in discipline, access to advanced coursework:
https://www.washingtonpost.com/local/education/new-federal-civil-rights-data-show-persistent-racial-gaps-in-discipline-access-to-advanced-coursework/2016/06/06/e95a4386-2bf2-11e6-9b37-42985f6a265c_story.html
* The Troublemakers: https://www.gse.harvard.edu/news/ed/18/01/troublemakers
* Walmart Is Being Sued for
Locking Black Hair-Care Products in a Glass Case: https://apple.news/AiZkvjhgQSm-Uu1mPv-KS0Q
* ML King - More Radical
Than We Remember:
https://www.teenvogue.com/story/mlk-more-radical-than-we-remember
* What You Need to Know
About Measuring Social-Emotional Learning (guide): http://educationnorthwest.org/resources/measuring-social-and-emotional-learning-brief-guide?utm_source=Education+Northwest&utm_campaign=38c650d0c0-ednw-teachers-jan18&utm_medium=email&utm_term=0_899b47cd5e-38c650d0c0-109343037
*When Students Are
Traumatized, Teachers are Too: https://www.edutopia.org/article/when-students-are-traumatized-teachers-are-too
* Even With Affirmative
Action, Blacks and Hispanics Are More Underrepresented at Top Colleges Than 35
Years Ago: https://www.nytimes.com/interactive/2017/08/24/us/affirmative-action.html?_r=0
* The Education Equity
Timeline: http://www.theequitycollaborative.com/wp-content/uploads/2017/09/Education-Timeline-Handout.pdf
* Don’t Suspend Students –
Empathize: https://www.nytimes.com/2017/09/02/opinion/sunday/dont-suspend-students-empathize.html?_r=0&smid=tw-share&utm_content=&utm_medium=email&utm_name=&utm_source=govdelivery&utm_term=
*
Vulnerable Students Face Discipline Disparities: https://azednews.com/vulnerable-students-face-discipline-disparities/?ct=t%28AZEdNews_e_weekly_for_Aug_30_2017%29
* SEL Researchers: Ask
'what's right?' - not 'what's wrong?' - with kids from poor, stressful
backgrounds: http://www.seattletimes.com/education-lab/researchers-ask-whats-right-not-whats-wrong-with-kids-from-poor-stressful-backgrounds/?utm_source=email&utm_medium=email&utm_campaign=article_left_1.1
* Equity Fatigue and How it
Affects Leaders of Color: https://rainiervalleycorps.org/2017/08/equity-fatigue-affects-leaders-color/
* Grade
Inflation in Suburban Schools Hurts Poor Kids: https://www.theatlantic.com/education/archive/2017/08/suburban-grade-inflation/536595/
*
Teacher Race and School Discipline: http://educationnext.org/teacher-race-and-school-discipline-suspensions-research/
*
Why the Myth of Meritocracy Hurts Kids of
Color: https://www.theatlantic.com/amp/article/535035/
*
My family wanted me to go to college, but
I felt guilty. Here’s why. http://www.seattletimes.com/education-lab/student-voices-my-family-wanted-me-to-go-to-college-but-i-felt-guilty-going-heres-why/
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*
How Private
Funding Creates Disparities Among Detroit's Pre-K Classrooms: https://www.theatlantic.com/education/archive/2017/06/how-private-funding-creates-disparities-among-detroits-pre-k-classrooms/530628/
*
The Road to
Equity is Paved with Emotions: https://www.edutopia.org/blog/road-equity-paved-emotions-elena-aguilar
* Students Feel Safer
in More Diverse Schools (study): http://www.latimes.com/local/education/la-me-edu-diverse-schools-ucla-study-20170628-story,amp.html
* When Communities Secede
From School Districts, Inequity & Segregation Follow. But 30 States Let It
Happen Anyway: https://www.the74million.org/article/when-communities-secede-from-school-districts-inequity-segregation-follow-but-30-states-let-it-happen-anyway
* First Generation
Students’ Struggles Don’t End After Graduation: http://www.federalwaymirror.com/life/first-gen-struggles-dont-end-after-graduation-diversity/
*White
Skin; Black Emojis: https://www.npr.org/sections/codeswitch/2018/03/21/425573955/white-skin-black-emojis
* Forget Wealth and Neighborhood
– The Racial Income Gap Persists: https://www.npr.org/sections/codeswitch/2018/03/19/594993620/forget-wealth-and-neighborhood-the-racial-income-gap-persists
* Race and Economic
Opportunity in the United States: An Intergenerational Perspective (research
paper): http://www.equality-of-opportunity.org/assets/documents/race_paper.pdf
*
20 Tips to Help De-Escalate Interactions With Anxious or Defiant Students: https://www.kqed.org/mindshift/43049
* How
Stereotypes Affect Us and What We Can Do (YouTube video): https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=KvLj3OIQHuE&sns=em
*
As
America Changes, Some Anxious Whites Feel Left Behind: https://www.nationalgeographic.com/magazine/2018/04/race-rising-anxiety-white-america/
* 5 Facts About Prisoners and Work – Before
and After Incarceration: https://www.brookings.edu/blog/up-front/2018/03/14/5-facts-about-prisoners-and-work-before-and-after-incarceration/?utm_campaign=Brookings%20Brief&utm_source=hs_email&utm_medium=email&utm_content=61375295
* America
has locked up so many Black people is has warped our sense of reality: https://www.washingtonpost.com/news/wonk/wp/2016/02/26/america-has-locked-up-so-many-black-people-it-has-warped-our-sense-of-reality/?utm_term=.d6adaad78c3d
* How Immigration Crackdowns are Hurting America’s Poorest Schools: https://psmag.com/education/immigration-crackdowns-schools
*
Black Children will be the Victims of Armed Teachers:
http://time.com/5186040/sherrilyn-ifill-black-children-classroom/
* Why Talented
Black and Hispanic Students Can Go Undiscovered:
https://www.nytimes.com/2016/04/10/upshot/why-talented-black-and-hispanic-students-can-go-undiscovered.html
* Teachers' implicit bias against black students starts in
preschool, study finds: https://www.theguardian.com/world/2016/oct/04/black-students-teachers-implicit-racial-bias-preschool-study
*
Destigmatizing Privilege: https://www.tolerance.org/magazine/destigmatizing-privilege
*
The Girls of the Leesburg Stockade:
http://gpbnews.org/post/girls-leesburg-stockade