What is our purpose Why are we here Mission

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What is our purpose? Why are we here?Mission

• The Graduate, 2020, and 2050
• Every student, every day!
• Eliminating race as a predictor of student
  achievement
• Achievement
• Academic Engagement
• School Membership
• High-status knowledge and skills

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How will we get there?

• Our greatest contribution
• is to be sure there is
• a teacher
• in every classroom who cares that
• every student every day
• learns and grows and feels like
• a real human being.
• Donald Clifton

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And, the rest is details! If only it were
that simple.
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How did we get here?

• 1954
• 1968
• 1972
• 1975
• 1984

• 1984
• 1986
• 1999
• 2001
• 2005

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Our Inclusive Schools

• Brown v. Board
• Civil Rights
• - Title IX
• - P.L. 94-142
• - The Macintosh!

• 1954
• 1968
• 1972
• 1975
• 1984

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How did we get here?

• 1984
• 1986
• 1999
• 2001
• 2005

• 1984!
• Homosexuality
• School shootings
• September 11, 2001
• Hurricane Katrina

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Our Inclusive Schools Were getting a lot right,
but... !

• 1954
• 1968
• 1972
• 1975
• 1984

• 1984
• 1986
• 1999
• 2001
• 2005

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Perhaps, in spite of so many successes, we
might be lookingin the wrong places
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or
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ChernobylBlindness
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Right there in front of us!

• Its a systems thing!

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A Case Study

• Urban Educational Choice
• Or
• McKinley!

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• Its a systems thing!
• Or
• How we view the School World

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Applying Tools and Models to our thinking about
student success
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Applying The Iceberg Model
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The TRIPOD Model Ron Ferguson

• Content
• Pedagogy
• Relationships for Learning

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What we expect!
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District wide efforts

• Latino Student Achievement Initiative
• 7th grade mathematics
• 2 teacher courses
• BAMSS standards and objectives
• School based efforts

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CS2 efforts

• After-school clubs and programs
• Benefits Package
• Parent Advisory Board whats working?
• Co-curricular transcript
• Prep Academy
• Strive
• Internships in community
• MSAN class
• Mentoring and Tutoring

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Membership in MSAN

• A network of districts with a common mission and
  benchmarks
• Using the Tripod model Content, Pedagogy,
  Relationships
• Critical tasks of students and teachers Trust,
  Consolidation of learning, industriousness,
  ambitiousness, control and autonomy
• Classroom and school factors (peer support,
  encouragement, others supported by data)

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Lessons Learned byRossi Ray-Taylor

• We wont fix what we will not recognize
• We are willing to lead and take part in honest
  discussions about race
• We realize cultures of blame do not produce
  success
• We let the data speak and are guided by research
• We invest heavily in creating a culture of
  learning for all

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Lessons, continued

• We create opportunities to hear the voice of our
  students and then we listen
• Change the system to ferret out the hidden
  curriculum.
• We build a culture safe for intellectual risk
  taking
• Focus, Focus, Focus
• There is no magic bullet.

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So, if were doing ALL of this and thinking
about it all this way and we still arent
getting the results we want
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We have to go deeper
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One more story or I thought I knew