Stimulating the National Dialogue Around Culturally Responsive Systems

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Stimulating the National Dialogue Around
Culturally Responsive Systems

• The IDEA Partnership
• www.ideapartnership.org
• 1-877 IDEA-INFo

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Dialogue New Opportunities to Build Shared
Meaning Across Groups
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What Do We Mean by Dialogue?
Debate Discussion Dialogue
Accepts assumptions as Truth Surfaces various assumptions Examines/ questions assumptions
Point Counterpoint Majority rules agree to disagree Seeks common ground consensus
Persuasive Informative Reflective
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Dialogue Guides Bridging Differences in
Knowledge and Perspective

• The Partnership Effort
• Move from getting information to using
  information
• Build personal meaning from information
• Appreciate differences in the way issues impact
  various groups
• Build connections around shared interests
• Learn about differences to help shape common
  messages and action
• Work with existing Technical Assistance (TA)
  Centers to maximize the resources
• Work with organizations and states to sponsor
  dialogue around issues

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How Are We Stimulating the National Dialogue
Around Culturally Responsive Systems?

• Bringing Stakeholders Together Around Common
  Interests
• In states
• In organizations
• Creating Tools to Support Dialogue
• Building Relationships that Can Support Deeper
  Work

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Where Is the Value Added by Engaging the
Stakeholders?

• First Thoughts
• Build relationships that undergird real change
• Develop connections to extensive and deep
  networks
• Create customized messages
• Share aligned messages
• Become allies around common interests
• Extend the capacity to the state and /or local
  district efforts by drawing on existing networks

• Emerging
• Sense issues before critical points
• Specify the dimensions of an issue with those
  impacted
• Identify shared interests
• Move beyond organizational positions to shared
  interests
• Unite the state and the stakeholders around
  common goals
• Introduce twoway learning

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How Can We Support a National Dialogue on
Culturally Responsive Systems?

• Web-based Tools
• Guides on important documents
• Written by stakeholders for stakeholders
• Intent to develop additional guides on important
  documents in collaboration with states and
  national organizations
• Organizational Connections
• Encourage state affiliates and local members to
  sponsor dialogue on the issues
• State Connections
• Encourage states that work with the Partnership
  to sponsor dialogue routinely, as part of their
  work
• Use insights gained through Dialogue to create
  new opportunities and reach out to new partners

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Your Insights

• What can your organization or state do to promote
  Dialogue around culturally responsive systems?
• As you consider follow-up to this meeting, how
  can Dialogue tools help you?
• Can you identify additional Dialogue Guides that
  need to be written?

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Writing Dialogue Guides

• The Source Document
• The Executive Summary, if needed
• The Dialogue Starters
• The Facilitators Handbook

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Walking Through an Example

• Source Document from the U.S. Department of
  Education Office of Special Education Programs
• IDEA Reauthorized Statute Disproportionality
  and Overidentification Topical Brief and Dialogue
  Starter questions available at
  http//www.ideapartnership.org/partnership5a1.cfm?
  osepid9
• Facilitators Handbook available at
  http//www.ideapartnership.org/documents/Dialogue_
  Guide_Facilitator_Handbook.pdf

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Source Documents for Todays Work

• NCCRESt Practitioner Brief Series
• Preventing Disproportionate Representation
  Culturally and Linguistically Responsive
  Prereferral Interventions (Garcia and Ortiz,
  2004)
• Addressing Culturally and Linguistically Diverse
  Student Overrepresentation in Special Education
  Guidelines for Parents (Artiles and Harry, 2004)
• Disproportionate Representation of Culturally and
  Linguistically Diverse Students in Special
  Education Measuring the Problem (Coutinho and
  Oswald, 2004)
• Addressing Diversity in Schools Culturally
  Responsive Pedagogy (Richards, Brown and Forde,
  2004)

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• Lets get started!