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Getting to Good Schools. NAACP’s Education Agenda. Our Goals. Attack institutional racism in education with a national campaign for Excellence & Equity A campaign is a sustained plan for change using strategies that impact our issues. Identify issues in agenda Identify promising strategies - PowerPoint PPT Presentation
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Our Goals
Attack institutional racism in education with a national campaign for Excellence & Equity
A campaign is a sustained plan for change using strategies that impact our issues.
Identify issues in agenda Identify promising strategies Apply known tactics to each strategy
Target our campaign to turnaround schools
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Turnaround Schools
Bottom 5% of a state’s schools, ranked by test scores Includes dropout factory high schools
Annual federal School Improvement Grants given to reform
States choose which districts get funds to help low performing schools
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Turnaround Models
Schools must either: Fire and rehire staff, change instructional program,
Be turned over to a charter management organization
Be closed and students are dispersed elsewhere
Fire principal, change instructional program in specific ways ( extended learning time, community services);
• only ½ schools eligible
Potential Implications: Staff shortages worsen; shuffle among low performing
schools
Growth in number of charters outpaces capacity
Overcrowding at recipient schools, achievement suffers
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Our request – Each unit/branch picks one
Participate in the Campaign for Equity & Excellence by:
Adopting (at least) one issue area in education
Committing to (at least) one strategy Targeting turnaround schools Applying tactics that fit your community Working to perfect our education organizing
capacity
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Our Issue Agenda
Increasing Resource Equity Target funds to neediest kids
Ensuring College & Career Readiness Path to success after graduation
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Our Issue Agenda
Improving Teaching
Grow our own great teachers now
Improving Discipline
Eliminate zero tolerance; keep kids in school
* All applied to turnaround schools
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Teachers who close the achievement gap
1. fully prepared when they entered teaching,
2. had taught for more than two years,
3. certified in field &/or by National Board
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Strategies to improve teaching
Strategies: Stronger, More Diverse Pipeline
(preparation)
• Tactics: ID future teachers, TEACH grants, residencies
More Mentoring & Coaching (slows turnover)
• Tactics: Lead Teacher, mentoring, new teacher supports
More teachers with Advanced Certification (certification)
• Tactics: Support for National certification, changes to state licensing
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Local tactics by function & engagement
Communications(Promote)
Education (Sensitize, inform)
Advocacy(Influence decision-makers/policy)
Direct Action(Grassroots Mobilization)
Medium Engagement
1:1 meetings with journalists, newsletter articles, feature issue in a blog post
Workshops, town halls, testing, monitoring data, conducting internal research and surveys
Group calls and meetings with individuals, speak @ school and board of education meetings; advisory boards
Hearings, panels, candidate surveys & scorecards
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Putting it all together – medium engagement
Branches with a medium interest in advanced certification
Arrange a local media profile (communications)
Conduct & share a survey of teachers(education)
Form an advisory board (advocacy)
Hold a scorecard rally(grassroots)
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Putting it all together – escalating tactics
Branches interested in strengthening & diversifying the teacher pipeline could:
Distribute information about TEACH grants (low, education)
Appeal to the school board for incentives (med, advocacy)
Raise funds & challenge board to supplement TEACH grants (high, direct action)
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Strategies to improve discipline
School Leader Intervention – make aware of impacts
Education Tactics?
Racial Disparities Report – highlights disparate impact in school/district
Advocacy Tactic?
Cross School Policies Review – review school/district policy & compare to more beneficial models
Direct Action Tactic?
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Putting it all together: discipline policy review
With a medium level of member interest, a branch might choose: A tale of two students (communication)
Town hall for parents (education)
Group meets with district administrator (advocacy)
Petition the school board for policy change (direct action)
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It takes a whole village (branch or unit)…
The Political Action Committee can attend school board meetings in support of education
committee members
help keep units informed of laws, rules and budget decisions impacting schools
advocate for more favorable laws, rules and budget decisions impacting schools
Legal Redress can: help evaluate and prepare legal claims, Title VI complaints,
requests to join lawsuits or file friend of the court briefs.
help interpret and describe constitutional and civil rights dimensions of education issues
Membership? Young Adult?
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Q & A
Whole Group: Name, from, query
Table specific: What are the most pressing issues in your community?
What do you consider your greatest success?
What do you consider your greatest challenge?
Sharing what’s in common