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Getting to Good Schools NAACP’s Education Agenda

Getting to Good Schools NAACPs Education Agenda. 2 Our Goals Attack institutional racism in education with a national campaign for Excellence & Equity

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Page 1: Getting to Good Schools NAACPs Education Agenda. 2 Our Goals Attack institutional racism in education with a national campaign for Excellence & Equity

Getting to Good Schools

NAACP’s Education Agenda

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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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FOCUS ON TEACHING

FOCUS ON TEACHING

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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

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Thanks for participating!

[email protected] (direct)410-358-3385 (fax)