What will you learn?
This 9th annual Forum brings together education and community leaders from across the country who serve at-promise students. We hear about practices and policies that advance our work and increase the success of the students who have too often been pushed out of traditional schools.
This year there will be 36 policy sessions divided into 4 themes –
- Alternative Accountability In Practice
- Deeper Conversations About Equity
- Understanding Trauma During a Crisis
- Building Promise During COVID
Here are a few of the sessions in the Deeper Conversations About Equity theme.
Deeper Conversations About Equity
Starting young: Meeting the needs of African American children by listening to African American male teachers
Bweikia Foster Steen, Ed.D., George Mason University
Young children enter into Kindergarten excited, ready and eager to learn; however, by the time they leave kindergarten, many of their joys and excitements have diminished. This is especially true for young African American children, particularly African American boys. Learn about a participatory action research study conducted with African American male teachers to explore their perceptions for the causes and the solutions for promoting academic excellence during the early years with African American children.
Transforming Systems of Single Best Practices to Equity in Education: An Integrated Approach
Talisa Sullivan, Ph.D. Transformational Leadership Consulting "TLC" Services
The Every Student Succeeds Act (ESSA) has endorsed several initiatives to ensure equitable access and outcomes for all students. Many schools and districts practice these initiatives in silos which creates equity and access for some but not students. Learn how the Quantum Ten framework (Q10) promotes equity and access for all students.
Equity is the Destination and Healing is the Driver
Marisol Quevedo Rerucha: Chief of Partnerships and Strategy for the National Parents Union; Dr. Carolyn Gery: National Institute of Human Resilience.
The education system needs to be transformed and healed. We will explore what happens at the personal and interpersonal level when dignity is recognized, healing is the driver and equity is the destination.
The Impostor Syndrome
Hugo Moreno Ph.D. and Maribel Banda, Willard F. Payne Elementary School
An exploration of the Impostor Syndrome and how it impacts Black, Indigenous, and People of Color communities with a special lens on Latinx throughout their lives with an emphasis in the educational and professional fields. Learn how to develop resiliency through historical events empowering identity breaking down the “Pobrecito Phenomenon” - the bias that Latinx children cannot achieve success due to their background.