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ABOUT THE WORKSHOP

Education can be transformed if we eradicate our fixation on big data like standardized test scores as the supreme measure of equity and learning. Instead of focusing on “filling” academic gaps, we must re-envision the system from the learn up—with classrooms, schools and systems built around students’ brilliance, cultural wealth, and intellective capacity. This call to action has never been more timely. Street data is the qualitative and experiential data that emerges at eye level and on higher frequencies when we train our brains to discern it. Street data is asset based, building on culturally responsive education by focusing on what’s right in our students, schools, and communities instead of seeking out what’s wrong. Street data reminds us that what is measurable is not the same as what is valuable and that data can be humanizing, liberatory and healing.

Many of our schools’ equity efforts focus on oversimplified quick fixes and implementation of off-the-shelf solutions. While we may feel a sense of urgency to address deep-rooted equity issues, our attempts are often thwarted by landmines that can be identified and removed through strategic analysis and creative action. This session offers educators the opportunity to examine some of the most common traps and tropes while finding the courage and agency to unhinge ourselves from a legacy of “implementation” over imagination.

By breaking down street data fundamentals: what it is, how to gather it, and how it can complement other forms of data to guide a school or district’s equity journey, authors Shane Safir and Dr. Jamila Dugan offer an actionable framework for school transformation. Join us for this dynamic workshop as Shane and Jamila, along with co-facilitator Jessica Huang, lay out their transformational model and help you shift your focus from satellite-level data to real-time, on-the-ground stories, experiences, and artifacts.

Featured Speaker Session and PoCC Master Class at the National People of Color Conference

About Event:

Acknowledging responsibility and taking principled action to redress wrongs is the call to character and courage in the national movement of our time. Reckoning with Impacts, Rolling with Just Intent is the guiding theme for the Online 2021 PoCC.

PoCC is the flagship of NAIS’s commitment to equity and justice in teaching, learning, and organizational development. The mission of the conference is to provide a safe space for leadership and professional development for people of color, and networking for people of color and allies of all backgrounds in independent schools.

PoCC equips educators at every level, from teachers to trustees, with knowledge and skills to improve the interracial, interethnic, and intercultural climate in their schools, as well as the attending academic, social-emotional, and workplace performance outcomes for students and adults alike.

In an engaging virtual space, the Online 2021 PoCC will offer thought-provoking workshops, inspiring speakers, affinity group spaces, and more.

Featured Speaker

About Event:

The Africa-America Institute invites you to join us for this year’s State of Education on Africa virtual conference, being held on Friday, November 5th, 2021 from 1PM-5:45PM ET.

Our annual SOE conference is a space for learning and dialogue between students, parents, teachers, leaders, and innovators interested in transforming K-12 education by infusing it with scholarly and unbiased knowledge about Africa and the worldwide Diaspora through effective teaching that supports student academic achievement.

Join us for “Teaching Africa in the World,” as we explore recovered histories that center the contributions of Africa and its worldwide Diaspora in the making of the modern world.

Based on the responses by educators to last year’s post-conference survey, this year all conferees will receive a Professional Development Certificate. This commemorative certificate evokes the conference theme of centering Africa in antiquity and the modern world.

Following the conclusion of the conference, all participants who registered before the day of will also receive an ebook of the widely acclaimed Reversing Sail: A History of the African Diaspora, by Michael A. Gomez

Join us for this dynamic webinar as best-selling authors, Shane Safir and Jamila Dugan, lay out their transformational model—which will help you shift your focus from satellite-level data (like test scores and other metrics) to real-time, on-the-ground stories, experiences, and artifacts.

Street data is the qualitative and experiential data that emerges at eye level and on lower frequencies when we train our brains to discern it. Street data is asset based, building on culturally responsive education by focusing on what’s right in our students, schools, and communities instead of seeking out what’s wrong. Street data embodies an ethos and a change methodology that will transform how we analyze, diagnose, and assess everything from student learning, to district improvement, to policy. You won’t want to miss this session!

Thu, August 05 2021, 9:00 AM – Fri, August 06 2021, 3:30 PM [PDT]

ABOUT THE INSTITUTE

Education can be transformed if we eradicate our fixation on big data like standardized test scores as the supreme measure of equity and learning. Instead of focusing on “filling” academic gaps, we must re-envision the system from the learn up—with classrooms, schools and systems built around students’ brilliance, cultural wealth, and intellective capacity. This call to action has never been more timely. Street data is the qualitative and experiential data that emerges at eye level and on higher frequencies when we train our brains to discern it. Street data is asset based, building on culturally responsive education by focusing on what’s right in our students, schools, and communities instead of seeking out what’s wrong. Street data reminds us that what is measurable is not the same as what is valuable and that data can be humanizing, liberatory and healing.

In this workshop, authors Shane Safir and Dr. Jamila Dugan break down street data fundamentals: what it is, how to gather it, and how it can complement other forms of data to guide your school or district’s equity journey. They will help you analyze traps and tropes that may be limiting the impact of your equity efforts, as well as concrete ways to climb out of those traps. And they’ll help you develop powerful Principles of Learning for the fall as well as a Street Data Action Plan. Join us for this dynamic 2-day virtual workshop as Shane and Jamila help you shift your focus from satellite-level data to real-time, on-the-ground stories, experiences, and artifacts.

COURSE MATERIALS

• Participants must have their own copies of Street Data.
• Book is NOT included in the course pricing. Participants must acquire the book on their own before the start of the course.

OUTCOMES

Participants will:

• Engage in humanizing experiences to reflect on the past year and dream ahead
• Feel inspired to reimagine how we teach and lead for equity in the coming year
• Begin to shift epistemologies, or ways of knowing, to be more culturally sustaining
• Identify potential traps and tropes that currently subvert their visions for equity
• Design a Street Data mini-action plan that creates a container for designing solutions in partnership WITH students and adults at the margins

WHO SHOULD ATTEND

• Teachers!!!
• New and experienced coaches, managers, and mentors
• Leaders who are ready to challenge their thinking and ways of leading
• Educators of all positions who work in public, charter, and private schools
• Note: We recommend attending with a team from the same school or organization

ACTIVITIES INCLUDE

• Chapter 1-2 (Team Deliverable: Principles of Learning; Trap and Trope Plan)
• Chapter 3-4 (Street Data Mini-Action Plan)

AGENDA/SCHEDULE

Day 1: August 5

Day 2: August 6

ABOUT THE PRESENTERS

Shane Safir has worked at every level of the education system, from the classroom to the boardroom, for over two decades. In 2003, after teaching in San Francisco and Oakland and organizing with the San Francisco Organizing Project to launch a new school, Safir became the founding principal of June Jordan School for Equity (JJSE), an innovative national model identified by leading scholar Linda Darling-Hammond as having “beaten the odds in supporting the success of low-income students of color.” Since 2008, Safir has provided leadership coaching, strategic planning support, and equity-centered professional learning for schools, districts, and organizations across the country and in Canada. She facilitates sought-after workshops on equity leadership, coaching, and facilitating adult learning among other areas. She writes frequently for Edutopia and ASCD’s Educational Leadership magazine and is the author of The Listening Leader: Creating the Conditions for Equitable School Transformation (Jossey-Bass: 2017).

Dr. Jamila Dugan is a leadership coach, learning facilitator, and researcher. She began her career as a teacher in Washington D.C., successfully supporting her school to implement an International Baccalaureate program. After being nominated for Teacher of the Year, she later served as a coach for new teachers and a director of learning and leadership development for teachers in Oakland, California. As a school administrator, Jamila championed equity-centered student services, parent empowerment, and the development of the first Mandarin immersion middle school in Oakland, California. She currently serves as a leadership development coach in urban areas. She holds a Bachelor’s Degree in Psychology from Fresno State University, a Master’s Degree in Early Childhood Education from George Mason University, and a doctorate in Education Leadership for Equity from University of California, Berkeley.

Shane and Jamila’s newest book, Street Data: A Next-Generation Model for Equity, Pedagogy, and School Transformation (Corwin: 2021), is out now.

If you need to pay by check or purchase order, please contact safirassociates@gmail.com.

Tue, July 27 2021, 9:00 AM – Wed, July 28 2021, 3:30 PM [PDT]

ABOUT THE INSTITUTE

This 2-day institute will help you and your team build collective will, skill, and momentum for equity in complex times. Leading for equity is deeply personal work. To lead others on an equity journey, we have to be in touch with who we are, why we lead, and our own moral imperative. Our seasoned facilitation team will create a brave space for your team to learn, grow, and take collective action for equity. We will engage you in considering:

• Story of Self: Who am I as an equity leader, and what is my equity imperative?
• Story of Us: Who are we as a team or organization, and what is our current state story?
• Story of Now: What is our call to action? What is our equity imperative?

COURSE MATERIALS

• Participants must have their own copies of The Listening Leader.
• Book is NOT included in the course pricing.Participants must acquire the book on their own before the start of the course.

OUTCOMES

Participants will:

• Experience a dynamic, equity-centered community of practice.
• Deepen shared language and understanding of educational equity.
• Analyze the root cause of an equity challenge you face.
• Shift the discourse around your equity challenge.
• Create a Safe-to-Fail experiment with your team.

AGENDA/SCHEDULE

Day 1: July 27

Day 2: July 28

 

WHO SHOULD ATTEND

This institute is relevant to anyone who seeks to create greater diversity, equity, inclusion, and justice in their school, district, or organization while deepening their skills and toolkit around transformational leadership. This experience is especially powerful for newly formed teams as well as teams in early stages of their journey to work toward equity.

ABOUT THE PRESENTERS

Shane Safir has worked at every level of the education system, from the classroom to the boardroom, for over two decades. In 2003, after teaching in San Francisco and Oakland and organizing with the San Francisco Organizing Project to launch a new school, Safir became the founding principal of June Jordan School for Equity (JJSE), an innovative national model identified by leading scholar Linda Darling-Hammond as having “beaten the odds in supporting the success of low-income students of color.” Since 2008, Safir has provided leadership coaching, strategic planning support, and equity-centered professional learning for schools, districts, and organizations across the country and in Canada. She facilitates sought-after workshops on equity leadership, coaching, and facilitating adult learning among other areas. She writes frequently for Edutopia and ASCD’s Educational Leadership magazine and is the author of The Listening Leader: Creating the Conditions for Equitable School Transformation (Jossey-Bass: 2017).

Dr. Jamila Dugan is a leadership coach, learning facilitator, and researcher. She began her career as a teacher in Washington D.C., successfully supporting her school to implement an International Baccalaureate program. After being nominated for Teacher of the Year, she later served as a coach for new teachers and a director of learning and leadership development for teachers in Oakland, California. As a school administrator, Jamila championed equity-centered student services, parent empowerment, and the development of the first Mandarin immersion middle school in Oakland, California. She currently serves as a leadership development coach in urban areas. She holds a Bachelor’s Degree in Psychology from Fresno State University, a Master’s Degree in Early Childhood Education from George Mason University, and a doctorate in Education Leadership for Equity from University of California, Berkeley.

Shane and Jamila’s newest book, Street Data: A Next-Generation Model for Equity, Pedagogy, and School Transformation (Corwin: 2021), is out now.

If you need to pay by check or purchase order, please contact safirassociates@gmail.com.

Week-long Conference w/ Keynotes and Workshops

Includes DWSC Part 1 and Part 2

June 14th-18th

Thursday, June 10 2021, 1:00 PM – 4:00 PM [PDT]

ABOUT THE WORKSHOP

Education can be transformed if we eradicate our fixation on big data like standardized test scores as the supreme measure of equity and learning. Instead of focusing on “filling” academic gaps, we must re-envision the system from the learn up—with classrooms, schools and systems built around students’ brilliance, cultural wealth, and intellective capacity. This call to action has never been more timely. Street data is the qualitative and experiential data that emerges at eye level and on higher frequencies when we train our brains to discern it. Street data is asset based, building on culturally responsive education by focusing on what’s right in our students, schools, and communities instead of seeking out what’s wrong. Street data reminds us that what is measurable is not the same as what is valuable and that data can be humanizing, liberatory and healing.

Many of our schools’ equity efforts focus on oversimplified quick fixes and implementation of off-the-shelf solutions. While we may feel a sense of urgency to address deep-rooted equity issues, our attempts are often thwarted by landmines that can be identified and removed through strategic analysis and creative action. This session offers educators the opportunity to examine some of the most common traps and tropes while finding the courage and agency to unhinge ourselves from a legacy of “implementation” over imagination.

By breaking down street data fundamentals: what it is, how to gather it, and how it can complement other forms of data to guide a school or district’s equity journey, authors Shane Safir and Dr. Jamila Dugan offer an actionable framework for school transformation. Join us for this dynamic workshop as Shane and Jamila lay out their transformational model and help you shift your focus from satellite-level data to real-time, on-the-ground stories, experiences, and artifacts.

OUTCOMES

Participants will:

• Engage in a humanizing experience to reflect on the past year and dream ahead
• Feel inspired to reimagine how we teach and lead for equity in the coming year
• Begin to shift from a Western-centered epistemology to more holistic, culturally sustaining ways of knowing
• Identify potential traps and tropes that can subvert our visions for equity
• Prepare to gather street data and design solutions in partnership with students and adults at the margins

COURSE MATERIALS

• Be sure to pre-purchase and bring your copy of Street Data
• The book is NOT included in the course pricing

WHO SHOULD ATTEND

• Teachers!!!
• New and experienced coaches, managers, and mentors
• Leaders who are ready to challenge their thinking and ways of leading
• Educators of all positions who work in public, charter, and private schools

ABOUT THE PRESENTERS

Shane Safir has worked at every level of the education system, from the classroom to the boardroom, for over two decades. In 2003, after teaching in San Francisco and Oakland and organizing with the San Francisco Organizing Project to launch a new school, Safir became the founding principal of June Jordan School for Equity (JJSE), an innovative national model identified by leading scholar Linda Darling-Hammond as having “beaten the odds in supporting the success of low-income students of color.” Since 2008, Safir has provided leadership coaching, strategic planning support, and equity-centered professional learning for schools, districts, and organizations across the country and in Canada. She facilitates sought-after workshops on equity leadership, coaching, and facilitating adult learning among other areas. She writes frequently for Edutopia and ASCD’s Educational Leadership magazine and is the author of The Listening Leader: Creating the Conditions for Equitable School Transformation (Jossey-Bass: 2017).

Dr. Jamila Dugan is a leadership coach, learning facilitator, and researcher. She began her career as a teacher in Washington D.C., successfully supporting her school to implement an International Baccalaureate program. After being nominated for Teacher of the Year, she later served as a coach for new teachers and a director of learning and leadership development for teachers in Oakland, California. As a school administrator, Jamila championed equity-centered student services, parent empowerment, and the development of the first Mandarin immersion middle school in Oakland, California. She currently serves as a leadership development coach in urban areas. She holds a Bachelor’s Degree in Psychology from Fresno State University, a Master’s Degree in Early Childhood Education from George Mason University, and a doctorate in Education Leadership for Equity from University of California, Berkeley.

Shane and Jamila’s newest book, Street Data: A Next-Generation Model for Equity, Pedagogy, and School Transformation (Corwin: 2021), is out now.

If you need to pay by check or purchase order, please contact safirassociates@gmail.com.

Presented by: Shane Safir, Dr. Jamila Dugan, Chris Emdin, Jal Mehta

Street data is the qualitative and experiential data that emerges at eye level and on lower frequencies when we train our brains to discern it. Street data is asset based, building on the tenets of culturally responsive education by helping educators look for what’s right in our students, schools, and communities instead of seeking out what’s wrong. Street data embodies an ethos and a change methodology that will transform how we analyze, diagnose, and assess everything from student learning to district improvement to policy–offering us a new way to think about, gather, and make meaning of data. Join us for this dynamic webinar as authors Shane Safir and Jamila Dugan lay out their transformational model.

Outcomes
• Get to know the authors and their deeply personal “why” for writing this book.
• Interrogate the roots of the current educational data system through an antiracist lens.
• Explore a next-generation model for school transformation, rooted in street-level data.

Date: Thursday, February 4, 2021

Time: 4:00-5:00 p.m. Pacific/7:00-8:00 p.m. Eastern (U.S.)

Join Dr. Jamila Dugan and Shane Safir, co-authors of the forthcoming book Street Data: A Next-Generation Model for Equity, Pedagogy, and School Transformation (Corwin, March 2021), as they engage with four current principals and discuss antiracist grading: what this could look like, why it matters, and what gets in the way. In a moment of collective trauma and widening equity gaps, how are schools approaching grading? Will grading be a source of oppression and further alienation for students at the margins? Can we shift our mindsets and practices to center feedback over grades? What are innovative, antiracist practices in this area?

The panel will include four powerful, equity-centered leaders:

• Emma Dunbar, principal, Presidio Middle School, San Francisco Unified School District
• Michael Essien, principal, Martin Luther King Jr Middle School, San Francisco Unified School District (read more about Michael’s groundbreaking work here)
• Guillermo Morales, principal, Treeview Elementary School, Hayward Unified School District
• Dr. Cynthia Ortiz, principal, Harder Elementary School, Hayward Unified School District

Cost: Free, but preregistration is required to attend.