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Last modified: May 12, 2016
Highlights
Great RPS: Equity in Family Engagement Meeting. Following are some notes.
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Meeting Notes
Here are some notes from RPS: Equity in Family Engagement:
Dr. Anthony Muhammad
- The vision of an equity environment is when we should not be able to predict achievement because of personal characteristics. A personal characteristic could be your zip code, race, culture, special needs, way of dressing..... Equity is a guarantee of high level of learning for all students. He kept emphasizing "all students".
- He said we need to move schools from an invitation to learn ( it's up to you to learn) to a guarantee that you learn. He also said schools have been meritocracy, a competition. For equity in schools there needs to be a shift to egalitarianism, removing inequalities among people.
The vision of an equity environment is when we should not be able to predict achievement because of personal characteristics.
- For egalitarianism the following two mindsets need to change, superiority and victim.
- Superiority mindset leads to paternalism, competition, and standard bearing. If you're feeling superior, you' like to keep the status quo, to feel special.
- If you're feeling like a victim then change is difficult and someone else is a predator. Victim mindset leads to learned irresponsibility, low motivation, and low expectations.
- Another change suggested was intellectual stimulation versus entertainment in the home. By groups of families who'd most likely to promote intellectual stimulation were first Asian, second Caucasian, third Hispanic, and fourth African Americans.
- For an equity environment in schools: the bar is a guarantee that all students learn
- high expectations for all students
- remove mindsets of superiority and victim
- promote intellectual stimulation in the home
- He suggested that we move to a liberation mindset for our children to do what they love and do it well. The liberation mindset leads to answers to:
- Who am I?
- What is my place in the world?
- An equity environment requires commitment to equality (all kids can learn, all kids can be successful), responsibility, and advocacy (advocate for your children, support their growth.
Dr. Luiz Cruz
suggested 7 things parents can do
1. Eat together, put away the cell phone, listen to your children. In a busy schedule, schedule a meal together, family night
2. Be the behavior you want your children to emulate.
They see, hear you and then become you (behave like you).
3. Time management
We need to teach our children how to manage time with schedules and routines.
Create routines.
4. Children need to learn how to be organized and responsible.
Give your children some responsibility - some chores around the home.
Mothers repeat this " I am not your maid"
5. Make success in school a priority.
Know what reading level your child is at.
6. Focus on your children being able to read and write at their grade level.
Make a routine of going to the library weekly. Have books in the home.
Read newspaper together once a week - promotes thinking.
7. Mathematics- focus on arithmetic- adding, substracting, multiplication, division.
Keep it up - these 7 things. Consistency is important.
Related Reports
Other Closing referral disparities (resolution agreement with Office of Civil Rights) Pinned Reports
September 15, 2023 : RPS Board Consider Updating District Equity Policy
July 26, 2023 : 2022-2023 RPS Disipline Data
July 20, 2022 : Outcome and Discipline Data 2021-2022
July 21, 2020 : Closing referral disparities (resolution agreement with Office of Civil Rights) 2019 -2020
September 23, 2019 : Analysis of RPS referal data
July 17, 2019 : Closing referral disparities (resolution agreement with Office of Civil Rights)
August 24, 2017 : August 2017 Update of June 27 RPS Board Study of 2016-2017 discipline data
March 09, 2016 : Consultant interim identification on barriers
January 05, 2016 : An openBEAM 5+1 proposal to address school disciplinary dispairty
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Pinned Rochester Public Schools organization and project reports
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Project Report of Rochester Public Schools Strategic Plan : September 29, 2023 : Technology Referendum for the Rochester schools
Project Report of Closing referral disparities (resolution agreement with Office of Civil Rights) : September 15, 2023 : RPS Board Consider Updating District Equity Policy
Project Report of Closing referral disparities (resolution agreement with Office of Civil Rights) : July 26, 2023 : 2022-2023 RPS Disipline Data
Project Report of Rochester Public Schools Strategic Plan : April 25, 2023 : Rochester Public Schools Strategic Plan 2022
Project Report of RPS American Indian Education : October 06, 2022 : American Indian Education at RPS
Project Report of Rochester Public Schools Strategic Plan : August 09, 2022 : Plans to Strengthen Belonging and Behavior During the 2022-2023 School Year
Project Report of Closing referral disparities (resolution agreement with Office of Civil Rights) : July 20, 2022 : Outcome and Discipline Data 2021-2022
Organization Report: March 29, 2022 : Rochester Public Schools Board Self-Evaluation
Project Report of Rochester Public Schools Strategic Plan : March 28, 2022 : RPS School Board Meeting - 3/22/22
Project Report of Family and Community Engagement (RPS) : January 12, 2022 : Family and Community Engagement (RPS) Report
Project Report of Closing referral disparities (resolution agreement with Office of Civil Rights) : July 21, 2020 : Closing referral disparities (resolution agreement with Office of Civil Rights) 2019 -2020
Project Report of Closing referral disparities (resolution agreement with Office of Civil Rights) : September 23, 2019 : Analysis of RPS referal data
Project Report of Closing referral disparities (resolution agreement with Office of Civil Rights) : July 17, 2019 : Closing referral disparities (resolution agreement with Office of Civil Rights)
Project Report of Closing referral disparities (resolution agreement with Office of Civil Rights) : August 24, 2017 : August 2017 Update of June 27 RPS Board Study of 2016-2017 discipline data
Project Report of Closing referral disparities (resolution agreement with Office of Civil Rights) : March 09, 2016 : Consultant interim identification on barriers
Project Report of Closing referral disparities (resolution agreement with Office of Civil Rights) : January 05, 2016 : An openBEAM 5+1 proposal to address school disciplinary dispairty
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