Objective: To improve racial equity in educational outcomes, specifically related to Black/African American students and families, for Monterey Trail High School and pathway of its feeder schools, by building a committed coalition to bridge connections and collaborate for action.
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2025-26
Our mission continues and we have a dedicated group of families and staff who are now helping to determine the agenda and activities at our MTREC Coalition meetings for this year.
The dates for our convening are:
Oct. 1, 2025
Dec. 3, 2025
February 2026 - attend the MTHS BSU Black History Month Community Extravaganza
April 30, 2026 (Tentative)
Our continued blueprint is here
Our action plans are being revisited currently but our work with growing our student leadership is continuing this year as well as professional learning series.
2024-25 recap:
We hosted 3 Coalition meetings and were present at the MTHS Black History Month Extravaganza.
To learn more, our partners at Innovation Bridge helped train and guide our MT BSU student members to conduct listening sessions to help us determine the focus areas for our next action steps.
See the emergent themes from our study below.
What is happening for 2023-24?
Coalition Meeting Schedule:
September 27, 2023 @ Irene B. West - 6-7:30pm (see flyer below)
December 7, 2023 @ TBD - 6-7:30pm
February 24, 2024 - helping at Monterey Trail HS Black History Month Extravaganza
April 11, 2024 @ EHMS cafeteria - 6-7:30pm
We will be celebrating the end of the year, community building and also looking at structures for shared leadership in alignment with the idea of community schools approaches to include how it might look, capacity building and potential roles
Agenda from meeting in December 2023
Blueprint that was shared and reviewed
Last year we held four meetings for 2022-23.
Join us for the four in person meetings (locations TBD):
October 20, 2022 - MTHS Cafeteria - 6-7:30pm
December 1, 2022 - TBD - 6-7:30pm
February 2nd or 3rd, 2023 - TBD
April 6, 2023 - TBD - 6-7:30pm
Keep an eye on the site and emails for more information and updates.
We are excited to continue this work with you all to make real change for our students and community.
Here is the summary report from 21-22 work within MTREC.
MTREC 2021-22 Summary Report.pdfMTREC closed out the 21-22 school year with an April and a June convening.
We gathered to focus on relationship building and meaningful participation while also celebrating Black Excellence. In addition we were able to hear more ideas on furthering our actions and where we are headed in the next school year.
Thank you to all who joined us.
At the second MTREC Coalition convening that occurred Feb. 10, 2022:
We were excited to honor students and staff to celebrate Black Excellence.
In addition, updates were shared about work being proposed at the state level by our IYT partners. Then, we reviewed progress on our action plan within the region and gathered feedback. This was followed by information regarding discipline and strategies being used to reduce suspensions and incorporate proactive and preventative steps along with restorative practices. The coalition was able to provide feedback.
We are looking forward to continuing our site based group work and working with the equity coalition to develop an equity scorecard for our region.
We are grateful to all who were able to join us in this work.
We are excited that our MTREC Coalition continues this 2021-2022 school year.
Where did we leave off and what are we doing and planning for this year so far:
Check out this link to see the MTREC Findings Report for the region
MTREC 2021 convening December 9, 2021 6-7:30pm virtual
MTREC Updated flowchart - click here for the flowchart
At MTHS - African American/Black Family Leadership Team
Check out this link to see the MTHS Parent University slide deck which includes our break out session information from our African American/Black Family Leadership Team meeting held on Sept. 14, 2021. (slides 37-45)
We conducted our second MTHS African American/Black Family Leadership Team meeting on October 26, 2021 and determined that we will look at Term 1 data and academic outcomes as a starting point at the next meeting.
The third meeting was scheduled and opened in zoom on: Nov. 30, 2021 (virtual) but will be rescheduled due to lack of attendance unfortunately. Stay tuned.
If you have questions, please email Lara Ricks - lricks@egusd.net
MTREC 2021 convening December 9, 2021 6-7:30pm virtual
MTREC Updated flowchart - click here for the flowchart
Spring and Summer work 2021
Hosted Listening Sessions with all stakeholders (working on gathering even more student voices going forward)
Shared findings with the larger Coalition at a meeting in April
Summer work - created a draft action plan
Fall 2021 - working on scope of work plan for 2021-22
As a result of the work from our Listening Sessions and Coalition work last year, here are just some of the things we working on in the region and at MTHS:
Regional:
Community Schools idea - resource center for families within the region and at the school sites
Continued MTREC meetings and commitment to be held accountable with meaningful participation and input from stakeholders
Professional Development & book studies - including but not limited to work from Removing Labels
Site collaboratives to give families a safe and brave space to share their voice and give opportunity to impact the work
Site specific at MT:
Analysis of representation/disproportionality in Renaissance, President’s Award recipients, AP/H, CTE, A-G
Focus on high quality instruction including data analysis with subgroup analysis - --- Learning Targets/Success Criteria in formative assessment cycles
African American/Black family Leadership group being established
Home Visit w/specific information about opportunities and programs/etc -for targeted populations
Professional development starting with Removing Labels and moving into exploring grading and what grading means/why we grade the way we do
Restorative Practices and alternate means to suspension and removal from instructional environment
Working to identify a wellness/safe space for students to share/talk
College Career Readiness program - consult and start
LCAP funding earmarked for equity work
Identify areas to recognize inequity, interrupt it and repair it - look at things with an equity lens
partnerships with Innovation Bridge, Improve Your Tomorrow, Sac Connect, Delta Gems, CAP, Upward Bound, Equal Opportunity Schools
work to support 1300 campaign and CRC initiatives
Fall 2020 - Coalition Began
Fall 2020 - Coalition Began
Principals gathered to collaborate with community leaders to determine best steps
Established partnership with Innovation Bridge
Creation of Monterey Trail Regional Equity Coalition (MT REC)
Held first MT REC launch meeting to prepare for Listening Sessions
Listening Sessions - January - March 2021
Listening Sessions - January - March 2021
To better inform the priorities and actions of the Monterey Trail Regional Equity Coalition, including region-wide and site specific strategies, by hearing from key stakeholder groups.
Listening Sessions have concluded and we are excited to continue work with our partners at Innovation Bridge. Last spring we learned more about the findings and determined some next steps after meetings with the Coalition on April 22, 2021 followed by a deeper dive on May 13, 2021. Thank you to all who have given us your authentic feedback to help us in this important work.
Listening Sessions have concluded and we are excited to continue work with our partners at Innovation Bridge. Last spring we learned more about the findings and determined some next steps after meetings with the Coalition on April 22, 2021 followed by a deeper dive on May 13, 2021. Thank you to all who have given us your authentic feedback to help us in this important work.
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