Year at a Glance

Who should attend Community Gatherings? 

MBLC member schools’ full MBLC team

SUMMER 2023

Date: Monday-Tuesday, August 7-8, 2023  

Time: 10:00 am -3:15 pm

Location: Green River College (East Entrance). CASCADE HALL - Student Affairs Building

Description: View the agenda.

FALL 2023
Date: Tuesday, October 24, 2023  

Time: 10:00 am -3:30 pm

Location: The Club at Snoqualmie Ridge, 36005 SE Ridge St. Snoqualmie, WA  98065

Description: Will include the first PLC session, in person. More details coming soon!

WINTER 2024
Date: Thursday, January 11, 2024   

Time: 3:30-5:30 pm 

Location: Virtual via Zoom

Description: Explore MBL and CRSE as strategies for educational equity, within and across our schools

SPRING 2024

Date: Tuesday, May 7, 2024   

Time: 10 am - 3:30 pm 

Location:  Central Washington University, Ellensburg, WA 

Description: Coming Soon!

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SUMMER 2024

Date: Wednesday-Thursday, August 7-8, 2024

Time: 10:00 am -3:30 pm 

Location: Green River College, Auburn

Description: Coming Soon! 

In interest-driven groups, we will learn with and from each others' experiences, questions, and passions. We'll take a collaborative approach to exploring school change, principles and practices of culturally responsive-sustaining education & MBL, educational equity, and youth-/child-centered approaches—focusing on aspects that are of highest interest to the group.  All PLCs will be held virtually.

What will we do in PLC sessions?

Our PLC is where we can talk shop and reflect, share resources and inspirations, talk through questions, and strategize about the complexities of our work—in community with school colleagues and folks from other MBLC member school teams.

Who should sign up?

Your MBLC Cohort 1 school's MBLC team (or a minimum of 3-4 members). Each member of your MBLC team is invited to choose which interest-driven PLC to attend. MBLC team colleagues can decide if they want to be all together in one PLC, or spread out and share back to each other.

MBLC school principals are warmly welcome, but optional. 

The Interest-driven PLC Choices are: 

1. Project-based Unit/Assessment Design for MBL: This PLC will be a space where teachers can share learning, questions, dilemmas and successes in crafting project-based units or assessments. We will learn about and explore how to craft projects that are culturally responsive and that enable students to explore ideas and develop criticality while building academic skills. We also discuss and share ideas about how to integrate mastery-based approaches into projects.

2. Grading for Accuracy and Equity: This PLC will be a space where educators and school leaders can explore culturally responsive-sustaining, mastery-based approaches to feedback and grading. Participants will explore tools and systems together, discuss challenges and dilemmas, and share resources.

3. CRSE Foundations: This PLC will offer space to explore culturally responsive-sustaining education (CRSE). What does CRSE look like in classrooms and schools? How do CRSE and MBL interplay to benefit academic growth and wellbeing? What does CRSE call upon us to learn and unlearn? We'll look into these questions—and yours!—as we work with the three pillars of CRSE, and build capacity with key principles and practices of this powerful approach to effective, affirming, learner-centered school. (updated PLC focus)

Session Dates:  

Please plan to join all 5 PLC sessions. This will help us with building connections and following through in a collective learning space. Thank you!

1. Tuesday, October 24, (first meeting in person as part of our Fall Gathering)

2. Tuesday, November 28, 3:30-5:00 p.m.

3. Tuesday, February 13, 3:30-5:00 p.m.

4. Tuesday, March 12, 3:30-5:00 p.m.

5. Tuesday, May 21, 3:30-5:00 p.m.

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This quarterly meeting is where school leaders who are directing the MBL work at the school level will share successes, troubleshoot problems, and exchange resources. Guided by our dedication to educational equity, this Community of Practice will be a key part of our support system as we take this journey together. All meetings will be held virtually.

What will we do in our meetings?

• Share programs, documents, or policies and give feedback

• Discuss dilemmas/problems of practice

• Analyze student work generated in different schools

• Read or view and discuss resources together

Who should sign up?

• Principals in MBLC schools

• (optional) one additional person who is also taking a leadership role in your school’s MBLC group is welcome to join

Session Dates:

MBLC members who sign up for the Community of Practice will be asked to commit to all 4 meeting dates.

1. Thursday, October 12, 9:30-11 am 

2. Tuesday, December 5, 9:30-11 am

3. Tuesday, February 6, 9:30-11 am

4. Tuesday, April 23, 9:30-11 am 

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For MBLC Youth Advisors + 1 Adult Ally from Your School (virtual, and optional but encouraged)

In these 3 sessions, MBLC middle school and high school youth advisors will learn more about the MBLC project goals, clarify their own roles as advisors within their schools, receive leadership and advocacy training, build community with learners across the member schools, and prepare for active roles at MBLC community gatherings in the winter (role-alike conversations) and spring (youth advisor panels. We ask that youth be accompanied by one adult ally per school. All youth sessions will be held virtually.

What will we do in our meetings?

• Centering equity & youth voice

• Understanding the MBLC project & youth advisor role

• Building community and trust

• Flexing and growing critical lens & leadership moves

• Preparing for active presence at MBLC Community Gatherings in the Winter (online after school, role-alike conversation with other youth advisors) and Spring (in person youth panels for an audience of leaders and staff from member schools)

Who should sign up?

• Middle and high school youth advisors from MBLC schools

• One adult ally for each participating school, who joins youth advisors from their school in a supportive role

All sessions will be held during the school day, from 12:00-1:30 p.m.

• Fall: Thursday, November 16, 2023

• Winter: Tuesday, January 9, 2024 

• Added opt-in session: February 29, 2024
  In this special added session, youth advisors will be invited to give feedback on school-created MBLC resources.

• Spring: Thursday, May 2, 2024
  In this session, we will prep for May 7 in-person Spring Gathering Youth Advisor Panel.

• Added opt-in session: May 9, 2024
  In this special added session, we will debrief the Spring Gathering Youth Advisor Panel.

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