COMPETENCY 2 of 3
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Ability to build authentic relationships with students, families, and communities to create a learning partnership. Rigorous inquiry and investigation into students’ racial, cultural, and gendered backgrounds.
Ability to build authentic relationships with students, families, and communities to create a learning partnership. Rigorous inquiry and investigation into students’ racial, cultural, and gendered backgrounds.
Competency 2 Key Definitions
Competency 2 Key Definitions
Authentic Relationships
Authentic Relationships
A connection in which people value the opportunity to learn and grow from each other, based in deep, nuanced, and accurate knowledge about each others' strengths, passions, interests, and lived experiences (including struggle and success).
Race
Race
A social and political construction created to concentrate power with white people and legitimize dominance over people of color.
Culture
Culture
A social system of meaning and customs that is developed by a group of people to assure its adaptation and survival. These groups are distinguished by a set of unspoken rules that shape values, beliefs, habits, patterns of thinking, behaviors and styles of communication.
Gender Identity
Gender Identity
A concept that describes how societies manage sex categories; the cultural meanings attached to men and women’s roles; and how individuals understand their identities including, but not limited to, being a man, woman, transgender, intersex, gender queer and other genders. Gender involves social norms, attitudes and activities that society deems more appropriate for one's sex assigned at birth.
Attributes
Attributes
A. Examines and expresses curiosity about the racial, cultural, and gendered histories of students and families, particularly from marginalized groups, in order to build relationships.
A. Examines and expresses curiosity about the racial, cultural, and gendered histories of students and families, particularly from marginalized groups, in order to build relationships.
*For the 2019 - 2020 implementation, the Equity Toolkit will display resources, activities, and applications for the first 3 out of the 7 attributes for competency 2. For a complete list, please click the link below.
OBSERVABLE BEHAVIORS: INDIVIDUALS
OBSERVABLE BEHAVIORS: INDIVIDUALS
• Evidence of proactive and positive contact with students and parents with regular and timely communication
• Evidence of soliciting feedback/suggestions from students, parents, and community when possible
• Evidence of rapport and alliance building techniques (e.g. knowledge of student’s interests, affirming language), especially for triggering students/that trigger the instructor
• Instruction that is void of destructive actions such as microaggression
• Provides timely asset-based feedback that holds high standards and specific actionable steps that conveys assurance of capability
• Evidence that students are involved in setting learning goals
OBSERVABLE BEHAVIORS: SCHOOL LEADERS
OBSERVABLE BEHAVIORS: SCHOOL LEADERS
• Parents and community members on decision making bodies
• Structures for feedback from students, families, and communities
• Events and structures at school and in communal locations to increase the engagement of all families with flexibility for those who cannot meet at traditional times
OTHER PROFESSIONAL DEVELOPMENT RESOURCES
OTHER PROFESSIONAL DEVELOPMENT RESOURCES
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