October 8th - Coordinators
Introduction for October 8th
Please watch this video for an overview of your pre-work.
Pre-Work
During the first 60 minutes of our meeting, please complete the following pre-work:
Checking Out the Tools on Our Website
Please watch the short video about the tools available to you through our NSI website.
2. Reflecting on Tests of Change
Please complete the quick write and post to the linked Padlet.
3. Working on Implicit Bias
Please watch the videos and complete the reflections.
- Checking Out the Tools on Our Website
Website Tools
This video provides an overview of what's available to you on the webiste and how those tools work.
2. Reflecting on Tests of Change
The purpose of this task is to surface where your team is in the improvement process and to share successes and challenges. This is also an opportunity to get some advice or feedback from other coordinators in our network. Please take some time to complete a quick write in response to the below questions. Middle school coordinators, you may choose to write about 6 & 7 or 8th or both:
What is the test of change that your school is working on?
If you haven't started a test of change, what do you see as barriers preventing work on a test of change?
What has been successful with the test of change?
What challenges are your facing with the test of change?
How are you using student data to measure success?
What are your next steps?
When you are ready, please add your test of change reflection to the Padlet linked below. You might also choose to add documents or images to help us better understand what your team is working on. We'll take some time to gallery walk your response during the guided portion of our meeting. You can pop out the Padlet by clicking the box in the upper right hand corner or you can create your post right from our landing page.
Padlet
3. Work on Implicit Bias
We'll spend much of our time today discussing and examining our own biases and how those biases may show up in our work with students. Please engage with each video to
develop a foundational understanding of implicit bias; and
consider how our biases may be apparent in our work with students.
Implicit Bias
In this video Dr. Dana Thompson-Dorsey provides an overview of implicit bias. After you've finished watching the video, please complete a quick write in response to the following:
What did you learn about implicit bias from this video?
What questions do you have?
Why We Have Racial Bias
Dr. Ali Mattu discusses how associations can lead us to hidden biases. After viewing this video, please add to your quick writes by responding to the following:
What did you learn about schema and implicit bias?
How did this video build on what you learned about implicit bias from Dr. Thompson-Dorsey?
Bias Isn't Just A Police Problem
After watching this video, please add to the thinking you've done in your previous quick writes using the following questions as guides:
What do you learn about empathy deficits? How does that add to your understanding of implicit bias?
A Student's Story
This video provides a glimpse of the experiences that one child has had from his infancy to his teenage years. After you've watched the video please compose a quick write in response to the following:
What did you notice about the experiences of the focal child in this video?
Have you had similar experiences? If so, how?
How does the information in the previous videos add to, change, or deepen your understanding of the student's experiences in this video?
Materials for Our Guided Work
The documents and materials shown below are for our work when we come together on Zoom from 6:00 to 8:00
Info on Requesting Exit Tickets
Bridge to Practice
October 8th Bridge to Practice
For your Bridge to Practice we'd like you to continue working with your teams on tests of change (the Bridge to Practices you received on September 17th and 24th). In addition, we'd like to ask you to draft a cultural and racial autobiography for our next coordinators meeting on December 17th. Please use the posted task sheet to guide your work. If you have any questions, please feel free to reach out to Sara (smd94@pitt.edu) or Glenn (gnolly@sbcglobal.net).