Principal Equity Learning Arc
This exte4nsive course ran over 12 sessions from December 2020 to May 2022, a very long term project. The principals of each school
were the participants. Assistant Superintendent Lorene Marx and Humanities Coordinator Kristen Ando were the facilitators.
The syllabus instructs participants to do the “
Pre-work”, which is required for all of these courses.
The primary resource for the course is
Courageous Conversations About Race: A Field Guide for Achieving Equity in Schools and Beyond
Each session begins with a list of the objectives of the session, then proceeds to the agenda. Highlights of the Objectives and Agenda Items are:
Objectives:
Sessions 1-2: create a shared definition of NAPS Equity/Anti-racism work
Session 4-5: Deepen your understanding of color blindness, white supremacy and myth of meritocracy
Session 6: Apply your understanding of color blindness, white supremacy and myth of meritocracy to current hiring practices
Examine hypervisibility and how it relates to our school communities
Session 7: To connect individual and group DEI (Diversity Equity and Inclusion) learning explicitly to data cycles and to larger disruption of school and/or district based inequities.
Agenda:
Session 1: Norms for our work (Four Agreements)
"Land Acknowledgement" and "Equity Mavens" are on every agenda from sessions 2-12.
Session 3: “All Lives Matter vs. Black Lives Matter”
Session 4: Becoming an Anti-Racist Institution
Session 4&5: breakout groups on Color Blindness, White Supremacy, Myth of Meritocracy
Session 5&6: How does Color Blindness, White Supremacy, the Myth of Meritocracy and Decentering Whiteness relate to hiring opportunities?
Session 6: Have you observed hypervisibility among students of color or indigenous students in your school? How does recognition and scrutiny of them compare to the treatment afforded to White students?
The following images are presented on the session 4 agenda and each of the subsequent agendas through the end of the course.
This one details the "Four Agreements" that make up the "Norms" from the Session 1 agenda
This image is for the "Land Acknowledgement" that appears on the agenda from Session 2 on. Note: "Located on Stolen Indigenous Land"
"Equity Mavens" a term Dr. Gilligan credited Lorene Marx as creating at the 2/17/2022 scool committee meeting.
"Principal Equity Learnign Arc", note the first topic "Study Systemic Racism"
This was included with the Session 4 agenda for the item "Becoming and Anti-Racist Institution"
