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A Walk in Their Kicks On-Line Institute, Seminar One Supporting Literacy for Black Students May 5, 2020 Aaron Johnson, Jamie Almanzán, and Graig Meyer theequitycollabortive.com TheEquityCollaborative.com

Here’s what we’re going for TODAY… Session Outcomes • Engage in equity conversations that feel productive in order to gain a new level of discourse about issues of oppression and privilege • Share our personal and professional WHY for working in education and towards equity • Establish literacy as a social act (Bandura, 2001; Johnson, 2018; Kucer, 2009; Vygotsky, 1978) • Begin an analysis of the intersection of race, class, sociopolitical thought, theory, and literacy TheEquityCollaborative.com TheEquityCollaborative.com

I’m Aaron! Cell # 248-918-8912 Twitter @i2_sing_america Text questions or comments during the session! TheEquityCollaborative.com

I’m Jamie! Cell # 510 - 967 - 4705 Twitter @jalmanzan @equitycollab Text questions or comments during the session! TheEquityCollaborative.com

I’m Graig! Cell # 919-824-4180 Twitter @equitycollab Text questions or comments during the session! TheEquityCollaborative.com

Working towards equity means… Eliminating the Interrupting predictability of inequitable success and failure practices, that currently challenging biases, correlates with any and creating social or cultural inclusive school factor environments for all TheEquityCollaborative.com

Equity Collaborative Transformation Frame Equity and Oppression Learning Theory and Culturally Responsive Teaching Coaching and Facilitation TheEquityCollaborative.com

Literacy As a Social Construct — A Theoretical Base • The following theories support viewing literacy through the sociocultural paradigm • Gestalt Theory - Kurt Ko ff ka (1922/1935) • Reflex Theory - Ivan Pavlov (1941) • Social Learning Theory/Social Cognitive Theory - Albert Bandura (1960/1986) • Social Development Theory/Zone of Proximal Development - Lev Vygotsky (1978) TheEquityCollaborative.com

Literacy as a Social Act Underpinned by the theoretical frameworks, there are a few key meta-precepts upon which we undergird this notion that literacy is a part of a larger social construct: • Literacy is a civil right • Perceptions of students have an impact on how we help them develop literacy • Learning, thus literacy, is a social act • School structures, content, and curriculum support the dominant power and cultural structure • Students need to form a connection between their identities and texts • There is a disconnect between home literacy and school literacy TheEquityCollaborative.com

Literacy as a Social Act Underpinned by the theoretical frameworks, there are a few key meta-precepts upon which we undergird this notion that literacy is a part of a larger social construct: • Literacy is a civil right • Perceptions of students have an impact on how we help them develop literacy • Learning, thus literacy, is a social act • School structures, content, and curriculum support the dominant power and cultural structure • Students need to form a connection between their identities and texts • There is a disconnect between home literacy and school literacy TheEquityCollaborative.com

Driving Question Literacy of African American students is set in a historical context related to access to schooling. Even today, students’ identities, culture, and literacy are all tied together. Yet, we expect African-American students to preform at the same level as white students while devaluing their identities and cultures. What do you know about the history of African-American education, and how does it impact your support for African-American students? TheEquityCollaborative.com

Driving Question Breakout Room Conversation ONE TheEquityCollaborative.com TheEquityCollaborative.com

A Walk in Their Kicks Publications • A Walk in Their Kicks: Literacy, Identity, and Schooling of Young Black Males — Teachers College Press • “Scholastic Liberation: Scholastic Liberation: Schools' Impact on African American Academic Achievement — Language Arts Journal of Michigan TheEquityCollaborative.com

“ Why don’t teachers find out what we like and then teach us that ? – Blake Johnson, 9 years old TheEquityCollaborative.com

“I have the audacity to believe that peoples everywhere can have three meals a day for their bodies, education and culture for their minds, and dignity, equality and freedom for their spirits.” – Dr. Martin Luther King, Jr. (1964) TheEquityCollaborative.com

Driving Question Breakout Room Conversation TWO — What resonates with you from Blake and Aaron’s story? TheEquityCollaborative.com TheEquityCollaborative.com

What do you love about reading? "I like just being able to enjoy a book” If you could change anything about schools’ reading instruction practices, what would you change? “I would change all of the annotating, and writing, and comprehending about what we read.” TheEquityCollaborative.com

Inquiry Into Teaching Practices Emerging Themes • Teachers’ Expansion of Their Definitions of Literacy • The Necessity of Teacher Use of Evidence-Based Instructional Strategies • Teachers’ Recognition of the Importance of and Relationship to: • Student Connections to the Teacher • Student Connections to the Text • Student Connections to the School • Teachers’ Improved Understandings of Students’ Literacy Practices TheEquityCollaborative.com

Paradigm The Black Male Literacy (Johnson, 2016) Home vs. School Language African American Male Literacy Development Contextual Understanding School Expected Literacy Culture and Socialization Teacher Perceptions Power, Agency, and Identity Teacher Preparedness

The Black Male Literacy Paradigm Breakout Room Conversation Three — Describe one area of the paradigm that you already know about and another that you would like to know more about. TheEquityCollaborative.com TheEquityCollaborative.com

Notes on the State of Virginia These schools to be under a visitor who is annually to choose the boy of best genius in the school, of those whose parents are too poor to give them further education, and to send him forward to one of the grammar schools, of which twenty are proposed to be erected in different parts of the country, for teaching Greek, Latin, Geography, and the higher branches of numerical arithmetic. Of the boys thus sent in one year, trial is to be made at the grammar schools one or two years, and the best genius of the whole selected and continued six years, and the residue dismissed. By this means twenty of the best geniuses will be raked from the rubbish annually, and be instructed, at the public expense, so far as the grammar schools go.

Notes on the State of Virginia Write a response to the statement by Thomas Jefferson in his Notes on the State of Virginia. • Who is the residue? • Who is the rubbish? • Who was school for? • Name ONE action that you have taken THIS YEAR as an educator that goes against the answers to those three questions TheEquityCollaborative.com

Achievement Gap vs. Education Debt “ Our focus on the achievement gap is akin to a focus on the budget deficit, but what is actually happening to African American and Latina/o students is really more like the national debt. We do not have an achievement gap; we have an education debt” (Ladson-Billings, 2006, p. 5) TheEquityCollaborative.com

Inquiry Into Teaching Practices Teachers’ Expansion of Their Definitions of Literacy “Um, I don't know that my definition has changed, but it's certainly expanded. And I-I talked about this at our last session as well. I think, you know, going into it I had this conception of literacy as we read, and we write, and we understand those things that we read and we write. And I think that that has expanded to include the- the listening, the speaking, the you know, kind of world literacy of understanding social cues, and the kind of code switching that our students do every day. All of that is included in literacy. So it's all that decoding that they have to do on a daily basis. So I definitely think it's- my definition has expanded since- since we started the class.” TheEquityCollaborative.com

Inquiry Into Teaching Practices The Necessity of Teacher Use of Evidence-Based Instructional Strategies “Over the course of 30 years of teaching I've logged a lot of hours of staff development. I typically attend these things with an open mind. If I can gain a couple of things to experiment with, its a win. I’m still pulling on some things that I learned in college. I'm forever putting a different spin on things or combining ideas to try to fit the unique needs of various students in my class.” TheEquityCollaborative.com