7.25.13+ELT+Meeting

Equity Leadership Team Meeting: 7/25/13

- Meeting with DHS’s ELT on
====- SET 23 from D113… mixed race group… curriculum based on a college equity course… Tues. 12 night meetings 6:30-8:45… C206… Chromebooks… elective credit… pass/fail… So-Sr… ELT to attend ====
 * ====o SET to be a Focus Group for ELT… ====

- Opening Day:

 * ====o Common Language Norming ====

o Getting to know my students/community with Previous Years information

 * § As learners
 * § As individuals
 * § As people

- ELT Targets for 13-14… focus on Classroom Instruction

 * ====o Eliminate Disproportionality… Academic Focus ====

o Culturally Responsive Teaching Strategies

 * § Commonly Practiced and Understood
 * § Not only about knowing every student’s personal culture

- All Staff Meetings:

 * ====o Format… Large Group Setting.. Commonly Facilitated… Small Group discussions… Separate Groups by Role… Feedback from Each Session… Consistent Questions.. track the data ====
 * ====o Consistent Small Groups… Conditions and Agreements for common language… Norms of Collaboration at all meetings… AC, FAC, Course Teams, All Staffs… Rotate the roles within the small groups ====
 * ====o Grouped by Teacher, AA, Aides, Counselors/Psyc/Soc ====

- Gloria Ladsen-Billings:

 * ====o Students must experience Academic Success ====
 * ====o Student must develop and or maintain Cultural Competence ====
 * ====o Students must develop Critical Consciousness through with they challenge the status quo or current social order ====

<span style="font-family: Georgia,serif;">- Use SET as a student focus group
====<span style="font-family: Georgia,serif;">- HPHS Equity PD audit… department workshops for all… sort by department… add conference attendance… and department workshops… send to all DCs for accuracy… Encourage BD and 3Cs… ====