1- Equity 2- Living, Complex Systems 3- Systems of Advantage 3- Opportunity Gap 4- Structural Racialization 5- Targeted Universalism

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Events Effects Patterns Conscious Individual Achievement Gap WHAT IS A SYSTEM? Events Effects Patterns Conscious Individual Individuals and Groups Achievement Gap Underlying Structures Mental Models Cultural & Institutional Values Subconscious / Unconscious Systems Lens Institutional and Inter-Institutional Opportunity Gap

A system, any system, produces what it is designed to produce. 5/20/2018 A Systems Truism A system, any system, produces what it is designed to produce. from “Bridges, Tunnels, and School Reform: It’s the System Stupid: by Thomas Kelly Phi Delta Kappan, October 2007 4

1779 Thomas Jefferson proposes a two-track educational system, with different tracks in his words for "the laboring and the learned." Scholarship would allow a very few of the laboring class to advance, Jefferson says, by "raking a few geniuses from the rubbish." As coach/facilitators in urban schools, we often encounter colleagues (groups) that have lost sight of their purpose (creating equitable schools for each and every student). This quote is reminder for us and our colleagues about what the work of the group should be about. This is the hope and the challenge. 5

Systems of Advantage White privilege is an invisible, weightless knapsack of special provisions, maps, passports, codebooks, visas, clothes, tools, and blank checks…an invisible package of unearned assets which I can count on cashing in each day.   Dr. Peggy McIntosh

Systems of Advantage Some people ride the “up” escalator to reach opportunity Transition from History of Education Mixer. This is what we know to be true, despite a myth of meritocracy and education as the great equalizer. Others have to run up the “Down” escalator to get there john powell, Kirwan Institute

opportunity and structures “success is not a random act. it arises out of a predictable and powerful set of circumstances and opportunities” Malcolm Gladwell, Outliers

Opportunity is defined as a fair chance to achieve one’s full potential.

Using a Lens of Racial Equity …allows us to uncover the policies practices and behaviors that sustains unequal outcomes for children and families Three levels of analysis Individual Institutional Structural Individual Institutional Structural Each form of racism can be viewed as a framework which represents very different ways to understand contemporary forms and production of racial inequity. Each identifies different effects, and points to different strategic responses.

From the Achievement Gap to the Education Debt: Understanding Achievement in U.S. Schools - Gloria Ladson-Billings We must use our imaginations to construct a set of images that illustrate the debt. The images should remind us that the cumulative effect of poor education, poor housing, poor health care, and poor government services create a bifurcated society that leaves more than its children behind.

structural inequality example: a Bird in a cage. examining one wire cannot explain why a bird cannot fly. but multiple wires, arranged in specific ways, reinforce each other and trap the bird.

Situatedness we must consider how we each stand differently with respect to our opportunities for work, education, parenting, retirement… we must understand the work our institutions do, not what we wished they would do in order to make them more equitable and fair

All on The Same Boat

All on the same boat…but not on the same deck

Opportunity is related to how we are situated… How is opportunity different depending on the “deck” one is on?

Targeted Universalism This approach supports the needs of the particular while reminding us that we are all part of the same social fabric universal, yet captures how people are differently situated inclusive, yet targets those who are most marginalized 17 17

Targeted Universalism Universal Programs Targeted Programs Targeted Universalism 18