1. Introduction to Courageous Conversation© About Race
Training for Parents

2. Training Agenda Introduction Why CCAR at PPS Group Norms Frontloading
Introduction of Protocols
Compass
The 4 Agreements
The 6 Conditions

3. Introduction How do you identify yourself RACIALLY?
What is your student(s) grade?

4. Why CCAR at Portland Public Schools
PPS RACIAL EQUITY PLAN
June 13, 2011
We believe that every student has the potential to achieve, and it is the responsibility of our school district to give each student the opportunity and support to meet his or her highest potential.
Focuses on the most historically persistent achievement gap, which is that between White students and students of color. Closing this achievement gap while raising achievement for all students is the top priority of the Board of Education, the Superintendent and all district staff. Race must cease to be a predictor of student achievement and success.

5. Stop the Predictability of Academic, Exclusion, and Special Education based on RACE
Academic data disaggregated by race showed significant achievement gaps between students of color and White students
Exclusionary data disaggregated by race showed a significant and persistent disproportionality in the rate of suspension and expulsions for students of color
Special Education data disaggregated by race showed a significant and persistent disproportionality in the number of referrals for students of color and Emergent Bilingual students

6. Equity at PPS
Every PPS employee is mandated to attend Beyond Diversity (CCAR)
Each school has an Equity team and a Climate coach support from the Department of Equity and Partnership

7. Group Norms Open to Conversation Share Real Stories
Honest with Ourselves
Listen for Understanding
Speak our own truth
Don’t be shocked or alarmed of new perspective
Confidentiality
Understand expectation
Don’t take anyone to task

8. Frontloading This is only one training and one perspective
We will not be RACIALLY CONSCIOUS after this training
CCAR Protocols is a set of tools to help with RACE CONVERSATION
Engage those won’t talk about RACE
Sustains the conversation when it gets uncomfortable or diverted
Deepen the conversation for authentic understanding and meaningful action
Race is complex and it requires on-going dialogue

9. Group Exercise SLUMBER DREAM BED QUIET NAP PILLOW NIGHT BLANKET
PAJAMAS
SNOOZE

10. WRITE DOWN WHAT WORDS YOU REMEMBER.

11. WORDS THAT YOU REMEMBERED……
SLUMBER
NIGHT
BED
SLEEP
Explain that in order to deepen our understanding of RACE, race Relation, and racism we have check our assumptions

12. Courageous Conversation Compass
SOUL/MORAL
HEAD/INTELLECTUAL
Discuss our why for his work.
HEART/EMOTIONAL
HANDS&FEET/RELATIONAL

13. The 1st and 2nd Agreements
Stay Engaged
Stay in the conversation Morally, Emotionally, Intellectually, and Relationally. “Don’t Check Out”
Experience Discomfort
Racial Dialogue will bring about personal racialized experience and leads to discomfort. Lean into the discomfort to gain insights into different racial perspective.

14. The 3rd and 4th agreements
Speak your TRUTH
Don’t speak for others.
Expect/Accept NON-CLOSURE
Focus on the conversation and not the solution to the conversation.

15. The 1st and 2nd Conditions
Focus on PERSONAL, LOCAL and IMMEDIATE
Establish a racial context that is personal, local, and immediate.
ISOLATE RACE
Isolate RACE while acknowledging the broader scope of diversity and the variety of factors that contribute to racialized problems.

16. The 3rd and 4th conditions
Normalize SOCIAL CONSTRUCTION & multiple perspectives
Normalize social construction of knowledge, thus engaging multiple racial points of view in order to surface critical perspective.
Monitor Agreements, Conditions and ESTABLISH PAREMENTERS

17. The 5th Condition Use a “WORKING DEFINITION” of race
Establish agreement around a contemporary working definition of race that clearly differentiates it from ethnicity and nationality.

18. What is RACE ? RACE is… Both Negative and Positive
RACE is … Inclusive of White and People of Color (POC)
RACE is… not a proxy for other diversity Characteristics

19. Differentiation NATIONALITY ETHNICITY RACE
Partner up- Share your understanding of Nationality, Ethnicity, RACE

20. Working Definition NATIONALITY- Citizenship and/or birthplace
ETHNICITY- Culture, Values, Beliefs, Language, Food, Religion…..
RACE- Color of Skin, Physical traits (hair, skin, eyes…), How others perceive us.

21. The 6th condition Examine the presence and role of “WHITENESS”
Will be focusing on Whiteness in later sessions

22. HOMEWORK!!! Read “White is a Color” and “Entitlement”
Write your own ‘Racial Autobiography’
Pass out readings and Racial autobiolography template.