1. Creating Inclusive School Climates Connect for Success Conference
September 19, 2016

2. About Inclusive Communities

3. About Inclusive Communities
The Virginia Center for Inclusive Communities works with schools, businesses, and communities to achieve success through inclusion.
Chapters in Lynchburg, the Peninsula, Richmond, and Tidewater

4. Our Programs Program areas: Emerging Leaders Institute
Diversity in Higher Education Division
Inclusive Workplaces Initiative
Community Programs & Partnerships
Over 20,000 participated in programs and events last year

5. Diversity & Inclusion
Diversity represents the many possi-bilities of identities, skills, appearances, abilities, and other characteristics represented within a group.
Role-related or inherent aspects
Diversity ≠ inclusion

6. What is Inclusion?
A way for people of all backgrounds, perspectives and beliefs to have an equitable opportunity to belong, achieve, and contribute to a community or communities.
Inclusion requires people to value, respect, and accept diversity.
Inclusion requires intention.

7. Personal Narratives
Family
School
Media
Peers
Community

8. Jessica’s Narrative Family School Media Peers Community I am smart
I am supported
School
I am trusted because I am smart
I fit all the criteria for the ideal student
Media
I am the normal, all-American girl
As a smart girl, I am boring and/or intimidating
Peers
I should be less serious, have more fun
I should spend more time on my looks
Community
I will be successful in life
I have a wide range of choices available to me

9. Meriel’s Narrative Family School Media Peers Community
I must get straight A’s.
Mami will advocate for me.
I’m smart and talented.
School
I am intelligent but too bold at times.
I am talented.
I should respect authority.
Media
Almost no one on English-language TV looks like me.
People like me do exist in Spanish-language media.
Empowered by strong female characters
Peers
It’s okay to be one of the smart kids.
It’s good to be different.
I’m fine the way I am.
Community
Very supportive and encouraging community
Celebrates all children’s accomplishments
I’m valued and loved.

10. Personal Narratives
Family
School
Media
Peers
Community

11. Critical Literacy

12. Critical Literacy MEN WOMEN WORKERS PEOPLE OF COLOR WHITE ANIMALS
OTHER

13. Versions of Cinderella
Greek Historian Strabo – 1st century BC – Rhodopis
Tuan Ch’eng Shih – 860 AD – Ye Xian
One Thousand and One Nights (aka Arabian Nights) – 9th century – several tales (Ali baba and the forty thieves, Aladdin’s Wonderful Lamp)
Japanese, Italian, etc, versions
Charles Perrault (French) – 1697 – introduces pumpkin, fairy godmother, and glass slippers
Disney’s 1950 film – based on Charles Perrault’s version

14. The Danger of a Single Story
“The problem with stereotypes is not that they are untrue, but that they are incomplete.
They make one story become the only story.”
- Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie

15. The Three R’s Framework adapted from Mary Cowhey
Rigor: Integrated, challenging curriculum for all students, not just gifted, with an emphasis on original research, problem solving, experimental design, higher level thinking, high expectations, focus on issues, themes and ideas.
Relevance: Student generated questions, helping students turn their observations into investigations, authentic activities, affirming student identities, tapping into funds of student knowledge, bringing standards to life
Relationships: Bringing experts in and bringing the class out, developing a classroom culture based on dialogue, collaboration and negotiation, tapping into family funds of knowledge

16. Paul Gorski’s Equity Literacy
Cultural Competence: I learn about Latino culture so that I can communicate effectively with my Latino students’ families.
Cultural Proficiency: Acknowledging the tremendous diversity among Latino families, I learn about the cultures, identities and home lives of each individual student in order to design curricula that are relevant to each of them.
Equity Literacy: I engage students in conversations about the absence of Latino voices in their American literature textbooks and fight to ensure that Latino students are not placed unjustly into lower academic tracks. Core principles include:
Recognizing inequity
Responding to inequity
Redressing inequity
Creating and sustaining an equitable learning environment

17. For More Information
Virginia Center for Inclusive Communities Phone: (804)
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