1. District Literacy Leaders
Network Meeting
May 5, 2016
9:00am-12:00pm
Dr. LaWonda Smith
Manager, English Language Arts
Mrs. Argentina Back
Manager, Multilingual Services
Dr. Marion Smith, Jr.
Director, Learning and Innovation

2. Agenda

3. Singleton, G. “Courageous Conversation about Race”
Community Agreements
Stay engaged
Speak your truth
Have a learners stance
Experience discomfort
Intent vs. impact
Singleton, G. “Courageous Conversation about Race”

4. Your Lenses
Learner
Teacher
Teacher Leader

5. DLL Overview Implementation Science – Plan, Do, Study, Act
ELL and Best Practice – What works best
Leading for Equity – The Will, Skill, and Capacity – Moises Story, Opportunity Gap

6. Accomplishments!
What accomplishment(s), professional and/or personal, can you share that you believe is connected to your DLL learning.
Locate two people to share what they are.
Once back at your table, share what you heard.
Group share out

7. See Me -By a former ELL student
Argentina – Pictures all came from google images.

8. See me
I am here
I feel invisible
See through

9. See me
I am here
I am important

10. You don’t understand me
I can’t understand you
You push me aside because seeing me means more work for you

11. I am worth it

12. My skin is brown, dark, light, butter and caramel

13. Hair in curls, straight, long, short, and wild

14. There is no one “us”
See me

15. Enough is enough!
How many more of my bothers and sisters will have to be broken down, devalued, lost?

16. Hear me!
I have value, I matter, I exist

17. I lived before I ever met you
I am not an empty vessel
for you to fill

18. I do not have to be a replica of you
Don’t mold me
Don’t change me

19. Teach me
Don’t ignore me
See me!

20. ELA AESD Survey