1. Virginia School Counselors Association Presentation on The Non-Negotiable: Educating African-American Male students K-12
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2. Presentation Outline Brief Introduction Historical Data Non-Negoitable
Speaker
Audience
Book
Historical Data
Drop Out Rate
School to Prison Pipe Line
Perception vs. Reality
Non-Negoitable
Trust
Expectations
Relationships
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3. Brief Introduction Brief Introduction Speaker Audience Book
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4. The Nonnegotiable: Educating African-American Male Students
K-12 will highlight several salient points in the book All
School Counselors should know!
Graduation rates
Dropout rates
Literacy rates
College preparedness rates
53 percent of African-American males nationwide drop out of school.
African-American high school students are notably falling behind their Caucasian counterparts in all four of these areas

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The goal of the book is to afford each reader the opportunity to cultivate their educational outlook on African-American males and provide their schools with effective, culturally responsive reform.
The overarching goal for this book is to bring enlightenment to a dark cloud that hovers over the success or lack of success of the African-American male student.
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6. Historical Glance School to Prison Pipeline
One of nine African-American men will be in prison between the ages of 20 and 34
Black males have the highest crime rate of any race/ethnicity gender and age combination.(American Community Survey)
1 in 3 black males will go to prison in their lifetime.
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7. According to the Schott 50 State Report on Public Education and Black Males
African-American and Hispanic twelfth-grade students read at approximately the same level as Caucasian eighth-grade students.

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Non-Negotiable
Trust
Expectations
Relationships
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9. Trust
We earn our students' trust by showing them respect in the form of meaningful, challenging, and rewarding learning activities that are worthy of their time and best efforts.
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Trust continued
Students in their early years of school are naturally trusting, and -- please don't take this the wrong way -- we abuse that trust in the name of socialization and time management. In essence, we teach them to obey rather than to build confidence to explore.
As students get older, they often trust less. Most students will take what we offer but will not allow a learning partnership because they do not trust us.
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12. Get To Know Your Students
Expectations
Get To Know Your Students
What you are doing is building up goodwill. There may be some hard times ahead, where you will have to be tough on certain individuals. Having some previous interactions that were positive may help.
Though having “favorites” is not a good idea, it doesn't hurt to make a special effort to build a friendship with those who may become your problem students. This can be accomplished as simply as looking for opportunities to give them compliments, 
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13. Get To Know Your Students
Relationships
Counselors become popular by building good relationships with their students by treating them the way they would like to be treated. Simply stated, students want to be treated with respect. Talking down to students or lecturing them about their inadequacies will only irritate or frustrate them.
Offering positive reinforcement, being consistent, smiling, and listening to their concerns all help to gain students' trust and  friendship.     
Get To Know Your Students
Work at getting to know your students as individuals. Find out their interests. Initiate conversations with them about sports, TV, or school activities, or compliment them on their clothing.
As you talk to them and listen to what's on their minds, they will begin to see that you're not just another adult, but someone who is genuinely interested in them  
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