1. Equity-Focused Professional Development
Fay Alexander, CCSC Humanities Teacher & Equity PD Co-Leader
Becki Norris, CCSC Middle School Principal
March 27th, 2019

2. Icebreaker / Share-Out
Instructions [3]
Icebreaker: Quiz-Quiz-Pass [12]
Share out: What did you think of this activity? Can you see ways you might use it in your school / institution? [5]
FA explains & facilitates

3. Agenda Icebreaker / sample activity [20]
Introductions / Agenda Review [1]
Intro to CCSC [4]
Framing & Key Questions [5]
Equity PD: Design Principles [10]
Q&A / Discussion [20]
1 minute
FA, BN introduce selves
BN walks through agenda

4. CCSC at a Glance Founded 2005 Grades 6-12
Max student enrollment of 420 (growing)
Structure, Support, Love
95+% students of color
49% faculty of color, 57% admin, 46% overall faculty + staff
To and through college
Roundtables and Internships
3 minutes
BN walks through this slide

5. Why is Equity PD important?
4 minutes
FA owns this
Why is Equity PD important?

6. Key Questions
How can schools effectively build an equity-focused adult culture?
How can equity PD help adults to embrace and plan for change, both individually and institutionally?
*disclaimer
1 minute
BN walks through this slide
Disclaimer: We don’t have all the answers. 2 steps forward and 1 back is a common trend. Excited to learn from others today, too

7. Equity Professional Development: Design Principles
History of this work at CCSC
Current model:
Internal and external facilitation
Focus on individuals and institution
Substantive time (20% of yearly PD)
Equity Professional Development: Design Principles
3 minutes BN
* Now in year 6.
* Push was from small group of teachers. Started with small # of externally facilitated sessions. Then, faculty working group in Year 2. Year 3, external facilitation (poorly done). Year 4, External facilitation (done effectively)
* Years 5-6: Internal/external hybrid. Focus on individual journey and institutional analysis

8. Equity Professional Development: Design Principles
Key Ideas
Push forward (don’t repeat too much; don’t start over)
2 key elements to growth, individually & institutionally:
Acceptance / embracing of discomfort
Accountability
Equity Professional Development: Design Principles
2 minutes BN

9. Equity Professional Development: Design Principles
Key Ideas, cont’d
Remember benefits
Focus on group & individual analysis, goals:
Individual reflection, data analysis, reading 🡪 goals; accountability in small, heterogeneous “N&S” groups
Working groups (grade level teams, staff teams, admin) 🡪 goals; accountability to each other & whole faculty/staff
Equity Professional Development: Design Principles
5 minutes FA
Benefits:
Hearts & minds
Increased individual capacity & comfort re: talking about equity
This leads to more ability to analyze data, make goals, address own biases & institutional ones
More culturally relevant / responsive curricula 🡪 better learning for diverse student body
Recruitment & retaining of diverse staff
“hearts & minds” work helps to create more equitable school climate
Research shows a more diverse faculty/staff leads to better learning outcomes
What happens in Equity PD
See slide
Goals/commitments

10. Wrapping Up
Contact Info
Resources
we share everything
Discussion / Q&A
Thanks! BN