1. Valeria S. Silva Superintendent of Saint Paul Public Schools NATIONAL TITLE I CONFERENCE

2. 57 th Annual Fall Conference Peg video

4. Pathway to Racial Equity

5. The Achievement Gap in Minnesota Mathematics MCA-III Grades 3-8 Percent of Students Meets and Exceeds by Ethnicity Scores are for all grades 3 to 8 for MCA-III tests from 2011 to 2013. A new Mathematics test was introduced in 2011 and cannot be compared to previous years. Source: MDE

6. The affect of income and race in SPPS

7. 73% Students of color 73% Free or reduced- price lunch 40,000 students 6,500 employees gap between African American and White achievement 45 pt

8. PACIFIC EDUCATIONAL GROUP Courageous Conversations

9. ACHIEVEMENT GAP Race discomfort LISTEN engagement BLACK African American WHITE caucasian ASIAN Native American Latino Somali Karen HMONG NON-CLOSURE Personal Truth RIGOR white privilege SKIN COLOR Pacific Islander CULTURES Academic success LEARNING teaching FEAR WHITENESS students relevance QUESTIONS

10. Race Matters

11. Institutionalized racism – intentional or not – has affected every generation of students and will continue to do so until leaders have the courage to identify and interrupt it.

12. Dig into your data! Parent Involvement Language Mobility Poverty Race

13. High expectations for ALL students

15. Personal beliefs drive your actions

16. COLOR BLINDNESS

17. Race affects every one of us - whether through privilege or prejudice - EVERY DAY

18. ALL children need to feel part of the every day school curriculum

19. MUST BE Adults in schools COURAGEOUS

20. Obama video

21. Changing systems Valuing children of all races Soul searching

22. SPPS Racial Equity Policy Saint Paul Public Schools (SPPS) students deserve respectful learning environments in which their racial and ethnic diversity is valued and contributes to successful academic outcomes. This policy confronts the institutional racism that results in predictably lower academic achievement for students of color than for their white peers. Eliminating our district’s institutional racism will increase achievement, including on-time graduation, for all students, while narrowing the gaps between the highest- and lowest- performing students.

23. Dig into your data Be courageous Start the conversation about race