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AFRICAN AMERICAN MALE ACHIEVEMENT Community Schools, Thriving Students

AFRICAN AMERICAN MALE ACHIEVEMENT Community Schools, Thriving Students. Brenden Anderson Engage! Encourage! Empower! Education is a Civil Right: Today’s Strategies that build Tomorrow’s Leaders of African Descent August 15, 2012. Today's Agenda. Introductions AAMA Background

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AFRICAN AMERICAN MALE ACHIEVEMENT Community Schools, Thriving Students

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  1. AFRICAN AMERICAN MALE ACHIEVEMENTCommunity Schools, Thriving Students Brenden Anderson Engage! Encourage! Empower! Education is a Civil Right: Today’s Strategies that build Tomorrow’s Leaders of African Descent August 15, 2012

  2. Today's Agenda • Introductions • AAMA Background • Perception of Black Males • AAMA Core Pillars • School/District Inventory • Engage! Encourage! Empower! • Strategies (Prevention, Intervention, Retention) • Sustainable Models • Contact Us

  3. AAMA Structure Foundation Support Clorox Open Society Mitchell Kapor Stuart Foundation Kaiser Foundation Waste Management Atlantic Philanthropies Lead Agencies Partners in School Innovation East Bay Community Foundation In Service of African-American males Pre-K thru 12

  4. AAMA Outcomes • Funder Goals • Achievement • Attendance • Literacy • Middle School • Graduation • Suspension • Incarceration • 5-Year Strategic Plan 2011 – 2016 • Safe Healthy & Supportive Schools • Prepared for Success in College and Career • High Quality and Effective Instruction • Building the Full Service Community District • Accountable for Quality Why we are here? AAMs are lowest performing.

  5. OUSD & the Community Schools Model for Change & Action

  6. African American Male Achievement Mission Our mission is to stop the epidemic failure of African American Male (AAM) students in Oakland Unified School District (OUSD). We will create the systems, structures, and spaces that guarantee success for all AAM students in OUSD. By using data, we will identify entry points into schools and systems to increase equity, improve cultural competency, and implement practices that support AAM students. We believe all AAM students are extraordinary and deserve a school system that meets their unique and dynamic needs.

  7. Perception of African American Males

  8. Perception of African American Males Mass Media Stereotypes • Thugs • Too many • Ignorant • Thieves • Ghetto • Athletes • Entertainers • Drug Users/Dealers • Violent AAM Challenges • Isolated • Failures • No hope • Stereotypes frame sense of self • Street corners • Fatherless • Peer Pressure

  9. Caring Counts Children don’t care what you know until they know that you care.

  10. AAMA Core Pillars • Passion | Purpose | Profession • Culture | Conditions | Competency • Engage | Encourage | Empower Why? What? How?

  11. Why we are here? • Passion • What are you passionate about? • Purpose • What do you want to impact? • Profession • How does your professional align with your passions and purpose.

  12. Teaching Fundamentals • Teaching is noble yet under-appreciated • Parents are the first teachers • Children learn by lessons and mistakes • Maslow’s Hierarchy • Cone of Learning • Choice theory • Follow the Leader • Patience

  13. Maslow’s Hierarchy

  14. Learning Styles

  15. Choice Theory Relationships and our Habits Seven Caring Habits • Supporting • Encouraging • Listening • Accepting • Trusting • Respecting • Negotiating Differences Seven Deadly Habits • Criticizing • Blaming • Complaining • Nagging • Threatening • Punishing • Bribing, reward to control Source: William Glasser Institute

  16. What we Assess? Assessment/Inventory AAMA is here to advocate for the > Culture > Conditions > Competencies that are necessary to successfully educate AAMs, with a lens on student and family equity.

  17. Culture, Conditions & Competencies • Culture • Common Language, Values & Goals • Rituals & Practices • High Expectations (Low) • Team (Individual) • Assets (Deficits) • Reward (Reject) • Conditions • Environment • Structures • Policies • Supports • Resources • Materials • Community • Competencies • Leadership • Skills • Content • Cultural • Coaching • Management • Team Building

  18. Best Practices (In groups of 3-5) • Culture • What does the school culture look like at a high performing school? • Conditions • What are the conditions at a high performing school? • Competencies • What are the competencies at a high performing school?

  19. How do we serve? • Engage: • Relationships • Family • Home Visits • Student Domains • Maturity • Empower: • Efficacy • Educate • Equip • Resources • Leadership • Encourage: • Compliment • Attention • Recognition • Awards • Expectations = Sustainability

  20. REACH, LIFT, BUILD • Engage • Discuss an experience of when a teacher/mentor/coach engaged with you and their technique? • Encourage • Discuss an experience of when you were encouraged or when you encouraged someone else and what resulted? • Empower • Discuss an experience of when you felt empowered and what made you feel that way?

  21. Strategies • Prevention • Intervention • Retention 2012 Edna Brewer VSST Pilot started Black student Union

  22. Sustainable Models • Voluntary School Study Teams • School Community Stake holders:Students | Parents | Teachers | Classified | Administration | Community Trainings • Parent/Family Cafes • Community Events • Mentor Development • Teacher Development • Leadership Development • Coaching • Leadership, Curriculum and Instruction • Full Service Community Partnerships

  23. Sustainable Models Programs • Read2Lead • Manhood Development • Youth Leadership Council • Story Bridges Oral History Project • Community Convening

  24. African American Male Achievement Read 2 Lead • Recruit, screen and train 20 to 25 adult African American Male volunteers to read at a minimum of 8 to 11 schools in Region 1 (West Oakland) • MLK • PLACE @ Prescott • MLK • Hoover • Lafayette • SanKofa • Santa Fe • WOMS – Middle School • Claremont – Middle School • Westlake – Middle School • McClymonds – High School

  25. African American Male Achievement Manhood Development Program • Manhood Development Program • Edna Brewer Middle School • M – F – (25) 6 – 8th grade AAM students • After School 3 p.m. – 6 p.m. • West Oakland Middle School • M – F (25) – 8th grade AAM students • After School 3 p.m. – 6 p.m. • Oakland High School • M – F – (25) 9th Grade AAM students • 6th period • McClymonds High School • M – F (25) 9th & 10th grade AAM students • 2nd period • Community Partners • University of CA at Berkeley – Center for Educational Partnerships • East Bay College Fund • Bay Area Urban Debate League

  26. African American Male Achievement Youth Leadership Council The Youth leadership Council program was initiated over the 2011 Summer Internship Program. Ten (10) high school students were trained over a 6-week summer program on being a student advocate for AAM students in OUSD. They each developed a work binder and presented their work at 2 summer schools. 2011 -12 AAMA has partnered with Story Bridge to provide training for the AAMA Youth Leadership Council. Youth Leadership Council members (12 to 15 High School students) will be trained and the program will start in January 2012. YLC will facilitate and video tape the next phase of the AAMA Listening Campaign.

  27. African American Male AchievementAdditional Activities STEM – NSBE SEEK CAMP – k – 12 STEM Pipeline – West Oakland Focal 15 – District Wide Man Up Conferences – District Wide Robo Calls – District Wide Teacher Review Board – NAACP – City Wide Community Meetings – Celebrate AAM student accomplishments Parent Café’s – District Wide Community Partnerships – mentoring, social/emotional Increase the # of AAM in AP classes – District Wide Establish AA Academy for Boys – K-12 – partnership w/100BM

  28. Counter Narrative! Honoring Achievement! • African American Honor Roll • CBS Local http://sanfrancisco.cbslocal.com/category/watch-listen/video-on-demand/?autoStart=true&topVideoCatNo=default&clipId=5834327&flvUri&partnerclipid

  29. ThrivingStudents.ORG

  30. Thank You! Parking Lot. Any Questions? Reach Outcomes? Please complete Evaluation!

  31. CONTACT US Brenden Anderson Program Director K-8 510-986-1828 Brenden.anderson@ousd.k12.ca.us Matin Abdel-Qawi Program Director High School 510-453-1744 matin.abdel-qawi@ousd.k12.ca.us Casey Noel VSST Coordinator 510-273-3214madeleine.clarke@ousd.k12.ca.us The Office of African-American Male Achievement 1025 Second Street, Room 317 Oakland, CA 94606 510.879.4663 www.ThrivingStudents.org Christopher Chatmon Executive Director 510-273-3214christopher.chatmon@ousd.k12.ca.us Anika Hardy Chief of Staff 510-273-3214Anika.Hardy@ousd.k12.ca.us Gerald Williams Data Analyst 510-879-8200 Gerald.Williams@ousd.k12.ca.us

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