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John McKiernan-Gonzalez, District 2 Candidate

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John McKiernan-Gonzalez, District 2 Candidate

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Mike Herschenfeld, Districct 8 At-large Canddiate

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Mike Herschenfeld, Districct 8 At-large Canddiate

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Lynn Boswell for AISD Trustee - District 5

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Lynn Boswell for AISD Trustee - District 5

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Thanks for making time to share your perspectives as educators. Always glad for the chance to listen and learn.

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Noelita Lugo, District 9 At-Large Candidate

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Noelita Lugo, District 9 At-Large Candidate

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After 1 week of zoom, what is one way have your practices changed as an anti-racist teacher?

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After 1 week of zoom, what is one way have your practices changed as an anti-racist teacher?

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Unmuting students at teacher control versus giving students the power to decide what is seen or unseen.

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Certain kids are allowed to make mistakes. Certain kids are labeled as "autistic" vs "oppositional defiant" and certain kids are celebrated for speaking Spanish while others are not. Certain teachers want to work at particular schools and why.

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Certain kids are allowed to make mistakes. Certain kids are labeled as "autistic" vs "oppositional defiant" and certain kids are celebrated for speaking Spanish while others are not. Certain teachers want to work at particular schools and why.

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Teachers are having to zig while the district zags. Camera requirements and other systems rooted in white supremacy. 

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Teachers are having to zig while the district zags. Camera requirements and other systems rooted in white supremacy. 

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What is happening to support parents to help students stay engaged in zoom? 

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What is happening to support parents to help students stay engaged in zoom? 

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Govalle had staff/teachers call parents and it made a difference.

Giving devices to families is only part of the access discussion. Many families are beginning to navigate these forums which is not the case for everyone.

We need more teachers and set policies and hold the superintendent accountable for providing more teachers and making sure teachers are supported and resourced. Focus on policies that support teachers so teachers can focus on supporting teachers and families.

Where are the resources that are not being used that can be reinvested in the schools that need it the most.

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You have rockstars on a local campus that are leaving the classroom. How can we support what is going on on the local campus to ensure staff stay there? 

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You have rockstars on a local campus that are leaving the classroom. How can we support what is going on on the local campus to ensure staff stay there? 

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"When you see a successful leader at a campus--they get promoted then are working at the district level. Principals are promoted and then silenced.
Teachers within the district are not able to advocate while still ensuring job security."

"I disagree that AISD teachers cannot be advocates. EdAustin is a powerful advocate. Teachers just need to be supported. The lens that people want to put on AISD is not put on charter schools. We have too many people making decisions for us and not with us. Until we (parents/teachers) are invited to the table to make decisions."

"The closer you get to management the more removed you are from what is happening. We promote people who can pass leadership tests versus how students are being served."

"Its easy to demonize the current board of trustees but AISD is doing some amazing things. But we always have to be reminded that we are part of a system and it starts there. We (teachers) are the ones who are pushing against that everyday."

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i think it’s also really important that we separate someone’s intelligence and value as a person from the process of learning a new skill. working with teachers and families I hear pretty disparaging self-talk as folks are learning “how to” tech. We have brilliant teachers and students who are equating their ability to use a device with their intelligence and it sucks. I think we (educators/leaders/friends/etc) can do a better job with messaging around this and supporting the learning curve when it comes to all of the new skills people are learning when it comes to tech tools for connecting and learning. People are amazing whether or not they know how to power wash a chrome book!

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i think it’s also really important that we separate someone’s intelligence and value as a person from the process of learning a new skill. working with teachers and families I hear pretty disparaging self-talk as folks are learning “how to” tech. We have brilliant teachers and students who are equating their ability to use a device with their intelligence and it sucks. I think we (educators/leaders/friends/etc) can do a better job with messaging around this and supporting the learning curve when it comes to all of the new skills people are learning when it comes to tech tools for connecting and learning. People are amazing whether or not they know how to power wash a chrome book!

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What are your ideas for addressing the disconnect? 

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What are your ideas for addressing the disconnect? 

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-Around community engagement, we have a small community engagement department and they facilitate community engagement sessions it is not responsive to their needs. When decisions are made it seems to go against what is said at these sessions which reduces the outcome at other events. People are able to serve on committees but those able to access those are privileged with the time and capacity to participate. The conversations become very cyclical.
Engage with families in different ways, ambassador programs, meet with families on the ground, listen.

-Go in and make strong authentic relationships with the community. A lot of families do not know the inequities, it is important to build connections across the district because it is easy to hide inequities when there is a disconnection.

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What kinds of things are you seeing/doing that can be carried forward that can close equity gaps? 

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What kinds of things are you seeing/doing that can be carried forward that can close equity gaps? 

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-asking to hear from parents about their experience that differed
-as a parent in southwest Austin nobody really gets what the parents are going through. Kids logging into a chrombook is the last thing they are worried about. Board members need to have an awareness of what the experiences of lots of different families are. As a district that calls ourselves progressive we have no idea how to implement progressive schooling in our system.

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In the preparation for virtual learning, did you receive additional guidance on how to be looking out for kids and their social emotional needs? 

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In the preparation for virtual learning, did you receive additional guidance on how to be looking out for kids and their social emotional needs? 

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Most of what was received was campus led, we have a CP coach on our campus. We received the message that we are a guest in students home.

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What have you done in your classroom to make sure we are not participating in the disproportion rates of discipline for students of color? 

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What have you done in your classroom to make sure we are not participating in the disproportion rates of discipline for students of color? 

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I think it is important to see why kids end up at ALC and from what campus. It needs to be clear why kids are being sent to ALC and if these are discretionary or not. Listen to the parents.

One thing I do as a teacher as a teacher is I don't write referrals, I don't send them to administrators. I try to handle my students with love and compassion. We need to defund AISD PD it is a product of the school to prison pipeline. Redistribute the money to Dr.Wards department to expand the work of CP&I in the district. Dr.Ward is being passed up for promotions in the district.

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I'm a proponent for empowering educators through increasing school based decision making and autonomy (with central support and oversight) and creating distributed leadership models on campuses. Interested in hearing from teachers how that might affect (positively and negatively) progress towards anti-racist culture in our system and what unintended consequences might arise?

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I'm a proponent for empowering educators through increasing school based decision making and autonomy (with central support and oversight) and creating distributed leadership models on campuses. Interested in hearing from teachers how that might affect (positively and negatively) progress towards anti-racist culture in our system and what unintended consequences might arise?

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Giving autonomy for teachers, we have a lot of responsibility as educators. We have to ensure that we assess ourselves as white women educators