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Heart-Centered Connections: Seven Essential Skills for Helping Neurodiverse and Marginalized Children Thrive

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Heart-Centered Connections: Seven Essential Skills for Helping Neurodiverse and Marginalized Children Thrive

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Heart-Centered Connections: Seven Essential Skills for Helping Neurodiverse and Marginalized Children Thrive

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Heart-Centered Connections: Seven Essential Skills for Helping Neurodiverse and Marginalized Children Thrive [Elliott PHD, Niki] on Amazon.com. *FREE* shipping on qualifying offers. Heart-Centered Connections: Seven Essential Skills for Helping Neurodiverse and Marginalized Children Thrive

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Supporting the African American Learner (STAAL)

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Supporting the African American Learner (STAAL)

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The "Supporting the African American Learner" framework serves as a guide for educators and administrators to promote effective instructional practices for African American students, developed collaboratively by the Los Angeles County Office of Education, the Riverside County Office of Education, UCLA, and the Center for Powerful Public Schools. It provides guidance on transforming beliefs, systems, and practices to better meet the needs of Black students, often in response to systemic inequities and challenges, such as learning loss exacerbated by the pandemic.

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2026-07-20-22 Final Freedom Dreaming for Black Student Success (1)

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Beyond the Schoolhouse: Digging Deeper UCLA CTS - 2021

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Beyond the Schoolhouse: Digging Deeper UCLA CTS - 2021

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Reversing Underachievement in Urban Students: Pedagogy of Confidence Yvette Jackson

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Reversing Underachievement in Urban Students: Pedagogy of Confidence Yvette Jackson

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Virtual-Introduction to Heart Centered Connections with Dr. Niki Elliott

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Virtual-Introduction to Heart Centered Connections with Dr. Niki Elliott

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Introduction Video to the STAAL Framework by Dr. Kathryn Edwards

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Introduction Video to the STAAL Framework by Dr. Kathryn Edwards

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Yvette Jackson on the Pedagogy of Confidence

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Exploring Black Male Leadership in Education

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Exploring Black Male Leadership in Education

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Breaking the Cycle- Understanding the School-to-Prison Pipeline with Dr. Sean Darling-Hammond

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Breaking the Cycle- Understanding the School-to-Prison Pipeline with Dr. Sean Darling-Hammond

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Breaking the Cycle- Understanding the School-to-Prison Pipeline with Dr. Sean Darling-Hammond

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How to Support the Success of Students of Color in Math Modules

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How to Support the Success of Students of Color in Math Modules

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The California Association of African American Superintendents and Administrators (CAAASA) CREATING MATH IDENTITY

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The California Association of African American Superintendents and Administrators (CAAASA) CREATING MATH IDENTITY

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The California Association of African American Superintendents and Administrators (CAAASA)     DO THE MATH TO TEACH 

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The California Association of African American Superintendents and Administrators (CAAASA)     DO THE MATH TO TEACH 

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The California Association of African American Superintendents and Administrators (CAAASA)  HOW THE BRAIN LEARNS

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The California Association of African American Superintendents and Administrators (CAAASA)  HOW THE BRAIN LEARNS

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The California Association of African American Superintendents and Administrators (CAAASA)  MATH IS EMOTIONAL

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The California Association of African American Superintendents and Administrators (CAAASA)  MATH IS EMOTIONAL

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Textured Teaching: A Framework for Culturally Sustaining Practices

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Textured Teaching: A Framework for Culturally Sustaining Practices

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Textured Teaching: A Framework for Culturally Sustaining Practices

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Textured Teaching: A Framework for Culturally Sustaining Practices [German, Lorena Escoto] on Amazon.com. *FREE* shipping on qualifying offers. Textured Teaching: A Framework for Culturally Sustaining Practices

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2026-01-12 Freedom Dreaming for Student Success.pdf

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FREEDOM DREAMING FOR STUDENT SUCCESS April 15-17

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FREEDOM DREAMING FOR STUDENT SUCCESS April 15-17

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April 15-17, 2026 Kern  Genius Event Flyer.pdf

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ROSES FROM CONCRETE: NURTURING SEEDS OF GENIUS IN JCCS SETTINGS

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ROSES FROM CONCRETE: NURTURING SEEDS OF GENIUS IN JCCS SETTINGS

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SEEDS OF GENIUS SUMMIT Valuing Voices, Sharing Our Stories

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SEEDS OF GENIUS SUMMIT Valuing Voices, Sharing Our Stories

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March 11 -12 , 2026

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Breakfast and lunch will be provided.

Breakfast begins at 8:15 a.m.

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COLLECTIVE LIBERATION THROUGH SELF CARE, COLLECTIVE CARE AND FREEDOM DREAMING

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COLLECTIVE LIBERATION THROUGH SELF CARE, COLLECTIVE CARE AND FREEDOM DREAMING

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Cultivating Heart-Centered Connections: Using Mind-Body AwarenessPractices to Help Adults Create Safe Spaces for Marginalized Youth: Dr. Niki Elliott 2023

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Cultivating Heart-Centered Connections: Using Mind-Body AwarenessPractices to Help Adults Create Safe Spaces for Marginalized Youth: Dr. Niki Elliott 2023

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Using Mind-Body Practices to Uproot Unconscious Bias in the Education Profession: Dr. Niki Elliott 2021

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Using Mind-Body Practices to Uproot Unconscious Bias in the Education Profession: Dr. Niki Elliott 2021

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The Four Pivots by Shawn A. Ginwright, PhD: 9781623175429 | PenguinRandomHouse.com: Books

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“Reading this courageous book feels like the beginning of a social and personal awakening...I can’t stop thinking about it.”—Brené Brown, PhD, author of Atlas of the Heart…

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The Pedagogy of Confidence Leadership Action Guide 2021

The Pedagogy of Confidence Leadership Action Guide is based on many years of research and collaborations with Reuven Feuerstein, with National Urban Alliance (NUA), with many other organizations and colleagues focusing on equity consciousness in the spirit of belief and belonging for all students and educators. The Pedagogy of Confidence is focused on recognizing and amplifying the strengths underserved students.

The goal of this action guide is to cultivate and sustain equity consciousness through the Pedagogy of Confidence. The Pedagogy of Confidence engenders robust communities of belonging in which students are gifted with High Operational Practices to inspire students' engagement and elicit their innate potential for high intellectual performances, self-determination, and personal contribution.

"Change the input and the brain changes accordingly."
-Reuven Feuerstein

The Pedagogy of Confidence Leadership Action Guide focuses on walking the talk with equity consciousness for student engagement. This begins with the teachers and school leadership: believing in the innate potential of each and every student for high intellectual performances and contribution; recognizing and eliminating practices that are barriers to students' potential thriving and flourishing; and committing to providing the pedagogy to elicit and cultivate that potential.

The High Operational Practices (HOPs) are about belief in students and providing the educators the tools, methods and understanding to create robust communities of belonging in which students thrive and flourish. This online guide and modules provide support to in person professional development. The guide will also available in print format with direct links to The Pedagogy of Confidence website.

Pedagogy and equity cannot be isolated from each other. When we are truly committed to equity, we design pedagogy that achieves it's original purpose: 'to lead a child' for self-actualization and self- transcendence: self-actualization that enables students to thrive in society and self-transcendence that motivates them to contribute to that society (Chen, 2014; Freire, 2012; Gladwell, 2008; Jackson, 2011). Equity consciousness is a way of educating that is informed by and situated in the belief that all students are innately wired for engagement, high intellectual performances, self-actualization and personal contribution.

The Pedagogy of Confidence is about a movement for equity consciousness.

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The Pedagogy of Confidence Leadership Action Guide is based on many years of research and collaborations with Reuven Feuerstein, with National Urban Alliance (NUA), with many other organizations and colleagues focusing on equity consciousness in the spirit of belief and belonging for all students and educators.

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2026-07-20-22 Final Freedom Dreaming for Black Student Success (1)

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Especially in terms of boys and boys of color I get very upset when they are punished for being a natural boy and when people/systems try to force them to be "calm" and if they are not they are punished. They are literally supposed to be active and physical due to all of the testosterone in their growing bodies, what they need is tools, people and support to model for them how to act in places and situations.

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Cultivating Belonging Slide Deck  Participant Copy

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Our Black Students Are Speaking: What YouthTruth Data Tells Us About Sonoma County Schools by Monique Luke

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Our Black Students Are Speaking: What YouthTruth Data Tells Us About Sonoma County Schools by Monique Luke

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This presentation centers the voices of Black students across Sonoma County through YouthTruth survey data spanning key domains such as belonging, relationships, and school culture. By examining disaggregated responses from elementary, middle, and high school students. This session will allow time for collaborative exploration of how Black students are experiencing our schools. Participants will engage with the data together, ask their own questions, and draw insights that inform our collective understanding of current realities and future possibilities.

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Centering Black Dignity:  Healing Harm and Rebuilding    School Systems Through Language, Policy, and Practice by Candace Cofield, Ph.D.

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Centering Black Dignity:  Healing Harm and Rebuilding    School Systems Through Language, Policy, and Practice by Candace Cofield, Ph.D.

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Dr. Candace Cofield shares a practitioner-centered approach to addressing identity harm and rebuilding school systems by centering Black dignity at every level of practice.

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Centering Black Dignity Healing Harm and Rebuilding School Systems Through Language, Policy, and Practice

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Eliminating the N-Word: Dignity, Healing, and Systems Change for Black Youth by Zetha Nobles

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Eliminating the N-Word: Dignity, Healing, and Systems Change for Black Youth by Zetha Nobles

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This important conversation will provide Historical and Sociocultural Context of Dignity Violations and Anti-Blackness in Schools. We will discuss Origins of the Work: Parent and Community Advocacy. And describe the story of how this initiative emerged from Black parents’ lived experiences and demands for dignity, safety and respect. We will position policy change as a response to community voice, not just compliance.We will Centering Dignity as the Starting Point

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The Pedagogy of Confidence Collaborative

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The Pedagogy of Confidence Collaborative

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GENIUS Initiative Sonoma County CA – Dr. Yvette Jackson • The Pedagogy of Confidence®

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Overview of GENIUS Initiative with Sonoma County