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Our focus is to help people balance their lives spiritually, physically, educationally, financially and socially. 3 John 1:2,

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United Way of Palm Beach County's Mentor Center

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Open Sourced, Culturally Responsive-Sustaining Curriculum & Instruction

Guided by theories of Culturally Responsive-Sustaining Education (Paris & Alim, 2014), Understanding by Design (Wiggins & McTighe, 2005), and learning standards (New York State Education Department, 2017), we've developed resources which give teachers and curriculum designers tools to create and implement learning experiences that are rigorous and inclusive of all students.

East High's Elevated Educator website provides access to unit plans that are culturally sustaining for students of color.

Watch video introduction to the website.

Antiracist Curriculum Development

In the wake of a summer of violence (2020) against unarmed Black men, CUES Director Dr. Shaun Nelms is leading a regional effort to make systemic changes in educational policies and to create an Antiracist Curriculum to help students learn about and discuss Rochester's issues with racism and injustice.

The following school districts (all in New York State) have committed to developing, training teachers, and implementing the curriculum in their U.S. History classes:
Monroe BOCES 1 * Monroe BOCES 2 * Greece * West Irondequoit * RCSD * East Irondequoit * Spencerport * Rush Henrietta * Brockport * Fairport * Gates-Chili * HFL * Pittsford * East Rochester * Kendall * Penfield * Hilton * Wheatland-Chili * Churchville-Chili * Brighton * Holley

Additional Resources

Instructional Resources

The provision of the highest possible quality of instruction to all students is at the heart of equitable education. We work with schools to drive this curricular and instructional transformation. The tools below are research-supported and feature their application at East High. They can also be used as templates at other schools.

Mission-Aligned Curriculum

This model builds on the Understanding by Design (Wiggins & McTighe) curriculum model. We innovated the bottom row as a conceptualization of how 'daily lesson plans' fit into curriculum. Using this model, each content area contributes to a wide variety of learning experiences that aggregate to ensure that a school's community achieves its mission.

Publications

Doing and Being Hip-Hop in School: Best.Class.Ever. By Larson J., Atkins, G., & Duret, E. (2022, October). This book explores how how urban youth and their teachers (Larson as co-teacher) design and implement a student led class on Hip Hop.

Disrupting Segregated Knowledge Flows: Reflections from an Evolving Abolitionist by Valerie L. Marsh (2022). In this publication the author recalls an experience of her own racism as a white literacy researcher and ELA educator. She acknowledges and describes her racism as both a means to redesign teaching practice and an invitation to other ELA educators to allow the discomfort that can come with reflection.

Unbound potential: identity as a process understood through creative writing by Eleni Duret & Shana Pies for New Writing (2022). The purpose of this study is to better understand how high school students engage creatively with their own identity and then communicate such engagement through creative writing.

2022 Greater Rochester Antiracist Education Conference Report by Nahoko Kawakyu O'Connor. A collaboration with all area Schools of Education, the Antiracist Curriculum Project, and Center for Urban Education Success the conference brought together teachers, administrators, parents, students, community members and education advocates to learn from one another.

Challenging the Autonomous Wall: Literacy Work in an Urban High School by Joanne Larson, Eleni Duret, Jennifer Rees, & Jessica Anderson for the Journal of Literacy Research (2021). This article explores how one urban high school under threat of state closure developed a multifaceted literacy program to transform the teaching and learning of literacy in a novel university/school partnership.

Sarcasm as Pedagogy of Love: Exploring Ironic Speech Acts in an Urban High School English Classroom by Joanne Larson, Timothy Morris, and Kristen Shaw for the Journal of Adolescent & Adult Literacy (2019). This article explores how two urban high school teachers build a trusting community through sarcasm.

Videos from Curriculum Work at East High School

When East High and the University of Rochester began their partnership in 2015, a major aspect of the transformation plan was to redesign curricula in every department, at every level.

By utilizing research, professional learning focused on curriculum writing, the Understanding by Design (UbD) framework, and a model led by teachers working as coaches, East High (Rochester, NY) spent several years writing, implementing, reflecting, and revising curricula that puts students at the center of learning while also increasing rigor. In this video, several East teachers, coaches, and East's Chief Academic Officer describe their curriculum development process and candidly reflect on the experience.

East teachers are creating instructional units that culminate in presentations of student work - at school, after school, and in the local community. In this video, East's Chief Academic Officer explains the purpose behind and student response to these performance tasks, which are working their way into curriculum across disciplines at East.

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Guided by theories of Culturally Responsive-Sustaining Education (Paris & Alim, 2014), Understanding by Design (Wiggins & McTighe, 2005), and learning standards (New York State Education Department, 2017), we've developed resources which give teachers and curriculum designers tools to create and implement learning experiences that are rigorous and inclusive of all students.

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What are the Supporting Factors for African American/Black Male Students That Make the Difference

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What are the Supporting Factors for African American/Black Male Students That Make the Difference

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Our Boys and Young Men of Color Need Arms Wrapped Around them NOT A Case Note

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Our Boys and Young Men of Color Need Arms Wrapped Around them NOT A Case Note

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https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC4278946/

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A great guideline for conducting a policy review

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Policy Overview Q&A

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Mentor | United Way of Palm Beach County

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It takes one person to make a difference in a child's life. You can be that person. With all that our world is facing today, it's more important than ever for kids to have a caring adult in their life who will encourage and empower them through real life decisions.

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The MBK Equity Framework is MBK Alliance's national standard of excellence, offering principles, best practices and tools for communities to accelerate progress and change social conditions for the nation's boys and young men of color. The MBK Equity Framework is designed to:

Set a standard: Identify systemic actions and elements of success to make progress on local conditions

Assess current progress: Evaluate current strengths and opportunities for progress in a local community

Create a blueprint: Chart a roadmap of goals, players, resources and steps to advance outcomes along the six milestones

Identify what works: Ground local practices in strategies with qualitative and quantitative evidence of proven success.

Center data: Refine approaches with clear data and information to and from communities around how to meet or improve standards.

Strengthen communities: Develop MBK Communities through trainings aligned to the MBK Equity Framework, assessments and coaching support to MBK Communities.

Spotlight what works: Showcase MBK Communities that are making real progress towards the mission of MBK

Core Values of the MBK Equity Framework

Core values are central to the MBK Equity Framework and helped guide the creation of the assessment. They are:

Young Voices Have Power:

By including the voices, ideas, wants, desires and needs of boys and young men of color they become contributors to their own success.

Together, We Win:

Every person and every community has a role to play in ensuring young people have equal access to opportunity. We must bring local governments, school systems, community-based organizations, philanthropies, businesses, and individuals together to help boys and young men of color thrive.

Proven Solutions that Work:

We tap into data and solutions with proven results as learning points for program and policy execution. We acknowledge and recognize that underserved communities may have proven results that have not been validated by a third party and value the recorded learning and reflection of solutions that work.

Equity-Driven:

We strive to eliminate institutional and structural inequity and racism to ensure success for communities where it has not been an option.

Policy Focus:

Developing new structures to combat policies that maintain the status quo and underscore the environment where racism thrives unabated.

Disrupt Historic Barriers:

Changing core institutions that create and uphold systems of oppression and opportunity.

Generational Impact:

Our strategies must be sustainable to affect the success of generations of boys and young men of color and shift cycles of oppression.

Results Matter:

The work must produce sustainable results through the use of data, on-the-ground productivity and continuous communication.

Partners

A special thanks to the MBK Alliance's national partners and MBK Community leaders on the MBK Equity Framework Committee.

In answering President Obama's call to action, their work and expertise in providing guidance to our communities during the past seven years continues to be essential in the growth of the organization and, most importantly, to the success of the nation's boys and young men of color.
These organizations include:

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The MBK Equity Framework - Obama Foundation

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The MBK Equity Framework is MBK Alliance's national standard of excellence, offering principles, best practices and tools for communities to accelerate progress and change social conditions for the nation's boys and young men of color.

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National Mentoring Summit 2023 Capital Hill Day - Priorities

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National Mentoring Summit 2023 Capital Hill Day - Priorities

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In-person Capitol Hill Day is back and will take place in Washington, DC on Wednesday, January 25, 2023. Join hundreds of your mentoring peers by signing up to participate (opt-in when you register for the Summit). The deadline to register for Capitol Hill Day is Friday, January 13. We cannot accept additional participants after this date.

Capitol Hill Day is an important advocacy event that connects Members of Congress and their staff to mentors, advocates, professionals, and young people from across the country to talk about critical issues facing the nation's youth and the legislation and policies they can implement to expand access to quality mentoring opportunities.

Capitol Hill Day is open to all Summit registrants that live in the U.S. All Capitol Hill Day participants will attend the in-person training on Tuesday afternoon, January 24 - please note, this requires Capitol Hill Day participants to travel to DC Tuesday, Jan. 24 to attend the training. This training will prepare participants for a successful Capitol Hill Day, including reviewing the issues and strategies that will help you make the most of your meetings with Congressional offices. MENTOR will schedule all Congressional appointments for participants.
Note: Registration for Capitol Hill Day will close Friday, January 13 at 11:59 PM. Sorry, no exceptions.
Schedule of Events for Capitol Hill Day 2023:

Register to participate (deadline: Friday, January 13, 2023)

Capitol Hill Day participants will receive weekly emails in January with news and updates about the event

Watch the Q&A for people interested in learning more about Capitol Hill Day here

Pre-Summit virtual Capitol Hill Day training (Tuesday, January 17 at 4:00 PM Eastern)

REQUIRED in-person Capitol Hill Day training (Tuesday, January 24 in Washington, DC 1:30 - 5:00 PM Eastern)

Capitol Hill Day kick-off event (Wednesday, January 25 at 10:00 AM Eastern)
Transportation will depart from the Marquis hotel starting at 8:45 AM

Capitol Hill Day appointments will be scheduled between 11:00 AM - 4:00 PM (Wednesday, January 25)

Questions

If you have questions about participating in Capitol Hill Day 2023, please contact Abbie Evans or Caden Fabbi. Please know if the deadline for registration has closed we cannot add participants after that date.

Capitol Hill Day Resources

Please check back as additional resources may be added throughout January.

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In-person Capitol Hill Day is back and will take place in Washington, DC on Wednesday, January 25, 2023. Join hundreds of your mentoring peers by signing up to participate (opt-in when you register for the Summit ). The deadline to register for Capitol Hill Day is Friday, January 13.

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BlackYouthInvolvementTANTemplate.pdf (usf.edu)

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This Mentoring program targets middle school and high school teens. We have "Real Talk" sessions about life, roundtable discussion , mental health,, healthy dating,, conflict resolution and how to be prepared for life obstacle. We exposed teens to culture experiences that normally  they would not be exposed to. We provide local and out of state college tours. We provide  trade skills sessions for teens to have an array of options. We engage the teen in community service projects with community and senior citizens within the Sanford communities.

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My Brother's and Sister's Keepers

President Obama launched to address persistent opportunity gaps faced by boys and young men of color and ensure that all young people can reach their full potential. Through this initiative, the Administration partnered with cities and towns, businesses, and foundations who are taking important steps to connect young people to mentoring, support networks, and workforce development programs to prepare them for their next life chapter. St. Pete adopted the initiative and expanded the program to include girls and young women-My Brother's My Brother's Keeper and Sister's Keeper.

My Brother's Keeper

My Brother's Keeper is focused on five milestones: Getting a healthy start and entering school ready to learn, graduating from high school ready for college and career, completing post-secondary education or training, successfully entering the workforce, and keeping kids on track and giving them second chances.

My Sister's Keeper

The My Sister's Keeper Fellowship is a leadership program designed to meet the unique cultural needs of black women looking to grow and achieve their business and personal goals. It is a dynamic, intensive and interactive, six-month experience designed to promote and enhance community leadership through an in-depth enhancement of existing skills in effective communication, entrepreneurship, financial empowerment, business and education, and personal wellness and advocacy.

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President Obama launched to address persistent opportunity gaps faced by boys and young men of color and ensure that all young people can reach their full potential. Through this initiative, the Administration partnered with cities and towns, businesses, and foundations who are taking important steps to connect young people to mentoring, support networks, and workforce development programs to prepare them for their next life chapter.