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Can we please use the ROOTS Framework for Anti-Racist Teaching and have Donte Felder be our PD leader? 

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Can we please use the ROOTS Framework for Anti-Racist Teaching and have Donte Felder be our PD leader? 

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Donte Felder was one of the creators of the ROOTS Framework for Anti-Racist teaching. He would be an excellent PD presenter. He is the recipient of the Golden Apple Award, has been a teacher in SPS and spent time in special ed. He started "South End Stories" and has worked with the Intiman Theater. The ROOTS Framework is excellent for ANY person who works with kids - not just arts teachers. I cant say enough about this guy.

https://www.kcts9.org/show/golden-apple-awards/episode/donte-felder-vltk5b

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Orca K-8's Film and Theater Academy makes history come alive. Just ask Donte Felder!

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We are curious about the idea of having 1 admin responsible for supporting student behavior as a sort of "Dean of Students." Having one person who is responsible could ensure more consistency across grade levels. Having almost all teachers teach across grade levels it no longer makes sense to have grade level admin.

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Can we please use the ROOTS framework? It's AWESOME.

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Can we please use the ROOTS framework? It's AWESOME.

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Some of the people we have set up to engage in restorative justice have sadly been forced into disciplinary roles of running things like in school suspension which has impacted their ability to do the improtant restorative work.

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How much are cell phones continuing to be a part of the harmful interactions betweens tudents in our space? We have largerly removed them from classrooms, but they are still continuously used during transitions, in bathrooms, during lunch, and especially used to spread rumors, film negative interactions, and engage in toher bullying behavior between students. Should we explore being a phone free campus?

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The switch to a much harder line no cell phones policy this year did a ton to improve cell phone usage. We should take that approach of setting clear school or grade level policies and boundaries and apply it in more areas to help drive major culture changes.

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I would like to see our attendance flowchart be uplifted and utilized next year, as well as looked at at grade-level team meetings so that staff can be aligned on its use.

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I think we have a goal of being a school that uses restorative justice, but it doesn't seem to have gotten the attention it truly needs to succeed. We need more concrete systems of what it means to restore a relationship that all parties are help to, and especially, how an individual can restore harm that they have done to a wider class or community, both to help that community feel it has been addressed and that they can be safe in the future, and also to help the individual responsible can feel safe going back into the community as an accepted and valued member.

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I would like to see the discipline matrix be uplifted next year and closely looked at by grade-level teams for alignment.

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I think our school has historically valued academic rigor and an "every minute counts" mentality that minimized the need for joy/ connection. Admin celebrations of teachers incorporating joy into their classrooms could help uplift these practices

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I would like to see staff work in racial affinity groups to engage in learning around culturally responsive teaching, problems of practice, and what we see happening at Denny to help develop our own practice and become more anti-racist.

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I would like more information around how some of our identity based classes impact our multi-racial students. I want to know if/ how these classes impact their sense of belonging.

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Harm was done in the early PDs to our staff because buy-in and taking stock of where our stakeholders are at was not done effectively. This has been brought up, but has not been addressed. It has led to staff "numbing out" during PDs related to trauma-informed instruction and care because we are not authentically practicing what we are learning in the trauma-informed PDs.

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Proposal to support Shukri´s amazing work with ASB and using student voice and wants to drive activities for the school that bring joy.

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I also think we need more consistent and transparent practices around responding to racism and repairing harm. Having clear policies of how we handle these moments helps students feel more safe and supported.

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I see a lot of student concern around racism, and I have heard many students voicing concerns in very loud and public ways. It is continually unclear how well founded these concerns are and how they are addressed. It is obviously also an issue of confidentiallity when specific accusations are made, but unfortunately that seems to be resulting in unending rumors of certain staff and students being racist along with a belief that it was never addressed. I know genuine things have been addressed, and false accusations have also been made, but it is only possible to realize that these concerns are actually being addressed by personally digging. The general climate doesn't seem to be feeling all the work that is done to repair the individual interactions.

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We very much need more sources of joy and reinforcement of the good things we see our students doing every day. Click cards refined, brought in on day 1, maintained. More assemblies, trips, fields days, and earlier in the year! Build on some of the cool things people have figured out like random acts of kindness, attendence raffles, kind notes in the library. I think we have a ton of good ideas that have been sort of pulled together bit by bit over the year that we need to build on and make stronger.

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Classes and OST offerings directed for our AAPI identifying students and staff. We have Proyecto, Kingmakers and Seqacib, but not for our AAPI students specifically. The programs we have make great efforts to be inclusive in a lot of ways, but from the data, it seems that our Asian-American students are not feeling safe and included at the same level as students of other racial backgrounds.

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I would like to see us create special, safe spaces for our Asian and multi-racial students (similar to Kingmakers, Proyecto, etc.)

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I am noticing (in Atlas) that under the section for equity/ anti-racism, our Black students consistently responded more favorably to each question, whereas our Asian and Multi-racial students responded less favorably than the district and middle school averages.

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Goal template: By [enter end date of improvement cycle], [enter who is involved] will [enter the goal] by [action steps/outputs] as measured by [enter your outcome/measurement].

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Sample: By June 2024, Denny staff will improve their culturally responsive professional practice, specifically focusing on the outcomes and growth of students of color, by participating in staff affinity groups, data analysis cycles, and peer instructional observations. Success will be measured by school and staff working condition surveys, student and family culture and climate surveys, and data collected during admin and staff learning walks.