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Question 1-Provide opportunities for students & community to approach tough conversations to promote equity.

Question 2-Promoting more opportunities for ALL  stakeholders in our school to have a voice.

Promote cultural groups being more visible in the community

Question 3-Understanding to listen and learn (humility)

Question 4-Allowing collaboration among Cedar Falls and and Waterloo equity committee

Create opportunities for Professional Development for school employees

Allow schools and communities to create a safe environments & celebrate differences in the community

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Future Collaboration Options -
Job Shadowing between districts?
Question: could there be financial incentives to bring teachers of color to Cedar Falls?

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Do we have potential to have public events? Is there something we could do with committees? Collaborative efforts between the committees - partnership. Organizations within the community - how do we partner together?

Opportunities to share ideas. Kingsley and Tara could continue to collaborate.

How do you measure success? When we think about what works, what is successful? Just started with some initiatives so might take awhile to determine success - Bullying and reporting app numbers, MIRAE success - looking at 6 or more years.

Working so hard to determine if kids feel safe, close achievement gap, and make sure discipline is equitable.

Constant reevaluation - fair vs. equitable vs. equal. We can monitor and tweak as we need to.

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Group 5 Question 3  How to engage our Waterloo and CF groups?  Involve students upfront in activities and discussions. Breakdown the competition, even in the same districts.  We need to walk it back to the elementary for our students and realize the "system" problems are not limited to grade levels.  Having active student groups in the elementary schools.  We used to do sharing with elementary music programs.  Getting students together for nonacademic activities.  Leader in Me activities in buildings.  Sister classroom with  pen pals or video chats.  Action on suggestions from last year in regard to athletics and game.  

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Group 5 Question 3  How to engage our Waterloo and CF groups?  Involve students upfront in activities and discussions. Breakdown the competition, even in the same districts.  We need to walk it back to the elementary for our students and realize the "system" problems are not limited to grade levels.  Having active student groups in the elementary schools.  We used to do sharing with elementary music programs.  Getting students together for nonacademic activities.  Leader in Me activities in buildings.  Sister classroom with  pen pals or video chats.  Action on suggestions from last year in regard to athletics and game.  

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Group 5 Question 2                                                                    What are the isolated groups in Cedar Falls? How are they being reached?  LGBTQ, Indian, and Muslims, special needs, Marshallese (finding translators).                                                                How can we adopt some of these suggestions to engage our community?  SEL work in buildings that allow us to celebrate things we are not familiar within our culture, such as Hispanic holidays, etc.  EL teachers share with other teachers and we need to start sharing with students.              

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Group 5 Question 2                                                                    What are the isolated groups in Cedar Falls? How are they being reached?  LGBTQ, Indian, and Muslims, special needs, Marshallese (finding translators).                                                                How can we adopt some of these suggestions to engage our community?  SEL work in buildings that allow us to celebrate things we are not familiar within our culture, such as Hispanic holidays, etc.  EL teachers share with other teachers and we need to start sharing with students.              

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Waterloo: A couple of student groups for LGTBQ not sure what training has taken place. Majority of efforts have gone to black and white.

Cedar Falls: High School - has the BSU. There was a gathering of the students of colors to determine opportunities between the high school walls. Looking at ways to get the students of color more involved. Also looking at gettings students involved with another metro high school. Holmes had a student group with mentors to help them with voice and expression. Alumni were brought back to talk about their experiences while going through school. Discussed things that can't be said. Another group to keep in mind during the discussion is the LGBTQ. Elementary is reviving the Tiger Pals program and will be focusing on students of color.

Support of LGBTQ group at Board Meeting.

Both: Important to determine who comprises your demographics. Want to also focus on those large demographics. What are cultural aspects of a community? Could be some differences in prioritizing between the communities?

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Challenge is continuing the momentum and having student involvement.
In CF the challenge was overcoming the assumption that diversity is something that happens somewhere else. Changing that we need to make clear we are supporting all students and changing how we think and react.

Not knowing is a big challenge; you haven't experienced what a student is  going through. Empathy can only cover so much.

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We loved learning about Waterloo's outreach programs - www.onecitycv.org and momentum - which is a branch of onecity

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We loved learning about Waterloo's outreach programs - www.onecitycv.org and momentum - which is a branch of onecity

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CF rarely had community involvement until the last year and a half. have students rotate through the meetings. Students come and share their lens and experience.

Physically present in the community; having a 'booth' at events and being out there. Need to reach out to expand community participation

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Waterloo: One City Cedar Valley is a new outreach project that goes to where our students are and provide meals, outreach, classes, food bank and connections with people in our community. They also work with young people who have been incarcerated to help them transition back into the community.
Having more student voice in Waterloo has also helped our community outreach to be more targeted, taking advantage of supports and research.

Cedar Falls: We need to do more for community outreach as a district. We have small pockets within school communities but enough districtwide.

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Group 5     What are you proud                      Student involvement, teacher programs,  study circles, the movement that has taken place the last year, conversations                              Questions for Cedar Falls Equity Team: How does Cedar Falls go about involving families, students, and the community in the equity discussion?  CF-launching website, starting anonymous reporting, GSA and BSU at Peet.  In Waterloo, getting parent's perspectives and inviting them to meetings.  Making sure ALL groups are invited.                                                 

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Group 5     What are you proud                      Student involvement, teacher programs,  study circles, the movement that has taken place the last year, conversations                              Questions for Cedar Falls Equity Team: How does Cedar Falls go about involving families, students, and the community in the equity discussion?  CF-launching website, starting anonymous reporting, GSA and BSU at Peet.  In Waterloo, getting parent's perspectives and inviting them to meetings.  Making sure ALL groups are invited.                                                 

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Waterloo: Expanded into the classroom - Equity vital to school improvement - finally reaching the classroom. Not just checking a box it is the right thing to do. It is done for the right reasons not just for public approval. Inclusion of diverse stakeholders.

CF: We willingly put a new energy into the committee in a short amount of time and gotten a lot done. Revitalization of the committee. Took action through listening and have empowered a lot of people in the community. Also tried to get it back to the classroom with the training of teachers.

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Cedar Falls: We are proud of the types of conversations we hear happening between students and teachers in our classrooms and hallways about race and equity. We felt good about the PD we did last year.

Waterloo: We are proud of our work with Leader in Me and the leadership from our students.

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Waterloo promoting the Equity Committee; recent 'invisibility' the last 5 years and trying to expand our membership and promote what we do.

Cedar falls: more action plans and moving forward now, doing more than looking at the data and saying what we'd like it to look like. What was wanted but unsure how to do it

Staff PD at both districts has been creating more visibility.

Waterloo Study circles: facilitating conversations on race and implicit bias with staff as well as police officers and UNI staff

Waterloo connecting equity to everything we do; want to see how the committee facilitates this!

Transparency with the people on the committee and in the community; getting the opportunity to share concerns as well as celebrate what we are we doing.

Related to Question 2: CF has expanded their committee to include families and community.