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Many educational institutions are discussing and apologizing for their role in slavery, racism, etc. LBUSD could start from a place of asking for forgiveness and moving toward providing and doing the "hard work" Dr. Howard discussed today.

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LCAP should include hiring, retention and support for Black, Pacific Islander and Male teachers specifically

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LCAP should include hiring, retention and support for Black, Pacific Islander and Male teachers specifically

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We need to have an honest conversation around Standardized testing and children of color. What it really means and the real outcomes for our children in LBUSD and beyond. 

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We need to have an honest conversation around Standardized testing and children of color. What it really means and the real outcomes for our children in LBUSD and beyond. 

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If we elect to "opt-out" of the testing this year - what ramifications does that have for our children?

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The district needs to investigate the unequal balance of programs, extended program experiences and curriculum throughout the district.  Parents should not have to go 15 minutes or to "the other side of town" to give their child STEAM labs, experiences or other opportunities.  It does not nor should not be this way. 

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The district needs to investigate the unequal balance of programs, extended program experiences and curriculum throughout the district.  Parents should not have to go 15 minutes or to "the other side of town" to give their child STEAM labs, experiences or other opportunities.  It does not nor should not be this way. 

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The LCAP should include opportunities for Black & Brown children to engage in STEAM labs, programs, curriculum, etc. at the school location.  

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The LCAP should include opportunities for Black & Brown children to engage in STEAM labs, programs, curriculum, etc. at the school location.  

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Agreeing with looking at OUSD for best practices for Black student achievement as a guide

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Thank you Dr. Kim T and Malaea Fepulea'i for your voices, commitment and words.  I would love to help in some way wchampionkisha@gmail.com 

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Thank you Dr. Kim T and Malaea Fepulea'i for your voices, commitment and words.  I would love to help in some way wchampionkisha@gmail.com 

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I want to ask what internally is being provided to LBUSD staff & teachers in terms of DEIB training...? With the recent racial injustices occuring, our teachers and school staff are on the front lines of what our kids are manifesting and teachers/school staff's responses (or nonresponses) are critical for our babies to process their own feelings. (Yes, this speaks to SEL and school counseling and mental health and the importance of that too! I know our teachers carry a lot, but this is vital and many BIPOC students won't seek mental health services, as we know, so it comes to our teachers and school staff most directly often times).

As a parent sitting on a district equity committee, too-- I've seen many implicit biases and microaggressions occurring from teachers AND principals that are NOT anti-racist.  I understand it's a work-in-progress (we are all on this journey, for sure), but I would like to see if internally there is training or some type of education being done for school teachers and staff to raise their own awareness, and how to both address the injustices that our babies are seeing everywhere, and also how not to perpetuate it in the classroom/school setting...?

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Bring back the arts that can support cultural competence, a sense of belonging and much more in elementary especially

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Bring back the arts that can support cultural competence, a sense of belonging and much more in elementary especially

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Parents don't know what questions to ask and we trust you too much. We all have the same concerns. Universal concerns.

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https://www.lbschools.net/Departments/Parent_U/

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Consider motivation and how to increase it

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Consider motivation and how to increase it

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Motivation is not being investigated enough. My son is mixed African American and European American and he is failing. He is not motivated nor connected. He is in grade 6.

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Malaea had a great idea that culture must be a part of the curriculum

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Hiring AND retaining Black Teachers and Pacific Islander

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Look at other districts best practices: Oakland Unified, Berkeley Unified, Riverside, etc.

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Increased PI and Black peer mentors for students

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Increased PI and Black peer mentors for students

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Academic achievement and discipline rates of Black and PI students

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Academic achievement and discipline rates of Black and PI students

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I’d like to address not only the academic achievement of our Black and Brown babies, but also the discipline - specifically suspension rates of our Black and PI students. As much as we disaggregate at the district level, can we disaggregate and set goals specifically tracking what the suspension rates are for Black and PI students…? And then work to minimize those numbers…?

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in culturally relevant education . In LA we have Arts Specialists who teach kids and teachers to teach the arts

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in culturally relevant education . In LA we have Arts Specialists who teach kids and teachers to teach the arts

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Provide nurses, counselors everyday at every school.

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Provide nurses, counselors everyday at every school.

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Hiring AND retaining Black Teachers and Pacific Islander

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Hiring AND retaining Black Teachers and Pacific Islander

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Develop a plan to Intentionally Hire, Support, Retain and Maintain Black, Pacific Islander AND Male teachers

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Develop a plan to Intentionally Hire, Support, Retain and Maintain Black, Pacific Islander AND Male teachers

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I know the size of our PI population and Black students in some schools, particularly I'm thinking in our District 5 schools, are low. But as parents mentioned, should that matter?! Inclusion means we need to call us ALL in, not exclude us?

So if it's a numbers game, maybe it's making sure 100% of our Black and PI students are achieving at similar rates to their White peers

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Schools need to be welcoming to all culture, which starts in the main office. This is for everyone to accept all culture.

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Where is tutoring and other discontinued services available?

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Where is tutoring and other discontinued services available?

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Is it on-site? I'm still struggling to get tutoring and am tempted to pay for it myself. How do I get the information that I need? How do I access discontinued services?

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Thank you for the work on the LCAP and also for allowing community voice on the draft. I think from a parent perspective, I really want to see actionable goals set for our most at-need students, as has been mentioned with tutoring supports or the other suggestions people have put forth today. Put those resources there. I am a resident of District 5 and I know that I'd like to see those funds allocated to other more in-need sections of the District. Because if we focus on our most in-need students like our Black students, we all rise

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We need to fix the issues and find out what support they need.

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School discipline for Black and PI students

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School discipline for Black and PI students

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(Following up on the comment "Academic achievement and discipline rates of Black and PI students"):

My niece is Black and Samoan, and during her time in middle school, was suspended when, in SELF-DEFENSE, she hit a white student.

The white student didn't receive any repercussions. A talking to and then sent back to class.

And as the national trends go, Black girls are being suspended at disproportionately higher rates than their white peers, so being aware of this and holding our schools ACCOUNTABLE (which means, track the data at the school/district level, monitor when this occurs, document and take action if/when it is a pattern)

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80% of Black students are failing math - they should have tutoring every week.

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Funds are supposed to be allocated to bring specific funds to a certain group of students. But it's ultimately generally allocated to all students. Not everyone needs everything.

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Question from Jerlene: What needs to happen re: the LCAP to ensure that the goals are specific to the population - e.g., Black students or PI students? We did look at other school districts to see how specific populations were addressed in them. LBUSD doesn't do that. It's general. It's not equity. What else do we need to do?

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Question from Jerlene: What needs to happen re: the LCAP to ensure that the goals are specific to the population - e.g., Black students or PI students? We did look at other school districts to see how specific populations were addressed in them. LBUSD doesn't do that. It's general. It's not equity. What else do we need to do?

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Answer from SI Lund: I encourage all my sites to have specific goals for specific student populations. It's something that I require my principals to set.
Answer from Lucy Salazar: One of our goals from today is to get some feedback. We've heard today the request for specificity. One of my goals is to communicate back about that.

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They aren't that great. We want to make sure our kids have something enriching. I believe that arts is the answer. The arts are SEL, inherently - community engagement.

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I've had a chance to see how two different huge districts (LAUSD and LBUSD) do things. We need before-school care and after-school care. We have kids club but it's hard. It's expensive and a lot of sacrifice.

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Representative curriculum and accessibility of program information

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Representative curriculum and accessibility of program information

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bell hooks
Gloria Anzaldua

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Lack of child care is what motivated me to go outside the district

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Lack of child care is what motivated me to go outside the district

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I was able to speak with the teacher when I got to spend time in class three times a week and show the teacher what I wanted to see.

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I was able to speak with the teacher when I got to spend time in class three times a week and show the teacher what I wanted to see.

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Have culturally relevant conversations with teachers and staff.

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Have culturally relevant conversations with teachers and staff.

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You have to go 15 minutes from your house to get what children should have at every school. One thing I've experienced with our district is to talk to people and follow the chain of command. That's hard when, as a person of color, you're taught to follow the rules. I've had to approach teachers and have conversations with them about cultural differences. If a child doesn't look at you in the eyes when they speak to you, it's not disrespectful - it's how we were raised. 

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You have to go 15 minutes from your house to get what children should have at every school. One thing I've experienced with our district is to talk to people and follow the chain of command. That's hard when, as a person of color, you're taught to follow the rules. I've had to approach teachers and have conversations with them about cultural differences. If a child doesn't look at you in the eyes when they speak to you, it's not disrespectful - it's how we were raised. 

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We aren't necessarily dealt with face-to-face. I've heard from students that they are treated differently by teachers than other students. 

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We aren't necessarily dealt with face-to-face. I've heard from students that they are treated differently by teachers than other students. 

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Need to close achievements gap

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Indigenous culture is not a trend/mascot/theme. BE BETTER! Show up and against CSULB's constant threat to build on Puvunga!

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Like there was an APISA Virtual Brave space 3/31... more of these, consistently, throughout the year. Not only as a response to trauma. To build safe spaces, to build those relationships always. Culturally specific spaces for collective healing, uplifting, support, celebration, pride, love.  

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Like there was an APISA Virtual Brave space 3/31... more of these, consistently, throughout the year. Not only as a response to trauma. To build safe spaces, to build those relationships always. Culturally specific spaces for collective healing, uplifting, support, celebration, pride, love.  

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There's a LOOONNGG history of Black and Brown solidarity that NEEDS to be shared. Student's shouldn't have to wait till GRAD SCHOOL to learn about how the Black Panthers inspired and supported the formation of the Brown Panthers who were Polynesian activists that liberated their people from oppressive systems! TELL THE STORY WHITE SUPREMACY DOESNT WANT US TO KNOW!

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Policing Brown and Black students NEEDS TO BE ELIMINATED. LBUSD is contributing to the school to prison pipeline when they invite law enforcement to campus. I agree with Ms. Colman, use community members as response teams

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I am a LBUSD alumna grades 3-12th. Poly PACE class of 99. I did not have any Black teachers that entire time. I did not have any Pacific Islander teachers. I had one Black administrator. I did not have any APISA (Asian Pacific Islander South/Southeast Asian) administrators. 

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I am a LBUSD alumna grades 3-12th. Poly PACE class of 99. I did not have any Black teachers that entire time. I did not have any Pacific Islander teachers. I had one Black administrator. I did not have any APISA (Asian Pacific Islander South/Southeast Asian) administrators. 

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Has. That. Changed. Much.

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Bring Back Standardized Arts Programs in Elementary and MIddle School

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Bring Back Standardized Arts Programs in Elementary and MIddle School

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Goals are clear. I feel the Goals for SEL need to include more arts programs at all grade levels (especially at the Elementary and Middle school level). Culturally Relevant and Responsive Education MUST include a rigorous arts program with fully credentialed teachers. I know this because I have been teaching for 26 years first with LBUSD and now in LAUSD. I have taught Dance at all grade levels starting at Hamilton Middle School, LIncbergh Middle School and lastly at Jordan High School. I was the arts department chair, co-wrote the Dance Standards, and also was the teacher lead for The Pacific Island Club at Hamilton Middle School. My own son is in LB schools he is of mixed race African American and European American. He has slipped through the cracks. He is a Kinisthetic and Tactile learner. with mild ADHD.  He is needs have not been met and has faced atrocities in discipline and racism. My biggest critique is the lack of collaborative and culturally relevant education and responsive education. For 4 years I had the honor of running the dance program at Lindbergh Middle School. Everything you are discussing to day was met by this program and they ripped it away when testing became a priority. I urge you to consider re-instating the arts in middle and elementary school. I would be happy to be a part of this ginginma@yahoo.com. Thank you Shayla Brown and Malaea Fepulea'i for emphasizing the need for Culturally relevant curriculum.
I would also like to add the amazing work I did with AEMP for LAUSD with Dr. Noma Le Moine. A very powerful fact I remember from training with her is that 60% of African American Male inmates are Kinesthetic learners. Yet, how many times has my son picked up and built, constructed, acted, sang, painted. None!!! for the last two years. LB needs to get in the now and start providing education to diverse learners not just racially but also consider culture is also how you learn.

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Powerful statement, I will be connecting with my School Board next week!!

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Address the capitalization of black and brown bodies in sports! There are too many students that fall through the cracks if they don't have athletic abilities. And if they do, that turns into their ONLY means of worth in education and upward mobility. Change this. Stop funneling students through the system only for having a huge dollar sign on their backs!

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The LCAP should include a Black student achievement program. Something similar could be created for Pacific Islander students. Look at Oakland LCAP for guidance.

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The LCAP should include a Black student achievement program. Something similar could be created for Pacific Islander students. Look at Oakland LCAP for guidance.

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Yes, I agree! Oakland is doing a lot of great things we can incorporate as well!

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Yes, I agree! Oakland is doing a lot of great things we can incorporate as well!