Partner Schools Work Across Schools by Cynthia Carvajal https://padlet.com/ccarvajal9/knzvx2sh9gkxhk7l Sharing and connecting over moments of struggle and growth in our Partner School work en-us 2021-04-02 19:56:45 UTC 2021-04-09 15:40:16 UTC hello@padlet.com https://padlet.net/icons/png/1f339.png Bud jlqueenan https://padlet.com/ccarvajal9/knzvx2sh9gkxhk7l/wish/1400252124 Team wanted something more tangible in terms of information have been discussing, in particular resources available to undocumented folx/folx with tenuous legal status who want to go on to higher ed in Long Island (i.e. resources specific to Long Island), drivers license, other resources. 
Spoke with Cynthia about how to go about doing this. Plan to go back to school to get more clarification around CUNY-IIE role in this, SLT role, how to disseminate info beyond SLT. ]]> 2021-04-09 15:00:05 UTC https://padlet.com/ccarvajal9/knzvx2sh9gkxhk7l/wish/1400252124 Thorn: It feels like we are being underutilized to push conversations toward criticality. There seems to be a certain comfort within the environment and shifting toward more critical moves is slow to come. farashti1 https://padlet.com/ccarvajal9/knzvx2sh9gkxhk7l/wish/1400254799 Rose: We have a good relationship. We were able to support them in thinking through ideas (ie. technology, language, partnering w students). We were able to establish some participatory and student centered approaches.

Bud: Looking forward to seeing how the parent-focused group works out and how the video project comes together.]]> 2021-04-09 15:00:47 UTC https://padlet.com/ccarvajal9/knzvx2sh9gkxhk7l/wish/1400254799 Rose anthonyjharb https://padlet.com/ccarvajal9/knzvx2sh9gkxhk7l/wish/1400258226 Administrator named that they recognized they were a quieter group but they were really appreciative and gave a lot of positive feedback of the impact of the work.

The work with CUNY-IIE is spreading conversations throughout the school, outside of the CUNY-IIE team. 

Gliset gave a presentation of US DOE data for immigrant origin students in special education. This helped the school think about including status in the conversation about the ability and looking at their own numbers. 

The current project is working on facilitating a tour of the school for new students. ]]> 2021-04-09 15:01:34 UTC https://padlet.com/ccarvajal9/knzvx2sh9gkxhk7l/wish/1400258226 Rose: https://padlet.com/ccarvajal9/knzvx2sh9gkxhk7l/wish/1400259842 Pitched that she was interested in working at a school that was implementing decolonial education. She facilitated a PD that was very generative. The staff were very receptive, identifying ways that they were doing. ]]> 2021-04-09 15:01:58 UTC https://padlet.com/ccarvajal9/knzvx2sh9gkxhk7l/wish/1400259842 Thorn anthonyjharb https://padlet.com/ccarvajal9/knzvx2sh9gkxhk7l/wish/1400262647 Understanding the concept of D75. How do we support a school that goes across 5 sites? (virtual has helped manage this -- in person would be really challenging!) 

Had a private meeting with the admin to clear up the questions about how this works and this thorn is now budding!

The axis of immigration/disability is not commonly talked about. There's a lot of questions about this and a need for resources. But this is a bud because what can be created in a D75 (moderate to severe disability) can later  influence what we do at other schools (because of this attention to a very marginalized group of students.

]]> 2021-04-09 15:02:31 UTC https://padlet.com/ccarvajal9/knzvx2sh9gkxhk7l/wish/1400262647 Bud-Freeport bmercado12 https://padlet.com/ccarvajal9/knzvx2sh9gkxhk7l/wish/1400264741 Working toward building critical relationships and holding critical conversations. Building ally/accomplice document, categorizing the people (educators/admin/etc.) into their positions. Based on Freeport/LI, hard to categorize people and say who is an ally/accomplice. Navigating how to put this together while trying not to make them defensive.]]> 2021-04-09 15:02:59 UTC https://padlet.com/ccarvajal9/knzvx2sh9gkxhk7l/wish/1400264741 Bud:" https://padlet.com/ccarvajal9/knzvx2sh9gkxhk7l/wish/1400269165 They are engaged and they are planning to do more decolonial curricular work. Ex: Planning a BLM curriculum. ]]> 2021-04-09 15:03:58 UTC https://padlet.com/ccarvajal9/knzvx2sh9gkxhk7l/wish/1400269165 Rose https://padlet.com/ccarvajal9/knzvx2sh9gkxhk7l/wish/1400269669 Tammy and Cecilia are excited because they can go into work with the teachers today, and people outside of the SLT. ]]> 2021-04-09 15:04:05 UTC https://padlet.com/ccarvajal9/knzvx2sh9gkxhk7l/wish/1400269669 Thorn https://padlet.com/ccarvajal9/knzvx2sh9gkxhk7l/wish/1400271623 It has been difficult for them to meet with the school, with cancelations and other challenges. "Bits and Starts" ]]> 2021-04-09 15:04:29 UTC https://padlet.com/ccarvajal9/knzvx2sh9gkxhk7l/wish/1400271623 Thorn: https://padlet.com/ccarvajal9/knzvx2sh9gkxhk7l/wish/1400273525 There are people who resist and are not engaged. Some people challenged the notion of decoloniality. However, the majority of faculty are on board. ]]> 2021-04-09 15:04:55 UTC https://padlet.com/ccarvajal9/knzvx2sh9gkxhk7l/wish/1400273525 Rose bmercado12 https://padlet.com/ccarvajal9/knzvx2sh9gkxhk7l/wish/1400276555 SLT. Very aligned in terms of principles, on board with guiding principles (not contentious). SLT meetings have served as place for support and connections between themselves. People who have wanted to engage in these conversations and be in critical engagement, have awareness of politics of schools, and want to do the work (against the institution since the context is not very supportive)]]> 2021-04-09 15:05:35 UTC https://padlet.com/ccarvajal9/knzvx2sh9gkxhk7l/wish/1400276555 https://padlet.com/ccarvajal9/knzvx2sh9gkxhk7l/wish/1400280106 Bud- An emerging curiosity and thinking around the conflation of ELL and Immigrant students. When we look at who is in the school we begin to see there are other immigrant students in the school even if they are not large. 

Thorn- The constraint of time and the changes that are happening in the school. As of Tuesday, they will go back in person so the schedules are shifting and time is becoming a challenge in terms of what is meaningful and the span of time.

Roses- We did have a professional learning, with teachers that work with all students but don’t have training and it was really successful. The team was energized around helping the teachers helping the stories of the students. Ideas come up like working with alumni to share their stories and to better define success and experience. The team have gone to CUNY-IIE workshops that helped build a good foundation as well. 
]]> 2021-04-09 15:06:20 UTC https://padlet.com/ccarvajal9/knzvx2sh9gkxhk7l/wish/1400280106 BUD: rosa_riveramccutchen https://padlet.com/ccarvajal9/knzvx2sh9gkxhk7l/wish/1400280292 In the beginning it was so hard to have the SLT acknowledge that there are non-Lantinx immigrants. The team is starting to get access to the data to better understand who the students are. Currently, reshaping the intake process. The shift happened after Orubba and Bridgit began to share scenarios/hypotheticals that helped the team make the connections re how not knowing may limit opportunities down the line. ]]> 2021-04-09 15:06:22 UTC https://padlet.com/ccarvajal9/knzvx2sh9gkxhk7l/wish/1400280292 Thorn-Freeport bmercado12 https://padlet.com/ccarvajal9/knzvx2sh9gkxhk7l/wish/1400280781 Lack of support from admin. Pretty much been holding meetings in secret. They want to hold PDs in school but tension of asking whether they want to explicitly connect to CUNY-IIE. Unsupportive admin who claim to want to do admin but don't actually.]]> 2021-04-09 15:06:28 UTC https://padlet.com/ccarvajal9/knzvx2sh9gkxhk7l/wish/1400280781 Bud https://padlet.com/ccarvajal9/knzvx2sh9gkxhk7l/wish/1400288753 Being patient and understanding schools where they are. They are also doing interesting work at the school.]]> 2021-04-09 15:08:06 UTC https://padlet.com/ccarvajal9/knzvx2sh9gkxhk7l/wish/1400288753 Rose https://padlet.com/ccarvajal9/knzvx2sh9gkxhk7l/wish/1400293192 Maite and her partner have been able to meet with their team every two weeks comprised of teachers and parents. They are having very important conversations together.]]> 2021-04-09 15:09:00 UTC https://padlet.com/ccarvajal9/knzvx2sh9gkxhk7l/wish/1400293192 Thorn jlqueenan https://padlet.com/ccarvajal9/knzvx2sh9gkxhk7l/wish/1400297899 Committed group of educators in SLT but challenge has been getting people they think should be attending to this on board. A lot of the work they do is racialized as immigrant work (ENL, foreign language teachers) so teachers seen as "you take care of that, you deal with those students." Struggle in being able to support them, helping them feel supported. They have asked: could you as CUNY-IIE, the "authority," speak to the admin, make the case for what's needed.

How to intervene when committed educators are also part of some of systemic issues related to grounding principles (antiBlackness, Indigeneity),  white woman taking up space in meetings. Thinking about prompts to make space for people who haven't been as vocal to speak more (ex: someone bringing up words with roots that are Indigenous, not from Spanish language but that convo was shut down). ]]> 2021-04-09 15:10:00 UTC https://padlet.com/ccarvajal9/knzvx2sh9gkxhk7l/wish/1400297899 Thorn anthonyjharb https://padlet.com/ccarvajal9/knzvx2sh9gkxhk7l/wish/1400299649 Because of the history of social justice orientation and activity in this school, it's challenging to think about what else we can do with CUNY-IIE sometimes.

Thinking about this school in comparison to other schools who get paid to do this work. There's an incredible level of engagement -- and it is spreading -- and that is really positive but we're also thinking about the amount of work the school is taking on, which is a lot! 

Working through the recognition of indigenous students within the Latinx identity, which is the most prominent. There's a resistance to creating resources / spaces specifically for Indigenous Mexican students at the risk of "separating the Latinxs" 

Class -- there was talk of an event about immigrant parents coming in to talk about their careers in their home countries. It's positive that there is a clear idea that the Latinx parent community has a lot of knowledge, but also: what identities are being represented and left out of this?  ]]> 2021-04-09 15:10:22 UTC https://padlet.com/ccarvajal9/knzvx2sh9gkxhk7l/wish/1400299649 Thorn https://padlet.com/ccarvajal9/knzvx2sh9gkxhk7l/wish/1400301309 CUNY-IIE has felt low priority, because there are so many challenges in the community and a perceived disconnect with the work of CUNY-IEE.]]> 2021-04-09 15:10:42 UTC https://padlet.com/ccarvajal9/knzvx2sh9gkxhk7l/wish/1400301309 THORN: rosa_riveramccutchen https://padlet.com/ccarvajal9/knzvx2sh9gkxhk7l/wish/1400303019 Time and they wanted us to do the work...that's not sustainable. They don't have common meeting times, or opportunities to collaborate with one another. They felt singled out originally, but they're now excited and invested. ]]> 2021-04-09 15:11:05 UTC https://padlet.com/ccarvajal9/knzvx2sh9gkxhk7l/wish/1400303019 Bud anthonyjharb https://padlet.com/ccarvajal9/knzvx2sh9gkxhk7l/wish/1400303965 Admissions seems to be a problem ]]> 2021-04-09 15:11:17 UTC https://padlet.com/ccarvajal9/knzvx2sh9gkxhk7l/wish/1400303965 Rose anthonyjharb https://padlet.com/ccarvajal9/knzvx2sh9gkxhk7l/wish/1400306035 A lot of engagement at the very early but "energetic" meetings! ]]> 2021-04-09 15:11:44 UTC https://padlet.com/ccarvajal9/knzvx2sh9gkxhk7l/wish/1400306035 Rose/bud jlqueenan https://padlet.com/ccarvajal9/knzvx2sh9gkxhk7l/wish/1400306835 Supporting committed educators in SLT. Attending meetings even when don't have a ton of time. ]]> 2021-04-09 15:11:53 UTC https://padlet.com/ccarvajal9/knzvx2sh9gkxhk7l/wish/1400306835 ROSE: rosa_riveramccutchen https://padlet.com/ccarvajal9/knzvx2sh9gkxhk7l/wish/1400310462 2021-04-09 15:12:42 UTC https://padlet.com/ccarvajal9/knzvx2sh9gkxhk7l/wish/1400310462 Bud https://padlet.com/ccarvajal9/knzvx2sh9gkxhk7l/wish/1400310565 They have begun to unpack issues of gentrification of the dual language programs and related concerns. Now they would like to bring the principal into those conversations.
Other buds/thorns are setting a broader vision for the school, addressing the other student populations.]]> 2021-04-09 15:12:44 UTC https://padlet.com/ccarvajal9/knzvx2sh9gkxhk7l/wish/1400310565 Opportunity for partnership jlqueenan https://padlet.com/ccarvajal9/knzvx2sh9gkxhk7l/wish/1400347418 Thinking about collaborating across Westbury/Freeport in terms of resources for Long Island schools ]]> 2021-04-09 15:20:46 UTC https://padlet.com/ccarvajal9/knzvx2sh9gkxhk7l/wish/1400347418