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October 29, 2019iNACOL Annual Symposium | Palm Springs, CA
Today’s resources: greatschoolspartnership.org/iNACOL
How Collective Ownership Can Seed and Sustain Innovation
Engaging for Equity:
What is an innovation you are working on, or experiencing in your school, district, or community?
Entrance Ticket
Glennys Sanchez, Senior Associate
Steve Sell, Senior Associate
Kate Theriault, Senior Associate
From the Great Schools Partnership
TODAY’S PRESENTERS
1. Participants will develop a deeper understanding of the role of equity and engagement in educational innovation.
2. Participants will explore tools and strategies for equitable community engagement.
3. Participants will consider implications of equitable community engagement within their own school or district.
Outcomes
Welcome, Introductions, Overview of Agenda
Foundations of Equitable Community Engagement
Sustaining Equitable Community Engagement
Examples of Voice, Shared Power, and Collective Ownership
Reflections + Feedback
Agenda
• Be Present• Monitor ‘airtime’• Speak your truth • Embrace a culture of possibility• Freely attend to personal needs
Community Agreements
What else do you need today?
www.greatschoolspartnership.org/iNACOL
is a nonprofit school-support organization working to redesign public education and improve learning for all students.
@GreatSchoolsP#iNACOL19
We believe in equitable, personalized, rigorous learning for all students leading to readiness for college, careers, and citizenship.
We believe educational equity means ensuring just outcomes for each student, raising marginalized voices, and challenging the imbalance of power and privilege.
Foundations of Equitable Community
Engagement
Foundations of Equitable Community Engagement Review the principles and code them according to what:
• makes sense to you and squares with your thinking
• is circling around in your head because you’re still wondering about it
• might be a challenge to implement and might encounter roadblocks
Sustaining Equitable Community Engagement
We believe educational equity means ensuring just outcomes for each student, raising marginalized voices, and challenging the imbalance of power and privilege.
Do More Do Less“How can we involve more [care-givers,
students, teachers, community members] in developing activities?”
“Why don’t they ever come to things?”
Face-to-face conversations Emailing
Asking why Explaining why
Connecting with the outliers Relying on the same folks
Building others’ capacity to lead Designing and facilitating all the meetings
Identifying your own blind spots Making assumptions
Inviting personal stories Marketing and PR
Sit in the discomfort Looking for a quick fix or clear resolution
Do More Do Less“How can we involve more [care-givers,
students, teachers, community members] in developing activities?”
“Why don’t they ever come to things?”
Face-to-face conversations Emailing
Asking why Explaining why
Connecting with the outliers Relying on the same folks
Building others’ capacity to lead Designing and facilitating all the meetings
Identifying your own blind spots Making assumptions
Inviting personal stories Marketing and PR
Sit in the discomfort Looking for a quick fix or clear resolution
• Equitable Outcomes
• Lasting Impact
• Innovative Solutions
• Community Support
Why Invest?
of Equitable Community EngagementIndicators
Mindsets, practices, patterns, and systems that signal the
long-term viability of engagement efforts
of Equitable Community EngagementIndicators
Everyone has the agency, will, and channels to make an impact on their
school system.
Capacity-Building
Build individual and collective know-how Support both systemic and organic
applications
Equitable engagement is a way of doing business, no matter who is in charge.
Codify and fund engagement commitments Measure and communicate progress
Infrastructure & Systems Accountability
Voice & Shared Power
Remove barriers to access + influence Create inclusive leadership pathways
Everyone contributes meaningfully to the decisions that directly affect them.
Shift to “yes, we can” and “all our kids” Frame engagement as everyone’s
responsibility
Equitable engagement becomes a defining feature of the community.
Collective Ownership
Collective Ownership
Shift to “yes, we can” and “all our kids” Frame engagement as everyone’s
responsibility
Equitable engagement becomes a defining feature of the community.
Collective Ownership
What evidence of collective ownership did you see in the video?
• What did you notice about the process? • What did you notice about the
outcomes?
Reflection
What are some ways that collective ownership could move ________ innovation forward?
Your Turn
Share your reflection with a partner.
TURN + TALK
Voice + Shared Power
Voice & Shared Power
Remove barriers to access + influence Create inclusive leadership pathways
Everyone contributes meaningfully to the decisions that directly affect them.
www.greatschoolspartnership.org/iNACOL
Reflection & Commitments
QUESTIONS
THANK YOU
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Glennys SanchezSenior Associate
Steve Sell Senior Associate
Kate TheriaultSenior Associate