The African American Young Men of Promise Initiative (AAYMPI)

Website at: www.tinyurl.com/aaympi Materials at www.tinyurl.com/aaympi-si-13

Michigan Department of EducationThe Office of Education Improvement and Innovation

Office of Career and Technical

EducationMarch 12, 2014

Focus: Turning Action into Results

1. Using our past to inform the future2. Developing a fresh look to bring enthusiasm3. Shifting perception creates a new reality

Achievement Gap – An MDE Prioritywww.youtube.com/watch?v=CLEVVH-ZO0M

Mission and Priorities 2013-2015

MISSION: All students graduate ready for careers, college, and community.

MDE PRIORITY 1: Close achievement gaps in reading and math, with an initial focus on African-American young men for whom data show are Michigan’s persistently lowest achieving student group.

ACTIVITY 1.2 Continue internal professional learning community discussions on achievement gaps among all student groups through June 2015. ACTIVITY 1.3 Initiate and support a social networking dialogue about best practices for reducing achievement gaps in reading and math for all student groups, with an initial focus on African-American young men by November 2013. ACTIVITY 1.4 Collect and disseminate best practices for reducing achievement gaps to all school districts and Educator Preparation Institutions by January 2014. ACTIVITY 1.6 Implement the statewide plan and evaluate its impact on the achievement gap for African- American young men, as well as other student groups in school years 2014-16. ACTIVITY 1.7 Design, conduct, and evaluate pilots for schools that target interventions to close the achievement gap for African-American young men in reading and math by August 2016. ACTIVITY 1.8 Disseminate the findings, strategies, and tools from the pilots that successfully closed the achievement gap to all Michigan schools to apply to all their student groups with gaps, such as Latinos, students with disabilities, and economically disadvantaged.

Achievement Gap – BackgroundAchievement Gap Work in Committees Research Data Messaging Architects Format Brown Bag PLCs

Overall Results Identified 12 Overall Areas to

Address at State-Level Identified 4 Strategies for Schools, Led to 2 Achievement Gap Pilot

Studies, 2013 and 2013-2015 State Board of Education declared

that closing the Achievement Gap for African American Young Men of Promise is a Priority

AAYMPI Interventions – Part 1

Research & Pre-Pilot

AAYMPI Initiative STEP 3

Student Voice

Program

Community Voice

Metrics for Change

Summary & Q/A

Intentional Instructional

Practices

AAYMPI Interventions – Part 1

Intentional Instructional

Practices

Climate and Culture

Strategies

CAP Program

What are the origins of Intentional Instructional Practices?

When Standards, Instruction, and Culture intersect we’ll see…

Stand

ard

s

Culture

Instruction

Intentional Instructional

Practices

Curriculum with

Higher Cognitive Demand

(Increased Rigor)and

Career and College Ready Characteristics

Lessons thatAddress

appropriate grade level standards

andInclude content

relevant to student lives

Teaching that is engaging, culturally responsive, andprovides for experiential learning

Four (4) Intentional Instruction Practices

AAYMPI Interventions – Part 2

Climate and Culture

Strategies

Intentional Instructional

Practices

CAP Program

What are the origins of Climate and Culture Strategies?

Five (5) Climate and Culture Strategies

AAYMPI Interventions – Part 3

CAP Program

Climate and Culture

Strategies

Intentional Instructional

Practices

What are the origins of the College Ambition Program?

AAYMPI Interventions – Part 3

The College Ambition Program

Web

site

Intentional Instructional Practice Contact Information

Brandy ArcherContent Literacy Consultantarcherb2@michigan.gov

Jill GriffinUrban/Math Education Consultantgriffinj9@michigan.gov

www.tinyurl.com/aaympi

Climate and Culture StrategiesContact Information

Gloria Chapman Zena LoweSchool Reform Officer/Consultant Ed. Consultantchapmang1@michigan.gov LoweZ@michigan.gov

Kazee, Lauren (MDE) Mental Health Consultantkazeel@michigan.gov

www.tinyurl.com/aaympi

“Shapely”

• Choose a shape that best represents you • As a group spend 1-2 minutes discussing these

questions: 1. Why did you choose this shape? 2. How does the shape represent you? 3. What is your best guess about the attributes of the shape you have chosen?* Be prepared to share group findings

The Shape of Things to Come

• Square – hard worker, dependable, detail oriented; collector of data, likes to work independently

• Triangle – upwardly mobile, shows leadership qualities, energetic, task and result oriented

• Rectangle – in transition, can’t decide what shape it wants to be; explorer, risk-taker

• Circle – interested in harmony, wants people to feel good about themselves; nurturer, people pleaser

• Squiggle – innovative, unique, can be a bit disorganized, multi-tasker; likes several things going on at once

AAYMPI Community: All Shapes

CAP Program

Climate and Culture

Strategies

Intentional Instructional

Practices

• There’s one fundamental way that we support all these interventions…

Community! (=> building right connections)

The EduGuide Team Forums

Professional Learning Community

• Ensure that learning occurs (data, information, knowledge, understanding, wisdom (operative in worldview)

• Be collaborative – teams (two-four) that work via cycle of questions to analyze and improve practice

• Focus on results (effective practice)

The big “Aha”

• A professional learning community’s ultimate mission is to actively advocate for the enactment of the common good/value of education for all citizens (students).

1. systems 2. structures 3. policies 4. practices

Connecting With Educators# Date

(last Wed)Topics

1 Sept 12 10-11:30am

• Literary Strategies for AA Young Men

2 Oct 10 10-11:30am

• Importance of High Expectations

3 Dec 12 10-11:30am

• AA Young Men's’ Learning Styles

4 Jan 9 10-11:30am

• Hip Hop Pedagogy

5 March 13 10-11:30am

• Eliminating Deficit Thinking

6 April 10 10-11:30am

• Parental Involvement

MSU Webinar

Let’s talk about Community for a sechttp://www.huffingtonpost.com/2013/07/22/media-kids-racial-stereotypes_n_3624740.html

Connecting With Communities

The Community

Voice

Research & Pre-Pilot

AAYMPI Initiative

Instructional Practices and Climate and Culture

Interventions

Student Voice STEP 5 Metrics for

ChangeSummary

& Q/A

Connecting With Communities

Community

Connecting With CommunitiesOptions Goal ContactPBS Inform larger

community about the Initiative and its importance

SRO Office

Friends Recommendations of strategies that a school/district could adopt with suggestions for funding to eliminate the achievement gap

SRO/OEII Offices

ST Expectations for enactment

OEII Office

Community

Connecting With Communities

Participate in a Webinar: 1-877-873-8017 Access Code: 9898475#

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MSU Webinars Websitehttp://remc.adobeconnect.com/AAYMPI2013

For more info, contact Ted Ransaw (ransaw@msu.edu)

Connecting thru Student Voice

Student Voice Program

Research & Pre-Pilot

AAYMPI Initiative

Instructional Practices and Climate and Culture

InterventionsSTEP 4 Community

VoiceMetrics for

ChangeSummary

& Q/A

Discussion of Student Voice

Four Main Insight Areas:

1) “Relationships are primary…”

2) Professional Development

3) Schools Structures

4) Culture

Connecting All The Points

Research & Pre-Pilot

AAYMPI Initiative

Instructional Practices and Climate and Culture

Interventions

Student Voice

Program

Community Voice STEP 6 Summary

& Q/A

Metrics for Change

Use of Outside Partners Harvard Strategic Data Program Fellows (Build metrics) American Institutes for Research (Collect and analyze

data)

• Goal: Validate all the processes in closing the Achievement Gap

What We have Learned So Far…• There are significant historical and social structural/organizational

barriers to the work that require changes

• Resource allocation (time, money, people) changes are necessary

• High expectations are espoused but low expectations are the norm (asset v. deficit thinking)

• Race (more than poverty) is an issue that must be addressed

• Experienced leadership (or leadership support) is necessary due to substantive nature of problems

New Population Statistics

• MI gained 13, 103 residents from 2012-13• MI population is 9,895,622 • MI has 3.13% of US population• 9th largest state• Out migration is 11, 051 people• 113, 202 births with 88,718 deaths

Students in Michigan (2014)

Michigan Public Schools: 4,126Number of Students: 1,745,308

Michigan Elementary Schools: 2,158Michigan Middle Schools: 659

Michigan High Schools: 687Number of Male Students: 898,600

Number of Female Students: 843,428

Asian-Pacific Islander Students: 37,867American Indian-Alaskan Students: 17,380

Black Students: 348,353Hispanic Students: 70,261

White Students: 1,268,167

Michigan Public School Statistics

Michigan Merit Curriculum

• 4 – ELA• 4 – Mathematics• 3 - Science• 3 – Social Studies• 1 – Phys. Ed. and Health• 1 – VAPA• Online Experience• 2- Language other than English

NCES: Trends in CTE Coursetaking

HS Grads Earning Credit

MI Costs: School to Prison Pipeline

• Approximately 93,000 young people are held in juvenile justice facilities across the US

• 2,115 of these youth are held in MI state-funded, postadjudication, residential facilities

• Average US costs of $240.99 per day; MI costs $391 per day

• Total MI total costs per day $827,451.45• 365 days = $302,019,779,25

MI Costs: AA Unemployment• Unemployment rate for African Americans tops in nation, more

than double the state’s white rate, • EPI researchers find that the African American unemployment rate

in Michigan reached 18.7 percent—nearly one in five of the state’s black workers—in the fourth quarter of 2012, about two-and-a-half times that of the white unemployment rate of 7.5 percent.

• Is 4.7 percentage points higher than the national black unemployment rate of 14 percent

• Is ranked highest among the 24 states with large enough black populations to measure unemployment. Michigan’s white unemployment rate was ninth highest in the nation.

(Retrieved from http://www.mlpp.org/michigan-african-american-unemployment-highest#sthash.ZrPG0ymF.dpuf)

TWO STRATEGIES: Assets and Cultural Relevancy

Asset v. Deficit Thinking

• Listen: Hip Hop Pedagogy – international voice of the oppressed

• Understand relationship between truancy suspensions, dropouts, and unemployment

• Dropouts 1. (17 days missed per year in grades 1-7) 2. 11% of MI high school students per year (10-12K students)

Cultural Competency

• Using the cultural knowledge, prior experiences and performance style of student to make learning appropriate and effective

• Engaging student using multiple means of presentation

• Connecting new learning to prior knowledge• Including diverse cultural representations and

perspectives• Using multiple means to assess studen tknowledge

Summary…

Research & Pre-Pilot

AAYMPI Initiative

Instructional Practices and Climate and Culture

Interventions

Student Voice

Program

Community Voice

Metrics for Change STEP 7

Summary & Q/A

Lessons in AAYMPI that can betransferrable for schools

Webinars you can attend in Community Voice

It was our pleasure to meet with you today…

Dr. Theresa Saunders Coordinator of AAYMPI saunderst@michigan.gov Thank

you!!