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On Black Education • Thursday, October 11 - Saturday, October 13, 2012

NATIONAL BLACK EDUCATION AGENDA (NBEA)

This WORKING SUMMIT will be the historic opportunity for Black parents, students, educators and othe

rights-holders to come together to establish the organizational structure and strategic platforms needed to ensur

academic and cultural excellence in education and create equity and powerfor our children and their families t

achieve these outcomes. We arm the imperative of providing a global, ethical, transformative and culturall

grounded education for all children of African ancestry in the United States, and by extension, throughout th

African Diaspora.

Each attendee will be required to participate in ONE of the following Action Groups during a signicant part of th

working summit. Please read each description below and mark your 1st, 2nd and 3rd choices on the registratio

form in the appropriate place. You will be apprised of your Action Group when you pick up your registration packe

at the summit. We look forward to your help in producing powerful Action Plans for people to implement in the

regions around the country after the summit ends. These preliminary Action Plans will be presented just before th

close of the summit on Saturday, October 13th, from 3 p.m. to 5 p.m., when all attendees are assembled.

This Action Group will establish the structure and organizing means by which the NBEA will roll out a nation

Black education activist organization with local and regional formations grounded in the idea that a

excellent racism-free education is a Human Right. This Action Group will also design and initiate th

much-needed nationwide mass education campaign that "Connects the Corporate Dots in the Curren

Destruction of Public Education." This Action Group will also be responsible for nding and securing a NBE

National Organization oceby October 2013.

This Action Group will lay out a blueprint for using Title I funds (and other resources) to buildnational ParenUnion chapters that will work closely togetherto challenge local education systems at every level, from

building ght backs against demeaning testing, racialized school suspensions and student debt t

mobilizing political-legislative fronts and campaigns to end mass-incarceration and “stop & frisk” policies an

promoting the physical and emotional well-being of children and families as well as sustainable communit

economic development solutions. Parent Union chapters will work closely with Student Union chapters, an

will be the crux of Regional NBEA Meetings / Forums / Conferences.

A WORKING SUMMIT

PURPOSE

DESIGNING / MOBILIZING A NATIONAL MEMBERSHIP ORGANIZATION

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BUILDING A NATIONAL URBAN PARENT UNION

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This Action Group will lay out a blueprint to resurrect and redene the historical legacy of Black student and

youth leadership in all areas of our ght for academic and cultural excellence in education and for socia

justice and self-determination. This national organization will place emphasis on creating and nurturing Blac

Youth Leadership inside and outside of schools. We recognize that while Black students in public schools

constitute the vast majority of Black youth, millions who are either incarcerated, in college, working or

unemployed need to be mobilized to become the leading forces involved withinour struggle.

Someof the issues to be tackled are:

• re-establishing the Black intellectual tradition of Study-for-Struggle,

• developing student-youth designed school safety/discipline policies,

• closing the prison pipeline,

• formulating positive gender equity and respect policies and

• creating youth-initiated job development.

Hence, this Action Group will also deliberate on how to create a national, regional and local organizing and

mobilizing structure to bring at least one million youth into its membership ranks by 2014.

Unions and professional education associations can be but are not necessarily strategic advocates for the

NBEA. This Action Group will explore the issues and identify key principles and strategies for building

eective coalitions and collaborations with teacher unions and professional education associations

Successful models of partnership and programs that have furthered the values of NBEA will be shared

towards development of principles of partnership that can be implemented following the Working Summit.

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The vision for 1,000 Schools is to have a system of schools (wherever our children are)that have been given

an African-centered "treatment" designed to turn around those that are poor performing or accelerate those

that have a history of educating children of African ancestry at high levels of academic and cultura

excellence. These schools must be at least 90% African American. This Action Group will create a blueprint fo

the infrastructure neededto support these schools. That infrastructure will include a work site, full stang

and a robust funding stream. The treatment will be multifaceted. It will involve the implementation o

African-centered curriculum, high-quality and on-going professional development, parent engagement

site-based and culturally courageous leadership development, and student empowerment. It will be

independent of the NBEA and have its own 501c3, Board of Directors and Advisory Board of Elders.

Using International Human Rights Conventions of the United Nations, this Action Group will design

strategies and action priorities in Higher Education to: collaborate with Schools of Education, teache

educators and Black Studies/African American Studies scholars; re-establish pipelines into teaching and

paraprofessional career ladders; provide support for Black teachers and engage Historically Black Colleges

and Universities and Social Policy Sectors to increase the output of eective teachers and school leaders.

DEVELOPING HIGHER EDUCATION STRATEGIES AND LINKAGES

BUILDING A NATIONAL BLACK STUDENT / YOUTH UNION ACTION GROUP

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DEVELOPING EFFECTIVE PARTNERSHIPS WITH UNIONS AND EDUCATION ASSOCIATIONS

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CREATING / CERTIFYING A NETWORK OF 1,000 AFRICAN-CENTERED SCHOOLS

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The Fund Development Action Group's main task is to establish an ongoing funding stream for the nationa

organization's daily work and independent sustainability that is primarily rooted in Black communitie

throughout the U.S. and secondarily among African American philanthropic individuals and organizations a

well as progressive non-Black foundations and individuals willing to freely fund our eorts.

The NBEA must interrupt the systemic nature of the school to prison pipeline. This Action Group will identif

specic operational and policy triggers that perpetrate and sustain the criminalization of the African

American child and make recommendations to dismantle the system. This Action Group will highlight

successful models of in-school and community-based initiatives to reverse and prevent the mass

incarceration of our youth and internal youth violence.

DEVELOPING STRATEGIES FOR NBEA FUND DEVELOPMENT & INDEPENDENT SUSTAINABILITY

SAVING AFRICAN AMERICAN CHILDREN FROM THE PRISON PIPELINE

This Action Group will identify curriculum and pedagogical constructs, standards and culturally authenti

assessment practices that parents, educators and students can use to evaluate African-centered content and

culturally connected teaching practices across the curriculum. P-16 model curriculum demonstrations wi

be presented that support culturally connected teaching and learning and professional development as we

as research and evaluation using NBEA-certication standards that will available for other NBEA initiatives.

IDENTIFYING / IMPLEMENTING CULTURALLY CONNECTED TEACHING, LEARNING,CURRICULUM AND ASSESSMENT

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Eective schooling for African American children is challenged by the U.S. cultural context and the informa

educational system that reinforces a genocidal trajectory for our children. The NBEA embraces a community

village approach to successful education. Mentoring programs, which are based in cultural awareness and

armation, intentionally designed and implemented, can make the dierence in saving the African

American child. This Action Group will highlight and share best practices for implementing successfu

mentoring and culturally rich programs beyond schools.

SAVING THE AFRICAN AMERICAN CHILD: MENTORING AND CULTURAL IMMERSIONBEYOND THE SCHOOLHOUSE10

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This Action Group will help to organize and empower parents and students to:1) End Mayoral Control / Privatization of Public Education where it exists and negatively impacts children o

African ancestry;

2) replace it with a Human Rights-based school governance system with people’s oversight coming from th

neighborhood down to the citywide system;

ESTABLISHING SHADOW SCHOOL BOARDS AND EFFECTIVE LOBBYING AND LEGISLATIVEADVOCACY11


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3) implementculturally connected curriculum, instruction and assessment coupled with increased Blac

and Latino educators; and

4) support an independent Parent Union and an independent Student Union. In addition, the Shadow

School Boards Action Group will work within a Human Rights framework as outlined in the Universa

Declaration of Human Rights.

According to this Declaration parents, students and their communities have the Right to:

• participate in the governance of the educational system

• independently monitor the system

• adequate training and information that would ensure effective participation in the system and

• effective and timely remedies when rights are violated.

In essence, the Shadow School Boards will be one of the key bases for eective lobbying, advocacy and

struggle for the National Black Education Agenda's new national organization.

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Partners and Allies are key to the success of any national movement in the U.S. for educational excellence fo

people of African ancestry. This Action Group will dene what it mean to be a Partner and an Ally in thi

movement and will develop a plan to seek and get support from Partners and Allies across racial, class and

national lines. Key to all of this alliance work is the willingness of Partners and Allies to take leadership from a

progressive Black-led organization.

ENGAGING AND PARTNERING WITH OTHER NON-EDUCATIONAL ORGANIZATIONS & ALLIES

“. . .Whoever wants to be a healer must rst take leave of the world he’s grown up in before hi

mind is freed for learning.” (The Healers, Armah, 1978, p. 90)

This Action Group invites elders, who are well versed in past and present examples of excellent African and

African Diaspora educational pedagogy and practices, to listen to Black youth speak to the question

“How are you and your African American brothers and sisters doing in school?” Elders will engage youth in

focused conversations that lead to a common set of understandings, goals and objectives concerning wha

is needed to signicantly improve the quality of educational outcomes for African American students

enrolled in America’s schools. Expected to emerge from this Action Group are youth and Elder leaders who

will, together, produce a set of culturally appropriate action plans--including assigned tasks and timelines--to

be used as a model for training and educating Black youth and their families, regionally and nationally, to

take ownership and responsibility for the socialization and education of all Black children and youth.

BLACK YOUTH SPEAK; ELDERS LISTEN AND HEAR: WHAT WE NEED TO SAVE US!

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SAVINGSAVING African

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On Black Education • Thursday, October 11 - Saturday, October 13, 2012

NATIONAL BLACK EDUCATION AGENDA (NBEA)

A WORKING SUMMIT

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