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District highlights equity-led professional development and student programs; board requests spring follow-up
Summary
Directors for equity and teaching & learning described student participation in social-justice and youth institutes, the district's equity-leads network, and a teacher-clarity professional development rollout; the board asked equity leads and students to present building-level results in spring.
Director for Equity Sherry Tucker and Director of Teaching and Learning Mike Joyner presented the district's equity work, professional learning, and student opportunities.
"Power of words, power of people," Tucker said as the phrase the equity team chose to frame this year's work, and she described student trips to a social-justice summit in New York and the African American Youth Institute as examples of experiential learning and leadership development.
Tucker outlined building-level supports: equity leads at each school, targeted PD on interrupting bias and creating community circles, and desegregated PD-survey analysis to track staff efficacy, mastery and belonging after training. She described classroom strategies such as teacher talk moves, community circles, and "courageous conversations" grounded in a moral-compass protocol used at the high school.
Joyner said the equity work is being integrated with the district's instructional focus on teacher clarity (the what, why and how of learning), collaborative team cycles, and visible-learning practices drawn from research. He said the district will use walkthroughs and collaborative teams to align adult practice with student learning targets.
Board members praised the work and several requested that equity leads and student participants return in the spring to present concrete building-level impacts and student reflections.
What happens next: the equity team will continue PD rollouts, collect classroom walkthrough data, and return to the board with equity leads and students in the spring to demonstrate how the PD is translating to classroom practice.
