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Why Black Lives Truly Matter How To Leverage Conversations with Youth on Race, Equity, and Black Lives Matter: Leveraging your position of power to have difficult conversations with youth on today's racial climate.
BUILDING AN ALLYSHIP WITH YOUTH CONTINUED DAY-2 10/23/2020 CYNDI WEEKES BRADLEY
Objectives – Session 1 Recap: Objective 1 – Understanding what the BLM movement is all about Objective 2 – Understanding where you stand on implicit bias Objective 3 - Introduction to “RACE TRAUMA” and its weight carried by youth
Objectives – Session 2 Objective 1 – Travel Up and Down BLOOM”S, but Hang –out In The Penthouse (Top Level of Chart) Objective 2 – Build a Continued Awareness of Impact and Deficit Thinking Objective 3 - Move Beyond the BLM Organization
Housekeeping • Be present • Trust the process • Personal stories shared in this space stay in this space unless you have explicit permission from the owner to share • Judgement free zone • Face your fears and embrace your hopes • ACT (*Actions Create Transformation) so that you create better habits by acting 5 *CWB
Last session you learned about who I am TODAY.
However, I didn’t just arrive here. Life has been a process.
While I am living my dreams now, a decade ago I was
simply dreaming……….
HARLEM
What happens to a dream deferred?
Does it dry up
like a raisin in the sun?
Or fester like a sore—
And then run?
Does it stink like rotten meat?
Or crust and sugar over—
like a syrupy sweet?
Maybe it just sags
like a heavy load.
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Or does it explode?
Langston Hughes
Who am I (A Decade Earlier): I am Cyndi Weekes Bradley. A mother of over thousands of students and 3 of my own, struggling to achieve a work life balance, stretched too far, living paycheck to paycheck, giving everything and everyone 110%, over achiever, wanting to save the world, learning how to say “NO”, disappointed that the work is so hard and isolated, Boston Principal Fellow, Dean, AP, Principal, lover of family including my extended family and pets, plus an optimistic person that is hopeful that it’ll all work itself out if I just keep going. My unique lived experiences 7 have landed me here in front of you today.
8 Hamilton (Broadway Show) Mixed Tape - Wrote My Way Out by Grammy Nominated Artist Nas
Deficit Mindsets
Have An Impact?
Let's Broaden Our Scope
You Have The Power of Change - Independently
(10mins)
Alexander Den Heijer put it this
way “when a flower doesn't bloom • Introductions
you fix the environment in which • Watch
it grows, not the flower”. And so it
is important to think about the • Thoughts
environment in which we live and
work. ... Cultivating a healthy
environment will promote the 9
growth of all who live in it.
Let’s Vocab and Research Independently you will work on necessary vocabulary and definitions. You will also research information produced by the California Newsreel. Note your Take Aways. RACE LITERACY QUIZ: What differences make a difference. Developed by California Newsreel in association with the Association of American Colleges and Universities. Building A Common Language and Understanding 10
Camera’s OFF
Independent Learning: PBS and
WGBH: RACE - The Power Of An
Illusion (Interactive Page)
11JOURNAL BREAK It’s not enough to just want to do better or be better. Our students deserve the BEST! Let’s commit to giving them more!! 12
That’s what you say when asked,
“But don’t all lives matter?”
That’s what you say when asked,
“Well don’t my life matter?”
:
That’s what you say when asked,
“Don’t blue lives matter most?”
Well actually, not…. First say, “No
one is the shade of blue”.
However, if asked about police
lives in reference to Black
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lives…..yeah say that over to the
left!Black Lives
Matter
Extends
Beyond The
Organization
#BLACKLIVESMATTER
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Black Lives Parade By: Beyonce
I'm goin' back to the South
Matter Extends
I'm goin' back, back, back, back
Where my roots ain't watered down
Growin', growin' like a Baobab tree
Beyond The Of life on fertile ground, ancestors put me on game
Ankh charm on gold chains, with my Oshun energy, oh
Organization Drip all on me, woo, Ankara Dashiki print
Hol' up, don't I smell like satya, Nag Champa incense?
#BLACKLIVESMATTER Yeah, pure ice (ice), ice (ice), buss down
Uh, flooded (flooded), flooded (flooded), on my wrist, ow
Ooh, goin' up, goin' up, motherland, motherland drip on me
Ooh, melanin, melanin, my drip is skin deep, like
Ooh, motherland, motherland, motherland, motherland drip on
me
Eeya, I can't forget my history is her story, yeah
Being black, maybe that's the reason why they always mad
Yeah, they always mad, yeah
Been passed 'em, I know… 16BLM is Survival – 17 Affording Higher Education
:
In the United States and Canada, redlining is
the systematic denial of various services by
federal government agencies, local
governments as well as the private sector
either directly or through the selective raising
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of prices.Pain Is
Relative
Doc Rivers - It's So Sad
19•Vermont-NEA: Montpelier High School shines light on
systemic racism by raising Black Lives Matter flag,
Vermont-NEA
•Seattle Education Association join the national call for
Black Lives Matter at School Week, Seattle Education
Association
•Black Lives Matter at School resolution, Reynolds
Education Association (Oregon Education Association)
•Resolution to Recognize Black Lives Matter at School
Week of Action (PDF), Portland (OR) Public School District
•Resolution Regarding Black Lives Matter at School
(PDF), Prince George’s County (MD) Board of Education
•Resolution Recognizing Black Lives Matter at School
BLM at School Week of Action 2020 (PDF), Durham Public Schools Board
of Education
20What Are Youth Saying?
For Your PLC’s
• Choose a facilitator to share page and ensure
smooth operations of process
• Facilitator ask for teammates to play a role
(timekeeper, note catcher and someone to move
the group when off task)
• Facilitator asks group to read (3-5 mins)
• Facilitator play videos (#1 #2 and #4)
• Discuss (10 mins)
• Note catcher record big ideas
• Get ready to return to main room
21Objectives – Session 2 Objective 1 – Travel Up and Down BLOOM”S, but Hang –out In The Penthouse (Top Level of Chart) Objective 2 – Build a Continued Awareness of Impact and Deficit Thinking Objective 3 - Move Beyond the BLM Organization
Whole
Group
Discussion
and
Journal
23Deficit Thinking Education
UTLA Teaching For BLM
https://neaedjustice.org/black-lives-matter-school-
resources/
The Washington Post on Redlining
Richard Leong - Equality, Equity and Justice
Student Engagement – A tool for lesson planning
24Congratulations on completing Day-2 BUILDING AN ALLYSHIP WITH YOUTH 10/23/2020 CYNDI WEEKES BRADLEY Contact information LinkedIn: https://www.linkedin.com/in/cyndi- weekes-bradley-205a10118/ Email: Theequityprocess@gmail.com
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