My Updated Edmodo- Add Me to Your Circle!

https://www.edmodo.com/sunnydawnshiner

Elmhusrt Community Prep Website: (Where I AP at)

http://elmhurstcommunityprep.org/

Culturally Responsive Teaching by Z.Hammond my Reflections on Chapter 1 & 2

Culturally Responsive Teaching Reflection on Hammond Chapter 1

After reading the first Chapter, I was inspired as an A.Principal of Middle School to reach out to My literacy coach and tackle Chapter 1. I hope we can have meaningful dialogue around the framework as well as the importance of diving in.

Framework from Ch. 1 here:

http://ready4rigor.com/wp-content/uploads/2015/08/READY-FOR-RIGOR_Final1.pdf

Quote from Chapter 2:

P.31
"Over time, because of structural racialization in education, we have seen a new type of intellectual apartheid happening in schools, creating dependent learners who cannot access the curriculum and independent learners who have had the opportunity to build the cognitive skills to deep learning on their own. Rather than stepping back, looking at the ways we structure inequity in education, and interrupting these practices, we simply focus on creating short-term solutions to get dependent students of color to score high on each year's standardized tests. We don't focus on building their intellective capacity so they they can begin to fill their own language gaps with proper scaffolding."

- I find this quote resonated deeply with me.  I feel like the individualist values I've place in education in my own daughter in order to succeed has been huge.  She is definitely a part of this intellectual apartheid by the nature of me as an educator knowing how to play the game of education so it benefits her in the long run. As I see what this means for me as an Educational leader, I grapple with the deficit model thinking I encounter among educators and how the reinforce this thinking when teaching becomes ultra-challenging in their classroom. Blaming the student or family vs. having to rethink their own practices.

Writing Truth as Fiction: Administrators Think About Their Work Through a Different Lens

As I'm jumping from Teacher to Administration. I have been journaling but I'm finding that limiting in reflection at time.

My old professor from Mills, Dr. Kettele's approach to processing as fictional character will be explored.
Writing Truth as Fiction: Administrators Think About Their Work Through a Different Lens

I want to take it one step further and put into a comic book form.


We'll see how that goes....

http://ready4rigor.com/

http://ready4rigor.com/

Opting Out of SBAC letter to school

Dear  Admin./7th Grade Team:

I would like to opt my daughter/son, xxx, out of all standardized testing this year. This includes the entire Interim Assessment Blocks (IABs) as well as the end of the year Smarter Balance tests (SBAC). I understand the first computerized IAB might have already been given. If so, I’d like to request that the scores for the tests she has already taken not be reported to the District.

I am fine with any formative assessments which inform your instruction, as well as any diagnostic or summative assessments that are directly tied to the curriculum you are teaching.

If there is a form I should fill out or sign please let me know. Otherwise I will assume this email is sufficient to opt xxx out of all District and State mandated standardized testing.

I hope that my request does not cause you any extra work; If there is not a plan in place for students who are opted out of testing, I hope my child can read, write or do another independent activity during that time.

Please let me know if you have any questions. And thank you for your attention, as always!

Respectfully,

Guardian

Atlantic Article about My New School Site in Deep East Oakland

Atlantic Article about My New School Site in Deep East Oakland

As a New Assistant Principal to the school featured in this article, I can only say

"True that....." and - "til the Next Episode..."

Roses in the Concrete School: Notes and Websites (P.S. Congrats Neighbors)

Roses in the Concrete School: Notes and Websites of Dr. Jeff Andrade-Duncan(P.S. Congrats Neighbors on OUSD granting you a school!)

1. Harvard Educational Review: Note To Educators Hope Required from Dr. Jeff Andrade- Duncan (PDF)
2. rosesintheconcrete.org
3. Quick Andrade Ted Ex Video 

Summit Change/Kotter's Change Model: Harvard Research

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=3fOQ_XjCcyA

http://www.lssu.edu/sharedgovernance/planningbudget/documents/LeadingChangeKotter.pdf

Summit Video on Change/ Kotter's Steps

Example of Summit  Playlist  (Kotter's Steps of Change links)

https://sites.google.com/a/summitps.org/plp-pro/educator-skills/change-management/playlist-change-management-frameworks

Fascinating Education Abstracts from Stanford

https://ed.stanford.edu/sites/default/files/manual/ships-qp-conf-abs-12-13.pdf