2022 Black Well-being Final w links for Web 11.29.22 - Flipbook - Page 30
BLACK WELL-BEING REPORT 2022
Community Identified
Approaches to
Education
BLACK FUTURE CO-OP FUND
There is no one vision of education in which every
detail is the same for every student. We want different
approaches because we have a diversity of brilliance
and creativity. In the end, we all envision rich, integrated
educational spaces that teach students how to grow into
themselves and shape a better society. Education that is
interactive, hands on, and culturally relevant.
Fund the Black community to plan how we want our education
systems to function
We want planning dollars so we can create the time for families to get precise
about what we want and how to get there.
• Fund community to envision the types of organizations we want
in a world that produces well-being, the positions needed in
those organizations, and the skillsets required to do a good job.
• Center the right voices and expertise at the right time, providing
income for community-led strategy and planning work.
• Design regular, accessible spaces for administrators to plan
with Black families. School board meetings are still highly
inaccessible to most families.
• Gather systemwide data that speaks to decision points within
education systems.
Utilize mastery- or competency-based learning toward self-actualization
Learning spaces across the lifespan would nurture our creativity using mastery- or
competency-based learning models, allowing students to lean into their strengths
and master things on their own time using a lens of targeted universalism.69
• Provide money up front for learners who require additional tools
to get where they want to go.
• Select and design curriculum with the input of Black students to
create the jobs of tomorrow.
• Integrate education with the world that exists outside of
the school walls in order to achieve mastery that is real-world
applicable.
• Better integrate community involvement, health, civics, arts, and
food systems.
Redefine academic standards to cultivate Black brilliance
Academic standards and related assessments should speak to our different gifts
and contributions we bring to the world.
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• Shift the focus of evaluation more toward the system
than students.
• Disaggregate system data to get to targeted universalism.
• Make better use of the data that’s already there such as entry
assessments to inform teaching.
• Redefine assessment standards. Standardized tests have a
racist history.70
• Create shared definitions of what mastery looks like with a
baseline belief in the ability of Black students to succeed,
honoring their uniqueness and dignity.