2022 Black Well-being Final w links for Web 11.29.22 - Flipbook - Page 31
BLACK WELL-BEING REPORT 2022
BLACK FUTURE CO-OP FUND
Cultivate loving interactions within the education ecosystem
Nurture our humanity and honor our dignity from the earliest of ages. Ensure the norms, culture, structures, and policies across the education
ecosystem foster love, rather than perpetuate trauma.
• Tend to the social-emotional environment of the system: interactions between educators and administrators, educators
and students, and educators and themselves.
• Provide teachers the adequate support to grow, self-regulate, and set boundaries.
• Create new norms and new organizational cultures rooted in belonging, and set an expectation for continued healing,
self-reflection, and love.
• Fund the people and programs that facilitate healing in the learning environment.
Create practices of accountability and transparency at all levels of decision making
We want clear and meaningful accountability at every level, tailored specifically to the scope of decision making and authority of that role.
• Be willing to admit when a strategy won’t work as well as you thought it might.
• Connect administrative leadership pay to performance outcomes.
• Test and purposefully align strategies to contribute to district, state, and community-directed outcomes, before
implementing schoolwide plans.
• Create a connected cross-sector network of partners from K-12 to higher education.
• Map out how all partner agencies — public health, housing authorities, transportation, etc. — are working collectively to
support our children, rather than each agency having separate plans.
• Ensure families, broader community, incoming staff, and faculty are able to understand and follow decision-making
processes.
• Create a process beyond school board meetings for community dialogue (not just feedback) that enables everyone
to understand how a policy is working in real time and allows everyone to shift in the moment in response to what is
happening.
• Better utilize ombudsman-type processes to evaluate classroom exclusion and reentry.
Revisit job descriptions and organizational structures, and diversify the workforce
To cultivate a generation that will create the jobs of tomorrow, we want to look with fresh eyes at the workforce.
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Assess and rework policies and collective bargaining agreements to better align with our goals.
Outline creative pathways to our future workforce with Black youth at the center.
Address pay equity for teachers and offer more paid teacher residencies.
Define clear roles across the educational system and balance workloads to consider emotional labor.
Place teachers with specific skills and lived experiences to strategically support the students in that school.
Set expectations that schools hire racially and gender diverse teachers and pay them well.
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