Downloadable Poster: http://www.pugetsound.edu/academics/academic-resources/race--pedagogy-initiative/youth-family-summit-2012/youth-family-summit-posters/
Registration forms for Students and Parents:
http://www.pugetsound.edu/academics/academic-resources/race--pedagogy-initiative/youth-family-summit-2012/registration/
2012 Family Summit April 28th 9 am - 4 pm at Lincoln HS
Help Educators Build a Road to Success for the Young
Four Tacoma community partners offer a free event for students and parents
TACOMA, Wash. – For the first time, parents and guardians are invited to the highly popular day of workshops, talks, and music organized by and for Tacoma youth—the 2012 Youth and Family Summit, on Saturday, April 28, 2012, from 9 a.m. to 4 p.m.
The summit features two workshop tracks—one for youth, another for parents and guardians. The last similar event, the 2010 All City Race & Pedagogy Youth Summit, attracted more than 700 students from middle and high schools to a day of workshops aimed at empowering young people to take charge of their own education and preparing them for leadership in a diverse world. This year organizers hope to build on that empowerment.
“Young people who find themselves on the wrong side of the “achievement gap” are often there because it takes a whole community to create the learning environment needed to achieve academic success,” said Noah Prince, co-chair of the summit. “We want parents and guardians to join us in sharing ideas on how to win this success for our youth.”
Prince, partnership administrator at Tacoma 360, is the summit co-chair, alongside Ayanna Drakos, coordinator for REACH (Resources for Education and Career Help). The summit is organized by Tacoma Public Schools, The REACH Center, Tacoma 360, and University of Puget Sound’s Race and Pedagogy Initiative.
2012 Youth and Family Summit
Saturday, April 28, 9 a.m.–4 p.m.
Lincoln High School, 701 S. 37th Street, Tacoma
Free Breakfast and Lunch
Entrance is free.
Pre-registration by youth and adults is encouraged at: www.facebook.com/2012YouthandFamilySummit or www.pugetsound.edu/raceandpedagogy
Registration forms also will be available at all Tacoma public schools.
Youth: Pre-register before April 15 -- complete the attached registration form and obtain all appropriate signatures, then turn in your registration form at the main office of your school. On site registration is available, but it is best to pre-register so that we can anticipate the number of participants. If you need transportation from your school to the Summit location, be sure to check the "need a ride" section on the registration form.
Youth Class Offerings:
Pay It Forwards: Excellence from Within The Invisible Achievement Gap
Word Up: Writing What You Don't Know Workshop by Michael Benitez Jr.
Question Bridge - Young Black Male Speaks Your Time is Now - Making Positive Changes
Protests, Strikes & Change: A Radical History of Tacoma Occupy Self
Artivism: How Artists Turn the World Inside Out K.N.O.E Excuses
What makes us motivated? Exploring the Complexities of Motivation in the Lincoln Center Model
My Little Kony: Toying with Media, Race, Facebook & Trayvon Martin
Questioning the Canon: Literary Diversity in the Classroom
SoJust: Building A Community of Communities One Event at a Time
The Profiles of Tacoma High Schools : Breaking Down Barriers to Bridge Relationships
Face to Face: Critical Conversations and Interactions
Creative Writing About Race Violence towards the perceived "other"
Ready, Set, Go! 5210 Improving Healthy Lifestyles Speak Up For Your Smarts
Color-Blindness, Multiculturalism, and other Diversity Mindsets: Advantages & Disadvantages
What's in it for me? A Student's Guide to Civic Engagement Hip-Hop Occupies
Poverty,Racism,Identity, & a Culture of Liberation: Building Solidarity & Creating Social Change
See Class Descriptions Below
Adults: Pre-register before April 15 -- complete the attached registration form and mail it to Tacoma 360 at 621 Tacoma Ave. S. #503, Tacoma, WA 98402 or contact Noah Prince at 253-579-1164 or [email protected] Onsite registration is available, but it is best to pre-register so that we can anticipate the number of participants.
Adult Class Offerings:
Post Secondary Options for HS Students Roadmap to College: Parent Edition
Bullying Prevention 101 (In English & Espanol)
Understanding Tacoma Public School's Highly Capble Program
Special Education Services ARE NOT a Dead End
Taking Back Our Power-A Parent to Parent Conversation on Navigating School Systems
Parents as Critical Partners in Education It Starts With Me
Who Has the Power? Understanding the Achievement Gap & Our Roles as a Community
Parent Outreach (Taught by Novella Fraser, President of Washington State PTA)
Adequate Isn't Enough & Failure in Intolerable
How to Navigate Your Student Towards a STEM (Science,Technology,Engineering,Math)Career
Ado-Lessons Sex Education-Do We Want this in our Schools
Got YAPS? Youth-Adult Partnerships A Strategy for Community Transformation
Teaching Black Male Learners Boundaries
From Privilege to Allyship-Priviliged Parents & Educators Addressing Educational Equity
Latino Parents-Understanding the School System (In English & Espanol)
The Invisible Achievement Gap-Steppin' Out of the Closet and Into the Light
KEYNOTE SPEAKERS:
Ed Taylor, Vice Provost and Associate Professor of Educational Leadership and Policy Studies at University of Washington, for the adults workshops track
WORKSHOPS:
More than three dozen workshops will be offered. There will be a rally, music, and dance performance for both youth and families. Sample workshops:
For Students: Creative writing about race, violence toward the perceived “other,” engaging black males, civic engagement, and more.
For Parents and Guardians: College preparation, bully prevention, parents as partners in education, teaching black male learners, and more.
For more information: [email protected] or 253.879.2435
Four Tacoma community partners offer a free event for students and parents
TACOMA, Wash. – For the first time, parents and guardians are invited to the highly popular day of workshops, talks, and music organized by and for Tacoma youth—the 2012 Youth and Family Summit, on Saturday, April 28, 2012, from 9 a.m. to 4 p.m.
The summit features two workshop tracks—one for youth, another for parents and guardians. The last similar event, the 2010 All City Race & Pedagogy Youth Summit, attracted more than 700 students from middle and high schools to a day of workshops aimed at empowering young people to take charge of their own education and preparing them for leadership in a diverse world. This year organizers hope to build on that empowerment.
“Young people who find themselves on the wrong side of the “achievement gap” are often there because it takes a whole community to create the learning environment needed to achieve academic success,” said Noah Prince, co-chair of the summit. “We want parents and guardians to join us in sharing ideas on how to win this success for our youth.”
Prince, partnership administrator at Tacoma 360, is the summit co-chair, alongside Ayanna Drakos, coordinator for REACH (Resources for Education and Career Help). The summit is organized by Tacoma Public Schools, The REACH Center, Tacoma 360, and University of Puget Sound’s Race and Pedagogy Initiative.
2012 Youth and Family Summit
Saturday, April 28, 9 a.m.–4 p.m.
Lincoln High School, 701 S. 37th Street, Tacoma
Free Breakfast and Lunch
Entrance is free.
Pre-registration by youth and adults is encouraged at: www.facebook.com/2012YouthandFamilySummit or www.pugetsound.edu/raceandpedagogy
Registration forms also will be available at all Tacoma public schools.
Youth: Pre-register before April 15 -- complete the attached registration form and obtain all appropriate signatures, then turn in your registration form at the main office of your school. On site registration is available, but it is best to pre-register so that we can anticipate the number of participants. If you need transportation from your school to the Summit location, be sure to check the "need a ride" section on the registration form.
Youth Class Offerings:
Pay It Forwards: Excellence from Within The Invisible Achievement Gap
Word Up: Writing What You Don't Know Workshop by Michael Benitez Jr.
Question Bridge - Young Black Male Speaks Your Time is Now - Making Positive Changes
Protests, Strikes & Change: A Radical History of Tacoma Occupy Self
Artivism: How Artists Turn the World Inside Out K.N.O.E Excuses
What makes us motivated? Exploring the Complexities of Motivation in the Lincoln Center Model
My Little Kony: Toying with Media, Race, Facebook & Trayvon Martin
Questioning the Canon: Literary Diversity in the Classroom
SoJust: Building A Community of Communities One Event at a Time
The Profiles of Tacoma High Schools : Breaking Down Barriers to Bridge Relationships
Face to Face: Critical Conversations and Interactions
Creative Writing About Race Violence towards the perceived "other"
Ready, Set, Go! 5210 Improving Healthy Lifestyles Speak Up For Your Smarts
Color-Blindness, Multiculturalism, and other Diversity Mindsets: Advantages & Disadvantages
What's in it for me? A Student's Guide to Civic Engagement Hip-Hop Occupies
Poverty,Racism,Identity, & a Culture of Liberation: Building Solidarity & Creating Social Change
See Class Descriptions Below
Adults: Pre-register before April 15 -- complete the attached registration form and mail it to Tacoma 360 at 621 Tacoma Ave. S. #503, Tacoma, WA 98402 or contact Noah Prince at 253-579-1164 or [email protected] Onsite registration is available, but it is best to pre-register so that we can anticipate the number of participants.
Adult Class Offerings:
Post Secondary Options for HS Students Roadmap to College: Parent Edition
Bullying Prevention 101 (In English & Espanol)
Understanding Tacoma Public School's Highly Capble Program
Special Education Services ARE NOT a Dead End
Taking Back Our Power-A Parent to Parent Conversation on Navigating School Systems
Parents as Critical Partners in Education It Starts With Me
Who Has the Power? Understanding the Achievement Gap & Our Roles as a Community
Parent Outreach (Taught by Novella Fraser, President of Washington State PTA)
Adequate Isn't Enough & Failure in Intolerable
How to Navigate Your Student Towards a STEM (Science,Technology,Engineering,Math)Career
Ado-Lessons Sex Education-Do We Want this in our Schools
Got YAPS? Youth-Adult Partnerships A Strategy for Community Transformation
Teaching Black Male Learners Boundaries
From Privilege to Allyship-Priviliged Parents & Educators Addressing Educational Equity
Latino Parents-Understanding the School System (In English & Espanol)
The Invisible Achievement Gap-Steppin' Out of the Closet and Into the Light
KEYNOTE SPEAKERS:
Ed Taylor, Vice Provost and Associate Professor of Educational Leadership and Policy Studies at University of Washington, for the adults workshops track
WORKSHOPS:
More than three dozen workshops will be offered. There will be a rally, music, and dance performance for both youth and families. Sample workshops:
For Students: Creative writing about race, violence toward the perceived “other,” engaging black males, civic engagement, and more.
For Parents and Guardians: College preparation, bully prevention, parents as partners in education, teaching black male learners, and more.
For more information: [email protected] or 253.879.2435
Youth Keynote Speaker Michel Benitez Jr.
Michael Benitez Jr., social justice activist, educator, and scholar from Iowa State University, for the youth workshops track
http://speakoutnow.org/userdata_display.php?modin=50&uid=676
http://speakoutnow.org/userdata_display.php?modin=50&uid=676
Adult Workshop Track Features Ed Taylor
Ed Taylor, vice provost and associate professor of Educational Leadership and Policy Studies at University of Washington, for the adults workshops track
http://education.washington.edu/areas/edlps/profiles/faculty/e_taylor.html
http://education.washington.edu/areas/edlps/profiles/faculty/e_taylor.html
WSPTA President Novella Fraser will present classes for the Adult Track titled : Parent Outreach
Parent Outreach: Learn and share ways to successfully reach out to all families in your school communities regardless of race, social economic status, language or other perceived barriers.
PTA members who attend this class will get credit for attending Leadership Training for WSPTA
http://www.wastatepta.org/about_us/Board_of_Directors/president.html
PTA members who attend this class will get credit for attending Leadership Training for WSPTA
http://www.wastatepta.org/about_us/Board_of_Directors/president.html
Volunteers Needed for Youth & Family Summit
2012 Youth & Family Summit Lincoln High School, Tacoma Saturday, April 28, 2012 Volunteer Opportunities: Registration Table Technicians: helping our participants get registered
Event Experts: answering questions and providing information for attendees about the sessions, helping people find the sessions
Meal Maestros: helping to hand out box lunches and picking up refuse after meals to keep the facilities looking their best
Floating Facilitators: lending whatever help is needed, providing other assistance as needed
Survey Wizards: distributing and collecting evaluation forms at the Summit
All volunteers will receive training about their specific tasks. Volunteers must be willing to commit at least 3 hours on April 28. Morning shift is 7 AM – 11 AM Mid-day shift is 10 AM – 2 PM Afternoon shift is 1 PM – 5 PM All volunteers will receive a very cool t-shirt as thanks for their help.
For more information or to sign up as a volunteer, contact Nancy Bristow at [email protected]
Print a volunteer recruitment poster and encourage your co-workers, friends, and students to take part.
Event Experts: answering questions and providing information for attendees about the sessions, helping people find the sessions
Meal Maestros: helping to hand out box lunches and picking up refuse after meals to keep the facilities looking their best
Floating Facilitators: lending whatever help is needed, providing other assistance as needed
Survey Wizards: distributing and collecting evaluation forms at the Summit
All volunteers will receive training about their specific tasks. Volunteers must be willing to commit at least 3 hours on April 28. Morning shift is 7 AM – 11 AM Mid-day shift is 10 AM – 2 PM Afternoon shift is 1 PM – 5 PM All volunteers will receive a very cool t-shirt as thanks for their help.
For more information or to sign up as a volunteer, contact Nancy Bristow at [email protected]
Print a volunteer recruitment poster and encourage your co-workers, friends, and students to take part.
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Pay It Forwards: Excellence from Within
Students/participants will be offered an interactive opportunity to explore methods for promoting peer mentoring and tutoring. During this process, participants will learn the importance of “paying it forward,” discover iconic figures who used or provided mentoring assistance, learn about local opportunities, and develop their own methods for “paying it forwards.”
The Invisible Achievement Gap
This panel will focus on the achievement gap issues facing LGBTQ youth their families in the Tacoma Public Schools. The workshop consists of LGBTQ youth, and parents of LGBTQ youth, who will share stories of “coming out” and the impact doing so, had on their families and friends. Panelists will also share insights regarding their survival of inequitable school safety and protection from bullies, and, homophobic educational environments and systems.
Word Up: Writing What You Don’t Know
When it comes to writing, are you anxious, fearful, bored, without ideas……..? In this workshop you will discover ways to untie the knots of anxiety around writing, and learning how to slay the dragons that separate you from writing a good piece of prose or essay or research paper. For those who are already excited about writing, come, join us and spread your job.
Protests, Strikes, and Change: A Radical History of Tacoma
To show the hidden history of our city and include long-forgotten activists, crusaders and unsung heroes who have called the City of Tacoma home.
Artivism: How Artists Turn the World Inside Out
The artivist (artist+activist) uses her artistic talents to fight and struggle against injustice with oppression—by any medium necessary. Learn how to write short compelling messages about the issues you care about, causes in which you believe, advocate for and support. Learn how to match your message with a dynamic image that demands attention, how to tell your story more effectively, more powerfully, and memorably.
What make us motivated? Exploring the Complexities of Motivation in the Lincoln Center Model
Five teams of seniors within Lincoln Center have been planning, conducting, and discussing small-scale action research focusing on the nature of student motivation and the effects of the new Lincoln Center model on academic engagement. Representatives from these teams will present their research questions, methodologies, and initial findings. We will engage our audience in a discussion surrounding issues of adolescent motivation and how various institutional dimensions support or inhibit motivation to learn in school settings.
Your Time is Now—Making Positive Choices
Our intent is to engage the students in discussions while looking at the choices they are making currently. Are they aligning with where they want to be X years from now? If not, what can they do, who can they turn to, what resources can they access to turn things around and make the right choices? We will capitalize on the opportunities to engage issues of race in general and specifically as they come up. Some barriers they face will be due to race, some will not. We want to get them thinking holistically about how they can overcome these barriers.
Occupy Self
Will be showing a slide show that briefly tells the history of the occupy movement. Talk about what is the Occupy Movement and how it works and what are our concerns that we want to share with our community’s youth. We most importantly would like to create dialog with students and get their opinion about the issues we will raise.
K.N.O.E. EXCUSES
Our program will focus on the reality of life's daily hardships and overcoming those hardships to empower yourself and overcome all things to place yourself in a position to succeed no matter what!! Touching on the hastiness of people to use excuses to allow themselves to fall short of their own greatness! Highlighting our own personal battles with life and how we overcame our hardships or short comings to SUCCEED!
Questioning the Canon: Literary Diversity in the Classroom
The goal of the program is to inspire greater interest in “non-canonical” authors and literature in general. Students will realize that the merit found in traditionally taught texts is not objective, and that texts from different cultural context contain significance that shouldn’t be ignored in academic and personal study.
SoJust: Building A Community of Communities One Event at a Time
This session will provide tools for students that want to plan fun and exciting gatherings to address social justice issues, offer ways to get involved with events that are already happening, and encourage critical thinking on what it means for the practices of event planning to be in alignment with the social justice vision of the event.
The Profiles of Tacoma High Schools: Breaking Down Barriers to Bridge Relationships or Decentralization
To promote inter-school acceptance and tools to diminish stereotypes and misconceptions that may divide our community.
Face-to-Face: Critical Conversations and Interactions
Provide strategies for interacting with staff, students who may be annoying/frustrating or other potentially difficult relationships.
Creative Writing About Race
Many contemporary poets and fiction writers inspire us to think critically about issues of race including white privilege. We will look at the work of these authors. We’ll talk about ways that race affects us at home and at school. We’ll consider how issues of race may be different in college than in high school. Then we will write our own stories and poems about this thorny issue. Students will learn how to use figurative language, narrative skills, and their own imaginations to explore a complicated social issue.
Ready, Set, Go! 5210 Improving Healthy Lifestyles
Ready, Set, Go! is a countywide initiative to combat childhood obesity by promoting healthy lifestyle choices for children, youth and families. Modeled after a very successful community-wide program (Let’s Go! Maine), our mission is to increase physical activity and healthy eating among each of the six sectors (Schools, After School, Early Childhood, HealthCare, Workplace, Community). By working across sectors we hope to achieve lifestyle and environmental changes that improve the health of children in Pierce County.
Violence towards the perceived “other”
Understand that ideas of race and culture shape the way we treat people on a daily basis. Recognize that acts of violence are based on judgments about social status, appearance, or culture. Empower students to actively fight discrimination against “otherizing”
Color-Blindness, Multiculturalism, and other Diversity Mindsets: What are the Advantages and Dangers—and for Who?
This workshop will promote students’ critical engagement with commonly held notions about diversity mindsets, such as the unconscious nature of modern racism, and negative effects of color-blindness in work-settings, particularly for employees of color.
What’s in it for me? A Student’s Guide to Civic Engagement
An understanding of the power that sacrifice when they are not actively participating in the civic affairs of their community. The goal is that students will walk away with a sincere desire to become actively engaged in exercising their power to vote and make decisions about their future and the future of their community.
Speak Up for Your Smarts
Why should you take an Advance Placement (AP) or Honors Class? You will learn about the importance of taking these classes and how to advocate for yourself to register for these classes and be successful in them! A panelist of your peers will discuss how these classes can help you be more prepared and successful in college. Come join our interactive discussion learn to "Speak Up for Your Smarts."
Poverty, Racism, Identity, and a Culture of Liberation: Building Solidarity and Creating Social Change
Hip-Hop Occupies
The program goals are to get students to think critically about race through the medium of expressing themselves with Hip-Hop.
Who is an English Language Learner?
As the children of immigrants enter our schools nationwide, an innovative language education is essential to the academic achievement and cultural integration of Latino students. This session will simulate the common struggles that ELL students encounter in the classroom, as well as provide a forum to address and discuss the bilingual education programs in local schools.
2012 Youth & Family Summit
April 28, 2012 Lincoln High School
Subject: Call for workshop proposals for 2012 Youth and Family Summit
Dear friends,
I am sending you out a call for proposals for the 2012 Family and Youth Summit happening at Lincoln HS in Tacoma, WA. Please take a look over it. The point of the summit is empower parenst and connect them with resources to be educational advocates for the children and hold the school system accountable for educational success for all students. Themes such as race, class, gender, and student learning styles as well as themes that look at home life and support are all applicable. There will be youth workshops and parent workshops this year. I am sequestering parent workshops, but some of you may be interested in youth workshops as well. IF that’s the case please inform me and I will point you in the right direction. I feel all of you could either conduct an awesome parent workshop or put this in the hands of somebody who could. Thanks for your interest and time, we hope you are able to be part of this historic event. Please call me with any questions or additional details that you may desire.
Looking forward to hearing back and getting proposals back form the community.
Noah Prince
Partnership Administrator-Tacoma 360/Afterschool Ambassador 2011-WA. State
www.Tacoma360.org
(253) 579 1165
“For the youth is the future no doubt that's right and exact”-Keith “GURU” Elam
See Proposal Document Below
Dear friends,
I am sending you out a call for proposals for the 2012 Family and Youth Summit happening at Lincoln HS in Tacoma, WA. Please take a look over it. The point of the summit is empower parenst and connect them with resources to be educational advocates for the children and hold the school system accountable for educational success for all students. Themes such as race, class, gender, and student learning styles as well as themes that look at home life and support are all applicable. There will be youth workshops and parent workshops this year. I am sequestering parent workshops, but some of you may be interested in youth workshops as well. IF that’s the case please inform me and I will point you in the right direction. I feel all of you could either conduct an awesome parent workshop or put this in the hands of somebody who could. Thanks for your interest and time, we hope you are able to be part of this historic event. Please call me with any questions or additional details that you may desire.
Looking forward to hearing back and getting proposals back form the community.
Noah Prince
Partnership Administrator-Tacoma 360/Afterschool Ambassador 2011-WA. State
www.Tacoma360.org
(253) 579 1165
“For the youth is the future no doubt that's right and exact”-Keith “GURU” Elam
See Proposal Document Below
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2012 Youth and Family Summit On April 28, 2012, hundreds of local high school and middle school students and their parents and guardians will gather for a day of interactive programs to
think critically about education, their future, and the ways to eliminate barriers to their success.
The Summit is a youth and family-centered initiative for students and their families staged by a coalition of educators, students, and families. It offers students and parents/guardians opportunities to engage in the planning process, serve as co-presenters, and develop projects beyond the one-day summit.
For more information, visit us online at www.pugetsound.edu/raceandpedagogy
or email [email protected]
or email Noah Prince at nprince@tacoma360
think critically about education, their future, and the ways to eliminate barriers to their success.
The Summit is a youth and family-centered initiative for students and their families staged by a coalition of educators, students, and families. It offers students and parents/guardians opportunities to engage in the planning process, serve as co-presenters, and develop projects beyond the one-day summit.
For more information, visit us online at www.pugetsound.edu/raceandpedagogy
or email [email protected]
or email Noah Prince at nprince@tacoma360
Statement of Purpose
You are invited to participate in the 2012 Youth and Family Summit, a joint venture among the Tacoma School District, Tacoma 360, the REACH Center, and the Race and Pedagogy Initiative at the University of Puget Sound. This summit is part of a collaborative and continuous effort to facilitate an authentic public space for students, schools, and families to engage in purposeful dialogue, build collaborations, form partnerships, and take personal and collective action on critical issues around education and excellence.
The youth focus builds on the 2010 Tacoma Public Schools Student’s Voices Summit andfour previous youth summits in
Tacoma, the last one being in 2010, when the youth summit joined forces with the Race and Pedagogy Initiative to stage the 2010 All City Race and Pedagogy Youth Summit as a preconference event to the University of Puget Sound’s Second Quadrennial Race and Pedagogy National Conference. The National Conference was a collaborative development involving and engaging a broad group of educators and community members committed to improving the racial-cultural xperiences of all our students, preparing them for citizenship and leadership in a diverse world where race continues to matter.
The aim of the 2010 All City Race & Pedagogy Youth Summit was to mobilize college and high school students in discussions around critical issues on education, social justice, personal and community wellness, and civic participation. Partners in the summit included Lincoln High School, College Success Foundation, Greater Tacoma Community Foundation, Hilltop Artists, The Grand Cinema, and many more. The 2010 Youth Summit drew more than 700 students from area high schools and middle schools in the South Sound region. Tacoma Public Schools recognized the Youth Summit as one of their top five accomplishments of the year. Feedback from participants showed that students valued interactive sessions that engaged them in courageous conversations about race and racism, social justice, and access to resources and opportunities of higher learning. Feedback from parents said that engaging whole families, schools, and communities as part of the student’s educational journey is powerful and necessary.
Informed by the previous efforts and recent feedback, the 2012 Summit’s youth programming track aims to facilitate educational success among participants through the following.
Developing and engaging youth in critical thinking about their education, including the role of family, schools, community, and culture.
Empowering youth to advocate for quality education.
Equipping them with skills to organize and collaborate with peers to build student organizations.
Promoting educational achievement and success among youth.
Engaging youth in critical and productive dialogue about social issues such as equity, race, class, and representation and their role in education.
The parents/guardians focus continues the work of the 2011 Tacoma Public Schools Community Awareness for Student Achievement (CASA) project and the 2009 Race & Pedagogy Parents/Guardians Conference. This focus realizes the mantra that parents are the first teachers of their children.
The 2012 Summit’s parents/guardians programming track aims to empower partnership between parents/guardians and schools to achieve the following:
a. Gain new skills in navigating and negotiating the specific challenges of education systems. Become powerful educational advocates for ALL children, including partnering with educators and policy-makers to embrace an overarching vision of
student success.
b. Understand how students are underserved due to race and/or economic hardship and how Tacoma’s student achievement lines up with state and national achievement. Develop personal, collective, and systemic strategies and accountability to remedy disproportionality, disparity, and structural inequalities.
c. Build understanding of the existing gaps in opportunity, expectations, and achievement. Develop the skills and sense of urgency to take action to close these gaps.
d. Function as allies for one another across social groupings such as race and economics.
e. Embrace a cradle to career belief that children will go to college or follow career paths beyond high school. Promote the expectation of post-secondary learning in children.
The 2012 Youth and Family Summit then is an effort to construct an inclusive program agenda that seeks to alter power relationships by engaging high school students and families throughout the planning process, mentoring students and
inviting parents to serve as co-presenters so their voices can shape the way schools undertake education, and supporting student and family efforts for quality education, with adequate resources beyond the one-day Summit. We will create in this Summit a learning environment for parents/guardians and students where they can engage with educators both to imagine and recognize possibilities for success and work collaboratively to achieve them. In the face of difficult challenges in education we invite participants to “look at things as if they could be otherwise” with the confidence and means for inventing the future.
Workshops for the 2012 Youth and Family Summit will occur in two separate tracks, with opportunities for everyone to come together at different points throughout the day.
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Parents/Guardians Workshops will be coordinated by Tacoma Public Schools (Tacoma 360).
Youth Workshops will be coordinated by the Race and Pedagogy Initiative.
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SEE THE TWO PROPOSAL GUIDELINES BELOW.
Invitation for Parents/Guardians Program Proposals
Due by: February 29, 2012
Email proposals to: nprince@tacoma360
For questions, contact above email or: 253.579. 1165
The 2012 Youth and Family Summit planning committee invites proposals for interactive program sessions in a diverse range of formats. Our approach to the 2012 Family Summit enacts mutual engagement between educators and families at every stage of its planning and subsequent staging on April 28, 2012. We invite
you to join us in this approach by asking that your listed presenters include where possible, both educators and parents/guardians who will have an active role in the development and presentation of the proposed program. As you plan your program, please keep in mind that Parents/Guardians sessions will run approximately 60 minutes.
For us to achieve our goals for this Summit it is imperative that your program narrative answer the following key questions:
1. What are your program goals?
2. What do you expect parents/guardians to walk away with from your session?
3. How will your session empower parents/guardians to achieve one or more of the following:
a. Become powerful educational advocates for their children, including partnering with educators and policy-makers to embrace an overarching vision of student success. Gain new skills in navigating and negotiating the specific challenges of education systems.
b. Understand how students are underserved due to race and/or economic hardship and how Tacoma’s student achievement lines up with state and national achievement. Use relevant entry points and develop strategies to creatively engage in challenging and remedying disproportionality, disparity, and structural inequalities
c. Build understanding of the existing gaps in opportunity, expectations, and achievement. Develop the skills and sense of urgency to take action to close these gaps.
d. Function as allies for one another across social groupings such as race and economics.
e. Embrace a cradle to career belief that children will go to college or follow career paths beyond high school. Promote the expectation of post-secondary learning in children.
4. How will you facilitate time for reflection during your session? This could happen in a lot of different ways, of course. Please describe how your method of facilitating reflection will capture valuable knowledge from participants to be considered for action-oriented follow-up
5. Session Title:
6. Brief Program Description (should not exceed 75 words):
7. Detailed Program Narrative (should not exceed 1,000 words):
8. Room Setup and Special Requests (technology needs, tables/chairs arrangement):
9. List presenters (including parent/guardian where possible):
Presenter 1 & Primary
Contact:________________________________________________
Email: ____________________________________
phone: ________________________
Presenter 2:
________________________________________________________________
Email: ____________________________________
phone: ________________________
**Please include any additional presenters
You are invited to participate in the 2012 Youth and Family Summit, a joint venture among the Tacoma School District, Tacoma 360, the REACH Center, and the Race and Pedagogy Initiative at the University of Puget Sound. This summit is part of a collaborative and continuous effort to facilitate an authentic public space for students, schools, and families to engage in purposeful dialogue, build collaborations, form partnerships, and take personal and collective action on critical issues around education and excellence.
The youth focus builds on the 2010 Tacoma Public Schools Student’s Voices Summit andfour previous youth summits in
Tacoma, the last one being in 2010, when the youth summit joined forces with the Race and Pedagogy Initiative to stage the 2010 All City Race and Pedagogy Youth Summit as a preconference event to the University of Puget Sound’s Second Quadrennial Race and Pedagogy National Conference. The National Conference was a collaborative development involving and engaging a broad group of educators and community members committed to improving the racial-cultural xperiences of all our students, preparing them for citizenship and leadership in a diverse world where race continues to matter.
The aim of the 2010 All City Race & Pedagogy Youth Summit was to mobilize college and high school students in discussions around critical issues on education, social justice, personal and community wellness, and civic participation. Partners in the summit included Lincoln High School, College Success Foundation, Greater Tacoma Community Foundation, Hilltop Artists, The Grand Cinema, and many more. The 2010 Youth Summit drew more than 700 students from area high schools and middle schools in the South Sound region. Tacoma Public Schools recognized the Youth Summit as one of their top five accomplishments of the year. Feedback from participants showed that students valued interactive sessions that engaged them in courageous conversations about race and racism, social justice, and access to resources and opportunities of higher learning. Feedback from parents said that engaging whole families, schools, and communities as part of the student’s educational journey is powerful and necessary.
Informed by the previous efforts and recent feedback, the 2012 Summit’s youth programming track aims to facilitate educational success among participants through the following.
Developing and engaging youth in critical thinking about their education, including the role of family, schools, community, and culture.
Empowering youth to advocate for quality education.
Equipping them with skills to organize and collaborate with peers to build student organizations.
Promoting educational achievement and success among youth.
Engaging youth in critical and productive dialogue about social issues such as equity, race, class, and representation and their role in education.
The parents/guardians focus continues the work of the 2011 Tacoma Public Schools Community Awareness for Student Achievement (CASA) project and the 2009 Race & Pedagogy Parents/Guardians Conference. This focus realizes the mantra that parents are the first teachers of their children.
The 2012 Summit’s parents/guardians programming track aims to empower partnership between parents/guardians and schools to achieve the following:
a. Gain new skills in navigating and negotiating the specific challenges of education systems. Become powerful educational advocates for ALL children, including partnering with educators and policy-makers to embrace an overarching vision of
student success.
b. Understand how students are underserved due to race and/or economic hardship and how Tacoma’s student achievement lines up with state and national achievement. Develop personal, collective, and systemic strategies and accountability to remedy disproportionality, disparity, and structural inequalities.
c. Build understanding of the existing gaps in opportunity, expectations, and achievement. Develop the skills and sense of urgency to take action to close these gaps.
d. Function as allies for one another across social groupings such as race and economics.
e. Embrace a cradle to career belief that children will go to college or follow career paths beyond high school. Promote the expectation of post-secondary learning in children.
The 2012 Youth and Family Summit then is an effort to construct an inclusive program agenda that seeks to alter power relationships by engaging high school students and families throughout the planning process, mentoring students and
inviting parents to serve as co-presenters so their voices can shape the way schools undertake education, and supporting student and family efforts for quality education, with adequate resources beyond the one-day Summit. We will create in this Summit a learning environment for parents/guardians and students where they can engage with educators both to imagine and recognize possibilities for success and work collaboratively to achieve them. In the face of difficult challenges in education we invite participants to “look at things as if they could be otherwise” with the confidence and means for inventing the future.
Workshops for the 2012 Youth and Family Summit will occur in two separate tracks, with opportunities for everyone to come together at different points throughout the day.
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Parents/Guardians Workshops will be coordinated by Tacoma Public Schools (Tacoma 360).
Youth Workshops will be coordinated by the Race and Pedagogy Initiative.
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SEE THE TWO PROPOSAL GUIDELINES BELOW.
Invitation for Parents/Guardians Program Proposals
Due by: February 29, 2012
Email proposals to: nprince@tacoma360
For questions, contact above email or: 253.579. 1165
The 2012 Youth and Family Summit planning committee invites proposals for interactive program sessions in a diverse range of formats. Our approach to the 2012 Family Summit enacts mutual engagement between educators and families at every stage of its planning and subsequent staging on April 28, 2012. We invite
you to join us in this approach by asking that your listed presenters include where possible, both educators and parents/guardians who will have an active role in the development and presentation of the proposed program. As you plan your program, please keep in mind that Parents/Guardians sessions will run approximately 60 minutes.
For us to achieve our goals for this Summit it is imperative that your program narrative answer the following key questions:
1. What are your program goals?
2. What do you expect parents/guardians to walk away with from your session?
3. How will your session empower parents/guardians to achieve one or more of the following:
a. Become powerful educational advocates for their children, including partnering with educators and policy-makers to embrace an overarching vision of student success. Gain new skills in navigating and negotiating the specific challenges of education systems.
b. Understand how students are underserved due to race and/or economic hardship and how Tacoma’s student achievement lines up with state and national achievement. Use relevant entry points and develop strategies to creatively engage in challenging and remedying disproportionality, disparity, and structural inequalities
c. Build understanding of the existing gaps in opportunity, expectations, and achievement. Develop the skills and sense of urgency to take action to close these gaps.
d. Function as allies for one another across social groupings such as race and economics.
e. Embrace a cradle to career belief that children will go to college or follow career paths beyond high school. Promote the expectation of post-secondary learning in children.
4. How will you facilitate time for reflection during your session? This could happen in a lot of different ways, of course. Please describe how your method of facilitating reflection will capture valuable knowledge from participants to be considered for action-oriented follow-up
5. Session Title:
6. Brief Program Description (should not exceed 75 words):
7. Detailed Program Narrative (should not exceed 1,000 words):
8. Room Setup and Special Requests (technology needs, tables/chairs arrangement):
9. List presenters (including parent/guardian where possible):
Presenter 1 & Primary
Contact:________________________________________________
Email: ____________________________________
phone: ________________________
Presenter 2:
________________________________________________________________
Email: ____________________________________
phone: ________________________
**Please include any additional presenters