WELCOME toExCEL Institute Sep 5th & 11th, 2019

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TIme Topics

3:30-4:00 Welcome/Framing: Clarity and Equity in Leading People

4:00-4:15 Block Party #1: Equity Frame - Booklet Pages 4-10

4:15-4:30 Block Party Party #2: ExCEL Quality Action Plan - pages 5-17

4:30-5:00 Systems and Structures WHEEL:● Principal E-QAP login ● STEAM/KIDS Code/SEL offerings● ExCEL Behavorial Documetation & Support Manual Worksheet

5:00pm-6pm Creating Your Quality Action Plan - Strategic Action Planning Time New program profiles!

Practical Outcomes Experiential Outcomes

● Learn about ExCEL Crises, Referral, & Injury protocols.

● Learn about the Principal Salesforce E-QAP portal

● Review your ExCEL program’s data● Draft your QAP best practices for

the school year

● Creating a sense of unity● Increased ownership and

connection to the shared work● Feeling heard and valued● Becoming more systematically

aware - systems of oppression -

Hopes & Dreams for Today!

Block Party Partners!Fill up your Block Party Partners CARD with:

1. A person who works at a different school2. A person who works with or for a different

agency

DYAD:

Each person gets equal space to share & engage in active listening. What is shared in the DYAD is confidential.

My Block Party Partners

DifferentSchool

Different Agency

It takes a Village

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Every day we provide each and every student the quality instruction and equitable support required to thrive in the 21st Century.

Our Why

There are many obstacles to achieving our mission:

● Systemic Oppression● Institutional Racism based on a white supremacist culture● Punitive discipline System● Implicit Bias● Microaggressions● Homophobia● Sexism and more

Our Reality - Disproportionality

During the 2018-2019 School Year

The Rider and the Elephant

○ The SWITCH Three-Part Framework■ Direct the Rider■ Motivate the Elephant■ Shape the Path

● Continued to create tools to support our continuous quality improvement journey - and rolled out the E-QAP on the Salesforce platform

● Teaching & Learning:○ SEL - self management, self

efficacy, social awareness, growth mindset

○ Warm Demander○ STEAM/Kids Code

Our 2019-2020 Theme

Clarity and Equity in Leading People

In order for us to ensure that each and every student thrives, we have to build trusting, human connections with the people who we partner with and who report directly to us.

10 Habits of Effective Equity Minded Leaders

1. They have received and responded to the calling of leadership2. Thay have a coherent and cohesive belief system3. They are dedicated masters of self4. They are dedicated servants of others5. They are enthusiastic and passionate about their work and are authentic6. They assume the role of first learner, teacher, advocate, and collaborator for

children7. They are visionary, they define success, and have a clearly defined strategy for

achieving success. (Clarity)8. They are politically astute9. They are trustworthy and competent.

10. They have the courage to lead deep.

Mele’s Six “habits” of equity minded leadership

Leader as globalist

Leader as learner

Leader as warm demander

Leader as visionary

Leader as accountable

Leader as fearless

Value Habit/Practice

Leader as globalist ● Be part of the solution towards liberation

Leader as learner ● Be reflective & Practice cultural humility

Leader as warm demander ● Build relationships to create a culture of trust● Coach in the moment towards independence

Leader as visionary ● Keep liberation for the oppressed at the center

Leader as accountable ● Always always recognize and be accountable to the power dynamic and never, never take advantage of that dynamic

● Model, model, model

Leader as fearless ● Never show when your scared, cold, hungry, or freaked out

Cultural Humility & Warm Demander

The goal of a warm demander is to, in partnership, lead the student, child, colleague, staff, CBO partner towards mastery and independence.

Cultural Humility is a life practice that includes a humble and respectful attitude toward individuals of other cultures that pushes one to challenge their own cultural biases, realize they cannot possibly know everything about other cultures, and approach learning about other cultures as a lifelong goal and process

Leader as Learner - cultural humility

Leader as Learner - warm demander

EQUITY BLOCK PARTY

BLOCK PARTY!!!! - Equity Frame

1. Take 5 minutes to read through pages 4-10 in the Booklet. Note your response to the information on one or more of the card (interpretations, connections, feelings or questions that come up).

2. Find your Different Agency Block Party partner and introduce each other & what you do. Using a DYAD protocol, each person has 2 minutes to share their personal response to the information in the booklet (interpretations, connections, feelings or questions that come up) while the other person listens.

3. Take 1 minute in a pair share.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=VzNs8GXvn5M

ExCEL programs support the SFUSD Graduate Profile

Creativity

Career & Life Skills

Global, Local & Digital Identity

Leadership, Empathy & Collaboration

Sense of Purpose, Sense of Self

ContentKnowledge

• I can create works of art, products or solutions to explore a meaningful concept, topic, or issue

• I can engage in a creative and problem-solving process.

• I can manage time and resources to complete projects and tasks.

• I can communicate effectively to authentic audiences.

• I can self-advocate.

• I can lead with and for equity.• I can empathize with others.• I can apply cooperative processes for

effective collaboration.

• I can reflect as a means to develop my humanity and self-awareness.

• I can apply a growth mindset.• I can design my future.

• I can take action for my community and my planet.• I can interact with cultural competence and

anti-racism.• I can practice multilingualism.• Use technology and digital tools to make meaning of

my experience, and positively impact my communities

• I can think critically.• I can engage in inquiry (research).• I can compose evidence-based arguments.• I can analyze complex texts across the

disciplines (literacy).• I can apply disciplinary knowledge, practices,

and language in authentic contexts.

BLOCK PARTY!!!! - ExCEL Quality Action Plan

1. Take 5 minutes to read through pages 5-17 in the ExCEL Quality Action Plan Binder. Note your response to the information (interpretations, connections, feelings or questions that come up).

2. Find your Different School Block Party partner and introduce each other & what you do. Using a DYAD protocol, each person has 2 minutes to share their personal response to the information in the QAP booklet(interpretations, connections, feelings or questions that come up) while the other person listens.

3. Take 1 minute in a pair share.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=VzNs8GXvn5M

ASES Kids Code Program

ASES Kids Code Program in partnership with

Elementary [K-5]

First:

Future:

K5 Informational Flyer:bit.ly/ASESk5

K5 Sign-up Form:bit.ly/ASESk5signup

polkk@sfusd.edu

ASES Kids Code Program in partnership with

Middle [6-8]

First:

Future:

MS Informational Flyer:bit.ly/ASES6-8

MS Sign-up Form:bit.ly/ASES6-8signup

polkk@sfusd.edu

ASES Kids Code Program in partnership with

High [9-12]

First:

Future:

HS Informational Flyer:bit.ly/ASES9-12

HS Sign-up Form:bit.ly/ASES9-12signup

polkk@sfusd.edu

ExCEL Quality Action Plan - pages 5-8

REFLECT & PLAN

School Site Statuses

Progress Dashboard

BASELINE ASSESSMENT

Create QAP

MILE MARKER #1 & #2

E-QAP on Salesforce - Introductory EMAILWill I have a login? Principals will receive login emails the day after the ExCEL Institute

regarding their logins. Check your inbox and your junk mail for the Welcome to the QAP CBO Community email (ABOVE). Email Justin at PAZJ@sfusd.edu if you are unable to locate the email.

The welcome email:Welcome to the QAP CBO Community

What is my Username? Your username is your full email address.

What if I need a password reset? Email Justin Paz at PAZJ@sfusd.edu to have your password reset.

What is the website? sfusdexcel.force.com/QAP/login

ExCEL Behavioral Documentation and Support Manual

Topic Page #

ExCEL Incident Documentation At-A-Glance 2

Program Manager Incident Follow-Up Questions 3

ExCEL After School Title IX Guide 5

ExCEL After School Guide to Responding to Reports of Suicidal Ideation

Attempts, or Self-Harm

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ExCEL After School Programs Behavior Matrix 7

Professional Adult/Youth Boundaries Guide 10

Child Abuse, Human Trafficking, or Commercial Sexual Exploitation

of Children (CSEC) Protocol

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Take 20 minutes to review the manual & complete the worksheet in the Booklet with your ExCEL CBO partner.

ExCEL Manual Section What is the communication protocol between Site Coordinator and Principal/Designee?

What questions/systems do we need to create?

ExCEL Incident Documentation At-A-Glance - page 2

Program Manager Incident Follow-Up Questions- page 3

ExCEL After School Title IX Guide - page 5

ExCEL After School Guide to Responding to Reports of Suicidal Ideation Attempts, , or Self-Harm- page 6

ExCEL After School Programs Behavior Matrix - page 7 

Professional Adult/Youth Boundaries Guide - page 10

ExCEL Behavioral Documentation & Support Manual WORKSHEET

Creating Your School’s Quality Action Plan

USING DATA FROM:

ExCEL Quality Action Plan - Strategic Action Planning TIME!

1. Take 5 minutes to read through pages 20-25 in the ExCEL Quality Action Plan Binder.

2. Take 5 Minutes to read through your school’s program profile.

3. Take the time you need to create the strategic actions for your Quality Action Plan goals!

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