Leading Equity

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About Tanika Ray

My journey has been filled with dance, acting, hosting, producing, moderating and most of all rich in adventure. …I’ve learned that Life isn’t only about reaching the dream, but also about each chapter that inches us closer to our goal. Ultimately, I plan to create a multimedia entity that uplifts, inspires & brings the diverse global community together thru positive shared experiences. I’ve hosted numerous shows for NBC, CW, HGTV, LIFETIME, TLC, BET, TVOne including many reunions shows for Lifetime & VH. Because I’m able to deftly manage the multi-layered responsibility of hosting and producing live red carpet events, I've covered all the big ones in LA & NYC including the Oscars, Emmys, Golden Globes, Met Gala, MTV Music Awards, American Music Awards & countless movie premieres for companies like TV Guide Network, NBC, Colgate, Essence Magazine and The NAACP.

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• Parenting and education
• Indoctrination
• Dealing with racial slurs

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About Ken Williams

Ken Williams is a husband, father, nationally-recognized trainer, speaker, coach and consultant in leadership and school culture. A practitioner for nearly three decades, Ken led the improvement efforts at two schools by leveraging the Professional Learning Communities at Work process. Through his company, Unfold The Soul, Ken is skilled in joining the why of the work to the how of the work. He is known for his powerful and engaging combinations of “heart, humor, and hammer.” While his style is inspirational and motivational, he’s also known as a status-quo disruptor, warm demander, and an unapologetic identifier of elephants in the room, with his lens firmly fixed on maximizing the collective strengths of educators in the service of high levels of learning for every student. 

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• The enemy of equity
• The principal’s role
• Ability grouping
• Missing opportunities for growth

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Ruthless Equity: Disrupt the Status Quo and Ensure Learning for ALL Students

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About Arturo Senteno

Arturo Senteno currently serves as the associate principal for instruction at Elk Grove High School in District 214. Prior to that, he served in numerous other roles at the district, including associate principal of student services/operations at Rolling Meadows High School, dean of students, biology teacher, and head varsity water polo coach. Senteno has served as a Captain in the Illinois Army National Guard as a medical specialist and did a tour of duty in Operation Iraqi Freedom II. Senteno earned a Bachelor of Arts in Teaching from Monmouth College, Master of Arts in Teaching from Aurora University and an Educational Administration Superintendent’s Endorsement (Ed.S) from Northern Illinois University where he also expects to earn his Educational Doctorate in December of 2022.

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• The advantages of having administrators of color
• Shared racial backgrounds between leadership and staff
• Retaining administrators of color
• Inclusive practices for administrators
• Dress codes and professionalism policies

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About Jerri A. Johnson, Ph.D.

Dr. Jerri Johnson is author of the book “Imagine That! Chronicles of an Urban School Principal." In addition to this she is the owner and sole consultant for EJUC8U (Educate You) Consulting LLC. In the field of education, she was most recently the founding Principal of a PreK-2nd grade school located in DeSoto, Texas. She held the position of Director of Education for the Community Impact Network, a non-profit organization that is place-based within the Normandy School Collaborative footprint in St. Louis, MO. Over her 20 plus years in education, she has had the honor of holding the positions of District English Language Arts Supervisor, Principal, Assistant Principal, Instructional Coach, Reading Specialist, and Classroom Teacher at various grade levels. In addition, Dr. Johnson taught at the post-secondary level, serving as an Adjunct Professor at the University of Missouri-St. Louis. She earned her bachelor’s degree from Harris-Stowe State University in Elementary Education. Subsequently earning advanced degrees at the University of Missouri-St. Louis: Masters and Educational Specialist Degrees in Educational Administration; then a Doctor of Philosophy Degree in Education, with an emphasis in Teaching and Learning. Dr. Johnson is a member of the Association of Supervision and Curriculum Development, International Literacy Association, and National Council of Social Studies.

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• Understanding a students background and trauma
• Supports needed for students healing from trauma
• Self-care as a school leader

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Imaging That! Chronicles of an Urban School Principal

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About Rachel Moore

Rachel Moore is the founder and lead educator for The Human Factor. Dedicated to making negotiation and advocacy accessible to all, Rachel is passionate about translating skills, frameworks, and proven theory into actionable guidance. Rachel has designed negotiation curricula for the MIT School of Engineering and Sloan School of Business, and guest lectured to audiences that run the spectrum—from creative university programs, local professional organizations, youth conferences, and corporate audiences. Rachel is currently a lecturer at the MIT Sloan School of Business. Along with her work as an educator, Rachel is an experienced strategist focused on innovation in complex environments. In this work, Rachel partners with clients from the executional level to the c-suite as they negotiate conflicting goals, organizational complexity, and human dynamics to close deals and form effective, sustainable teams. Her notable clients include Disney, NASA, and Boston Children’s Hospital.

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• Why being good at negotiating is so important
• Negotiation scenarios
• We statements
• Compromising during negotiations
• Negotiation resources

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Great books:

• Getting to Yes by Roger Fisher and William Ury
• Difficult Conversations by Douglas Stone, Bruce Patton, Sheila Heen
• Negotiating the Nonnegotiable by Daniel Shapiro
• The Honest Truth About Dishonesty by Dan Ariely

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About Jorge Valenzuela

Jorge Valenzuela has years of experience in education as a classroom and online teacher, a curriculum specialist, and now an educational coach and consultant. Currently, Jorge is an adjunct professor at Old Dominion University, and the lead coach at Lifelong Learning Defined (LLD). Through LLD — he provides engaging professional development (PD) and coaches assistant superintendents, directors, principals, and teachers. Additionally, he provides PD on behalf of ASCD, Corwin, and PBLWorks.

Through modeling direct instruction in tandem with evidence-based strategies and educational protocols, Jorge provides sessions for educators that are inspirational, actionable, and fun. These sessions aim to redesign entire schools and classrooms by empowering educators to understand and implement federal policy, the needs of the workforce, and sound teaching practice through project based learning (PBL), computational thinking and computer science integration, STEM education, and social and emotional learning (SEL).

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• Instructional coaching design
• Modeling instructional practices
• Going beyond worksheets
• Culturally responsive coaching

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A Simple Tool for Aligning Instruction and Assessment

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About Lewis Eakins, Ph.D.

Dr. Lewis Eakins is the Vice President for Public Safety and Emergency Preparedness for the Ivy Tech Community College System in Indiana encompassing 19 campuses and 130,000 students. Dr. Eakins has over 40 years of law enforcement experience and has served for several years as a trainer and consultant with the U.S. Department of Education in the areas of K-12 Behavioral Intervention Teams and Emergency Operations planning. 

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• Target Hardening
• Card Access for entry
• The wrong decision
• Prevention options
• What role can students play in prevention?
• Mental Health
• Behavior Intervention Team

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REMS Technical Assistance Center of the US Department of Education

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LE 126: Are We The Ones Causing Trauma in Our Students with Dr. Lewis Eakins

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About Drea Weiner

Drea Weiner is the MiSTEM Network Regional Director from the Northwestern Lower region. She studied Environmental Science at Northern Michigan University. As a child, Drea was brought up in a “Maker Household”. She and her family were constantly creating, testing, and improving around the house. Some projects include making porches, homemade soil grater, greenhouses, etc. Today she provides educators throughout the northern lower Michigan region with opportunities for professional development, support, and resources to ensure students gain deep learning that nourishes soft skills like critical thinking and problem-solving to ensure our students are set up for success following their educational endeavors and businesses have a talented STEM literate workforce to hire from. She is a passionate educator driven to give all students the opportunity to explore STEM as a viable future. 

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• Aptitude vs Interest in STEM
• Feedback and constructive criticism
• Teacher representation
• Ideal learning environments
• Early awareness
• Creating a sense of belonging
• Career profile cards

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YouScience Report: Female Juniors and Seniors Have Far More Aptitude Than Interest in STEM Fields

Evidence-based Strategies for Attracting and Retaining Girls and Women in STEM

Career Profile Cards

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About Natalie R. Davis, Ph.D.

Natalie Davis (Natalie R. Davis) is an assistant professor in the Department of Early Childhood and Elementary Education and for the M.A. program in Creative and Innovative Education (MACIE). Davis is a 2021 NAEd/Spencer Postdoctoral Fellow and a former postdoctoral research fellow in Learning Sciences at Northwestern University, where she employed micro-ethnographic and interactional methods to study children’s thinking and self-determination in a tinkering after-school program. Broadly, her research explores the relationship between teaching and learning, cultural ecologies and the sociopolitical development of children from non-dominant communities, with emphasis on the educational experiences and “freedom dreams” of urban-based Black children. Her work also considers the challenges and possibilities of political education in elementary classrooms and the extent to which learning environments nourish children’s imaginative spirits.

Davis has collaborated with museums, makerspaces, nonprofit youth-serving organizations and schools to design curriculum and conduct professional development workshops on topics related to creativity, science learning and the enactment of critical pedagogies. She is a recipient of the NAEd/Spencer Postdoctoral Fellowship, AERA-Division G Distinguished Dissertation and Dimond Dissertation awards. Her work has been disseminated in academic journals such as Cognition & Instruction and via public outlets such as Michigan Talk Radio and Youth Today. Davis received her Ph.D. in Educational Foundations from the University of Michigan-Ann Arbor. Prior to graduate school, she taught third grade in an African-centered school.

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• Critical Childhood Studies
• Labels and stereotypes of students
• Confirmation Bias
• Child empowerment
• Justice focused education

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About UnSuk Zucker

a Korean American, cisgender, grateful wife and mother, daughter, and sister who loves to cook and spend time with her friends and family; a dedicated social justice advocate; and racial equity leader. UnSuk’s almost 20 years in the field of education includes roles as teaching grades K, 1, 2, 3, 4, and 5 in Idaho, Southern California and Colorado, Beyond Diversity Affiliate with Pacific Educational Group, teacher leader, Teacher Leadership Coordinator and School Improvement Partner for Denver Public Schools, Senior Manager and Director of Diversity, Equity and Inclusion at TNTP, and National SEED Project Staff Member. UnSuk holds a BS from College of Idaho and an MS from Walden University.

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• Defining Diversity
• How do we value and celebrate diversity
• Model Minority Myth
• Raising kids of color in predominately White spaces

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Free Course on Implicit Bias

20 Diversity Equity and Inclusion Activities

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