Social+Justice+in+Education

=Improving the schooling chances of NZ's poorest children: policy and community changes= == = = =Social Justice in Education Symposium=

What teachers can learn from great coaches.
**1 Develop your philosophy about the game**
 * buying into the philosophy wins championships
 * "one best system"
 * be dynamic and be Socratic

**2 Establish clear objectives** media type="custom" key="6834535"
 * What is it you wan to do this term/this year?
 * "You can be good at a lot of things, but you can great at a few," John Wooden
 * who am I accountable to? Tension between the MOE and your comunity. He suggests the two don't go together.
 * 5 step research process: Identify, Analyse, Plan, Implement, Evaluate

**3 Pedagogy (content __and__ delivery)** a zone of proximal development: ZPD (Vygotsky) b organic intellecutalism c critical praxis d critical double consciousness e counter-cultural community of practice - counter to the culture of failure and mediocrity **4 Create structures that focus on discipline and objectives** <span style="display: block; font-family: Georgia,serif; font-size: 110%;">- See John Wooden's Pyramid of Success below - it's not the outcome, but the journey. And it's about knowing you have done your best. <span style="display: block; font-family: Georgia,serif; font-size: 110%;"><span style="display: block; font-family: Georgia,serif; font-size: 110%;"> <span style="display: block; font-family: Georgia,serif; font-size: 110%;">"I treat everyone differently, under the same set of rules," Coach Wooden. <span style="display: block; font-family: Georgia,serif; font-size: 110%;">**5 Get buy in into your system** <span style="display: block; font-family: Georgia,serif; font-size: 110%;">media type="custom" key="6834881" <span style="display: block; font-family: Georgia,serif; font-size: 110%;">**6 Read and react** <span style="display: block; font-family: Georgia,serif; font-size: 110%;">**7 Developing generalists and specialists** - classrooms as communites of practice <span style="display: block; font-family: Georgia,serif; font-size: 110%;">**8 Colleagues and community** <span style="display: block; font-family: Georgia,serif; font-size: 110%;">**9 Stay ahead or get behind** <span style="display: block; font-family: Georgia,serif; font-size: 110%;">**10 Battle - To battle is to hope**
 * <span style="display: block; font-family: Georgia,serif; font-size: 110%;">Health and wellness are pre-conditions for learning
 * <span style="display: block; font-family: Georgia,serif; font-size: 110%;">Young people need the ability to speak/act as a collective.
 * They need the confidence to act on their own in a moment - this is agency. They needs to be able to act for themselves - unplanned and spontaneous. They can use their confidence in their lives appropriately.
 * <span style="display: block; font-family: Georgia,serif; font-size: 110%;">Wayne Yang, 2009, pg 55: "discipline over punishment" - inclusionary vs exclusionary. "rigorous mental training .. towards a common goal."
 * <span style="display: block; font-family: Georgia,serif; font-size: 110%;">Teaching as an apprenticeship (link back to ZPD)
 * <span style="display: block; font-family: Georgia,serif; font-size: 110%;">Aim to develop a cimmunity of risk taking, setbacks and difficulty.
 * "a game of inches" - take opportunites, make choices, fight for those inches, ask who will go the inches with you?
 * <span style="display: block; font-family: Georgia,serif; font-size: 110%;">Some kids have star qualities - identify them and create opportunities for those learners to shine. They need individual polish.
 * <span style="display: block; font-family: Georgia,serif; font-size: 110%;">The toughest game is the last game - build up to peak performance at the end of the school year, don't slacken off at the end of the school year.
 * <span style="display: block; font-family: Georgia,serif; font-size: 110%;">That is, beyond your classroom.
 * <span style="display: block; font-family: Georgia,serif; font-size: 110%;">The power of influence.
 * <span style="display: block; font-family: Georgia,serif; font-size: 110%;">"Don't be sorry be better."
 * <span style="display: block; font-family: Georgia,serif; font-size: 110%;">Teacher reflection groups
 * <span style="display: block; font-family: Georgia,serif; font-size: 110%;">Stdeunt focus groups
 * <span style="display: block; font-family: Georgia,serif; font-size: 110%;">Teacher research, presentations and publications
 * <span style="display: block; font-family: Georgia,serif; font-size: 110%;">Conference attendance
 * <span style="display: block; font-family: Georgia,serif; font-size: 110%;">All day every day.
 * <span style="display: block; font-family: Georgia,serif; font-size: 110%;">Hope = medical definition "a control of destiny"
 * <span style="display: block; font-family: Georgia,serif; font-size: 110%;">Hope was the last thing in Pandora's Box

<span style="color: #008000; display: block; font-family: Georgia,serif;">Block Biz: Engaging the Politics of Truth-Telling in Chicago
<span style="font-family: Georgia,serif;">truth and transparency <span style="font-family: Georgia,serif;">struggle and sacrifice <span style="font-family: Georgia,serif;">ownership and agency <span style="font-family: Georgia,serif;">collective and community power <span style="font-family: Georgia,serif;">1 classical - the national curriculum. David suggests this is the last thing you are trying to do. Consider what skills for what purpose. <span style="font-family: Georgia,serif;">2 community <span style="font-family: Georgia,serif;">3 critical
 * <span style="font-family: Georgia,serif;">geographical boundaries - engaging the block
 * <span style="font-family: Georgia,serif;">willingness, capacity, ability = I wonder how capacity and ability are different?
 * <span style="font-family: Georgia,serif;">hostile environments
 * <span style="font-family: Georgia,serif;">justics should be determined by those who have experienced injustice
 * <span style="font-family: Georgia,serif;">restrictive covenants in Chicago - certain ethnic groups could only buy houses in certain areas
 * <span style="font-family: Georgia,serif;">the Daley fiefdom - current mayor of Chicago has served about 25 years and he is the son of a previous mayor who also served about 25 years.
 * <span style="font-family: Georgia,serif;">the White population are moving to the edges of the cities - cf location of NZ's new schools and their decile
 * <span style="font-family: Georgia,serif;">David teachers at the Lawndale Little Village School of Social Justice. Its core principles are:
 * <span style="font-family: Georgia,serif;">3 types of knowledge
 * <span style="font-family: Georgia,serif;">To create a revolutionary change: time, space and will - with the will, you will create the time and space

<span style="color: #0000ff; font-family: Georgia,serif;">The Awhi Way
'We want to change, but we don't know how.' The power of influence. Change is uncomfortable so we settle