001okay thank you tyler okay and brad right yeah um all right i guess it's it's all yours to be with us as you will all right well uh good evening brad brown here representing sound esd um i'm an executive director in k through post secondary if you can't hear or you struggle just you know yeah and i'll project as much as i can through the mask here um and uh yeah so i work with um a learning teaching family support office and so uh i oversee uh like i said cake people secondary and we also have elementary uh sorry pre-k for as well as another ltfs and then please hello everyone um my name is feliciana peralta i'm the executive director for equity and education and i'm probably going to be there personally i'm in
002the cabin on mount hood with my family and there was a boisterous monopoly game going on downstairs so if you hear screaming um i'm safe it's the monopoly plane and so uh thank you for bearing with us um trying to be there present with you all as well as being in the mountains so thank you for kind of uh creating this space for us to kind of um navigate uh just a little bit about me um i've been with puget sound esd for about over a year now um as the executive director for equity um equity and education and which we've been doing this work for quite a long time um i've been doing it in the higher ed system and then before that in k-12 and started actually in early learning so um been
003able to kind of really understand and put my mind around and think differently as we grow in the world of equity and what that means and kind of really thinking differently about systemic how how do we not just do this on a one-to-one but it's just on a system level um so yeah brad do we want to go around and kind of like check in and kind of introduce [Music] real quick i pledge allegiance to the flag of the united states of america and to the republic for which it stands one nation under god indivisible with liberty and [Music] okay i'm sorry brad do that all right and uh well thank you police i i think too it's uh important we'll do the same thing as we go around the room uh it is also
004kind of reflecto and not just not work but our history et cetera and so um i want to go back again brad brown here um i'm here via north carolina uh that is my home state that's for all of my uh families i've been out here over the last 20 years uh working in um kp post secondary work i actually started in california working in the juvenile justice uh california authority for six years prior to moving to washington and uh where i started out uh working um for seattle housing authority it's a place for displaced families and children and then suffered for seattle public schools and for auburn and also tacoma and prior to this or if they can't before coming here i've been everything from a coordinator a teacher assistant principal principal and a
005principal supervisor work in the central office so my blessing is i've had a chance for juvenile justice cbo come full circle through the system so seeing knowing learning how our system worked and also seeing some places and where people had opportunity and be part of teams where are we seeing also the system improve in terms of outcomes um for children and families so that's kind of fine place are you done okay go back and then if we could uh just to learn a little bit um about what you get folks and where you are and how you got to be at this table right you want to start matt sure so uh matt marshall doesn't want to go in the background as well yeah okay uh washington's my home state born in seattle uh kind
006of living all across the state from yakima to spokane um lived in oregon for a while going through a firefighter ems internship joined the military when i couldn't afford college spent spent many years in the military well over a decade i got lots of education there spent many years in north carolina and fayetteville correct left the military came back here to washington state uh working in medicine they had a good job in olympia here and uh you know my kids all go to the school i had always been drawn to education i'm actually an adjunct professor at the university of maryland teaching department of natural sciences and decided that i wanted to be as involved as possible in the school system and making sure all kids get a good education and seeing uh you know
007really good things happening here in eastfield i was glad to join this board my name is jeff lucas uh i grew up here in eatonville and i'm a firefighter paramedic in uh bonnie lake i've been doing that for december 1st to be my 30th year and let's say i've got two kids in school here in eatonville and so like like matt i got into the school board uh like eight or nine years ago now just to kind of leave my thumb print on things and yeah see that we do the the most good for the most kids and we've been doing a pretty good job of it so it's me in a nutshell well i'm going to keep up the medical theme here in just a little bit i came to email in 1976 as
008a medical assistant for dr banning and um married my husband and uh who in eatonville high school graduate and lived here and lived in other places and eventually became a teacher and a principal and came back to eatonville and i was a principal here for 19 years at edenville elementary and i've made the job to the big house and i'm currently in my finish my second week as a director of teaching and learning diversity equity and inclusion and alternatively education so i'm just really excited to be here and begin my work with eei actually it started last week but i continue to work my name is rhonda woodsberger i was [Music] i've been very honored to work in this community and to and with this board because i do feel like the focus is kids
009first and and the opportunity to be really open-minded and to grow and that growth mindset that we encourage in our children that we'd be encouraging our board as well and i'm really happy to have this opportunity to move our work forward with you thank you for supporting me i'm paulette biliardi and i'm a historical figure on one i i was born and raised here and went through school there and my fortune to go here i have grandsons so um i have been sent as a senior this year and so um i got involved with schools um i have younger brothers who are probably born when i was a teenager and i followed them in their school sports and got involved in their sports programs and um and that kind of stuff and then my kids
010came along in school and followed them volunteered and volunteered quite a bit at the time and kind of evolved into school board and been here a long time and i know jeff you said yeah you know the folks that have been joining later yes lisa couldn't get out of work uh she's gonna be about an hour late crescent is also finishing up meeting in her office so she'll be here in a few minutes it sounds like all right police great um so i i kind of wanted to um before we begin with the presentation just do a heart and mind check um what's on our hearts and what's on our minds i know there's a lot going on within our country and in doing this work we like just to see how people are doing
011so for me what's on my um heart is um really thinking about being with my family and and connecting but also what is happening um around the nation hoping that um the outcome for um regardless of the outcome that we move forward within the country what's on my mind is hoping that this internet connection continues and is strong and that this works out so i i'm i'm hoping that i can't see anyone but being able to kind of connect with you all from afar so that's my my mind as well so um this work is relational and it's really hard to build relationships um online but i feel like we're doing the best we can no matter if we're in space together or not so that's what is on my heart and mind um brad
012would you like to go or would you like to we'll keep the same order uh okay and so in our practice this is something we practice back at me because what we learn when we start talking about change change isn't just paper we have plenty of paper um we can go through training have policy etc but it's like trying to keep a healthy culture to where communication is essential uh within that so that's why we do hearts and minds so that if someone is in a different space it gives you an opportunity to understand and see that person um for what they bring to the table because we could all be bringing something different to the table within the space and so for me um you know it is an interesting time within our country
013uh we don't shy away from that it has different implications for different people for different reasons um but at the end of the day um for me it's just like um i'm really excited and also nervous about this weekend i'll be along with the children and i'm hoping that i don't forget uh practice or leave someone over um but really um that's that's at heart and then also too i have uh i'm very blessed to still have two older parents that aren't alive and so their health is always in my forefront and they're back in north carolina and so i don't want to take time to advance it [Music] well i guess uh the first thing would be uh i think i think all of us are concerned as far as what's going on in
014the country right now and really what's on my heart is i hope regardless of outcome that people can come together and find it as a unifying force regardless that's really been heavy on my heart what's on my mind is it's my wife's birthday weekend and we have a weekend away from the kids so when we're done here we go you know we're so good you remember that's always a good one because have plans um i think for me um you know my heart's been pretty good my my family's been happy healthy we've been largely unaffected by the all the stuff going on these days you know we're got a good job we're all healthy we're all happy it's you know just inconvenienced our lives and our our problems are small so we feel very blessed
015to have the problems we do but you know my mind is probably on the same wavelength as most people these days uh just wondering how we're going to get this uncertainty shaken out and really hope uh whatever happens get america back into a groove again get some communities back in a groove and make some things happen for them okay um well right now just being in the middle of it all day all week my hearts with the students um that are struggling at home i've been hearing stories from teachers about their mental health and the conditions some of these kids are in and even our kids that come from what we would call um not needing a lot at home they're struggling emotionally and that's where my heart is is these poor kids you know
016and so that's where my heart's been in my mind it's completely kind of weird places hoping i'm not crazy because i'm decorating for christmas this weekend i i think that's part of my heart i need happiness and joy and my little things bring me that so am i crazy there's a whole bunch of you doing that um my heart family on my mind i think um hoping that through all of this whatever crazy everybody's attacking that respect and honor um respect for our differences and that they make us unique and special and important and opinions will continue in this community that we can agree to disagree and have civil discourse and still really have great deep friendships and move important work forward okay um my heart which has been for a long time with kids
017and um not just for friends but with all children and the thing that's been happening from my heart to all of this it's the kids who are being neglected um being abused and that's good for mine every day for perfection and provision for them and i know that getting them back in school is the best thing to do and getting them in a safe place is the thing we need to do and so i'm um you know i i really want to see that happen as quickly and as well as we can do it and be able to have kids in a place where they can learn and grow and they can be secure and in a better place for them too so that's kind of where my my heart my mind is and my
018mind is agreeing with all everyone here is for people to um to respect differences to respect one another and to work together yeah so let's think about our region 121 i'm a real largest we'll go into that region um and this is so different from within the five miles you have completely different uh context but one thing is it's consistent is you know there's always a need for uh for students it could be an apartment building or it could be a two-story house um doesn't always tell the story in terms of needs for students and mean for our staff because they hurt the kids i mean there's a reason people chose this profession and so um trying to keep everyone safe and not just safe but uh i think someone said you know you know
019taking care of people's mental health and this is a ancient time of year and so doing those things diane it may not sound right but um if you want to do christmas merry christmas um you know we we are in uh jeff your word was unprecedented time and so missing things that take care of itself and when you're in the line of service uh you definitely have to take care of yourself because that's just your jobs how can you right serve others if you're not well so keeping that in the forefront but i appreciate that please [Music] all right so are we ready to start the powerpoint [Music] oh [Music] so give me a moment to bring this back up [Music] okay i think you can see this i'm not sure yes we can see
020it no no no i can't see you all so let me see here you can't you can't see us it has a little thing up in the top corner please um it's not coming up and hold on and see this nope but i i'm gonna going to roll with this and see how this goes all right so but you can see me and the powerpoint correct yes awesome so we're going to start with a land acknowledgement and to uh this is just our way to really acknowledge um our ancestral lands and really and and people and so we've been we do this lots of different ways and engagement of this and a lot of this is really just kind of centering and um grounding ourselves in that um and so we have um uh kayla
021who was amazing to kind of do a great video for us to kind of uh talk about that so i'm gonna oh gosh please work okay let's see if this works here okay hold on please work please work well i'm gonna do this here it is [Music] okay hold on are you what are you able to see we see a powerpoint and it's going down i'm sorry about technology [Music] good day my name is kayla gayette and i just did a small version of a traditional introduction here in the pacific ah okay so i'm not going to continue to do that because i can send that to you all but basically um it's really just kind of grounding us in uh the ancestral work and really thinking about um the seventh generation with this when
022we talk about the seventh generation and how we move forward with um with uh thinking about what policies and what thoughts and what work we're doing today we'll move forward for the seventh generation so it's not when we do land acknowledgements it's not just acknowledging the ancestral land and his people we are here and on thankful for but it's also what we're doing for and movement of so the kids that we have now in our schools what are we leaving for the seventh generation the next group of of kiddos um so here's a little com uh i'm gonna try this video um with uh that talks about the seventh generation thinking [Music] my grandfather said each human being is five generations if you're lucky if you're lucky you experience your grandparents your parents your generation
023your children's generation and if you're lucky your grandchildren's generation you are five generations walking the sixth generation is everybody who ever came before you your ancestry back to the end of time and you should respect that and know it and honor it generation anybody who's ever coming after you anybody who's ever coming after you so when we say make a decision with the seven generations in mind what decision do you make that is not made for all time so careful careful as you move through the world and this should be a lesson for our policy makers and our leadership no decision they make is not a decision for all time you know all right so um i can't see your hand so i i'm hoping you're all um thinking do do you know whose ancestral
024land either your you work on or that you're currently on or that was ancestral um if anybody can uh shut out that yes well the michelle clan of the nisqually tribe and close to the middle of the greater evil area with a lot of puella influence as well awesome do you uh do you have relationships with the the tribes the the nations that are around there yeah could you would you like to talk a little bit about um what that looks like in that relationship you know for the most part we're uh in a partnership with the natural resources um restoring a lot of uh salmon runs and and uh old uh riverbeds two original uh courses and and just kind of kind of redeeming the the countryside like that is our primary focus awesome
025we like to talk about that just so you know we are centered in that but also you know what does that mean for our education system with those relationships you know are they being centered are they a relationship or is it something untransactional and i'm so thankful to hear um unfortunately a lot of our uh region but not a region with our you know in their nation that isn't happening so we know that when we start to start thinking about our relationships and what that would look like and what that looks like in partnership um that changes how we how we engage things so i'm really excited for you all so good continue that um all right so let's go to there we go so brad would you like to talk about this slide so
026um this is my this end of my second this is one of my third year with the esp and one of the reasons um that i chose the esd like many of you was their goal to successfully um you know close some of the opportunity gaps uh via racial equity and that has been um not only have they laid within this region but that has also been a national um issue but uh i can proudly say that again prior to me coming on board and continue that this has been a focus and support just like working with different tribes different ceos we also um work with different school districts charters etc uh because at the end of the day we're censoring children know that our children won't stay in the same lanes if you will
027that that's it um down here it says becoming an anti-racist multi-cultural organization we uh affectionately call that uh an arm code and we need racial equity but we also know there's various types of even within you know um different ethnic groups there's always an opportunity to lift up multicultural opportunities and we understand this thing called intersectionality uh so that we know that people aren't quote unquote one-dimensional you can be male and you can be gay and you can be right and so it's like what does that look like as our world is changing and what does that look like for our students um and how do we create that safe space and that's where this work is a necessity um for students and for adults um and again that's going back to the seven generations
028how do we put policies in place um where students are again safe and can learn and have the same opportunities next slide please go [Music] here is is for me super important because i work with a lot of different groups um in a lot of different uh organizations and some are very well to do and imagine some of the largest anyway they talk about strategy and they'll say well you know best practices they'll talk about all of those things well those things grow inside of something called the culture and essentially that is what we have to continually to work on and build in a school as a culture and it could be the culture of just basic respect for our differences and the culture could be uh hey we don't tolerate certain behaviors because we
029know what it causes harm right and so when we talk about equity and we talk about partners that live where does that thrive and how do we get here uh how do we move forward it's what policies and i'm speaking what policies as you put these things in place how are you building that culture how are you modeling and messaging that culture one of the things uh that we look forward to do is one we have to put it out there like name it and claim it so i took the liberty of printing out uh eatonville's mission together we commit uh to inspiring lifelong learners to create a better future and that said and thinking about your positions how are you individually creating that culture and that's not just in the policy that's also in
030terms of how you engage that's how also how you message to your communities and that's creating that culture and i know one of the reasons we're here tonight is because my understanding is that's the culture you want to create right for all your students so and i kind of like the vision too i read that our vision is for all students to graduate with the knowledge and skills to succeed in our community and global society and highlight global society uh we must inspire allow innovative innovation create safe and strong academic opportunities to allow all students to realize success and thrive in the 21st century workplace so um this is a great example um and you're gonna hear me continually talk about seven generations i know we're in a pandemic right now i know elections together
031and what i'm saying is that that's gonna pass so when we're getting into this work this is the stuff we're talking about in terms of global where your grandchildren gonna be working or your son gonna be working and then how do we create a culture so regardless of where they choose to work they work they work and walk in a way that is still within the values that you hold to here to eat and so that is that that is the mindset in terms of what you want to do this wall um and you have your current values down here curiosity excellence responsibility character and equity as we move so these are our attempts feel free to look back at those but i just want to put an emphasis on the culture policy is one
032step that is not the answer it is how constantly think about how you build a culture and two ways to talk about that is modeling essence right um yeah so i'm going to put that that's just some impression i think i like that idea that we really should be creating the culture before we even back that up with policy i think it should be that further um so i appreciate that brad can see it [Music] hey i'm so sorry i'm not there with you all and navigating um google meets but i'm hi so and then we're going to try to so with that idea of culture we built in some agreements the next slide all right so um as you build culture thank you so brad so much to putting in there um we know
033a couple things to be true and one of those uh one of those things is building your why which is our end which is success for each um child by eliminating um the equity opportunity gap within for racial equity and that's our why and our how a lot of times are building in practices that we can kind of um really engage tough conversations no matter what conversations they are and a lot of times that is the toughest thing to do um but we know common language and prac and having practices and we call them the agreements and these are agreements that we have they came from um singleton uh the courageous conversation um book but we know that these are extremely important um when we have conversations or making decisions or an everyday way of
034doing things um in fact these are so important in our executive leadership um meetings we we when we were all together we had them in front of us constantly um so we can go back and look and and have those ingredients in front of us so um brad and i are going to go through them please feel free to ask us questions um so to stay engaged this one i'm going to say uh is so harder to do now in um remote living um and definitely staying engaged when you have so many competing for your attention things are competing especially in those tough moments um when we have our phones ringing at the same time we're on zoom at the same time so disengaging and also there's moments of disengagement but checking with our hearts
035and minds and staying engaged in those tough moments and tough conversations explicitly around um systems of oppression so don't let your heart and mind check out and also check reflect why why is that happening is it something because i have to take a moment to breathe or is it oh this is too much for me i'm gonna check out so it's staying engaged um even when it feels hard would you like to do the next one brad yep uh experience discomfort um people may think because uh i'm a sick sick bald black man that race is an easy conversation but it's it's it's not um some days it is some days it's not that's not true uh i do enjoy when people are naturally curious um no different than i have my own learning uh
036i have a friend which i'm trying to learn more about how to be a better supporter of students that that that identify as gay that is new to the system uh in so many ways and they we as the adults need to be proactive and be in a voice instead of waiting for them to do that so that's that's my space that's that's that's learning from me i wish i could say right but it has to be intentional because it's not about me necessarily it's about creating a space it's safe for that student um and so there are times discomfort because the last thing i want to do is offend someone but i also have to understand too in this level of leadership that that is sometimes the only way you're going to learn because
037right reading a book just won't do it right you have to engage with people you have to listen to students you have to listen to parents right and then we have to put things in place to make sure the students are safe and have that opportunity to become a global uh citizens and so that's the that's the learning that's the work please the computer is playing games with me for a second yes speaking your truth it's being honest if your thoughts and feelings and opinions uh say them in a way that is true for you we believe that speaking your truth is extremely imperative and coming from a place of reflection and a place of um speaking your inner truth and and recognize that we all hold a peep of the truth right so um
038when we speak our truth we're speaking it from our our our lens our view but also recognizing that that might feel different for to someone else um and really to to ground yourself in that and and and reflect like is this my truth or how am i using my truth um because sometimes we tend to weaponize and unintentionally so being able to kind of be grounded in your truth and recognizing that your truth might be very is partial because someone else's truth is also partial and together we all might hold the truth together but it's recognizing where that looks like and feels like so and this sometimes is the hard one because um we're taught not to be vulnerable and so this one's sometimes the hardest one to do uh our little ones in our
039life might be able to do a little bit better than us as as older we get because it's harder to speak our truth and it's hard to be grounded than not um i think it is important that we are able and we feel comfortable in the in this community or in this group that we can share with truthful and honest so i would just love to hear your experience oftentimes i've heard people say i want to speak my truth and then they say what they're going to say but it's really a disrespectful time rather than i'm being honest with you and i'm being vulnerable with you and so i'm curious is that just my own personal experience or is that something is there a way to help kind of facilitate and manage those type of
040things or is that part of speaking the truth and i just am not familiar really with what it actually means we just talked about this we talk about how uh your truth should not it should be grounded in your truth versus weaponizing and asking um we ask that people is a self-reflection of like am i saying this because it's my truth or i'm saying this because it's my reaction and am i weaponizing that and so when there's a vulnerability about that so it's being able to reflect like is this really and this is internal work right not just like you're hoping each other or holding each other accountable to these agreements but also thinking is that really um a reflection piece of truth or is that a farm like bigger truth we like this is
041my truth yet i'm weaponizing that might not still it might be your truth but it we need to look at the intake impact that has so it's a we it's all of these working together but recognizing that speaking your truth is a reflection piece do you want to add more to that brad yeah i knew a real example that um that happened uh to me uh it was in tacoma when uh actually crescent was still my supervisor at that time i was at first creek and we had uh some very well intended um good folks that had a different belief in regards to um it was at the time i think it was like gay marriage or and they created a space where they wanted to come and support parents going to a different place
042in science after that i had to have a conversation with some religious leaders about that in a respectful way that's the truth and i'm saying all but that was their truth and that was extremely uncomfortable for me because they were elders but i had to say hey look this is a school and the reality is not only do i have students that don't identify with i also have students that have two parents that are the same gender there's there's no way right there's just no space for that um at a school and so that's the that's the reality of of the world we live in and then you know we can go through the data and see the amount of harm that students that struggle with identity sexual identity in terms of calling to harm
043to themselves and it's not working so we can i mean i mean this is this is not easy work and no one wants to be on the other side of that and no one wants to see another parent hurt because their child is hurting or they lost the child right those are things that push me into those conversations where i put myself aside so rhonda i think for me when i do say speak with you but i mean i can really um relate to that when you said you know someone was just like it's almost like a weaponized kind of a conversation and i just realized this when i was watching i don't know if you guys have seen ted lasso series there's a comment in there about be curious and not judgmental so when
044i am receiving as a recipient of god speak the truth i need to kind of step back and not make it personal like personal and just say they're being vulnerable and i'm gonna just embrace that even though it's hard to take what they're saying because it's not about me it's about speaking their truth so i i have to kind of just step out of that box and let that situation and just accept the fact that that's how they feel that they're just speaking their truth i think that's just how i approach it i'm just i'm getting ready to give you another mask you poor thing you keep losing it give mask slippage you can use one of my demons [Music] i just keep adjusting here i know i just feel bad we can give you
045one of these um you're making a that's a fashion statement i don't know if i'm ready for that well i i would agree i think that i have listened to people speaking their truth and even this week i spoke my truth and i didn't speak well i was really not i was i was in the moment and i was passionate and i just you know and i did say my truth but the way i said it probably wasn't the best but it's coming from your heart but it absolutely was coming from my heart and maybe that's what we see you know when people are really impassioned about something sometimes it doesn't come out the way that they had anticipated that at least you're seeing that they care and they're passionate and i hope that we
046embrace that for children as well as grown-ups and that we give grace well one of the rules i forgot to share this with you um and speaking of truth there is the caveat to speak to me to listen to don't speak to be heard but speak to me listen like when whenever you speak your truth the goal is to cause it's not even trying to convince someone of something but it's giving them something to think about even if they don't believe the same way at least they don't right and then we can come up with worst case scenarios right and let's say we have uh you know a very religious person here and one by gay even if they don't there's a way in which they can speak to each other that is truthful but
047it's not harmful that makes sense right um and that's the again it goes back that's the culture right that's the culture we want to create right so just having that level of yeah and you cannot it is impossible to do this work and not have any all of this passes through the emotional part of your brain right and that's research based so say hey i don't care either way yeah we do get it right we can pull it back and set it somewhere but there is a level of care right and we get to temper that a little bit but it's just like owning it and like okay i really want this person that like i care enough i wonder what this person right um um we're talking about human beings um we're not going
048to figure this thing out um i love uh i'm a sociologist stuart hart and i love the rorschach test because personality tests you can take it two weeks apart you come up with two different styles right and i have a 12 year old at home and i'll tell you and she took it anyway but i'm just saying that understanding that just like anything else it changes and i think right now is the foundation meaning that the stance is just like with doctors they have that standard so do you know home like right and so our stance is and you think i love the partner staying curious and then just creating a culture right um and then practice listening and speaking the truth and i think that culture there's where you know you make things better
049and safer for kids right seven generations i love it and this is usually where we remind you all like this works this training workshop and us our time together is not going to be the fix of all things ground oppression or systemic anything it's it's the star of it's a conversation and that i honestly have had a magic wand to end all of the isms that are out there i i would have used a long time ago so it's the acknowledgment expect and accept non-closure like you're not gonna go home probably feeling completely whole or have something that is like oh yeah um you know here we're gonna have this big thing and it's gonna be done you know like we we want to have uh everything packaged really nice in a pretty bow and
050it's beautiful and that's not how this work is um it is not linear either like there's so many things happening at the same time it's not a a quick fix and it's not a check off list and so it's it's messy and um a lot of times we don't like messy we like to make it look really great so this work is not it's it's a lot and it's not a destination point it's a journey so you when people are like oh we have arrived we eradicated you know sexism you know homophobia and racism um they're they're that's there's a lot there so it's uh being able to recognize that there's a lot of in this work there's a moment of accept um acceptance that it's not going to be it's there's gonna be a
051long road um and the next one is intention and impact and this is really hand in hand with your speaker truth where okay this might have been my intention to speak my truth but i saw the impact and that harmed others you know what does that mean and and going deeper versus just going that wasn't my intention but let's let's talk about the impact and how can we go deeper in these conversations um and and you know kind of navigate that sometimes it's a mistake we all learn from mistakes that's one thing that i think as uh we tend to become in spaces of leadership in space is that we we don't want to look like we're making mistakes but we know that in mistake making it's when we learn the best and that's when
052we can really dive deep in deeper into those um conversations in fact a lot of the intent and impact conversations i've had actually um grown more thoughtful relationships that are more authentic because we were able to hold each other's um intent and impact and really get deeper into that and understanding each other um and and honoring that honoring each other's truth um so that's i think intention impact and speaker truth are so interconnected because um it's really important to be have that conversation if there's impact do you like to say anything bad about that no i'm interesting because i'm sure that there are often opportunities for you all to exercise the intent impact muscle or you receive messages that may have intended impact and so again we talked about culture right so how's that modeled
053and messaged what does that look like sound like for you all uh especially as we're going down this well you've gotten information that have put you kind of leaning in this direction and you yourself all have to figure it you know figure out you know this road so how does that intended impact playing that first so usually we do a parent share um so i don't know how well this is going to work with distancing um so let's try and if it's too difficult then we can just popcorn out and the question is um which one feels really like you got it like i know how to do this really well and which one isn't like harder to lean in on like oh like for me i i can speak my truth but you know
054it's the hardest one and i've been doing this work for a long time is like accept and expect non-closure because i'm like you know like why are we not there yet um and reminding myself so um if you'd like to share with your um table partner uh well you're next to a table partner let's see how this works and if it's too much then we can just popcorn now it looks like do you want to try that out yeah might be users yeah okay yeah so anybody would like to share yeah i'll just start you know i feel really good about speaking my truth you know because i i do that with people every single day at work i mean we i talk about the most personal life changing horrible and wonderful things and you
055know over decades of doing that i don't i just i'm able to view most things through an extremely clinical eye and and i feel like i'm really good at getting the truth people need to hear out there and uh which also makes me very good expecting and accepting non-closure as well because that is often the result of those kind of hard conversations too so that's my good side that's a question that's not it are you supposed to tell which one's hardcore so then go back and do that other do you want us to give both answers as we're speaking brad what do you think whatever you feel the most comfortable with but yeah if you'd like to share both that would be awesome yeah just let's just go with this go loose it is hard
056for me to stay engaged sometimes i'll say that a lot of times i would just love everybody to hear my truth and accept my truth and you know it doesn't always happen that way and i i can start to tune myself out a little bit when you're not hearing my truth whatever we hear you thanks we may not listen i can accept that i think for me um for most of my life speaking my truth was very very very difficult and it wasn't the culture i grew up and it was not acceptable and um so i got used to not speaking my truth and i have recognized that there are some benefits to age and i'm not nearly as intimidated people think of me and i'm finding that it's easier because i think you know
057by nature i'm kind and i i speak truth because i think it's important and i not to offend and i think that um it's it's become easier for me and what's your what's your trial which one is harder for you which which one you find most challenging um i think probably um it's something non-clojure i think it's probably the most challenging for me because i i like results and i like to see people uh do better and um i like to see them um you know expand their horizons and sometimes people won't choose to do that so that's probably the most difficult okay uh and saying that uh it's no surprise that the one that i am best at is speaking my truth um we would agree through military uh my father was a minister
058and always spoke very uh directly and then now in medicine in the clinical point of view it's you know there's just there's one thing that i can say but you know i've also realized that probably my greatest shortfall with that has become uh intent and impact and having you know adverse impacts with certain things when you're speaking your truth which also would lead me back to a become very practiced experience in discomfort but uh no i just think that you know it's being your tourists at times that it it's something that should be very you know calculus to make sure that your your intent is the same as the impact so you're getting across what you're trying to that's something that i've had to work on [Music] i think i'm reversed i uh i have
059a hard time speaking the truth um and i'm good at experience discomfort because of the experiences that i have had and continued to experience as a person of color but then i have a hard time speaking my truth believe it or not jeff [Music] it's hard to believe um only because i feel that because of in our culture um i don't want to offend or purge anyone so there's that independent impact and most of the time i just keep it to myself until i'm my internal it's full and then it becomes external and that's where that's where my discomfort kicks in where i am comfortable being in a discomfort zone does that make sense yeah absolutely [Music] i'm going to stare down i'll go next uh i think i'm i struggle with speaking my truth
060for the same reasons as you i have i never want to offend anyone i would rather be silent than take the risk of somebody misinterpreting my intent and having poor impact and my weakness is understanding people's intent and their impact because i do feel like majority of the time when people are speaking their truth that they are weaponizing i take that as weaponizing because i i really have zero intent of ever offending i feel like i'm a very collegial person and one of the when i've the experiences i've had when somebody says let me just speak my truth they're angry and they're i feel like they're really coming at me so i would say my biggest issue is intent and impact like discerning at and really being thoughtful they're mindful about them this isn't interesting
061you know i'm i'm trying to put myself in my professional versus my personal right so in your job and so as as your superintendent i would say it's very easy for me to speak my truth when it's um and sometimes i don't speak my entire truth because of my role right and so those hacks are interesting i think but i think anyone that knows me i i usually say like it is even really uncomfortable things so i am fine with experiencing discomfort intention and impact i think that i hate and on this book i mean i hate not having an hand so i that but i've accepted that this is messy but intention still many times when i put out something or say something i'm still surprised at how someone takes it i'm getting better
062i think at anticipating that but i'm still surprised even as old as i am so i am so at five o'clock and i just say this i know we're streaming but at five o'clock we'll be putting out something that will probably have an impact on families that we will be having our k-1-2 i verified it with dr chen we will be reopening our hybrid on the 16th of november okay so that's going out at five so we all might have some impact or we're sitting here still looking at facebook but you know that that constant tension i think is and how to do that well i am have learned and grown and embraced experiencing discomfort and that's part of i guess my age because i i embrace that because i've learned so much through discomfort
063when i surrounded myself and created safe spaces all the time i don't feel like i feel like i learned angry very much so as a result of that i i have a hard time i'm going to be very vulnerable here speaking my truth because sometimes my truth changes and i'm i'm not really connected with what is my truth at times because i i it fluctuates if that makes any sense and so that's a struggle for me to speak my truth when i'm still trying to figure it out at this age i don't think there's anything unusual about that though i mean the world is constantly changing around us you know what we aspire to that we want to grow until we die i mean really don't we want to learn yeah a good listener right
064so when i speak [Music] when your husband says do you love me and you say yes this week actually i would say it's growing your truth so instead of like we're all evolving in our truth and that's part of that more information we get and more information we're growing and we're kind of living in our truth differently so it's an evolution of truth for your truth and that's going to be true for all of us i love that you brought that in is there any others i would like to share that's everybody got everybody would you like to share um i guess i think uh easier is where i'm engaged i i really listen not i was told earlier don't listen to just what people say but listen to what they don't say and so
065i listen intently sometimes overly too much um and i'm always interested and curious about word choice um which causes me sometimes over analyze things but also um i think also too there's there also lies truth within that as well because you know if we're leading with the love and love of kids um and being in this not just profession but just being who i am in the world i feel like i'm constantly having to discern who is who is who is here to to accept me for who i am and who's here trying to call us home right and so that is my world that's how i have to do something very intuitive and so my struggle is knowing what that feels like the hurt the harm whether it's intent whatever the impact is um
066i i don't want people to feel or have some of the experience that i had so i struggled with discomfort in the world of race etc i would be they had this thing it was called people but i ended up being a rescuer and a rescuer is someone that you know oh no it's okay well it's it's not okay right it's and it's not to cause harm but it's like i need you to unpack what you said and i don't need you to write it off and say that oh he or she is being sensitive now you're right i need you to and so that's the part where i struggle when i go in and i rescue and i try to fix as opposed to letting those things you know take its course um and
067that's how we learn and get stronger and better but not from the point where it's detrimental that makes sense so we [Music] and then at the bottom it says glean scene i'm curious and so this was very helpful um we work with a couple of the districts and for whatever reason i mean it's in the book and we started playing with it but they absolutely loved it one i think it's because they're educators a lot of money in [Music] yeah it helps and so it's called a you know race confidence it can be equity confidence it's all about how you enter so for instance let's say we're talking about uh sexes right um how do we enter into that or how everyone interested in that's going to be different whether it's sexism it could be
068religion it could be whatever it is but to some degree you're going to enter into a space you're going to enter into it and so usually when we talk about race and this is research place usually where non-people of color enter is here is in the thinking why do you think that is what does that mean you're saying not people non-colored non-people of color yes usually white people usually enter through thinking and intellect why do you think that is because we don't have any experience yeah so it makes perfect sense and that's totally fine right but but the goal is as we enter in there we're trying to like okay make sense of this right like wow they experienced like what does that mean he sits down and she takes her purse moves up hers
069like what oh he gets an elevator she hops off and she's coming in all of those experiences for right or a kid in a classroom it doesn't get called on for whatever like those are real experiences have children so as we try to make sense of those we're entering into thinking space or even some of the policies we have in place and we see a disparate group right and so this is me in my learning so i'm gonna be vulnerable so i went to my schools i had a party policy and i do tend the black america since the news like if something's not working what do i do i double down on consequences that's what we do so it's like fight you're not in class assessing such a time right you know you know
070you get um stay after class you get a lunch detention and then it goes to after school that starts right keep ratcheting up these things as opposed to the group of um there's a predominant group of uh young ladies and they spent a lot of time in the bathroom whatever get ready long story short when i went and i actually sat down and engaged with them and found out what was going on a lot of them had to be the ones that take take take care of their younger siblings prior to getting there and so when they had i mean right they had to take on these multiple roles so they're rushing to get to school and they're not even together themselves and they were already feeling the feel of being poor right so my
071school the one i was that was 94 freedom reduced lunch and so being in a space and wanting to be accepted meant so much to them that they were willing to miss breakfast because they wanted to go to the bathroom and get dressed and so what what so what did i do well i opened the cafeteria up earlier so the kids that were there got to eat and get out of the race when they came rushing in they had time to eat around them continually trying to create a strength but you see what i'm saying you know and that's me part of the system thinking that intent impact i cause more harm more drama etc but anyway but thinking about how we enter into this intellectual piece and it's not that we stay there yes
072it's not we say that the goal of this is saying notice i use the word intensity but i say enter right i didn't say we start to enter so we go into the intellectual and then we get into wherever else you would like to go and and these are put in place um intensely because when you start thinking about something you can easily begin to start believing that right and then there's the feeling and then you can go into the doing or back right where are you thinking so let me try this then start filling dean's circle but regardless of how you internet i just want you to hold that so when we get into some of these deeper things that you haven't experienced like i haven't experienced right i'm a straight there's some things
073i haven't experienced so i have to enter into this area right and i have to be curious and i have to listen and i have to be uncomfortable and that's what you have to say right and so this is a good thing here so whenever you get into a stuck space or you start to hear new things about your students about your data it is 100 okay to enter in whether it's race sexism to enter in here if you haven't had that experience but then let's work around the room let's work around the room what does this look like what does this feel like and that's where we start beginning to engage um and so we can better understand to create that create that space um police i got just a a small banner in
074the back that said they want to take a quick break actually go ahead oh i was gonna say restroom get food those kinds of things yeah actually this is where i was gonna put a break in anyway so it's perfect um so what do you want and i know there's food so 10 15 minute break what would you like i'm gonna put a p on this somebody come back i just wanna get your thoughts on that you just wanna make sure you go can we take a 15 yeah okay all right that's great thank you we're gonna take a break live streaming can i thank you you are we are we ready to jump back in or where are we at oh perfect so um brad did you want to say anything or do you
075want me to move forward with the other slides i think we can move forward with the slides i just want to remind them again in terms of the probable way in which you're more likely to process and so without trying to steer it just kind of letting that flow in terms of trying to enter intellectually look at the data gather and analyze et cetera can i ask i can't read it says feeling is that behavioral um above feeling in that left quadrant bottom left quadrant what is the word that's kind of in the chart um what i'll do is at the end of this i will send out the powerpoints and videos because we're not gonna probably skip through some of some of the videos so i'll still send them out to you all so
076you can view them on your own i'll mimic it for you there you go brad says best please all right so um the next portion is like a lot of content so bear with me please eat and ask questions um but this is more about kind of defining terms so when we talk about certain things what we talk about so we know what each other are talking about having common um language and this is really about this first slide is just the common language between the difference between equity versus equality and where when we talk about the difference between the two they're very different and a lot of people use them interchangeably but they're not um and so and also when we talk about equity we're really talking about uh removing systemic barriers of what
077that looks like so has anybody seen this slide before or like had conversations about the difference between equality and equity yes yeah and so when we really talk about equity it's like removing systemic barriers like the fence so sometimes we focus too much on the boxes and game and the students boxes is like we're actually not asking ourselves where what is this policy really for like it unintentionally become offense um same thing with like the i a huge one that came up recently was the digital equity um sometimes where we build more fences than we do up and down and how do we kind of navigate that so we're marrying removing systemic bearer i'll tell you uh one that our agency had done was telecommute status we unintentionally built a offense without thinking that it
078was actually harming our employees and and thinking differently about what professionalism looks like thinking differently about what our you know work day looks like um thinking differently about how our policies unintentionally became a place of harm versus a place of you know a place of freedom and justice uh would you like to say anything about this spread this slide do i keep going are you eating no no i'm monitoring my talk i'm trying to all right so i'll keep moving so here's some other um language we like to talk about and this is about the levels of oppression really defining what that means and that could be when i say level depression i mean uh systemic so i mean well that's the definition but i'm talking about like um we use different terms like individual
079oppression like racism sexism all of those isms we kind of link it all terms and that's not how that works and how it's seen and felt um individual really looks at prejudice bias discrimination it's really what we feel um and a lot of times what we can point out and see and you know it's the lots of terms and lots of actions and behaviors that one's really a lot of times we can point to like oh that is an act of um the institutional uh oppression is a lot of times unintentional it's in like policies and practices and procedures um that unintentionally benefit dominic unintentionally for example our education system was built a long time ago well who had access to education when it was first engaged right does anybody remember who had anybody shoot
080up shut out who had access education in the early 1900s white male rich white males yeah and it it's not that it was somebody going ha ha ha it was what our policies were at the time who had access who didn't have access and so sometimes we might not realize that some of those policies are still enacted and unintentionally harm some of our kids with no one's going hahaha but it's unintentional just the way we do things and not recognizing that that might be an institutional barrier that is created and structural aka systemic oppression is a history and current reality of across all institutions like our education system is built on uh systemic oppression um that negative impacts communities of non-dominant identities and so when we talk about systemic oppression it is something that's living
081and breathing water it's not any one person trying to create dominance you know like i am the most powerful one but it's really about thinking about all these intertwined and systemic is usually the hardest one to kind of think about and look at because it's not a policy that you can rewrite it's kind of like living in the uh kind of in the way of water and it's hard to kind of like oh is that it is that it and so here's some really good examples of what that looks like so individual is really about like slurs the smaller you know round um in here the next one is uh local community and our institutions but some of these examples are um current local norms with unintentionally like where people are living that could be
082you know where were they set up to live and then the part is the system egg where you know where do buses go the impact of environment chronic poverty access to wealth policing the criminal justice system difference in educational outputs we know um unfortunately the schools are funded based on our our money model and so sometimes we it's it's just set up that way right and we don't unintentionally think about the form that it's doing to our kids and our teachers and you all us as educators on um how we can provide information to our kids you know and who has access and who doesn't and these are things that is it is not one person's fault it's not intentional in a theme so this is where you use intention impact it's not the intention
083but we never we don't always sit down and look at the impact that it has on depression and we don't even know to call it oppression sometimes we go oh you know that was not meant for that to happen but that could be is a possible level of impact and oppression that occurs so these are things that kind of all hold in and the bottom line is some of these have just been built on historical context that um are still having ripple effects on our history and this is it's like living and breathing it's in our system and sometimes we just don't know what to do with it because it's a lot right so when we talk about um students that are identifies transgender and non-conforming and we start thinking about oh my gosh you
084know like our buildings are not set up to have um gender-neutral restrooms and how do we have these conversations that are really tough about what that looks like and we can't just take down a building and build it back up i know that that would be great but it's kind of thinking about how that is systemically is in place and what do we do about that how do we have these tough conversations around that um because no one's like no no one can identify that way and attend our schools so it's kind of being trying to talk about the systemic portion and recognizing that it's it's still an impact on our our kids our communities are education systems any questions around any of that the definitions no but i want to give give context if
085i could yeah to them and in in terms of from your position something to think about what does it look like when you look at your policy window for ap classes advanced classes what does it look like for uh running the start we had one that you know there was a one around half they can why might some of these things may need a revisit of those i mean what what could be the disparate impact i can speak to running directly in my opinion i feel like it is a phenomenal benefit to students who will not have the opportunity to afford college in the future uh one of the downsides of being a rural community is that access is an issue for our students and i also believe that i don't believe that our district's
086done a great job of supporting and encouraging and giving kids the pathway that they need to put everything in steps so that they can take advantage of that um i think parents who have that knowledge are really good at doing that for their kids but i don't know that um i don't know that we are and we have an acceleration policy that's supposed to help aid with that so um maybe we i mean that's so i do have an issue around that i think that is something that is a barrier and that transportation piece is a barrier for students um in certain populations and i would love to see that overcome and i just want to make it clear it's not like no one's trying to harm the smell we were in a place at
087a district that uh you know it was a kind of like flacco but we're first come first of a basis to certain classes and students had to go and show up at the high school um that was the policy what's what's the plus and minus of the policy right and and so that's the reason for this type of right it's not looking to demonize us it's this thing how do we get to a better place to where right there's more opportunities you know uh and access um we work with physics all the time that have and i've worked you know well i'll back it up i'll put i don't put them on a friendship so i had a situation as a parent or i had a child that qualified for a class but she wasn't
088uh putting because there was a quote-unquote cap on the class and it was an honors class and [Music] i experienced some discomfort um and i didn't want to rub around because of course i know these people my community et cetera long story short it was that was one of those things that it felt individual but i thought about two then the council said that there were other students on the waiting list it would be different he wasn't talking to a principal that kind of knew a little bit about massive schedule so those are small small things that happen and again from this standpoint thinking about that so i have it in my door's a little brown girl right and knowing too what that could mean for her in terms of her cohort etc thinking about
089your school district in terms of what does that look like through a lens of equity so that we don't keep like police are saying we don't hold things in place because it's been done that way tradition does that make sense long before anybody probably in the room has gotten you but it may cause some re-examination and that's where you know the equity policy could come in place right and we've seen policies out too in um i guess we call it central watson where it causes harm to those students that are farmers but they have to right and so now like what does that look like and it's not to you know it's like thinking about ways that they can still take care of family business and still have these academic opportunities so why do we
090have to shelve it right here for two hours right after school as opposed to let them go home and do their family business with the farm and then come back and you see what i'm saying it's like create opportunities as opposed to creating barriers am i making sense so as you start thinking about policies and start thinking about equity what are ways to create more opportunities that make sense or better yet take down some barriers it's a big huge systemic thing to me that ap the words for kids are disenfranchised or don't have a lot of self-confidence or a lot of support just the word ap would send would have them not to even attempt to take the test even though here in the district we've taken the fee out right it's a policy that
091supports them but if you're really just the mention of the word ap could be a barrier for some kids to even attempt it right yeah that's a huge united states systemized barrier i'm not worried and a lot of our our systemic barriers are from the federal unintended right like that is where we live through that education system that is all interconnected and that's the difficult part is sometimes it's not intentional but it's you know who designed some of the policies that are based on federal um and then on state that might not be aligned with um how to support the kids that we're serving and that we all and it might be like a try to be an inclusive like let's support all kids but it still might be leaving out the ones that are
092most marginalized in our systems all right thank you please i just wanted to try to give you context yeah i appreciate it i'm going to go to the next slide so when we talk about experience of privilege and oppression i'm not um this is not talking about like i think the word privilege has gotten to a place where it's like oh you have privilege you don't and that's that's not what this is about it's really about the experience of the system to a person and people might not um always see it and feel it and it's also extremely complicated it is not a binary of you have it you don't it there's very complicated in it especially with intersectionalities um i also don't use uh the words minority or marginalized anymore because that talks about
093people being deficient versus um looking at communities as whole people no matter their identity and what's what is the issue is not people you are like we're all complete great amazing people it's our systems so our systems have been unintentionally have some holes in it um and how do we think about our system is uh providing that not individual so i like to say that we're systemically dominant groups and non-systematically non dominant groups meaning if we looked at you know lots of our education systems who's present you know who's who's in the leader roles who's you know so it's about the system not about the individual um so here's some experiences that might often take place now this is not again a binary i know it looks like there's two two different here but it's
094very complicated so like in this setting i have a lot of systemic power here you know we're all leaders and that's a systemic power um and that differently so i might you know be taught that i am the norm um less aware of social privilege and other groups feelings and experience because it's not in my everyday you know and the system hasn't done that for me hasn't given that knowledge or experience um socially socially unaware not in that sense it's just i might not know another group's um identifies how that what their norms are because i just haven't haven't been exposed it may show defenses of guilt without racialization rather than your urgency towards marginalized folks experience and what this is really talking about if you don't know then you don't know how like you're
095not always in a place to provide empathy if you're just not in a place of having that experience the opposite the other side of that conversation is where systemically non-dominant groups might experience um and again it goes overlapping right this goes in and out so it's not i know i said it this way but it's there's lots of uh back fluidity between the two i may have had history of dealing with negative societal messages like what you're bringing like who who's part of ap and who isn't you know who's who's considered this and that like smart um may feel hypervisible or invisible uh may have to work to see out similar others um not only lonely may socially be conscious conscious or socially unaware if you notice they're in both groups um and it may
096seem acknowledge empathy and urgency for change rather than rationalization or guilt and this is really about uh the urgency of change and like why is it not happening now um and not recognize that you know it sometimes contributed to a person doing it versus it's a system and a lot of times we don't talk about the system we talk about who's the leader that keeps up the system versus oh it doesn't matter always about the leader it's about the system that's in place so a lot of times you know as board members we might have people say why haven't you changed this yet and it's okay it's complicated right there's more than just making a change there's a lot of things involved like um ap he people would say we'll make that change so accessible
097for all but there's there's complications in in in that so it's being able to navigate those spaces and understand that it's a system a systemic is any questions around this yes yes this is an opportunity to kind of come out of the self into the next level and a little push i would like right now if you grab your pen and think about right now in terms of a child how many a child in eatonville school district experienced privilege and or experience experience oppression the next line how many a teacher in eatonville school district experienced privilege and oppression and then lastly but not least how many a parent in email school district may experience privilege and oppression foreign [Music] um so please just want them to go around and share out one or all three
098examples just one maybe so you can do you think pick a student or a teacher but how might they experience privilege or some other question i was awful first of the student um and the privilege is legacy and a lot of what i perceive as legacy galleries here in england and uh so i see that as a privilege and the question would be financial and security for students professionally and that does put you in a position of power and the impression comes from i think financial and lack of opportunity for mentorship or really coming from people how to support this system [Music] that's true we definitely it's a small community so man may i build on that just you know so i've been here eight years but i'm still an outsider right and i think
099that the outsider insider is real i mean i have people say i've lived here 20 years and i'm still still an outsider but i just want to build on that many times parents their history and they're they're they're prejudged when they walk in because of perhaps who they were or who they knew or whatever and in a completely different school district every parent would be on an equal basis and everybody would just be coming in and i think um making assumptions that if you were this kind of student then you come in as a parent i would really worry about those pieces the it's almost like classes yeah very much so i mean obviously everybody that comes here from bethel was a problem student who you know got voted out for whatever reason and clearly
100from less affluent families to live in that neighborhood you know yeah i mean that's we make up our minds about a lot of things but i want a specific example for students right now is just access you know whether it's transportation access to the bus no i think it was preston that said that you know talking with you know transportation issues in schooling is it's not uh something that you know olympia thinks about a lot where our students might have to stand for 30 minutes out of the snow with the possibility of cougar attack that's just a reality of where we're at but then internet connectivity issues the ability at one of our facilities to even you know get online and have multiple students with access to internet because the system can't actually give them
101a bandwidth that's another thing that hobbles all these groups too i mean the students can't learn the teachers are hampered in their ability to teach and now families are really powerless to help their students while we're stuck trying to do this at home so another far-reaching barrier across all these groups no i'm pretty much in the same line with him i mean i didn't go up and oh i go up the line which definitely had a difference yeah and it may still today i don't know how long did you ride the bus each way even today kids from up there spend over an hour each way and my kids spent probably um 40 yeah but it gets further up you know over an hour each way so a question for you all and then you
102all have some in there and and we all know too right so as we lean into this country i noticed that people put legacy and legacy could be anything but when i walk into this room i don't necessarily know whose legacy i know who is flying through black for different colors right and i also know as i listen i know who can speak english who can't speak english pretty much right so i'm sharing this so that you're in a position of policy and your mission statement that you're committed to is still a kid so it's like as we begin to have these conversations we want to do our best effort in terms of centering the margins so thinking about the non-legacy kid that is latinx that's poorer and can't speak english that is not his
103or her whatever oh and let's just say that he or she may be gay or maybe not something those are the students that we're going to have to advocate for because you better believe they're gonna be fighting your entire life so that is why we're having this conversation that is why this conversation has to have this feel of not my child because if you can't feel that not my child right then then we have to get to that point because you're running for all children you said when you sit down not listening behind all children and it's and we have to think about all children and i want to add when we talk about all children it's also the children that might not be in represented in your district that may be coming to your
104district so if you have a district that might not have you know um children of color doesn't your policy should seventh generation thinking it should include uh what what how would that harm kids of color because that's that's the seventh generation thinking and so it's not just building for who's currently in your district but who are you building to provide for your district in the future i got a question for you for those of you that made chosen did everybody married pretty much who their parents wanted to marry what i'm saying is i mean if we truly love our children the love comes to love with other children so we're always ready we're always ready and that's our practice that's our practice because they're going to be child coming to you that you didn't necessarily
105know someone but that's going to be your child one thing that i one of the zoom meetings i was on with you just really struck me it's been really powerful for me somebody talked about that the teachers should love every child and i don't know that teachers i think that's just so powerful because you know i've caught myself saying well you know it's hard for parents to realize the parent that teachers don't love your kids like you do but there was an impassioned person and i think you probably remember that meeting said no every teacher should love every child and i just moved me to tears because that is so powerful and you talk about the love and you you go on the mall and um some kids don't get that love from their teachers
106and i think that's huge it's a different way of thinking we need to love each and every one of them well all means all right it doesn't mean some or the ones that we like the best and when you love children you do anything for them to be successful [Music] it's really as simple as that and that's that's the beautiful thing about what police was sharing is is we have to get comfortable being in those uncomfortable spaces and continue to speak for those children because there are some children and it doesn't mean right you're getting in this thing it doesn't mean that there's less care it means that the student that's coming in living may need some extra attention right and and living doesn't mean that their kid is anything wrong women could be they
107weren't born here right the legacy the living could be they don't speak english that's not their fault right and that looks like anything too we had to unpack that because we were in the district and the first thing the mentality went to was latinx kids but when we went through all right sitting right across and the young lady look would be no different than music but she didn't speak she's from ukraine right so now associating color like see how we train ourselves to think certain ways but again english doesn't have a color to it non-english doesn't have a color to it right and so it has to really just think about that impact and really be intentional um because you never know you just you just you just never know right um but you know
108please all right thank you i love that you're talking because this is like really a bridge to the next portion of this and um i'm i'm skipping videos but this is really a talking about the social identities um there's there's so many i these are like the ten that we talk about but these are the we call the ten dimensions of social identity um and these are the ones that we kind of frame in systems and how who benefits unintentionally from our systems that are employed um and age race ethnicity citizenship a national origin faith-based perspective and religion sex and gender disability sexual orientation class social economic status and education and intellect and i would even say um leadership position positionality um within that at the education system because it's even broke down more um
109and who's seen as a systemic with a systemic look like and who has unintentional benefits for an example um 25 when we reach 25 people don't have to uh put their information um their parent parental information on fafsa anymore that's a that's a systemic barrier for um some of their recent graduates that doesn't have um parents that might be there to support them financially um or they might not be in a space to do that but federal government based on their fafsa if they can and so these are these are things that we don't break down and think about um because it's this systemic right and so uh and this is complicated we have our we have new identities that are very personal to us and then how do they play out only personally but
110also how does that play out systemically so it's very complex and we're complex human beings so this is not about like i have all the privilege or i don't because it's all about situational too and what system we're in but it's it's it's super complex and we don't ever talk about that complexity um we talk about like we choose choose one and we stick there versus going oh um i have i have privilege in a lot of ways and yet sometimes i don't and it systemically and non-systemically so it's uh and how it plays out as an individual to me and how i feel it so for example with um you know disability you know i uh did not really understand the what privilege i had with this within the com context of disability until
111my stepfather got in a car accident and thinking about i don't have to think about you know where i'm going i don't i know that i'm gonna have a seat available if i go to the movies you know and i don't have to think about that that's an unintentional privilege of our systems you know and i don't have to think about if if there's going to be a ramp if i'm in a chair or i don't have to think about um you know if there's going to be you know if i if i have an unseen disability you know i don't have to there's a lot of things i don't have to think about so that's systemically set up it does not mean that it it's there's no bad or good about it it's just
112that we're we don't recognize that systems are set up to benefit does anybody have any um like any examples that like in the schools or um or in their personal life that they can see unintent unintentional systemic privilege that happens or in their life i can give you a big one helen are our um our calendar set up based on christian holidays [Music] and so even from our breaks to how we even develop our calendar our educational calendars and sometimes we might not recognize that our little ones that um celebrate ramadan that you know um especially when they're up in uh high school age they start you know partaking into the the religion that they they don't eat until sundown and if that's in summer our in the pacific northwest our summers are really long
113or like our spring and summer gets pretty long so we're not aware that you know our school schedule does not always fit their needs in um in prayer or in celebration of their uh holidays and that's unintentional like it's not like our school districts are going ha ha ha it's very unintentional and yet it's a systemic thing that we we just don't think about i think i'll share i feel like i have a lot of privilege and i we don't it's the it's the water that we swim in and now there's that dissonance of oh i didn't realize that so i'll just give kind of a silly example um when when my husband and i hike he's always like well i think i'm going to go hike by myself and i'm like oh as a
114woman i'm not gonna hike by myself right so i am very aware of my surroundings i'm not so when we see a single woman hiking i always feel really uncomfortable for her right but she's by herself and and yet you know and so we have that conversation but when i find myself in that situation when i'm like oh i didn't even think of that i want to remember those moments because that is really very important in a system to remember all of the pieces that we just take for granted and i don't even see my privilege but i know i have i know i have it yeah and the thing about privilege is not about it being good or bad like if we all have money and we feel bad that we have money right
115because we have less privilege you're not going to give your money away right like if you if you want you can give it to me and i will take you off the guilt of having that privilege but it's about what you do with it right and thinking about it specifically and so that i think that's where the the the conversation about levels of of what's happening it's complicated but it's also it's not about good or bad or if you have this privilege you're automatically good um or bad with it it's about what we do with that it's like you know thinking about oh what do i now what do i do with it so maybe with that woman it's like check it in hey you good you know um [Applause] and also just recognizing that
116like okay you know i'm going to support that person in doing that whatever that might look like any other examples i know you all gave some examples already with a running start that's ageism so we didn't even realize that is like we're trying to expand uh for our kids to have access to college at an earlier age um with but yet we still kind of think oh could no are they they can't do certain things as other college students so that the running start becomes about their age um i'm a professor i still teach at um in a community college and they're treated differently as soon as they're told they're a writing start students are treated really in the class and they're treated like oh you won't know how to do this and i'll tell
117you the writing starts students are usually much more advanced than a lot of things than we give them credit for appearance ageism differently in that setting all right so i'm going to go to the next one i think rhonda has something fun yes okay i'm looking at the last one education and i think that's one of the deficits i really feel because i don't have a higher ed degree and yet i'm passionate about education so passionate that all of my children have higher education and so i think that that is something in this education world that this swimming pool that we swim in and i think sometimes um people look down on people thinking they don't have the ability sometimes it's not the ability it's a lack of opportunity right um i think that that
118that is real it's real in our community as well as in this uh industry and what you call it this the microcosm of education so so does that play out too in new families for quote unquote like city folk versus students that are more in the agriculture world how does that play out in is there a line within that up the line and challenges yeah what does that mean so that towards the mountain when we say up the line we mean the smaller towns lb and ashford on the way up to the mountain farther from everything no cell phones lousy internet no jobs um just less resources all the way around you know town is is uh got internet cable tv it's also got lots of apartment dwellers you know you go out to one
119of our other schools warehouser elementary that's horse country you know that's bigger houses bigger lots wealthier families so we do have lots of that just within our our own districts so there is that social economic here i guess would be called and even in town there's various towns that's better than ever yeah so the town can be kind of like a skate park right you kind of got those kids and you get those kids yeah yeah it's so much different than most cities it's just on a little smaller scale yeah i don't know i think if we're going to be honest though i don't think for the most part the kids do that i think that adults do that for sure that's an adult thing okay [Music] once in a while but i i really
120think that adults recognize those differences someone asks you how do you learn about those different pockets because you're writing policy for the children right so you know i'm saying from the up to right now [Music] right and i love and appreciate not because she's fear but just that growth mindset knowing that your community does have legacy and that legacy is getting layered on as more and more people come to your i mean right i'm looking like you're the real estate agent where you're going to go tonight so as a real estate right like so how are you thinking about and then being inclusive using equity ratio activity identity equity so how do you learn about that i think that's one of the things like how do you create that learning culture so you can be
121right continue that legacy but i think it plays the date the data place with that in that looking at what our demographics are so the data will show down and also your knowledge is because you have been here and required it here and so that type of um historical information that they already have embedded in their mind kind of plays a role in that but i think the demographic data will also help with that so i guess that's what i'm wondering so what you're saying is we need to be building policies for that seventh generation those who might be moving into our district how do we know how to help those students if we're not interacting with is that what you're saying like pretty much we're predominantly a white community predominantly yeah and so how
122do we know how to best serve students that we don't have a population right it's not in it's not an intentional issue how do you learn so you can write you know better more intentional more inclusive policy because those students represent your school right those communities are your community right and so it's you know just staying in that that learning growth mind that you know that growth mindset okay well i i've been in this new position reading a lot of policy it's pertaining to my my title here and it's not the policy sometimes it's bad it's the enforcement in the um the way it i mean and then that becomes all of our responsibility because i think we have some really wonderful policies that have been rewritten recently but then you know do all the
123teachers understand the policy how does that play out how does that really look if we follow it and nice but do they even know that sometimes right right policies that the staff don't even know that exists and so at night it comes from again from the school board and superintendent to really have a an intentional um information to all the staff about those type of policies that we have because i don't think that we do a good job with that like in my opinion how do we live how do we make it live yeah how to make the policy really alive i was just going to say there are so many policies right so yeah so prioritizing specific ones around your strategic plan and around language yes around there and then you know having a
124policy there for someone but it's the language that we use for all children equitable for all children access for all children not just some children not the children that have been raised here and have a legacy who know how to navigate the system who know what you know mayday is about yeah yeah i didn't know what that was yeah i know brad there are things that people know about and people new people do not know about so what other things are there you know i mean mayday's like yeah one that just kind of slaps your face when you come to mayday you're like oh my goodness i don't even know what this is but what are the subtle things that are happening that you know i was just thinking outreach for our families of color
125we do not do an intentional outreach for really any new people in any specific way i wouldn't say yes no i agree with that yeah yeah we don't have it this is a cultural celebration here even though we're predominantly right we don't celebrate this morning right now i think a big problem with policy too i mean they're all right i mean not they're not all well understood or even known and i think that's because a lot of policies come from the top and just roll downhill and and uh speaking from a fire service perspective we are really trying for the last 10 years to get away from that and write less policy and encourage more of a cultural do the right thing kind of mentality and yeah when you just you know we have a
126book of 18 000 policies you can't know those you can't practice them all it's in my opinion it's you know a huge policy book is just setting yourself up for failure on a lot of fronts i think the things we're talking about you know come from the culture and i don't have the easy answer on how to make a culture take root here in eatonville but you know it's uh yeah just this policy book is i think as much a hindrance as a benefit sometimes the policy book protects you from the lawsuits and liability where what you need is a culture change people actually practice what the intent of policy is [Music] yes yes yes we always we always internal policy because that's where we unintentionally put some systemic things but it's about building that
127culture that is what's going to be the ripple effects so we might talk about policy in that way but this is the real work is these conversations about how we're going to build this culture how we're going to build this thinking so it's not just about how do we build that policy but it's how do we implement that how do we implement the culture of thinking and and kind of checking each other on like oh you know is sometimes you might not know what you know person of color might feel in your thinking or you might have that not representation of someone that um within these identities but it's being able to go oh let's think about this how do we bring them in the conversation to build that culture and also recognizing that maybe
128they're not in your communities right now but when your kids leave they're going to meet people within these uh different social identities and how are they going to be able to build that level of going oh you know this is a really beautiful thing to learn and engage versus you know get stuck on some stereotypes prejudice being able to critically think about that so this is about building that culture that we're we've been talking about i love this um i i'm gonna i'm gonna actually speed through a couple things because i want to go to building our why which is exactly where you're going so i'm gonna bear with me okay police time check is 6 15. yep that's right this real quick i'm gonna uh go back to this slide real quick and so
129we can talk about our why um so i i do want to say the reason why psesd and why we offered us for us to think about why we lead with racial equity is because if you intersect any of these identities with race and you looked at the most um harm that's being done it's usually the pred the highest predictor is based on race so uh our little ones with disabilities and you intersect that with race um those are usually the predictor for who's going to be in those classrooms is race um when you intersect that with gender and women of color um specifically black indigenous people of color who's paid less in positions um within our education system and and beyond um so it's that's why we lead with race does not mean we
130end with race so i just want to make that clear when we talk about leading with racial equity it's not we're only going to talk about race and nothing else it's that we recognize that that's a reliable predictor on when you intercept that with with any identity and that should not be the case so i'm gonna go um so let's talk about our why and i think that's where you're getting that and right if you wanna do you want to start this off while i get the video ready yes so we're talking about um equity and what feels good and great for most of us self-included it's usually when we have the opportunity to operate on an external plan meaning that i get the opportunity to go in do something to make something else better
131right that is the for the most part the easiest part of the work the hardest part of the work is the leadership of self so we're going to make some things pretty clear and have data to back up when folks walk into a room like if someone's walking to your room the first thing they're going to know and identify is people's race period that's the number one thing and there's nothing because right the second thing is what jim right no judgment [Music] a long week so i say that to say this is what we notice and that is 100 okay there's nothing wrong with that right the thing is is now that you've assessed that your brain is making all these decisions you have to investigate what you're thinking what you believe and then what
132are your actions because some of that is conscious and some of that's unconscious i'm gonna go sit where i'm safe i'm gonna go sit because this might mean this like those are the little things that begin become part of your right as opposed to [Music] well i don't know what that would be maybe i should go over and sit beside right she might be just a hair older than i am but i'm gonna but those are the things too that we do to people based on our beliefs and we do have beliefs that uh you know older folks can't change we do have beliefs that young people that prep like we hold right i mean we have a slow millennial joke all of those things we hold and we operate on but they play out
133and they found other ways whether it's race whether it's gay straight but those are the things that that's our work right and we say systems you guys are part of this you're you're like the head and the head of the system and so how do you acknowledge it modeling that and i did not feed her that but i love the fact that she says outreach being a leader isn't waiting to what comes to your door it's not waiting for something bad to happen in your district before sorry jeff i'm saying bad words here before you write a policy there's a place but that but i think that that's the culture and uh you know what i was saying it's like the policy is kind of like the floor it's not the root right it's from
134which you operate out of and so when we start talking about leadership the first leadership is of self right and so whenever there's problems within your house what we like to do as adults is like start blaming kids but if we took some mirror moments there's some opportunities we could have done some things to help right i know we don't like saying that don't tell the kids who said that that's true right so that's kind of kind of how school system is and it's not meant in terms of right or wrong it's meant in terms of how do we continue to grow and get better for our kids for the seven generations right so when we come back here 20 years and we see your grandbabies running around here or whoever like but they're in
135a better place like that's what everyone in this room wants right and they want to say so that starts with leadership yourself and the rest is you know others however at least you go ahead that's my that's my favorite part yeah he's entering our why so then the how and what comes it will come with that it will ripple effect from knowing your why the leadership itself is knowing your why and and that will build the culture that you're all talking about and being able to interrogate your personal why in doing this work so what we're trying to um how do we build capacity for doing this work around things that you might not know about right like an identity you might in communities that you're not sure about and it's being vulnerable and vulnerability
136is not a weakness it's been taught unfortunately as weakness but it's not and the uncertainty um risk and emotional exposure we face every day are not an option it's not optional only our only choice is a question of engagement our willingness to our own and and our vulnerability determines the depth of our courage and the clarity of our um purpose the level of which we protect ourselves from being vulnerable is a measure of our fear and connect and so when you know your why that's when you can kind of start going in and like no matter what like you know your why that's not that's like your rooted self and it's and whatever happens and people are going to like well why are you doing this you know it's for the seventh generation that is
137part of my why you're not gonna be shook and so i'm gonna do one quick video and then we'll be able to do our why okay so let me oops stop share and then share oops nope um where is it um i can be in a movie because all of it is mostly motivated in fact in fact i have a new uh new web series please tiana can you meet yourself oh probably probably on so every single wednesday at three o'clock we drop a new episode on youtube of michael jr thank you what it is it's me i travel around the country and i do how do i know a lot of people when they think of the phrase how do i know they always want to put the what behind it how do i
138know what i'm supposed to do the question that you really should ask is how do i know why i'm here because when you know your why your what becomes more clear and more impactful if you know like for instance um people know that i do comedy but that's what i do my why is to inspire people to walk in purpose so i can do comedy i can write books i can be in a movie because all of it is motivated by my why in fact i have a new uh a new web series out called michael jr break time uh we probably just did the sixth episode it's on youtube so every single wednesday at three o'clock we drop a new episode on youtube of michael jr break time what it is is it's me
139i travel around the country and i do stand-up comedy because you know and in the middle of my comedy set sometime i'll stop and just talk to my audience and we've been filming this and it's you know it's it's pretty cool so we're in winston salem i'm gonna show you a clip from winston-salem and i'm just talking to this guy in the audience and he tells me that he's a uh a musical instructor at a school all right you're a musical instructor you know can you sing let me hear you sing a song so this is what happened at the last episode of michael jr's break time check it out so your musical director yes sir all right so um let me get a couple let me get a couple bars of like a amazing
140grace can you do the first part of that go ahead amazing grace how sweet [Music] that brock is saying you know what i'm saying all right all right um now what you give me the version is if uh your uncle just got out of jail you got shot in the back when you as a kid i'm just saying let me see the hood version real quick if you know which version i'm talking about just see if that exists let me see what you got [Music] me [Music] is i [Music] see [Applause] okay um here's what i want you to catch the first time i asked him to sing he knew what he was doing the second time he knew why he was doing it when you know your why your what becomes more impactful because
141you're walking towards or in your purpose [Music] so we show that because that's really how you build culture is really being firm entered in your why i'm doing this work and it's going to get tough right there's going to be people that are like you know resistance is going to happen but it's building that why and so my um i know i have one minute left but um if you all could start like even if you start writing this is my why and my biggest suggestion is take some time um and think about it and my and share it with each other um and being able to kind of build not only your why in doing this work as individuals but as a collective so when you're able to kind of think like not just
142about implementing that policy it's about building that culture to implement that policy to be what it can be and so this is why this work is so important with our why because it's not about getting something right it's about following in our center of why and when i also would say my why used to always start and end with my nieces and now it's deepened because if i love all the kids that i'm serving in there in our region like i love my nieces that looks very different and the ripple effects could happen because of that much love i have and my why they're focused on my they're like centered in my why i don't waver because i think oh my gosh does this happen to my niece that's my indicator what would i do
143um but those are that is uh deepening your why and that's that where we go back to that growth and what you were talking about speaking your truth because it will evolve and it's being able to like but you're and your why will evolve and get deeper and rooted deeper into you but what will you know that your why will um sorry you will never get shook and or uprooted if you're why is solid rooted in the ground in the in the earth like a tree all right right you know what i think we needed to hear that today yes we did i know that i needed to hear that and i would imagine every board member as well that was great so in our closing really quickly we do usually do like a one
144word code [Music] not and available if you're feeling like you know what's an action step you think you're about to do it but really just really trying to keep it the one word [Music] so so one word what was curious or a new learning and if you're thinking about acting stuff then one word you know i want to post the song or the wonderful conversation but peace in my action steps is just to move forward with my work and and try to make it better for all the kids in eden though in seventh generation too well i'll go before we're going to do a circle um my word is hope i think i'm i'm very very in that frame right now but i'm curious about that seventh generation i don't know if i unders have
145understood that concept before but i it resonates with me i like having words around it i like that and my action step is i'm gonna go out there and see those football players out there because they're gonna reiterate the fact that we can do this together and we've got to do this for kids we can't we can't let them down they're watching us every day one word i think only one word today would be better not to imply that things are necessarily bad but there's things can always be done better i've always liked finding a better way to do things different ways to do things you know i'm not certain about my next step but just to keep keep listening and learning and i'm kind of hoping that steps will become apparent but those are
146the most important if you're listening and learning now you can write policies that you see i'm saying all right that's the most important all right i guess my one word of people would be leadership right here in the community here is looking at people in this room to help develop policy that's inclusive that clearly voiced a concern and that we weren't doing that i think really at least for me personally my next action step is introspection uh see where i need improvement and i'm sure that all of us want the same outcome and it's how each of us can bring something different to the table to achieve the goal i think for me acceptance i'm going to accept what i will be going through right now and i think if i can cheat i will
147also use the word i believe that we can move on from this i think for me um the word um for a long time now that is gratitude i'm grateful for the opportunity that we're being given to make change and to help every child become the best position this has been my passion for many many years um i think my word is reflective for talking about and really being thought forward my curiosity is how do we learn to serve a student population we don't have yet in our district and my action step is to learn more to take a personal responsibility to learn more deeper into uh [Music] expect i i expected well i didn't know i expected a little more traditional dodgeball i'm just being everybody honest let's be honest i mean that's what
148i was expecting because no one is going to necessarily force you to change you're going to get angry parents you're always going to have upset parents but my god if you don't believe and you don't have a why i mean you can sit here with your attorney and keep kicking the inappropriate unequivocal can down the road but you better believe it's not your children your grandchildren right and the fact that you know you're here today and putting things in line is great for all kids following you from up the line that's all i'll put back in your hands thank you so much for having us [Applause] on facebook so i just want to say this is the best friday night i've had so like i have missed all of you in person and this really
149has i know touched all of our hearts until debbie thank you for setting everything up in the center [Music] yeah absolutely absolutely thank you feliciano for giving up a monopoly game on the vacation right um the funny thing is i'm actually on the base of mount hood so i we're usually here in your area but this time we're over here at mount hood um so i and my family grew up on uh by the base of mount hood so when you talk about the community that you're speaking of i i feel like that was my childhood so i'm a product of a majority white um community that i was one of the only kids of color in except my cousins and that did not teach about anything because they were too scared to um so
150i just want to say like and this community is huge to me so i um my nieces are still around here so they mean the world to me in fact my niece uh advocated for oregon to have non-uh hate symbols online and offline and in the classroom so people who didn't have to deal with discrimination and she is from a community just like yours and so i know your kids can change the world and will change the world thank you we have a follow-up date right now thank you you