Academic Equality and Equity – Ohio Conference NAACP

Academic Equality & Equity

The Goals of the Taskforce are to develop and execute the following items:

To propose a National NAACP network, website, template of Best Academic Practice Models for Black students

To present specific school districts/schools as Best Academic Practice Models for Black students

To align thinking around the concept of Best Academic Practice Models for Black students

ACADEMIC OPPORTUNITIES IN EQUITY
FOR BLACK STUDENTS IN OHIO

The above actions led to the current Statewide Task Force on Best Academic Practice Models for Black Students.

The Youngstown/Mahoning County Unit #3207 Template was used to identify the top ten Best Academic Practice Model Schools/Districts in Ohio.

This work forged a historic collaboration and Task Force between the NAACP Ohio State Conference, the Ohio Department of Education, and Ohio State Board of Education.

Tangible

Unit presidents, education chairs, and strategic partners will have access to Best Academic Practice Models for Black Students.

Best Academic Practice Models for Black Students will provide a framework to align thinking around features of leadership and teaching strategies that get results.

Intangible

Best Academic Practice Models for Black Students will empower unit presidents and education chairs and give access to models of excellence to advocate on behalf of Black and all other children.

Advantages

1

Advantage #1

Enhance the desire to improve on the personal and organizational levels to ensure Best Academic Practice Models for Black students in every school/district on a national scale

2

Advantage #2

Encourage dialogue with and among colleagues on Best Academic Practice Models for Black students that will result in a more productive local, state, and national education culture

3

Advantage #3

Provide evidence of what works for Black students

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Advantage #4

Build on Best Academic Practice Models for Black students

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Advantage #5

Accelerate leadership, teacher, and student growth on Best Academic Practice Models for Black students

The Value Provided

Intrinsic

Knowing that Black excellence is achievable and provable when high expectations by all willing adults (based on historical and current data) ensure the necessary resources for rigorous instruction by effective teachers are in place and discriminatory barriers (de jure and de facto) are removed.
NAACP state presidents, education chairs, parents, guardians, and students will obtain information on high academic practitioners/practice model schools within each state and region.
Change the paradigm and conversation on low expectations, trauma, poverty, and the inability of low performing schools to achieve ABC academic levels when barriers are eliminated, verifiable trust established, and exposure to challenges are provided.

Extrinsic

Best Academic Practice Models for Black Students will help to align skeptics to mitigate challenges that inhibit Black student academic achievement.

Recommendations

Reach consensus around the need to disrupt the status quo (or a need for dramatic change) with a greater sense of urgency

Establish a committed national team/staff on Best Academic Practice Models for Black students

Reach consensus of (characteristics/criteria) high/low academically performing schools/ districts

Replicate this Best Academic Practice Model process in Florida first – (using pre COVID-19 - 2019 data)

"Education is the centerpiece of my administration. I hope the work of the Ohio Task Force Template will be helpful to units across the nation…" - President Tom Roberts