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Finding an Equity Focus with ForgedEd

Who: School/district leader teams 

When & Where:

      • Sept. 26 from 8:30 a.m.-1:30 p.m. in person
        • West End Educational Service Center 
          8265 Aspen St. 
          Rancho Cucamonga, CA 91730 

      • Virtual Oct. 3 from 3-5 p.m. 

      • Virtual Oct. 12 from 3-5 p.m.

      • Oct. 26 from 8:30-11:30 a.m. in person
        • San Bernardino County Superintendent of Schools
          601 North E Street 
          San Bernardino, CA 92415 

    What: Want more time to clarify or identify your equity focus with your team?  This professional learning is for you!  Identify a specific equity issue, as a team, that we will continue working with throughout this learning journey by exploring our identities, deeply listening to students on the margins, and analyzing the characteristics of white supremacy culture. 

    In person during session 1, you will: 

        • Feel connected to each other and to a shared purpose by sharing our stories. 

        • Critically analyze White Supremacy Culture’s effects on our internal state of being, and how this affects our work with each other and our youth. 

        • Learn and use a shared language to understand systemic oppression, specifically racism, through relevant examples. 

      Virtually in session 2, you will: 

          • Complete and share an Epistemology map that will help us explore our own experiences with identity, mastery, belonging, and efficacy. 

          • Learn the differences between Satellite Data, Map Data, and Street Data and reflect on how data drives decisions we make as leaders.  

          • Plan for ways to collect a variety of street data between now and our next session 

        Virtually in session 3, you will: 

            • Share our street data with one another, analyzing what students shared, and reflecting on what we heard and did not hear. 

            • Learn about and analyze the Agency Framework in Street Data. 

            • Learn about, participate in, and prepare for empathy interviews with our students on the margins. 

          Back in person for session 4, you will: 

              • Examine what we have learned by listening to our students through empathy interviews. 

              • Name and commit to exploring a specific equity issue for our team throughout our LAEP learning journey.  

              • Reflect on our team learning, our experiences, and how we can utilize our learnings in an ongoing way. 

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            Eric Barela, Ph.D.

            Senior Consultant, Raya Cooper Impact Consulting

            Dr. Eric Barela has worked as a measurement & evaluation professional for over 2 decades, helping organizations to better understand and act on their social impact. He’s currently a Senior Consultant with Raya Cooper Impact Consulting and previously worked at Salesforce, where he led efforts to measure the social impact of the company’s work with nonprofits and educational institutions across the globe. He began his career working with the Los Angeles Unified School District and with the nonprofit, Partners in School Innovation. Eric previously served on the Board of the American Evaluation Association and currently serves on the Editorial Advisory Board of the American Journal of Evaluation.

            Eric grew up in East LA and was educated in the Montebello Unified School District. He holds a Ph.D. in education from UCLA. He loves a good road trip, with his husband serving as trusty navigator.