Leading for Equity: From Numbers to Names to Faces CAPEA Conference March 10, 2006

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Leading for Equity From Numbers to Names to
FacesCAPEA ConferenceMarch 10, 2006

• Dr. Kenneth Magdaleno, CSU Fresno
• Dr. Noni Reis, San Jose State University
• Dr. Jose Lopez, CSU East Bay
• Dr. Gilberto Arriaza, San Jose State University
• Dr. Alfredo Cuellar, CSU Fresno
• Patricia Stelwagon, San Jose State University

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Who Are Our Students?
Source Ed Data, 2005
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Who Are Our Educational Leaders?
Source Ed Data, 2005
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Critical Questions to Address

• How have WE changed the manner (content and
  instruction) in which we prepare educational
  leaders?
• What is the current state of the achievement gap
  persist?

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Latino-White Gaps Closing Only Slightly
2003 Gap 33 points
1992 Gap 37 points
Source Ed Trust, 2004
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Schools With Greater than 50 Latino Students
Still in Bottom Two API Deciles
Source Unpublished analysis by WestEd and the
Education Trust West, 2004.
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Poor White 4th Graders in California Read At A
Lower Level Than Poor White Students in Almost
Every State
California
Source Ed. Trust West 2004
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Student Performance on NAEP Disaggregated by
Race/Ethnicity, Mathematics California Students
- Grade 4

Sourcehttp//www.nces.ed.gov/nationsreportcard/na
epdata/
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AT 4th GRADE?
Source Ed. Trust West, 2004
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AT 8th GRADE?
Note In 8th grade, students take different
course-specific tests in math depending on what
course they enroll in. These results show
proficiency of all 8th graders, regardless of
what course they are taking.
Source Ed. Trust West, 2004
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Changing the Conversation
Our responsibility is to be sure no student
falls out of the system because we didn't support
them, regardless of their backgrounds.
Bill Brand, outgoing superintendent of the Santa
Paula Union High School District, Los Angeles
Times, 1/27/03
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Given these projections

• What is that I can do to reverse the trends?
• What can our Departments and Programs start doing
  today?