Hassain Rasheed Photography. AAMA Overview AAMA Video MDP Q & A.

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Hassain Rasheed Photography

AAMA OverviewAAMA Video MDPQ & A

AAMA Overview

Encourage Empower

Engage

Succeed

Engage

Engaged Students

Our classes, conferences, and celebrations of excellence have reached 2,500 African American Male students

Engaged Families

Our community wide parent outreach has reached over 700 families

Our professional development trainings and consultancies have reached 200 teachers & principals

Engaged Schools

Encourage

“Last year I had like a 2.2 GPA now I have a 3.2. I’m headed for

college.”

Enoch HankinsOakland High School

Manhood Development Program

Scale: 8 High Schools, 8 Middle Schools, 2 Elementary school

Teachers: Taught by certificated teachers

Curriculum: “Mastering OurIdentity: the African American Male Image”

Key Strategy: Transformative Mentorship to provide support to African-American males across the school

Empower

Summer Engineering Experience for Kids

Read 2:Lead community reading program

UC Berkeley Destination College

EmpoweredLearning

Empowered Teaching

District-wide cycles of inquiry process focused on African-American males at every school

Edna Brewer Voluntary School Study Team

High school literacy specialists

EmpoweredSupport

Man-Up conferences

Celebrations of academic excellence

African American Family Summits

Succeed

From 2010 to 2014, suspension rates for African American male students decreased by 43%

Succeed

In the 2014-15 school year our Manhood Development program will serve 650 students

Succeed

Students in the MDP program demonstrated significant increases in key skills such as critical thinking, goal setting, organization and communications

Succeed

AAMAThe Black Sonrise

Manhood Development ProgramReport Summary

• Recruitment and development of African American male instructors

• Culturally relevant curriculum• Leadership and character

development activities

MDP Supports

African American

Male Achievement

through

• Transcript evaluation and college and career guidance

• Parent and family training and community building

• Cultural, college and career field trips

Student Academic Outcomes from 2010–2014

1) 124% increase in MDP student enrollment. Oakland youth want to be in the class, and there is currently a waiting list for participation.2) 79% of students have satisfactory or improved school discipline records.3) 20% of MDP students have an increase in attendance based upon the scale of satisfactory, at risk, moderate, and severe chronic absences.4) 30% of participants are reading at or above grade level and, over the course of two years, 8% of students increased from below grade level to grade level or above.5) The average GPA for students in the program is 2.12 compared to non-treatment African American males who have an average GPA of 1.7.

Student Social-Emotional Outcomes

1. MDP participants demonstrate a significant increase in critical thinking and communication skills.

2. MDP Life Skills Assessment for high school students shows a statistically significant increase in goal setting and communication.

3. MDP youth acknowledge an increase in the number of positive adult role models on campus and demonstrate a keen awareness of the benefits and challenges of being an African American male.

4. MDP youth show an increase in emotional intelligence, social acceptance, and self-efficacy.

5. MDP youth demonstrate improvement in school belonging and academic attitudes.

MDP CultureOur Standards for “The Brotherhood”

• Respect for Ourselves and Each Other

• Keep it 100 (Tell the Truth)• Lift Ups, No Put Downs• Look Out For Each Other• Play Hard, but Also Work

Hard• Represent Your Best Self at

All Times• Be On Time• Be Responsible for Your

Actions• Build the Brotherhood• Trust Yourself and Others in

the Brotherhood

Key Findings/Next Steps

• On multiple indicators, most students perceive that the MDP class adds value to their lives.

• Cultivating creative intelligence means students can help solve societies greatest ills.

• This is not just about Black people, per se, but society as a whole. Every time a student disassociates from school, society experiences larger casualties.

• Given today's environment, the classroom can—and must—take on new meaning.

Succeed

• District leaders with a 50,000-foot view will not have a substantial impact unless they are connected to the ground and rooted in practice.

• Teachers can find hands-on advice for reaching and teaching this generation with a pedagogy of patience.

• Perhaps the greatest result is the sheer beauty of collective willpower. Altogether, a community of educators, elders, young people, superintendents, scholars, policy makers, and parents are joining hands to interrupt patterns of underachievement. Together we are making the vision for an MDP into a reality!

Succeed

• The AAMA is continuing to expand the Manhood Development Program into other schools, and is connecting the curriculum to college entrance requirements.

• All OUSD teachers interested in effectively reaching and teaching African American children and youth are being welcomed to participate in the AAMA communities of practice and workshop modules.

• The four cornerstones moving forward: Developing our sons’ creative intelligence, practicing a pedagogy of patience, fostering partnerships with purpose and maintaining visionary leadership.

Succeed

Thank You

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