Minutes October 25th Meeting

Monthly CEN Meeting October 25th, 2019 12:00pm-1:00pm SITE Santa Fe, 1606 Paseo De Peralta

In Attendance: Diego Medina, School for Advanced Research; Drew Ayotte, Meow Wolf; Emily McClintock, AmeriCorps VISTA/Opportunity Santa Fe; Hannah Yohalem, Vital Spaces; Joanne Lefrak, SITE Santa Fe; Jonathan Boyd, Vital Spaces; Katie Weeks, Audubon NM; Kathia Gonzales, Audubon NM; Kemely Gomez, Museum of International Folk Art; Kristen Woods, Wise Fool NM; Leslie Fagre, Museum of International Folk Art; Mollie Toll, Office of Archaeological Studies/Museum of New Mexico; Mollie Parsons, Satna Fe Botanical Garden; Nadine Stafford, Independent Consultant; Pam Dresher, Bradbury Science Museum; Sally Maxwell, Audubon NM; Sarah Canelas, AmeriCorps VISTA/Opportunity Santa Fe; Sarah Cheney, Opportunity Santa Fe; Sarah Mandela, ARTsmart NM; Siobhan Niklasson, Pajarito Environmental Education Center; Tallie Segel, SFBG; Turahn Dorsey, Consultant; Winoka Yepa, IAIA Museum of Contemporary Native Arts;

• Welcome and Introductions

• Guest Speaker: Turahn Dorsey, former Chief of Education for the City of Boston—Informal Education.

  • A presentation about The Future of Learning was held previously on October 24th, 2019.

    • It focused on using the city as a resource for education.

      • Community to support educational needs.

  • Regarding the City of Boston’s Summer Program:

    • Ecosystem learning.—How do we turn the city into the classroom?

      • Anytime, anywhere learning

    • Goal is to think continuously about what leaning looks like.

      • The school plays it’s role, but out-of-school time learning is still the larger portion.—More impactful.

      • Want to bridge the achievement gap between low-income students and higher income peers.

      • Worked to expand access to high quality summer learning with the public and non-profits.

    • In 2010: began Summer Learning Program in Boston.

      • Ask, “What is the shared vision?”

        • Similar aspirations; holistic development.

        • One target is school, during the school year, itself.—However, it is difficult to change the system.

        • Summer is a demilitarized zone.—Easier to access; out-of-school time learning may an easier access point, in general.

    • Guideposts:

      • Nothing happens in a school building or classroom.

      • Focus on emotional and social development.

      • Partnership between schools and non-profits; co-designed and co-developed.

    • This year, the program served 14,000 students

      • Program combined:

        • District.

        • Philanthropy.

        • Non-profits.

      • They met every week; only three meetings were missed.

    • Consider Boston After School & Beyond; their website is here.

      • Critical partner for implementing after-school programs; bridges school and after-school.

        • The program needs someone to run it, day-to-day.

        • Act as intermediaries and/or systems-operation partner.

    • What we want to know, from the students, is “When you fail, do you stick with it?”

      • Needed to develop perseverance and growth.

        • Focus on rewarding more esoteric achievements: perseverance, leadership, etc.

      • Start the focus here, during the Summer Program, in order to subvert the school year.

        • Can bleed into the system.

    • The school system for when to receive grades was changed based off of needs for data.

    • Holistic Student Assessment:

      • Student administered, seven-domain assessment to register how you persevere; student resiliency.

        • Used to support focus on social and emotional learning.

    • How to manage multiple sites?

      • Invite practitioners to be peer observers

        • Creates consistency in program quality.

    • Created a blended set of funding for the Summer Learning Program to help sustain long term planning.

      • Each component paid approximately one-third of the budget.

      • Non-profits paid into the system to help fund.

        • Provides measurement tools and reports, technical assistance  for providers.

        • Assists with accountability.

    • Allowed organizations and individuals who are not a direct part of the program to adopt the practices and principles

      • Those who are not in the system were offered the resulting tools.

      • Lets people act outside of the system, but be up to standard.

    • Create an extension of the formal learning system

      • Started with 3rd Grade-12th Grade.

        • Backed into earlier years, eventually.

      • Focused on Summer Learning Loss for Middle Graders.

      • High School ages concentrated on Acceleration Project.

        • Work based learning for High School years.

      • Replaced Summer School entirely by Year 4.

    • Program targets the kids on the edge of success, but not succeeding.

      • This group can connect with kids who a fully struggling, but also with the kids who are succeeding.

    • Set up one partner, or two, per school.

      • 100% of their students are participating in a summer activity.

      • Transportation.—Families and non-profits step up to get kids where they need to go; cover costs.

    • Developed an “externship” for teachers; potentially provides some kind of credit.

      • Allows for professional development.

      • Creates a professional community; not a silo.—Provides resources.

      • Asks, “What does learning need to look like?”

        • And, “What does teaching need to look like?”

        • So students can graduate with the skills organizations want or need in the future.

        • And teachers can provide those skills.

      • Large companies and innovates creating their own learning centers for career pathways.

        • Opening up education pathways.

        • Is beginning to fill the teaching pipeline.

  • See more information about the Summer Learning Program here.

• Teacher’s Night Out

  • Please fill out the vendor feedback form, if you haven’t.

  • Will be debriefing next Tuesday, October 28th.

• Sweeney After School

  • Need organizations for Family Craft Days, December 6th and 13th.

    • Will be making ornaments and other family crafts.

• Adelante

  • Spoke with Eva; there is an opening on April 23rd for just the one night.

  • Will be at Caesar Chavez.

• 21st Century

  • Visits to schools: no schools have signed up.

• Creative Collaborations

  • Need to create a subcommittee for this; please sign-up, if interested!

  • Program for experiential learning programs, usually middle school.

• Announcements

  • Turahn Dorsey will be talking on a panel with New Mexico School for the Arts at Form & Concept on October 26th at 2PM.

• Next Meeting: November 22nd at 12:00pm-1:00pm.

  • Guest Speaker: TBD; Location: TBD.