CULTURALLY RESPONSIVE PRACTICES

A district-level PLC And now site-level PLCs at

each school around the district

INTRODUCTION
District-level PLC (past four years) Superintendent Curtis asked for site-level PLCs to begin leading the work this year

FGHS TEAM
Maria Barajas Michael Contreras Kristina Granby Ali Marks Megan Murtaugh Dawn Nelson Megan Van Zanten And still open to interested

staff!

OV E R A R C H I N G G OA L O F C U LT U R A L LY R E S P O N S I V E P R AC T I C E S P L C S Promote culturally responsive practices in each school and throughout the district in order to create

an equitable environment that celebrates our

diversity and helps all students achieve their best, both academically and socially.

TODAYS GOALS
Share up-to-date academic enrollment data from the district

Provide an overview of the elements of a culturally

responsive environment Gain feedback from staff (perceptions in our building)

to guide future work

DATA
Data generated from the district office The questions to consider today: Where are our

students? What are the demographics like in AP, honors, workshops? How can we begin to help these numbers more closely reflect the makeup of our school?

Forest Grove High School Student Demographics by "Resolved Ethnicity Month Total Students White Hispanic Other

December 2012 October 2013

1826 1894

50% 50%

45% 45%

5% 5%

% Students by ethnicity in AP-Honors-WS classes, 2013-2014

45% 40% 35% 32% 33% 28% 22% 19% 40% 42% 42%

30%
25% 20%

23%

15%
10% 5% 0% In AP White In Honors Hispanic Other Minority In WS

NEXT STEPS
Looking at those demographics, we can see that the makeup of our school is not always reflected in an equitable way. These numbers CAN change. One element that

can facilitate change is a culturally responsive

environment.

SCHOOL SCAN
Identifies concrete strategies/elements that people have been wanting to know more about Gives us some ideas to work with immediately Feedback - Identifies staff perceptions of where we are and what we need to work on (quantitative

data)

SCHOOL SCAN
Hand out We will guide you through each section of the questionnaire There are two levels:

The visibility of the item in our school at this time The importance that you assign to the item

CLOSURE
Pick one item that surprised you or that you had not thought of before

Pick one item you had questions about

Pick one item that you consider a high priority to work on, either individually or for the entire school