 | Wednesday, February 4, 2015 | | 8:30 AM to 2:30 PM
Registration & continental breakfast
8:30 AM to 9:00 AM
Program begins at 9:00 AM
PROGRAM FEES:
ADVIS Members pay $60 per person;
Non-Members pay $180 per person.
DEADLINE TO REGISTER:
Friday, January 30, 2015
Please note, in the event of inclement weather, registrants will be notified if the program will be moved to the
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| Engaging the Racial Elephant: How Leadership on Racial Literacy Improves Schools | | For Heads of School, Administrative and Teacher Leaders, and Trustees | | KEYNOTE ~ MK Asante, ADVIS school Alum, Filmmaker and Author of BUCK: A Memoir
MK Asante, bestselling author, award-winning filmmaker, hip hop artist, and professor, who CNN calls “a master storyteller and major creative force,” will read from his acclaimed memoir Buck, and use this as a basis for further exploration of the subtle and complex ways that race works in our schools and communities.
PROGRAM AGENDA
9:00 AM - 10:45 AM ~ Engaging the Racial Elephant: How Leadership on Racial Literacy Improves Schools
- Sherry Coleman, 2013 NAIS Diversity Leadership Award Recipient, Senior Search Consultant, Carney, Sandoe & Associates;
- Howard Stevenson, Constance Clayton Professor of Urban Education, Professor of Africana Studies, Graduate School of Education, University of Pennsylvania
When it comes to diversity work in independent schools — especially regarding race — the research makes it clear that there is one very large and rather noisy elephant in most independent schools. It’s stepping on just about everyone’s toes and trumpeting loudly for attention. And if not acknowledged and addressed, it will keep schools from fulfilling not only their diversity missions but also their overall missions — especially regarding excellence as 21st-century schools.
Join us as Sherry Coleman and Howard Stevenson share their research and experience working with students, families, and school leaders of color, and reflect on what being a person of color looks like in our independent schools. Research on the relationship between racial literacy and teaching and learning is scarce but it has rarely been studied in independent schools. This workshop will focus on two core aspects of racial literacy for teachers--racial stress and assertiveness. We will discuss recent research linking racial stress and assertiveness with school belonging, classroom management and teaching confidence. The implications for educational leaders include building safer climates and addressing racial tension in collegial and student relationships. Learn how racial stress undermines student achievement, and how the unacknowledged silence about racial disparities makes true advancement in diversity work impossible. Explore workable strategies for school leaders to employ to improve racial literacy skills to read, recast, and resolve racially stressful encounters when they happen.
10:45 AM - 11:00 AM ~ BREAK
11:00 AM - 1:00 PM ~ KEYNOTE ADDRESS by MK Asante, Filmmaker and Author of Buck
1:00 PM - 2:30 PM ~ LUNCH with facilitated small group discussions
MORE INFORMATION
Fee: ADVIS member schools pay $60 per person. $180 for non-members. Payment should be made by check or credit card in advance of the program.
Deadline to register: Friday, January 30, 2015.
ABOUT OUR PRESENTERS
 Sherry T. Coleman, Ed.D., Senior Search Consultant, Carney, Sandoe & Associates, and a 2013 recipient of the NAIS Diversity Leadership Award, was honored by POCDVIS (People of Color in Delaware Valley Independent Schools) for her leadership and commitment to education and diversity. Sherry served as the founding director of the Independent School Consortium (ISC) of Greater Philadelphia, Philadelphia, PA an organization that worked to support the hiring and retention of faculty of color nationally. She is the principal and founder of Coleman Strategic Consulting (CSC), LLC, an organizational development and diversity consulting and training organization, and is an adjunct professor at Temple University.
Sherry served as a trustee for Saint Anne's Episcopal School, a board member of the Food Bank of Delaware, an advisory member for the Wilmington Montessori School, and a member of the development committee for the Community Partnership School (CPS) in Philadelphia. Previously, Sherry worked in school admissions, as well as in the classroom, in both public and independent schools.
Sherry graduated from Cheyney University in Cheyney, PA with a B.S. in Education; from West Chester University in West Chester, PA with an M.A. in Public Administration; from the University of Pennsylvania in Philadelphia, PA with an Ed.D. in Educational Leadership and Organization.
 Dr. Howard Stevenson, is the Constance Clayton Professor of Urban Education, Professor of Africana Studies, and former Chair of the Applied Psychology and Human Development Division in the Graduate School of Education at the University of Pennsylvania. Howard joined Penn GSE in 1990, and his research has been supported by grants from the WT Grant Foundation, Annenberg Foundation and the National Institutes of Mental Health and Child Health and Human Development. For nearly 30 years, has studied racial literacy and socialization, and is a leading expert on African-American psychology. His research identifies cultural strengths that exist within families and integrates those strengths into coping interventions to improve the emotional well-being of children, adolescents and families. His most recent book is Promoting Racial Literacy in Schools: Differences That Make a Difference (Teachers College Press, 2014).
 MK Asante, an alumnus of ADVIS member school - The Crefeld School - is a bestselling author, award-winning filmmaker, hip-hop artist, and professor who CNN calls “a master storyteller and major creative force.” Asante is the author of the acclaimed memoir Buck, described by Maya Angelou as “A story of surviving and thriving with passion, compassion, wit, and style.” Buck is a Barnes & Noble Discover Great New Writers selection, an NAACP Image Award and Alex Award finalist, and winner of the In the Margins Book Award. His other books are It’s Bigger Than Hip Hop, Beautiful. And Ugly Too, and Like Water Running Off My Back. (For more information, and to purchase Asante's books, visit: http://mkasante.com/books)
Asante is a Sundance Feature Film Fellow for the movie adaptation of Buck. He directed The Black Candle, a prize-winning Starz TV movie, and wrote/produced the film 500 Years Later, winner of five international film festival awards.
 Asante studied at the University of London, earned a B.A. from Lafayette College, and an M.F.A. from the UCLA School of Theater, Film, and Television. He has given distinguished lectures at Harvard, Yale, and Stanford, as well as hundreds of other universities, has toured in over 40 countries and was awarded the Key to the City of Dallas, Texas.
Called “the voice of a new generation” by Essence, he has been featured on the CBS Early Show, NBC News, BBC, NPR, BET, and MTV. He was selected as an MSNBC The Grio “100 History Makers in the Making.” Asante’s essays have been published in USA Today, Huffington Post, San Francisco Chronicle, and the New York Times.
He recently made his debut as a hip hop artist on the song “Godz N The Hood” featuring Talib Kweli. His inspirational story “The Blank Page” is featured in the #1 New York Times Bestseller, Chicken Soup for the Soul: 20th Anniversary Edition.
Asante is a tenured professor of creative writing and film in the Department of English and Language Arts at Morgan State University.
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