Cohort5

February 22
 Welcome and Check In
Plan for
Today
Remembering your Leadership Quote

Refugee

Quennel Cooper Cohort 5 Racial Autobiography

Shadowing Students

Review of Difficult Conversations

Coaches Luncheons - Targeted Success Plan/ School Improvement Plans

Interest Convergence - Guest Presenters Quennel Cooper and Antonia Felix

 Generate a deeper understanding about how the new national
direction is affecting schools

Gain a deeper understanding of what a day is like for a child in

your school
Outcomes Examine your critical conversation
for Today
Learn about and discuss the history of interest convergence

Apply interest convergence to real-life situations.

 What are your updates,
Checking in...
insights or news?
Your leadership quote
A year ago you wrote your leadership quote which
hopefully still sits in your office.
At your table you will find your original quote and a pin
to wear to remind you of your leadership direction.
Stand up and find a partner that you dont know well in
the cohort, and talk about a time where you held firm to
your leadership direction.
 Cohort 5
Quennel Cooper

Racial
Autobiography
What does it
mean to be a
refugee?
What does it mean to be a refugee?
 What does it mean to be a refugee?
Did you know
Minnesota
40% of Minnesota refugees are Somali
39,501 from multiple countries
Between 2013-2016 a total of 15,000 Somali refugees
came to Minnesota
In 2017 Minnesota was excepting 2505 refugees
Did you know
President Donald Trump's executive order suspending the country's
refugee program could affect at least 39 refugees who were
scheduled to arrive in Minnesota in coming weeks.
Various organizations in Minnesota were planning to resettle
refugees from Burma, Burundi, the Congo, Ethiopia, Kenya, Somalia
and Thailand within the next month, Minnesota Public Radio
reported.
Trump's order signed last week places a 120-day ban on refugees
entering the U.S. and an indefinite ban on refugees from Syria.
Jane Graupman, executive director of the International Institute of
Minnesota, said the 15 refugees her group is working to resettle
were scheduled to arrive this week and have already been through
a two-year vetting process. She said homes have already been set
up in Minnesota for them.
 With a partner share

What was new

learning for you?

What did you already

What did you know?
learn?
How will you apply
this to your personal
leadership?

Large group sharing...

Super Bowl 84 Lumber
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=nPo2
B-vjZ28
Where are you on the compass?
My day in school
A 7 year old black boy
Shadowing a Student
Choose a student

Shadow your student for as much of the day as

possible

Collect low inference data on what occurs for

the student throughout day

Bring this data with you to our April 19 or 20

Institute session
Your difficult conversations -
what occurred??
 Leadership IS critical Conversations!
Problem Conversation
Who do you need to meet with?
Why do you need to meet with this Name the problem show the data Results
person? Listen to the teacher
Whats your evidence that you have a Ask what support they need? If we cant see improved student
problem? Do you know how to turn this problem
performance then we move to next
What is the standard for this around? steps and alternatives:
particular issue? Here are my e xpectations for you going -New plan
forward. -Disciplinary action
This is when I will assess your progress? Counseled out released from the
This is how I/you will assess the position
students progress?
Can they agree to your very specific
expectations for action?
Can we see improvements in student
learning because of the improved
performance?
 A critical conversation
Stand up and find a partner
Each person shares their critical conversation:
How did you prepare
What occurred
What went well
What you wished you would have changed
Your personal, local and immediate feelings regarding the
conversation
Share out with the larger group
Lunch with your Coaches
Frank and Mike in Room 347
Pam in 341
Jinger in 344
Bernadeia in 349
 At your table discuss the portion of
Introduction to Chapter 2 that you read for today.

Critical Race Click on the link e-mailed to you

and create a definition, visual or
Theory graphic that outlines your
understanding of the CRT tenet,
Interest Interest Convergence

Convergence Cohort 4 Link

Cohort 5 Link
 Interest
Convergence
Quennel Cooper,
Astein Osei, David
Kobilka,
and Antonia Felix
Outcomes & Agreements
Participants will:

Learn about and discuss the history of interest convergence; and

Apply interest convergence to real-life situations.

CCAR Agreements
Speak your truth

Stay engaged

Experience discomfort

Expect and accept non-closure

 Broadly stated, the interest convergence theory holds that where
there are power dynamics and divergent interests between parties
with unequal bargaining power, the subordinate partys interests
will not advance unless that interest does not offend the status quo
of the
majority party.

(Crowder, 2014)
Professor Bell presented the interest
convergence tenet in a 1980 Harvard Law
Review article.

Professor Bell theorized that the Court decided

to desegregate public education because
there was a convergence of the interests
deemed relevant at the time.

(Crowder, 2014)
History
Interest convergence theory does
not contend that individual whites
perform a conscious calculus of
whether certain advances in racial
justice will work in their material self-
interest.

Rather, interest convergence theory

suggests that whites are likely to
react adversely to civil rights
measures that they perceive as
solely benefiting racial minorities.

(Carter Jr., 2011)

History
As to judges, interest convergence theory is not merely a
variation on the theme that all law is politics.

Rather, given the narrow segment of the mostly white elite

from which federal judges are drawn, interest
convergence theory suggests their worldview and life
experience will generally be such that remedies perceived
as benefiting only people of color are unlikely to find their
favor.

(Carter Jr., 2011)

History
Interest convergence theory
acknowledges that altruism
can motivate some persons
who have nothing directly at
stake in a given controversy to
nonetheless demand justice on
behalf of others.

(Carter Jr., 2011)

Dred Scott v. Sanford, 1857
In this case, in the conclusion of Chief Justice Roger Taney, Blacks for more than a
century before have been regarded as beings of an inferior order, and altogether unfit to
associate with the white race, either in social or political relations; and so far inferior, that
they had no rights which the white man was bound to respect.

(Urofsky, 2012)
 Three Examples of Interest
Convergence

[Play video on Macbook]

https://drive.google.com/open?id=0B54rfqveUcEmbmg1T1FlVjBxTDg
In Whose Honor?
While watching the video look for other CRT tenets

Racism is Ordinary?

Voices of Color?

As well as interest convergence, if appropriate.

Speak Your Truth * Stay Engaged * Experience Discomfort * Expect/Accept Non-Closure

Real Life Situations
(In Whose Honor)
https://www.youtube.com/watch
?v=8lUF95ThI7s
References, p.1
Carter Jr., W. (2011). The Thirteenth Amendment, Interest Convergence, and the Badges and Incidents of Slavery. Maryland Law
Review, 71(1), 21-39.

Crowder, P. (2014). Interest Convergence as Transaction. University of Pittsburgh Law Review, 75(3), 693-709.

Demetriou, D. (2013). The Honor Code: How Moral Revolutions Happen. Mind, 122(486), 509-514.

Driver, J. (2011). Rethinking the interest-convergence thesis. Northwestern University Law Review, 105(1), 149.

Guinier, L. (1991). The triumph of tokenism: The voting rights act and the theory of black electoral success. Michigan Law Review,
89(5), 1077-1154.

Sander, R. H. (2004). A systemic analysis of affirmative action in american law schools. Stanford Law Review, 57(2), 367-483.

Southern, D. (1981). Beyond jim crow liberalism: Judge Waring's fight against segregation in South Carolina, 1942-52. Journal of
Negro History 66(3), 209-227.
References, p.2
Urofsky, M. I. (2012). Supreme Decisions, Combined Volume : Great Constitutional Cases and Their Impact. Boulder, US: Westview
Press. Retrieved from http://www.ebrary.com.ezproxy.mnsu.edu

Woodruff, N. E. (2005). Review of A nation under our feet: Black political struggles in the rural south from slavery to the great
migration by Steven Hahn. Agricultural History, 79(2), 249-251. doi:10.1525/ah.2005.79.2.249
Next steps March 8-Sharing of Racial
Autobiographies-Ann Haggerty has
volunteered. Any others?

Shadowing student data - Due April 19