Rationale for NBEA Membership Org

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Why a National Black Education

Membership Organization?


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Why a National Black Education

Membership Organization?

October 12-13, 2012!Action Group I

!Designing/Mobilizing/Funding/Sustaining a

National BlackEducation Membership

Organization


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Agenda!Welcome/Introductions!

Purpose and Projected Outcomes!

Rationale for Membership Organization!Team Process & Rules of Road!

Creating a Strategic Plan!Organizing for Future Work!

Closing Remarks/Adjournment


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Why are We Building a National Black

Education Membership Organization?

ToEnsureBlackAcademic&CulturalExcellencefromBlackParent,StudentandEducatorCollaborativeLeadership


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1.! To provide leadership inthe teaching of all academicdisciplines in learningenvironments of academic andcultural excellence, withAfrican-centered curricula that

enhances the development ofthe whole child, with acommunal sense of identity,for full participation in society. !!

The Mission of The National Black Education Agendais:


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The Mission of The National Black Education Agendais:2. To mandate that K-12

Education be academically andculturally excellent, equitable andnon-discriminatory, indevelopment of the cognitive,social, affective, technological

and psychomotor skills ofAfrican-American students aspreparation for higher education,professional, vocational andtechnical careers, and lifelong

learning.!


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3.! To empower K-12and higher educationAfrican-Americanstudents to becomesocial-change agentsand leaders whocontribute to oursociety and economy.!



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4.! To empower African-Americanparents, parent unions,educational organizations andinterested communityorganizations, etc. to becomeeffective educational change

agents and leaders for academicand cultural excellence within aHuman Rights Framework toshape the educational system. !

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5.! To advocate forfundamental transformationin the professional preparationof educators (teachers,counselors, principals, etc.) to

emphasize academic andcultural excellence, andinclude culturally competentpedagogy and disciplinespecific methodologies.



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!!6.! To promote local,state, and nationalcertificationexaminations thatdemonstrate thecandidate's academic

and culturalcompetency to teachstudents of diversecultures.!!



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IN SUMMATION....!Our National Black Education Nonprofit

Membership Organization will:! be African-centered! stress academic and cultural

excellence! be a legacy organization to improve

education of children/youth, families

and communities of African descent! be a leader of discourse on excellence

in Black Education


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How does it contribute to our goal of moving us towardsAcademic and Cultural Excellence for our children and towardssustainable community economic development for people ofAfrican ancestry?!

Our National Black Education

Membership Organization will

be about BlackEducationPOWERthat oversees local educat ion

systems designed to channel the

intellectual brilliance of our

children into policies andprograms that assist

sustainable community economic

and social development.


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Our Building BlocksOur Action Groups Will Be Connected as aPowerful Force for Education for Liberation!

#1 Designing/Mobilizing/Funding/Sustaining a National Membership

Organization #2 Building a National Parent Union and Shadow Shadow School Boards # 3 Building a National Black Youth Union and Black Youth Speak - EldersListen #4 Engaging and Partnering with Other Non-Educational Organizations,

Unions and Allies#5 Creating / Certifying 1,000 African-Centered Schools #6 Developing Higher Education Strategies and Linkages

#7 Saving African American Children form the Prison Pipeline#8 Identifying / Implementing Culturally Connected Teaching, Learning,

Curriculum and Assessment#9 Saving the African American Child: Mentoring and Cultural Immersion

Beyond the Schoolhouse


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(a) establish the organizational structure by which the NBEAwill roll out a national Black education activist organizationwith local and regional formations grounded in the idea that an

excellent racism-free education is a Human Right;

(b) design and initiate the much-needed nationwide masseducation campaign that "Connects the Corporate Dotsin the Current Destruction of Public Education"


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! (c) find and secure a NBEA NationalOrganization office by October

2013; and

! (d) establish an ongoing fundingstream for the nationalorganizations (i) daily work and (ii)independent sustainability that isprimarily rooted in Black communitiesthroughout the U.S. and secondarilyamong African Americanphilanthropic individuals andorganizations as well as progressivenon-Black foundations andindividuals willing to freely fund ourefforts.


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How will we know if !we are successful?!

When we see our children wanting to stay in school

beyond the final bell.When we see the vast major ity of our Black Parents

involved every week in school activ ities and schoolboard policy work .When we see more Black educators at ever y grade level .When we see the universal use of academic and

culturally relevant curriculum and pedagogy that

reflects the centrality of intellectual contribut ions of

People of Afr ican Descent to ALL civili zations.When we see the vast major ity of our children

graduating from college or acquiring a skil l or craft and

using their knowledge to advance their people and

community.


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Why We struggle for Black Educational and

Cultural Excellence(From the Late Dr. Amos Wilson)!!

"Cultural continuity is maintained by educating children in the ways of theirculture. And they are educated in the ways of their culture to MAINTAINtheir culture, to advance its interests, and ultimately to try to maintain its very

survival. That is the fundamental reason people are educated. What does itmatter if you learn physics and computer science and everything else and youcannot defend yourself against a military assault by Europeans or a germwarfare assault?$

A knowledge of computer science, a knowledge of law, a knowledge of a%ofthese other things matters not at a% if you are unable to use that knowledge for

your self defense. If Bush decided to wipe the face of this earth clean of A&icanpeople there's not an A&ican nation that could defend us against these people.And as long as we are not educated to defend ourselves against these people thenwe are being incorrectly educated. Nothing else matters.$

Ultimately then, inte%igence must be defined in terms of the degree in which itsolves YOUR PROBLEMS. The nature of education today prepares you tosolve THEIR PROBLEMS and not your own. That's why you study THEIRbooks, you go to THEIR schools, you learn THEIR information, THEIR

language, THEIR styles, THEIR perceptions, so when you come out of schoolyou can do a humdinger of a job solving European's problems, but you can't solveyour own.$

And then you DARE ca%yourself "inte%igent?" C'mon. That's the height ofstupidity."-!

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