DC CHARTER CONFERECE PROG RAM m5 dc charter conference OCTOBER 24, 2019 Building Our Voice 3RD ANNUAL DC CHARTER CONFERENCE | OCTOBER 24, 2019 | #DCCHARTERCONFERENCEN YOUR SCHOOLS DIVERSITY? ARE TEACHERS INCLUDED 0 ter Schools Coalition Speaker: Seon Britton, Diverse 10:00am - 11:20am S it ithin the field of educati Room: Vista Room B ties has increasingly become a major focus wi , ae Diversity within school cor ign (DBD) schools, However, even within DBD schools diversity among especially within divers-by This session will challenge schoo! leaders and other e ucators to assess thee Peat echt diversity and push them to include teachers when thinking of their school's diversity nee ot nacre in small groups in order to generate ideas to diversify a school's teaching staff baseq Participants wi ‘on common challenges and situations. THE IMPORTANCE OF BLACK MEN IN EARLY CHILDHOOD EDUCATION stor: Max Lyttle, Eagle Academy PCS. , Pariols Dev stanesl aren ISCoty Dwayne Dyce, CheMark White, and Garnett Booker, Eagle Academy Pcs 11:25am - 12:45pm_ Room: Balcony Room E ; D tei Representation of black men in early childhood education is essential to promoting equity in DC charter schools. Many black males go their entire academic career without being taught by a single person that looks like them. Currently, only two percent of school teachers in the US are black men, and even fewer specialize inearly childhood education. Greater representation of black men in the classroom during those crucial early Years has been shown to improve outcomes for students of color. Recruiting black male educators, however, has always been a challenge. 4s principal of Eagle Academy's Congress Heights campus, Max Lyttle encourages black men to consider ¢Zreers in education and mentors black male teachers at his school. Joined by a panel of black male educators from Eagle, Lyttle will discuss recruiting strategies, the unique challenges black male educators face, and their impact on young black male students and their communities. EXPLORING REAL EXAMPLES OF SCHOOLS PROVIDING EQUITABLE ACCESS TO AN EXCELLENT EDUCATION FOR ALL STUDENTS Speaker: Kit Tollerson, TNTP 3:10pm - 4:30pm. Room: Academy Hall C In TNTP’sreport, The Opportunity Myth, we found that succeed in school and beyond at access to the four resources that all students need to and students of color were systematicall ly, across ALL tt ‘opportunities, ees ave an Opportunity to review artifacts 7 ments of the work t ; increase access to opportunity for all of their ice rk they may want to take to their schools to rt, egy es