we are:

Working to
Extend Anti-
Racist
Education
Kayla Bassett, Noah Hines,
Summer Hyland, Lauryn Rivers,
Haley Smith
 Introduction

● Initiated by Ronda Taylor Bullock Evaluation Goal:

Gain an understanding of organization activities

● Born through informal dialogue
and desired outcomes; analyze existing data

● Addresses racial injustices in education sources related to program impact; and elucidate

data needs for designing a future evaluation plan

● Utilizes workshops for teachers,
and design.
caregivers/parents and students
 Deliberation is at the core of we are

● Morphs programs and curriculum to stay current

● Considers political/environmental changes that can affect their work

● Stays true to their initial mission statement

● Adapts without eradicating their purpose

 Identifying Goals of we are
● Main goal: “equip students, parents, and educators with the knowledge and skills
necessary to understand the complexity of racism and to extend anti-racist education”

● Key to Organization’s Success: The identification and development of emergent goals. It

sets an intentional path for how the organization moves forward.

● The organization’s goals are no longer just about how they can change the conversation
about racism, but also how to show that they are changing the conversation and their
impact on the communities they serve.
 Logic Model
https://infograph.venngage.com/ps/tqVEAOJ25uE/weare-logic-model
 Suggestions for Moving Forward
● Outline smaller, incremental goals for each sector of the organization
○ Parent Education
○ Teacher Education
○ Child Education
○ “Let’s Talk Racism” Conference

● Reviewing and revising the logic model that we created

○ Create Logic Models for each sector of the organization
 Challenges
Rapid Growth of Program
- All of the employees also work other full time jobs → Time is a limited resource
- Challenge: past participants have requested for multiple meetups throughout the year
- Solution: one meetup in the fall and one in the spring
Tracking of Anti-Racist Education Implementation
- Current method: verbal testimonies of returners
- Challenge: indirect and difficult to document
- Solution:
- invest in a user-friendly survey platform (ex. Survey Monkey)
- disseminate via email to past participants
- Send out six months and one year after attending a workshop
Addressing Various Perspectives
- Expanding across NC → encountering new perspectives
- Challenge: ensuring the new perspectives are heard and addressed in the curriculum
- Solution:
- Target curriculum to the demographics of the participants
 Survey Data
Average mean for Common Qualitative Themes Implications
responses on Questions 1-7 in responses to questions 8-11 ● Survey responses were
on the ● Participants had a desire to mostly positive and
Implicit/Subconscious Bias ‘solve’ implicit bias affirmative
Post Survey ● Participants grew in ● There is a need to reveal
awareness of personal bias nuanced views about the
educator workshops
~ 3.86
Suggestions for Survey Improvement
● Revisit survey design using a survey design matrix
● Revise evaluation question focused on existing programmatic challenges
and data needs
● New forms of survey software (Survey Monkey) to track demographics
of participants
 Reexamining & Adapting

● we are -- Creating something new

● Adapting to student needs

● Shifting the curriculum

○ Discourse analysis

● Transforming playground problems into learning opportunities

 References
Bausell, Sarah (2019, November). We are. Interview at UNC-Chapel Hill, NC.

Bullock, R. T., Williams, C., Bullock, D. K., & Bernal-Martinez, S. (2017). We are: Exploring an anti-
racist summer program for elementary students kindergarten–3rd grade. In Possibilities in
practice: Social justice teaching in the disciplines (pp. 41–52). New York, NY: Peter Lang.

Newcomer, K.E., & Triplett, T. (2015). Using surveys. In K.E. Newcomer, H.P. Hatry, & J.S. Wholey
(Eds.) Handbook of Practical Program Evaluation (pp. 344-382). Hoboken, NJ: Wiley

We are (2016). We are Working to Extend Anti-Racist Education Retrieved from https://www.we are-
nc.org/