UVA K-12 Advisory Council Meeting

Friday, April 9, 2021

(10 – 12:00 PM)

Online Zoom Meeting

AGENDARealizing Equity- Championing Change

10:00 am Opening – Stewart Roberson, UVA K-12 Advisory Council Chair

10:05 am Dean’s Welcome and Comments – Bob Pianta, UVA School of Education and Human Development

10:15 am Special Announcement (UCEA)

10:20 am Driving Change and Equity By Emphasizing Student and Community Voice –

Matthew Haas, Albemarle County

10:40 am Driving Change and Equity By Emphasizing Instructional Leadership – Sarah Calveric, Caroline County

11:00 am Driving Change and Equity By Emphasizing Political Partnerships – Rick Clemons, Gloucester County

11:20 am Breakout Rooms: Planning the 2021-22 Council Theme and Activities

11:40 am Debrief on Breakout Room Discussions

11:50 am Current Planning for Fall Policy Summit

11:55 am SCOPE Update

12:00 pm Wrap Up (3 minutes)

UVA K-12 Advisory Council Mission

The UVA K12 Advisory Council was formed in 2001 as a way for the UVA School of Education and Human Development to establish coherent, sustained relationships with school districts that support the continuing professional development of the K-12 education community. The model for these relationships incorporates job-embedded professional learning and examines the possibilities for co-creation of learning opportunities within the districts we serve.

The primary goals of the Council are to:

1. Provide UVA/School of Education and Human Development with guidance regarding ways to support the K-12 needs throughout Virginia.

2. Establish strategic partnerships among Council members, districts, statewide, and with leadership development consortia.

3. Share effective tools with one another

4. Support our shared needs

Introduction of New Members

• Ben Allen, Executive Director UVA Equity Center

Thanks to the UVA K12 Advisory Council Steering Committee

• Stewart Roberson, Chair

• Scott Baker

• Catherine Brighton

• Marci Catlett

• Michael Gill

• Mark Jones

• Sandra Mitchell

• Peter Noonan

• Phyllis Pajardo

• Robert Pianta

• Brian Ratliff

• Michael Robinson

• Kristy Somerville-Midgette

• Aaron Spence

• Zebedee Talley Jr.

• Pamela Tucker

• Andrea Whitmarsh

2020-21 Council Theme: “Realizing Equity” Overview of the Year’s Work Plan

The UVA K12 Advisory Council is action-oriented and is willing to examine and tackle

the inequities which are evident in our schools and society. The Council's steering

committee has recommended that the process of realizing equity is a journey that

should be pursued.

September 18: Launching a New School Year• Addressing the equity implications of disproportionate learning loss.

January 9: Reimagining Schools

• Redefining public education and its delivery as a result of the global pandemic; an

opportunity to imagine the future of public education since many inequities have yet

to be resolved.

April 9: Championing Change• What does it take to achieve structural change at the state and local levels to

promote the ideals of equity?

• How do superintendents effectively utilize their positionality to drive change and

equity?

Today’s Focus

Realizing Equity- Championing Change:

• What does it take to achieve structural change at the state and local levels to promote the ideals of equity?

• How do superintendents effectively utilize their positionality to drive change and equity?

• Driving Change and Equity By Emphasizing Student and Community Voice

Matthew Haas, Albemarle County

• Driving Change and Equity By Emphasizing Instructional LeadershipSarah Calveric, Caroline County

• Driving Change and Equity By Emphasizing Political PartnershipsRick Clemons, Gloucester County

• Breakout Rooms: Planning the 2021-22 Council Theme and Activities (offer feedback on these topics or others)

Today’s Focus continued

• Breakout Rooms: Planning the 2021-22 Council Theme and Activities

(offer feedback on these topics or others)

• Post-mortem: What did Council members do well during the

pandemic? What do we want to discard as a way of doing business in

our districts based on what we've learned during the pandemic? How

will we respond to the new demands for flexibility?

• Stay in the Equity Space: Taking it From Policy to Practice with

particular emphasis on addressing the aftermath of the pandemic

(academically and emotionally)

• Keep "Realizing Equity”: Shift the emphasis to a focus on systems

change and improvement.

• Debrief on Breakout Room Discussions

Dean’s Welcome and Comments

Robert C. Pianta, Ph.D.

Dean, UVA School of Education and

Human Development

UCEA Educational Leadership Award

Dr. John B. Gordon, III

• 24 years of experience in public education

• Teacher, basketball coach, dean of students, assistant principal, principal, director of administrative services, chief of schools, superintendent

• educational excellence in small, large, suburban, and urban school districts (Salisbury, MD, Richmond City, VA, Chesterfield County, VA, Fredericksburg City, VA, and Suffolk City, VA)

• inspires a belief in student growth with partnerships among community, faith-based, and business organizations, drawing on a broad set of relationships and contacts locally, regionally, nationally, and internationally.

• And…

The Teacher's Lounge: The Real Role of Educators in Your Schools

Driving Change and Equity by Emphasizing Student and

Community Voice

Matthew HaasSuperintendent, Albemarle County

Driving Change and Equity by Emphasizing Instructional Leadership

Sarah CalvericSuperintendent, Caroline County

Driving Change and Equity by Emphasizing Political Partnerships

Rick ClemonsSuperintendent, Gloucester County

Table Talk

• Planning the 2021-22 Council Theme and Activities

• Discuss 2-3 questions (10 minutes each) that appeal to your group

• Assign roles of timekeeper, recorder, and discussion facilitator

• Go to this Google Doc and note your thoughts for the questions your group discussed

• Link to Google Doc will be posted in the Chat Room

Table TalkQuestions to Discuss

1. Post-mortem: What did Council members do well during the pandemic? What do we want to discard as a way of doing business in our districts based on what we've learned during the pandemic? How will we respond to the new demands for flexibility?

2. Stay in the Equity Space: Taking it From Policy to Practice with particular emphasis on addressing the aftermath of the pandemic (academically and emotionally)

3. Keep "Realizing Equity”: Shift the emphasis to a focus on systems change and improvement.

4. Other Suggestions?

Sharing of Ideas from Table Talks

Google Doc of Responses to

Questions

SCOPEStatewide Communities of

Practice in Excellence

• 2021-22 SCOPE program will be delivered in a hybrid model of online

& face to face sessions.

• Registration: SCOPE 17 registration opens April 9, 2021.

• Capstone projects: Increased emphasis on capstone projects to solve

problems of practice in sponsoring school divisions

• Research support from Katie Ryan, UVA Law School, and her team

of law students

• Cadre of Capstone Coaches from participating school divisions

• You’re invited: SCOPE 15 Capstone presentations April 30, 2021(9-12pm).

Please email SCOPE@virginia.edu for a Zoom invite.

Current Planning for Fall Policy Summit

• Summit Theme: Leading for Equity

• Sponsored by UVA K-12 Advisory Council,

VASS, VASCD, VDOE

• October 26, 2022 - Virtual

Future Meeting Dates and Locations

2021-2022

1. Friday, October 8, 2021

2. Friday, January 7, 2022

3. Friday, April 22, 2022