1. Working With Black Boys Why are they targeted for discipline? In collaboration with the OUSD African-American Male Achievement Office 2011 Lincoln/ AAMA Office Training

2. Introduction/Check-in What would you like to get? What are your challenges? What are you hopeful about? Lincoln/ AAMA Office Training

6. How are they targeted? Lincoln/ AAMA Office Training Suspension/ Expulsion Drop out Low graduation Special Ed/ ADHD Remedial/ Tracking Disease Illness Low quality of life Discrimination is psychological warfare Homicide Prison Environmental hazards Profiling Education Health Safety

14. America’s Response Minstrel, Jim Crow 1876, Birth of a Nation 1915 & Lynchings mostly targeting urban Black males Slide 13 Lincoln/ AAMA Office Training

15. Nothing New? Lincoln Monthly Training Negative Stereotypes Nothing New? demonized/criminalized aspects of culture Big, Black, Dangerous, Savage, Animal, Vicious, Beast, Immoral, Lazy, Ignorant, Careless, Indiscriminate, Oversexed, Crazed, Deranged, Lowly, Simple, Stupid, Inferior, Subhuman Lincoln/ AAMA Office Training

16. Modern Criminalization/Dehumanization The myth of the juvenile Superpredator: -John Dilulio, Princeton 1990’s “ Crack baby myth, immoral and beastly violent” “ Tough on crime” laws target urban Black Males 3- strikes, juveniles as adults, crack laws, gang laws -Mike Males, The Scapegoat Generation: America’s War On Adolescents Lincoln/ AAMA Office Training

20. Culturally Responsive Strategies 1. Be clear about who you are: (race, class, gender, etc.) because it speaks more than what you say –Sharroky Hollie, Culturally Responsive 2. Be Student Centered: Their class or your class, their assignment or your assignment, their education or your education? Are you facilitator or Director of learning? 3. Cultural Consultation: Consult someone who is in the business of addressing a particular group Lincoln/ AAMA Office Training

25. Dealing With Misbehavior Putting the most energy where you have the most control 1. Manage your own reaction: You always have more options than they do 2. Gather information about the environment (the setting they encountered) and disposition (what they brought to school) in that order! 3. Consider more than 2 ways to look at what happened to be as objective (accurate & non-biased) as possible 4. Use Plan B! Mutually beneficial –Ross Greene, The Explosive Child Lincoln/ AAMA Office Training

26. Lincoln/ AAMA Office Training Alignment School Needs/ Goals Student Needs/ Goals This is where the work should be

27. Expectations 1. No quick fix 2. Cumulative: It took a long time to get this way, it will take a while to change 3. Give the strategy time Lincoln/ AAMA Office Training

28. The Service 1. Too hard on them, negative assumptions 2. Too easy on them, low expectations, feel sorry for them 3. Afraid of them, reinforcing stereotypes Service must be Firm and Caring Lincoln/ AAMA Office Training

31. Strengths Based Practice How can we raise OUR bar? 1. What do you do well with Black boys? 2. Where can you improve? 3. How can you strengthen your work with Black boys? Lincoln/ AAMA Office Training

33. The Culture (of black male success) The Agencies that support Black Males -Youth UpRising -Leadership Excellence (Camp Akili, Freedom Schools) -Mentoring Center -100 Black Men (Man Up!) -OUSD, Office of African American Achievement The Research that feeds Black Male policy -Urban Strategies Council -Policy Link -Alameda County -Black male scholars -US Census Lincoln/ AAMA Office Training