Placing discipline practices within a systems model

1. Race, Discipline & Reproduction
in
Urban PreK-12 Schools
The Ties That Bind…

2. The Organization of Education Has a Problem
Moynihan
Report
C. Murray/BC- AC Crisis/“Superpreditor”/Zero
Tolerance/Massive Social Service cutbacks/Vanishing Public

3. Interest Convergence: Tipping Point
• Legal/Federal
– DOE & DOJ Partnership (Losen, 2011)
• Losen & Gillispie (2012) 2009-2010 African American
students represent 17% of the data
– Civil Rights Lawsuit: Meridian, MS (Department of
Justice, Office of Public Affairs, 2012)
• Social
– Parent & Community Engagement (CDF, Power
U, Dignity in Schools, RJOY)
• Political/Policy
– Restructuring Discipline Policies

4. What is needed? Look to Bell…
“Forge Fortuity”
(Bell, 2004, p 189)

5. Insulation Plan
“providing insulation against the frustration of rejection” (Bell, 2004, p 189)
• Develop Critical Resistance to Dominate
Neoliberal Discourse
• Identify situatedness/positionality
• Establish Networks
• Create a language
– Engage & negotiate a consensus of interests

6. D4A: Third Space Toolkit
• Counter Narrative Methodology
– Coach TJ & The War of Narratives
(Zamudio, et.al, 2011)
• Argument Tracking Methodology
– Cycle of claims, reasons, evidence, warrants
(Booth, Colomb, Williams, 2008)
• Racial Fortuity
– Emancipatory language (Giroux, 1992) of Leadership
• internal & external of schools
– Critical Networked Improvement Collaboratories

7. D4A: Third Space Toolkit
Generative Impacts
• Pilot
– Networked Professional Development
• SAC Collaboratories
– Designing counter narratives as stories, film, video, theatrical
performances
– Creating a Rubric for Argument Tracking
– Establishing a Pedagogy of the Traumatic Real of marginalized
leaders/educators (George, 2001; Matias, in press)
– Establishing an electronic open source repository
• c-MOOC
– Vehicle for Networked Professional Development

8. Central Law of Improvement
• PDSA Cycle
–Plan Phase
»Appreciate the system
“Every system is perfectly designed to
deliver the results it produces.”
(Langley, et. al., 2009, p. 79)

9. Workshopping: System Analysis
What is the system of discipline practices in
PreK-12 schools designed to produce?