Personal story detailing the importance of educators of color white educator allies and the resulting stance as an educator of color now. What are the experiences of educators of color in independent schools, why is it so hard to recruit and retain, and what must we do to increase our success?

1. Pollyanna Conference San Diego
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Seattle Girls’ School
You Want Me Now, But Did You Want Me Then?
Recruiting and Retaining Teachers of Color
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2. About Seattle Girls’ School
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3. Coming to America
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4. Mr. Hawley
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5. Ted Allen
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6. My Story: A New Path
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7. My Story: A New Path
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8. My Story: A New Path
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9. Your Special Teacher
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Did YOU have an
educator in your life
who reflected you,
really saw you,
championed for you, or
otherwise made a
significant impact on
your life? What do you
remember?

10. Who Me?
You Want Me?
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11. Working on Our Environment
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12. Experiences of People of Color
 Questioning of Qualifications
 Undermining of Leadership
 The Job on Top of the Job
 Resident Expert AND Dismissal of Concerns
 Assertion as Aggression or Defiance
 Linguistic Diversity as Intellectual Deficit
 Diversity OR Inclusion
 Stereotype Threat
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13. What’s the Soil Like?
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What are the challenges
at your school? What’s it
like being a person of
color (or any other group
from a historically
disenfranchised group)?

14. Recruitment to Retention
 Recruiting
 Interviewing
 Admitting/Hiring
 Starting before the first school year begins
 Conducting professional development
 Mentoring and collaborating
 Assessing, supervising, observing and evaluating
 Granting tenure/permanence/leadership
 Sustaining the connection – “Stay Interviews”
 Developing career-long learners
 Renewing and reorienting
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15. Cultural Competence
Value Orientation
Diversity as Value Added
Respect
Relationships
Equity
Thought Orientation
Knowledge
Awareness
Systems Thinking
Action Orientation
Consciousness Building
Capacity Building
Assessment
Adaptation
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16. Making Choices, Setting Priorities
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17. Presenter Information
Rosetta Eun Ryong Lee
6th Faculty and
Professional Outreach
Seattle Girls’ School
2706 S Jackson Street
Seattle WA 98144
(206) 805-6562
rlee@seattlegirlsschool.org
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