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WelcOme 2 PrograM at A Glance 4 Overview 6 HighligHtS 10 SpeaKers 12 DaIly PrOgrAm A Pre-conference program 14 A FridAy 15 A sAturdaY 20 A Sunday 28 SDLc 30 Thank You! 32 FlOor PlanS 36 AdvertisemenTs 37 welcome

NAIS Welcome

Welcome to the 2008 PoCC and SDLC! We at NAIS felt a strong pull to bring PoCC and SDLC to New Orleans, Louisiana — a city of so much historical, cultural, and artistic significance — particularly to support Hurricane Katrina rebuilding efforts. Rather than the usual pre- conference tours, the two days preceding the confer­ ence involve community service opportunities and visits to New Orleans independent and charter schools. We sincerely hope you will support New Orleans by taking advantage of these opportunities. The second year of a successfully redesigned PoCC will include keynote and featured speakers of color, most notably, Sir Sidney Poitier. These remarkable men and women will provide us with passionate, professional, and personal narratives and expertise to challenge and inspire us. PoCC will continue to focus on an enhanced affinity group curriculum and cross-generational dialogue with SDLC’s independent school student delegates. Presenters and diversity practitioners from independent schools as well as presenters from higher education and nonprofit organizations will offer more than 60 workshops providing best practices in five themes in support of nurturing people of color in inde­ pendent schools and building and sustaining inclusive independent school communities. Our goal is to give all PoCC and SDLC attendees experi­ ences worthy of the financial and scheduling challenges many of you will face, particularly during these tough economic times. This year, we switched from a Thursday through Saturday format to a Friday through Sunday format. Let us know if this framework better suits you for future conference dates. We gratefully acknowledge the financial support of our generous city, state, and national corporate spon­ sors. We also owe a great debt to the meritorious work of the New Orleans co-chairs and local committee and their heads of school for their time, effort, and bound- less enthusiasm in assisting NAIS in planning this year’s PoCC and SDLC. See ya in Nawlins!

Gene Batiste Pat Bassett NAIS vice president, Leadership NAIS president Education and Diversity

 PoCC Co-Chair Welcome

Welcome to New Orleans! We are delighted to host this exciting conference in The Big Easy. This city has weathered many events throughout history — yellow fever, battles, and even a little storm named Katrina; however, we have rebuilt our homes, our schools, and our communities. The journey has made us stronger, more reflective, and more determined to chart a course that will bring opportunities to our children, the soul of our future. It is an excit­ ing time to be in New Orleans. We have just elected our first non- white governor since Reconstruction, Governor Bobby Jindal. He is also the first elected Indian-American governor in U.S. history. It is a time of hope and renewal that has the potential to transform the future of our city. Your presence at PoCC endorses a commitment to the future, both in New Orleans and in your own hometown, for it has long been known that time spent at PoCC serves to provide us with a brief respite from the outside world. We will reconnect with old friends, make some new ones, and revitalize our passion and energy for supporting people of color in independent schools. We know from past years that this renewed vigor will plant itself in our souls and spread to our respective cities. We will bring back ideas, lessons learned, and the enthusiasm to support and rejuvenate our home­ town colleagues as we search for ways to build and sustain inclu­ sive communities. As you walk down by the Mighty Mississippi, you will feel the palpable rhythm of cultures swirling together in New Orleans to create a unique blend of music, food, and a city with great depth. We believe it is the perfect place for PoCC participants to enjoy Music for Life, Food for Thought, and Friendships that Sustain as we rebuild and preserve the essence of what makes us all unique. Laissez les bon temps rouler!

Robyn McCormick Ninnette Varisco Michael Wood director of stewardship faculty, Metairie Park director of technology, and financial aid, Isidore Country Day School (LA) Trinity Episcopal School (LA) Newman School (LA)

 Thursday Friday Saturday sunday PoCC December 4 December 5 December 6 December 7 Conference Registration Conference Registration Conference Registration PoCC Choir Rehearsal 7:00 AM–10:00 PM, Hall I Lobby 7:00 AM–6:00 PM, Hall I Lobby 7:00 AM–5:00 PM, Hall I Lobby 7:00–7:45 AM, Auditorium Community Service Projects SDLC Chaperone Meeting (choose one) Conference Registration 7:00–7:45 AM, Rooms 260–262 7:00–10:00 AM, Hall I Lobby 8:00 AM 7:15 AM–4:00 PM, Pick Up Outside Hall I Lobby Opening Ceremonies & Keynote Ad- General Session with Carmen Affinity GroupGroup Session Session IV I(RebuildingV 8:00–9:15 School Visits 9:00 AM–12:00 PM, dress with Sidney Poitier 8:00– 9:30 Van Kerckhove andAM, Preserving(See pages Y ourXX forPoCC/ locations)SDLC AM, Auditorium 8:00–9:00 AM, Auditorium Experience) 8:00–9:15 AM, (See page Pick Up Outside Hall I Lobby 29 for locations) 9:00 AM NAIS-CAIS Adult Leadership Seminar 9:00 AM–5:00 PM, SDLC Chaperone Meeting (choose one) Networking Coffee Room 270 Networking Coffee Break 9:15–10:15 AM, Auditorium Lobby 9:30–10:007:00 AM–7:45 AM, A AMuditorium, Room 260–262 Lobby PoCC Choir Rehearsal : 10 00 AM Affinity Group Facilitator 9:15–10:15 AM, Auditorium Student Led Adult/Student Dialogues Training 10:00 AM–4:00 PM, Affinity Group Session I (Music for 10:00–11:15 AM, (See page 29 for Room 265 Life) 10:15–11:45 AM, (See page 15 Workshop Session B and Featured locations) 11:00 AM for locations) Speaker Mayda Del Valle 10:30 AM–12:00 PM, (See pages 20–24 for locations) Lunch (on own)* 11:45 AM–12:45 PM Closing Ceremonies and Address with 12:00 PM PoCC Choir Rehearsal Workshop Session B and Featured Wendell Pierce, PoCC Choir, SDLC Report, 12:00–12:45 PM, Auditorium SLunchpeaker (on Mayda own)* del 12:15–1:30 Valle PM Service Organization Recognition, 10:30PoCC ChoirAM–12:00 Rehearsal PM, (S ee pages XXXX 2009 PoCC/SDLC Announcement : 12:15–1:30 PM, La Nouvelle Orleans 11:45 AM-1:15 PM, Auditorium 1 00 PM Workshop Session A and Featured for locations) Ballroom Speaker Michael Fosberg 1:00–2:30 PM, (See pages 16–19 for : locations) Affinity Group Session III (Cross 2 00 PM Cultural Dialogue, Friendships that Sustain) 1:45–3:00 PM, (See conference badge for locations) : Affinity Group Session II (Food for 3 00 PM Thought) 2:45–4:15 PM, (See pages 20 for locations) Workshop Session C and Featured Speaker Kira Orange Jones 4:00 PM 3:15–4:45 PM, (See pages 24–28 for locations) General Session with John Trudell 5:00 PM 4:30–5:30 PM, Auditorium

PoCC Newcomers Orientation GLBT Social Hour 6:00 PM 5:30–7:00 PM, Rooms 271–273 5:30–6:30 PM, Marriott New Orleans, State/Regional Meetings Blaine Kern Ballroom–Salons AB 6:00–7:00 PM, (See page 20 for locations) SDLC Chaperone Meeting (choose one), 7:00 PM 6:45–7:30 PM, Rooms 260–262 PoCC Banquet with Reza Aslan 7:00–9:00 PM, La Nouvelle Orleans Special Performance of Michael Dinner (on own) 7:30–9:00 PM Ballroom Fosberg’s Incognito for all PoCC and SDLC 8:00 PM participants 7:30–9:00 PM, Auditorium SDLC Chaperone Meeting (choose one) 7:45–8:30 PM, Rooms 260–262 9:00 PM

10:00 PM Ticketed Events

*Please take advantage of food kiosks and the Food Court area at the Ernest PoCC/SDLC Wednesday December 3 N. Morial Convention Center for lunch Conference Registration 7:00 AM–8:00 PM, Hall I Lobby December 2 in order to conserve time and travel tuesday Community Service Projects 7:15 AM–4:00 PM, Pick away from the convention center. Conference Registration 2:00–8:00 PM, Hall I Lobby Up Outside Hall I Lobby Thursday Friday Saturday sunday SDLC December 4 December 5 December 6 December 7 Conference Registration Conference Registration Conference Registration Conference Registration 7:00 AM–10:00 PM, Hall I Lobby 7:00 AM–6:00 PM, Hall I Lobby 7:00 AM–5:00 PM, Hall I Lobby 7:00–10:00 AM, Hall I Lobby Community Service Projects Peer Facilitator Training for Late Thursday Breakfast with with Chaperones Chaperones 7:00–8:15 Breakfast with Chaperones 7:00–7:45 AM 8:00 AM 7:30 AM–4:30 PM, Pick Up Outside Arrivals 7:00–7:45 AM, Room 268 A7:00–8:15M AM Hall I Lobby SDLC Chaperone Meeting III (choose one) Affinity Group Session IV (Rebuilding 7:00–7:45 AM, Rooms 260–262 and Preserving Your PoCC/SDLC PoCC Opening Ceremony and Opening Family/Affinity Groups Experience) 8:00–9:15 AM, (See page 9:00 AM Address with Sir Sidney Poitier 8:30 AM–12:15 PM, Rooms 287, 291–296, 29 for locations) School Visits 9:00 AM–12:00 PM, 8:00–9:30 AM, Auditorium 383–399 Pick Up Outside Hall I Lobby SDLC General Session 9:30–9:45 AM, Exhibit Hall I 10:00 AM Family Groups 9:45–10:45 AM, Rooms 287, 291–296, Student Led Adult/Student Dialogues 383–399 10:00–11:15 AM, (See page 29 for locations) 11:00 AM SDLC Opening Ceremonies 11:00 AM–12:00 PM, Auditorium

12:00 PM Closing Ceremonies and Address with Wendell Pierce, PoCC Choir, SDLC Report, Student Luncheon 12:15–1:15 PM, Student Luncheon and Talent Show Service Organization Recognition, Exhibit Hall I 12:15–2:00 PM, Auditorium (Closed 2008 PoCC/SDLC Announcement 1:00 PM to SDLC Students and Faculty Only) 11:45 AM-1:15 PM, Auditorium

Family/Home Groups 2:00 PM 1:30–3:45 PM, Rooms 287, 291–296, 383–399 Keynote Speaker: Mayda Del Valle 2:00–3:00 PM, Auditorium (Closed to SDLC Students and Faculty Only) 3:00 PM Family/Home Groups 3:15–5:00 PM, Rooms 287, 291–296, : Snack Break 3:45–4:00 PM 383–399 4 00 PM Family/Affinity Groups 4:00–5:45 PM, Rooms 287, 291–296, 383–399 5:00 PM Students released to Chaperones 5:00 PM, Rooms 287, 291–296, 383–399

: 6 00 PM Peer Facilitator Training Student Dinner 6:00–10:00 PM, Room 268 6:00–7:00 PM, Exhibit Hall I Student Dinner, Family Groups, SDLC Chaperone Orientation I (choose 7:00 PM and SDLC Closing Ceremonies one) 6:45–7:30 PM, Rooms 260–262 Family/Home Groups 6:30–9:30 PM, Exhibit Hall I 7:00–10:00 PM, Rooms 287, 291–296, 383–399 8:00 PM SDLC Chaperone Orientation II (choose one) 7:45–8:30 PM, Rooms 260–262

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Student Dance (movie option 10:00 PM provided) 9:30–11:30 PM, Exhibit Hall I Students dismissed to Chaperones 10:15 PM, Rooms 287, 291–296, 383–399

11:00 PM Curfew 11:00 PM

Students released to Chaperones 11:30 PM, Ticketed Events Exhibit Hall I; Curfew 12:00 AM overview

PoCC/SDLC Registration Exhibit Hall I Ernest N. Morial Convention Center 900 Convention Center Boulevard, New Orleans please note that onsite registration for the conferences is not available. Shuttle Service Info hotels within walking distance: Marriott tuesday, December 2 2:00–8:00 PM New Orleans at the Convention Center, Courtyard Marriott New Orleans, and Renaissance Arts wednesday, December 3 7:00 AM–8:00 PM Hotel New Orleans thursday, December 4 7:00 AM–10:00 PM hotels with shuttle service: Hilton New Orleans Riverside, Loews New Orleans Hotel, and friday, December 5 7:00 AM–6:00 PM Doubletree New Orleans

saturday, December 6 7:00 AM–5:00 PM Shuttle Service Hours Sunday, December 7 7:00–10:00 AM Shuttles run every 30 minutes. Friday, December 5 6:30–10:30 AM, 7:00–11:00 PM How to Get the Most Saturday, December 6 Out of PoCC 6:30–10:30 AM, 4:30 PM–12:00 AM Revised by members of NAIS’s Call-to-Action, July 2008 Sunday, December 7 6:30 AM–2:00 PM For 21 years, PoCC has nurtured and sustained people of color in independent schools. The cre­ Book Donation Drop ation of this sanctuary is possible because of the participants’ acceptance of cherished community Off Info norms. Speakers, affinity group work, and work­ All book donations will benefit New Schools for New Orleans shop presenters will not only inform participants, but also challenge them to think in different and Collection is at the registration area until Saturday, new ways. Conference attendees will have the December 6, 2008. Books will be picked up by opportunity to network and build connections representatives from New Schools for New Orleans. with others who are committed to building and sustaining independent school communities for people of color. In order to maximize the conference experience, participants are expected to lean into discom­ fort and accept conflict as a catalyst for change. When this is done effectively, participants are fully present, they suspend judgment of them­ selves and others, and they listen and think before speaking from their perspectives. Participants’ commitment to honor confidentiality fosters this respectful community. Attendees of PoCC will leave energized and recommitted.

 Affinity Group Work at PoCC

Revised by members of NAIS’s Call-to-Action, July 2008 MUSIC FOR LIFE Affinity group sessions are designed to help con­ Session I: Friday, December 5, 2008 ference participants develop racial/ethnic identity. 10:15–11:45 AM The qualitative difference between PoCC affinity focus: Celebrate through JAZZ as you jam group work and other aspects of the conference together and tap into the melody, harmony, and is that safety and trust must be fostered, expected, rhythm of fellowship and deeper connections. and assured by each member in order to explore shared racial/ethnic identity development. FOOD FOR THOUGHT Led by a team of trained facilitators, the curric­ Session 2: Friday, December 5, 2008 ulum for this year’s affinity group work includes 2:45–4:15 PM four sessions with opportunities to celebrate, focus: Engage in conversations that matter — share successes and challenges, participate in conversations designed to nurture the soul like cross-cultural community dialogue, and engage a steaming pot of Louisiana GUMBO — full of in adult/student discussions based on racial/ richness and sustenance. ethnic and gender identity. The overarching vision for PoCC affinity group work includes: FRIENDSHIPS THAT SUSTAIN Providing a safe environment where people (ACROSS CULTURES) A who share a racial/ethnic identity can come Session 3: Saturday, December 6, 2008 together to build community, fellowship, 1:45–3:00 PM and empowerment; focus: Discover the power of taking off your Facilitating opportunities for affirming, MASK to strengthen your awareness and support A nurturing, and celebrating; and building stronger communities across race, ethnicity, origins, and cultures. Discussing issues related to racial/ethnic A identity development. REBUILDING AND PRESERVING YOUR PoCC/SDLC EXPERIENCE Session 4: Sunday, December 7, 2008 8:00–9:15 AM

focus: Connect within racial, ethnic, and gender identity groups as you reflect on the PoCC / SDLC experience and share ways you will preserve the essence of the conference in preparing to return to your schools.

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Workshops

PoCC 2008 attendees can choose from sixty 90-minute workshops offered in three time slots Featured Speakers during the conference. Practitioners and experts One featured speaker will present during each will present workshops in the areas of: workshop block, giving conference attendees expanded choices in professional development A People of Color in Leadership: Pathways and an opportunity to hear from noted people and Programs to Success of color from diverse fields and backgrounds. Nurturing Our Soul: Self-Care Strategies A for Success Dialogue Sessions Expanding Our Tool Box: Curricular and The Sunday Adult/Student Dialogues are an A Professional Skills for Excellence opportunity for PoCC attendees to learn from SDLC delegates. Led by students, the dialogue A Building Inclusive Communities for People of groups meet by home state or regions. Using Color: Programs and Initiatives to Strengthen skills cultivated during SDLC, students will facili­ People of Color in Independent Schools tate a dialogue on applying strategies from both Exploring Racial/Ethnic Identities for People conferences. This session gives students an impor­ A of Color: Our Many Journeys and Stages tant voice as advocates for diversity, multicultural­ ism, and global citizenship. Attendance by adults is vital to the success of this session.

PoCC/SDLC is striving to be more environmentally sustainable and we ask for your help! Keep a look out for a virtual preview A for next year’s conference. PoCC/SDLC has eco-friendly conference A bags this year. Bring back your PoCC/SDLC conference A bag from previous conferences to reuse at this one.

Thank you for helping us go a little greener!

 History

1986 Reston (VA) The First National 2000 Nashville (TN) The Children Conference for Teachers and Are Our Business Administrators of Color in Providence (RI) Connecting Independent Schools 2001 Cultures, Connecting Worlds 1989 Philadelphia (PA) Common Ground 2002 Chicago (IL) Bridging Cultures, 1990 Los Angeles (CA) Unity in the Sharing Stories Midst of Diversity 2003 Honolulu (Hi) E Huaka’i P¯u K¯akou 1991 New York City (NY) From Thought (Let’s Voyage Together), Exploring to Action a Majority of Minorities (PoCC); 1992 Atlanta (GA) Vision 2020 X Marks the Spot: Journey to a New Revolution (SDLC) 1993 St. Paul (MN) Seeing Beyond — Becoming Advocates for Creating 2004 Miami (FL) Miami: Gateway to Multicultural Educational Institutions Multiculturalism (PoCC); Connecting to Self, Connecting to Others: Eleven 1994 Albuquerque (NM) Los Colores Years of Diversity and Advocacy de la Educación — Continuing to Build Training for Independent School Environments in Independent Schools Students (SDLC) that Address the Needs and Issues of Children and Adults of Color 2005 Dallas/Fort Worth (TX) At the Crossroads: Deepening Perspectives 1995 Philadelphia (PA) Lighting the the Cultural Kaleidoscope (PoCC); Way to the Millennium: Ourselves, Collide-o-scope: Twisting Lenses, Our Children, Our Schools Seeing Change (SDLC) 1996 Baltimore (MD) A Vision Seattle (WA) Nourishing Ourselves for Building New Alliances 2006 for the Swim Upstream, The Emerald 1997 St. Louis (MO) Journey to Spirit: City: Seattle, Washington (PoCC); Solidarity and Voice through Dialogue Upstream, Uphill, Up to Us: Preparing 1998 San Juan (PR) The Caribbean: Ourselves for the Challenges Ahead (SDLC) Encounter History, Culture, and Self 2007 Boston (MA) Learning from the 1999 San Francisco (CA) Mosaic: Past, Leading for the Future: Reshaping Connecting Communities for Action Traditions (PoCC); Emerging from Our Past as We Shape Our Future (SDLC)

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PoCC Newcomer Orientation Gay, Lesbian, Bisexual, and Thursday, December 4 Transgendered (GLBT) Social Hour 5:30–7:00 PM Saturday, December 5 Rooms 271–273 5:30–6:30 PM Marriott New Orleans, Blaine Kern Ballroom Salons A and B Special Performance of Incognito by Michael Fosberg The GLBT social hour is an opportunity for adult Thursday, December 4 gay, lesbian, bisexual, and transgender PoCC par­ 7:30–9:00 PM ticipants to come together in a safe and relaxing environment to talk, network, and share GLBT Auditorium issues facing independent schools. Come join us for free and open to all pocc and sdlc participants a drink before the conference banquet (cash bar). with ticket required Incognito is a solo theatrical presentation that is NAIS Bookstore both entertaining and extremely socially relevant. Auditorium Lobby Michael Fosberg, the writer/performer, portrays over a dozen different characters from his own A wide range of books and materials on building life as he delves into issues of race, identity, and sustaining inclusive school communities and family history, divorce, adoption, and finding the works of keynote and featured speakers are a father, in this funny and deeply moving one- available at the NAIS Bookstore, which will be man play. Discussion with Mr. Fosberg follows open in the Ernest N. Morial Convention Center the performance. Auditorium Lobby at the following times: Friday 7:30 AM–5:00 PM State and Regional Meeting new Saturday 7:30 AM–5:00 PM Friday, December 5 Sunday 7:30 AM–2:00 PM 6:00–7:00 PM (See page 20 for locations.) Cyber Café Rather than two separate meeting times for PoCC Auditorium Lobby attendees to meet in states and regions, there will PoCC attendees are invited to take advantage be one meeting on Friday, December 5, from 6:00 of the PoCC Cyber Café during lunch and breaks. to 7:00 PM. This time is dedication for state and regional diversity committees to meet with their Information Booth and Workshop constituents. For those states and regions without diversity committees, this time should be used for Presenter Check In meeting other attendees from your area and for Hall I Lobby networking on ways to take back all of the experi­ Stop by for program or logistics information, ences gained from attending the conference as NAIS materials, workshop presenter check a catalyst for change back at home. in, and evaluation packet pick up.

10 Performing Arts Groups subject to change NAIS is honored to present the following New Orleans area independent school, city-wide, PoCC Choir and professional performing arts groups during The PoCC choir, under the director of Charles the conferences: Owens, Upper School Dean of Students, Francis W. Parker School (IL) and accompanied by Scott Free Agents Brass Band, Ellis Joseph, director A Perro is comprised of PoCC attendees who volun­ teer to raise their voices in song. Rehearsal times are allocated throughout the conference. The PoCC Choir presentation of diverse selections during the Closing Ceremonies will provide a wonderful celebration and the sending forth of PoCC and SDLC participants. Karma Indian Dance Ensemble (Shivani Jani, A Brinda Thangada, and Aksheta Jain), Isidore Networking Coffee Breaks Newman School (LA), Divya Ayyala, director Auditorium Lobby A Moyuba, Michael Skinkus, director Following the Opening Ceremonies on Friday and Charmaine Neville with Pianist Amasa Miller the General Session on Saturday, grab a cup of A coffee and a chat before heading off to the next Middle School Chorus, Isidore Newman conference activity. A School (LA), Lori Wagner, director Anais St. John and Harry Mayronne Trio Club PoCC A Because of PoCC structure changes for 2008 St. Paul’s Episcopal School Percussion (Friday-Saturday format), Club PoCC will go on A Ensemble, director Myers McAllister hiatus in order to give attendees a free evening in Kayla Pleasant, Isidore Newman’s New Orleans on Friday. SDLC chaperones are kindly A School (LA) reminded to fulfill their obligations to the students this evening and throughout the conferences. Les Petites Chanteuses, Louise S. A McGehee School (LA)

11 speakers

Sir Sidney Poitier John Trudell Carmen Van Kerckhove Reza Aslan Opening Ceremonies General Session General Session PoCC Conference Keynote Address Banquet Address Friday, December 5 Saturday, December 6 Friday, December 5 4:30–5:30 PM 8:00–9:00 AM Saturday, December 6 8:00–9:30 AM Auditorium Auditorium 7:00–9:00 PM Auditorium La Nouvelle Orleans Ballroom

sponsored in part by Recording artist, poet, and Carmen Van Kerckhove is Reza Aslan is one of the sodexo and stratégenius champion of indigenous co-founder and president of nation’s most respected Legendary civil rights activist, issues, John Trudell is as New Demographic, a consult­ experts on Islam and the humanitarian, and Academy direct and plainspoken as the ing firm that helps people Middle East. He is a research Award winning actor, director, words he puts to music. Born learn about the real issues associate at the University producer, and best-selling of mixed tribal blood, Trudell behind race and racism with­ of Southern California’s author, Sir Sidney Poitier has grew up in and around the out having to endure the mis­ Center on Public Diplomacy, won many honors and awards Santee Sioux reservation ery of diversity training. She Middle East commentator in his more than 50-year near Omaha, Nebraska. The hosts Addicted to Race, a pod­ for NPR’s “Marketplace,” career. In 1968, H.M. Queen struggle against economic cast about America’s obses­ and Muslim affairs analyst for Elizabeth II knighted Poitier. and cultural deprivation sion with race, and edits a CBS News. In his internation­ His spiritual autobiography, would become the raw mate­ network of blogs, including ally acclaimed book, No God The Measure of a Man, reached rial for his uncompromising Racialicious, about the inter­ but God: The Origins, Evolu­ bestseller status when origi­ artistic vision. The Vietnam section of race and pop cul­ tion, and Future of Islam, nally published in 2000, and Veteran participated in the ture; Anti-Racist Parent, for Aslan masterfully explores the achieved that rank again in 1969 occupation of Alcatraz parents committed to raising intricate interplay between 2007 when chosen for Oprah’s Island by Indians of All Tribes, children with an antiracist faith and politics in the Mus­ Book Club. The recipient becoming their spokesman. outlook; and Race in the lim world, presenting Islam of four honorary doctorate Trudell later served as chair­ Workplace, which explores as an ever-evolving faith and degrees from institutions man of the American Indian how race and racism influ­ culture in the midst of a cata­ of higher learning, Poitier has Movement. In 1979, his mother- ence our working lives. Van clysmic internal battle for won the BAFTA, three Golden in-law, wife, and three chil­ Kerckhove’s perspectives on reform and modernization. Globes, an American Film dren were killed in a fire of race and racism have been In 1999, he was elected presi­ Institute’s Lifetime Achieve­ unknown origin — a horrific featured in Newsweek, USA dent of Harvard University’s ment, the Kennedy Center tragedy that led Trudell to Today, New York Times, Los chapter of the World Confer­ Lifetime Achievement, the find his voice as an artist and Angeles Times, San Francisco ence on Religion and Peace Screen Actors Guild Lifetime poet, writing, in his words, “to Chronicle, Boston Globe, (WCRP), a United Nations Achievement, five NAACP stay connected to this reality.” Miami Herald, and The Nation. organization committed to Image, and two Golden Bear A meeting with Jackson She has appeared on MSNBC, global understanding. In awards. In 2007, he resigned Browne, in 1979, led Trudell NPR, Washington Post Radio, 2000, he was named Visiting his ambassadorships to Japan into the world of music. He American Public Media’s Professor of Islamic Studies from the Commonwealth has since recorded many “Marketplace,” and PBS’s at the University of Iowa, of the Bahamas and to the albums including AKA Grafitti Asian America. becoming the first full-time United Nations Educational, Man, Fables and Other Reali- professor of Islam in the Scientific, and Cultural Orga­ ties, and many others. history of the state. nization. His third book, Life Beyond Measure: Letters to My Great-Granddaughter, Book signing event debuted in April 2008.

12 Wendell Pierce Michael Sidney Fosberg Mayda del Valle Kira Orange Jones Closing Ceremonies Address Special Performance for all PoCC Featured Speaker PoCC Featured Speaker PoCC and SDLC participants Workshop Session B Workshop Session C Sunday, December 7 11:45 AM–1:15 PM Thursday, December 4 Saturday, December 6 Saturday, December 6 Auditorium 7:30–9:00 PM 10:30 AM–12:00 PM 3:15–4:45 PM Auditorium Rooms 271–273 Rooms 271-273

sponsored by cal/west Audiences everywhere rec­ PoCC Featured Speaker SDLC Keynote Speaker Workshop Session A educators placement ognize Wendell Pierce for Saturday, December 6 his extensive work on the big Friday, December 5 2:00–3:00 PM Executive Director of Teach screen, TV, and stage. In 2007, 1:00–2:30 PM Auditorium (open only to For America–Greater New he was nominated for an Rooms 271–273 SDLC Students and Faculty) Orleans, Kira Orange Jones NAACP Image Award for his knows how to rise to a chal­ role on the HBO series The Michael Sidney Fosberg Mayda Alexandra del Valle lenge. Jones won a scholar­ Wire. A native of New Orleans, founded the Small Change is a misplaced, displaced ship to Horace Mann School Pierce appeared in Spike (NY) before heading to Wes­ Original Theater in Minneap­ jibara without a homeland. Lee’s documentary When olis where he wrote and Born and raised on the South leyan University. Accepting the Levees Broke regarding directed tours of educational Side of Chicago, she began a position with Teach For the aftermath of Hurricane shows. In Los Angeles, he performing her own writing America after college, Jones Katrina. He holds at least 60 served as director of educa­ in high school. Leaving to found herself instructing acting credits over the past tion for the Living Library attend Williams College, she struggling students in Baton three decades with noted Theatre and teacher/director earned a bachelor’s in studio Rouge, LA. There she founded directors like Lee, Woody for South Coast Repertory’s art in 2000. She created Right Quick Productions, a Allen, Brian De Palma, and Young Actor’s Conservatory a series of five short poetry nonprofit media organiza­ Barry Levinson. Most recently, program. In Chicago he has videos and an hour-long, tion dedicated to amplifying Pierce appeared in I Think I community voices through appeared at Steppenwolf, one-woman show, what i is: Love My Wife and The Fight- documentary filmmaking and Remains, Wisdom Bridge, self-portrait in words. It covers ing Temptations. His credits and Goodman theaters, and topics such as relationships, media education. Just before include network television co-founded the Huron Theater identity, and experiences as starting her master’s at and cable broadcasts, along Ensemble. Fosberg spends a minority student at a small Harvard University Graduate with collaborating with the summers at Northwestern liberal arts college. Next del School of Education, Hurri­ BBC. Heralded for his work University teaching acting Valle moved to New York cane Katrina struck. Jones in the world premiere of and directing productions and dropped by the Nuyori­ agonized over whether to Queenie Pie at the Kennedy as part of the National High can Poets Café. Though she return north, but in the end Center, Pierce includes among School Institute “Cherubs” had never performed poetry decided to continue her his Broadway stage credits program. For seven years competitively, just nine mon­ education. After earning her roles in The Piano Lesson, master’s, Teach For America he has been touring Incognito, ths later, she won the National Serious Money, and The Boys his one-man autobiograph­ Poetry Slam individual title recruited the hardworking, of Winter. ical play. He also conducts in Seattle. dedicated, insightful Jones workshops on issues of for its leadership ranks. She race, identity, and stereo­ has helped transform school types with students, faculty, systems in Louisiana, Hous­ and corporations. ton, and Philadelphia.

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2:00–8:00 PM 7:00 AM–10:00 PM The Change Agent,” “Leadership/ Conference Registration Conference Registration Management Issues,” “Developing Hall I Lobby Hall I Lobby Relationships with Constituents,” and “Assessing Institutional Readiness.” 7:15 AM–4:00 PM This workshop will enable participants December 3 Community Service to explore the opportunities and chal­ Projects lenges aspiring leaders of color face Wednesday Pick up Outside Hall I Lobby in independent schools. 7:00 AM–8:00 PM 9:00 AM–12:00 PM 5:30–7:00 PM Conference Registration School Visits PoCC Newcomer Hall I Lobby Pick up Outside Hall I Lobby Orientation Samuel J. Green Charter School Rooms 271–273 7:15 AM–4:00 PM Attending PoCC for the first time? k Louise S. McGehee School Community Service Come to the Newcomer Orientation Projects k Metairie Park Country Day School session to learn more about the his­ Pick up Outside Hall I Lobby k Isidore Newman School tory and mission of the conferences k and insights from veteran conference 10:00 AM–4:00 PM participants on successfully navigat­ ing the various components of PoCC. Affinity Group facilitators: Gloria Fernandez-Tearte, Facilitator Training Room 265 Greenwich Academy (CT); Evelyn McClain, Park Tudor School (IN) 9:00 AM–5:00 PM NAIS-CAIS Adult 6:45–7:30 PM Leadership Seminar SDLC Chaperone Meeting Room 270 (choose one) Rooms 260–262 Developing and Mentoring Leaders of Color 7:30–9:00 PM In partnership with the California Asso­ Special Performance ciation of Independent Schools (CAIS), of Michael Fosberg’s NAIS hosts this leadership seminar, Incognito for all PoCC facilitated by administrators of color and SDLC participants (including heads of school) and white Auditorium administrator allies from California inde­ free and open to all pocc and sdlc pendent schools. We will focus on participants with ticket required cultivating and developing leaders of color, an essential step to the success of our journey toward inclusivity. 7:45–8:30 PM Sessions include: “What Calls You SDLC Chaperone Meeting to Leadership?,” “Self-Assessment: (choose one) Ticketed Events Rooms 260–262

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7:00 AM–6:00 PM together, listening to each other, Introduction of Sidney Poitier, respecting different opinions, and Conference Registration Marcia Prewitt Spiller, vice chair, Hall I Lobby k creating a song embodies the soul of NAIS board of trustee, head of jazz. And, at the close of this session, school, The Children’s School (GA) 7:00–7:45 AM your lyrics will become part of a 2008 Keynote Address by Sir Sidney Poitier PoCC Music for Life songbook. SDLC Chaperone Meeting (choose one) k Corporate Sponsor Recognition, Asian/Asian American Affinity Rooms 260–262 k Announcements, and Sending Forth k Group Room 298–299 Performance by Charmaine Neville Black African American Affinity 8:00–9:30 AM k k Group La Nouvelle Orleans Opening Ceremonies and 9:30–10:00 AM Ballroom Keynote Address with Networking Coffee Break First Nation/Indigenous/Native Sir Sidney Poitier Auditorium Lobby k American Affinity GroupR oom 283 Auditorium International, Non U.S. Citizen sponsored in part by 10:15–11:45 AM k Affinity GroupR oom 282 Sodexo and SratéGenius Affinity Group Session I Latina-o/Hispanic American Affinity Group Room 271–273 Music for Life k Multiracial American Affinity Group focus: Celebrate through JAZZ as you jam together and tap into the k Room 275–277 (performance and program melody, harmony, and rhythm of Pacific Islander/Pacific Islander are subject to change.) fellowship and deeper connections k American Affinity GroupR oom 284 Second Line Handkerchiefs In this session, you will meet and greet Middle Eastern American Affinity k sponsored by New Orleans Area old and new friends as the sound of k Group Room 285 Independent Schools New Orleans jazz welcomes you to White/European American Affinity your affinity group. You will gather in Second Line Local Committee k Group Room 260–262 small groups and discuss your expec­ March, accompanied by Free k tations along with ways you can lever­ Agents Brass Band, directed 11:45 AM–12:45 PM age participation in affinity group by Ellis Joseph work to maximize your overall PoCC Lunch (on own) Please take advantage of food kiosks PoCC Co-Chair Welcome by Robyn experience. For the first time ever, and the Food Court area at the Ernest k McCormick, Ninnette Varisco, and you will put your thoughts and expec­ N. Morial Convention Center for lunch Michael Wood tations to lyrics backed up by music in order to conserve time and travel New Orleans Proclamation, Mayor tracks and share your songs in a pow­ away from the convention center. k Ray Nagin representative erful interactive process — a live ISAS Welcome by Rhonda Durham, performance. This process of talking k executive director 12:00–12:45 PM PoCC Choir Rehearsal NAIS Welcome by Pat Bassett Auditorium k and Gene Batiste SDLC Co-Chair Welcome by Liz k Fernández and Rodney Glasgow

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1:00–2:30 PM A-4 The Visual Politics burgeoning natural and social science of Stereotypes literature on race and the misconcep­ Workshop Session A Room 288 tions that dominate discourse in ado­ This workshop will look at the work lescent popular culture. At the same Featured Speaker of contemporary visual artists of color time this workshop will help partic­ Michael Fosberg in order to explore how the visual ipants learn ways to encourage stu­ Michael Fosberg’s Incognito politics of their art has defied and dents both to explore unconscious Introduction by Dana Launey, Metairie redefined their public identity, and attitudes with the help of Harvard’s Park Country Day School (LA) therefore affected the current stereo­ Project Implicit and to reflect upon Room 271–273 type of a people. This presentation their conscious experience of race is a useful tool for educators to sup­ in personal narratives. presenters: Exploring Racial/Ethnic Identities plement class lessons not only in the Dr. Wilburn Williams and Dr. Leah for People of Color: Our Many visual arts, but in history, geography, Domb, Lawrenceville School (NJ) Journeys and Stages and politics. Participants will leave with a list of artists to use in interdis­ A-21 Queering the Color Line: A-3 Healthy Identity Development ciplinary ways and with activities to Designing Programs for LGBT in Independent Schools do with high school students to begin Students of Color Room 285 Room 283 this discussion. presenters: Marisol Diaz Using racial identity development and Gregg Emery, Dwight-Englewood In this workshop, participants will models and interviews with people of School (NJ) learn best practices for designing color in independent schools, confer­ trainings and programs for LGBT ence attendees will learn about stages A-5 The Sounds of Native America: students and faculty of color as well of racial identity development as they Teaching Native History through Music as their allies. This session will focus evolve in our schools. We will then Room 289 on writing proposals, seeking speak­ devise developmentally appropriate This presentation will focus on some ers and trainers, creating curriculum, ways to support ourselves and others of the major points in Native-American and implementing a year long pro­ in our school communities through relations and exemplify how these gram dedicated to examining the stages of identity development. The points are culturally and artistically intersections of race, class, ethnicity, session will include an introduction expressed by Native people. By using religion, human rights, and politics to identity development models and traditional and contemporary music using a gender and sexuality lens. a short film to explore the theory and as a cultural agent, we will see how presenter: Ileana Jimenez, Little Red realities of ethnic identity develop­ these historical points are understood School House and Elisabeth Irwin ment in an independent school set­ by multiple generations. Instructors High School (NY) ting. We will conclude by discussing will gain teaching tools and techniques steps that can be taken to support to help illustrate the diversity and Building Inclusive Communities those around us as they explore and complexity of Native people within for People of Color: Programs and incorporate their racial identities, these United States. presenters: Alan Initiatives to Strengthen People while being mindful of where they Lechusza, Sage Hill School (CA) of Color in Independent Schools are in their identity development pro­ cesses. This fast-paced and interactive A-6 Teaching Race, A-14 Overcoming Obstacles session will give attendees practical Understanding Identity to Recruiting Minority Teachers theory and ideas to take back to their Room 290 and Administrators schools. presenter: Sheila Hicks and Using the latest research in history, Room 274 J. Hopkins, The Bush School (WA) human evolution, DNA genomics, and This workshop will explore the chal­ social psychology, we will describe lenges, best practices, and strategies an interdisciplinary approach to the associated with minority faculty and concept of race that seeks to shed the staff recruitment. It is designed to light of reason on a hotly contested leverage over 15 years of recruitment subject. This workshop attempts to experience to empower individuals bridge the widening gap between the

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and institutions with information and practices needed to create an inclu­ A-19 De La Salle Academy: resources to maximize their recruit­ sive, nourished, and diverse faculty. 25 Years of Success ment efforts. presenter: Warren Reid, This session will explore how to dis­ Room 282 NEMNET (OH) cuss and present these topics to De La Salle Academy (DLSA) is an senior administrators, trustees, and independent school for academically A-15 Pump Up the Volume: faculty as best practices. We will talented sixth, seventh, and eighth Hearing the Voices of Alumni examine data collected from faculty graders from low-income families in of Color in the Digital Age of color at independent schools around New York City. Since 1984, DLSA has Room 278 the country to underline the need for sent over 70 percent of graduates to This presentation is designed to a serious redirection of the manner independent schools. As part of our address the need to hear and affirm in which independent schools recruit, 25th anniversary, we will share lessons the voices of alumni of color through support, and retain faculty of color. learned about preparing students to an examination of their passage thro­ presenters: Pascale Musto, Millbrook thrive in independent schools. Attend­ ugh independent schools. Students School (NY); Ara Brown, The Williston ees will gain insight into the core ele­ of color in independent schools are Northampton School (MA); Randall ments of curriculum and support that a diverse population within themselves, Dunn, The Roeper School (MI); Peter are essential to the success of students facing unique cultural environments Sun, Concord Academy (MA) of color from less advantaged back­ and challenges. How do the positive grounds, hear concrete suggestions and negative relationships with other A-18 From Student to Faculty for how to make their school environ­ students and faculty throughout their Member — Growing up with ments as welcoming and supportive school years inform their perspective Independent Schools as possible and access powerful data of the institutions as alumni? How Room 281 that can be used to strengthen the did the faculty of color help or hinder This will be a workshop session for case for the social and economic the development of that perspective? people of color who were students diversity in our schools. presenters: How do people of color working in in independent schools and are now Lynne Algrant and Nancy Arcieri, independent schools navigate that adult community members at inde­ De La Salle Academy (NY); Gabriel journey differently than students of pendent schools. Using NAIS’s Aviles, George Jackson Academy (NY) color? Pump Up the Volume discusses Independent School magazine article the wide array of perspectives gath­ about identity formation of students A-20 Got Adversaries? Get Allies! ered from independent school alumni of color in independent schools and Room 284 from across the United States and will other works on ‘identity formation’ In the independent school arena, the introduce a social networking tool we will have a discussion and collab­ word “ally” is tossed around quite specifically designed to create an inter­ orative planning session on how casually with the assumption that all face and interaction between faculty to best support students of color who hear and employ it understand and alumni of color in those school in our student populations and how exactly what it means. Greenhill communities. presenters: LaQuanda to effectively communicate to our School will use panelists to engage Walters Cooper and Brenda Crawley, administrators and governance bodies participants in a dialogue about how McLean School of Maryland (MD) the importance of hiring and retaining to identify, utilize, and build the ranks faculty and administrators of color. of allies within our school communi­ A-17 Staying Power: Recruiting, We also hope to provide a forum for ties. The purpose of this workshop Retaining, and Empowering Faculty alumnae of independent school’s to is multifold. First, we will share how of Color share how their own experiences as Greenhill School deconstructed the Room 280 students have affected, nurtured, and word and concept of “ally” and by What can independent schools do to challenged their own identity forma­ default, the word “adversary.” Next, better recruit, retain, and support fac­ tion and participation in independent through a panel discussion, we will ulty of color? A panel of independent school communities as adults. school educators including a head of presenters: Kerri Richardson, Brooklyn school and diversity coordinators will Friends School (NY); Eric Chapman, explore the obstacles and the best The Town School (NY); Arvind Grover, The Hewitt School (NY); Araina Jewell, Trevor Day School (NY) 17 December 5 Friday

explore the characteristics and quali­ Expanding Our Tool Box: A-12 Food, Family, and Equity: ties that are used to identify commu­ Curricular and Professional Making Math Lessons That Matter nity members as allies. Finally, we will Skills for Excellence Room 268 present participants with a framework Ever heard someone say that diversity for engaging in dialogue about this A-10 Multicultural Teaching: issues can’t be addressed in math class? A “Best Practice” Approach topic and will offer practical strategies With some creativity and planning, its to Growing Academic Skills for people to implement as they build core content can be maintained while Room 266 and support “allyship” within their such themes are explored. Strategies Participants will learn the rationale own school communities. presenters: for developing and implementing inno­ behind why multicultural teaching Karen Bradberry, Scott Griggs, Linda vative math curriculum anchored in is the best approach to providing Wooley, and Michelle Smith, Greenhill the perspectives and experiences a rigorous academic education for School (TX) of people of color will be shared. Spe­ ALL students of ALL races and back­ cifically, algebra lessons designed grounds, not just people of color. A-22 Supporting and Empowering to complement The Calhoun School’s Theory in support of multicultural Multiracial Students “Got Food?” curriculum will be pre­ teaching will be presented. In addi­ Room 279 sented. In this pilot project, students tion, by reviewing examples of multi­ Census 2000 marked the first time created food menus and budgets for cultural lesson plans, participants will in U.S. history that Americans could a fictional family. Based on the pro­ see how multicultural teaching builds check more than one box to describe files of their families, students visited basic skills such as reading compre­ their racial or ethnic background. grocery stores in a variety of NYC hension, writing, math, and scientific Nearly seven million people did, and neighborhoods, explored nutrition analysis while encouraging the contin­ currently multiracial children repre­ guidelines, health, cultural preferences, uous use of critical thinking skills. sent the fastest growing segment and access to food. This project helped Participants will learn that they can of the population. In this workshop, students to better understand the cover the same topics by modifying participants will gain a contextual challenges facing a number of commu­ their approach to their current content awareness of what it means to be nities with regard to health and nutri­ and literature, thereby giving their “multiracial” through a brief analysis tion. They also challenged their own students a richer and more challeng­ of the Census data, an interactive mul­ cultural misconceptions and stereo­ ing classroom experience. presenters: timedia slide show, self-reflection, and types. Methods for adapting these Cynthia Spence, Lynn Bowman, Shai critical thinking in small groups. Par­ lessons for other schools will be Pina and Eric Polite, The Gordon ticipants will also have an opportunity included. presenter: Alyssa Gutierrez- School (RI) to explore the issues and challenges Soogrim, The Calhoun School (NY) that face this growing student popu­ A-11 Why Africa Should Not Be Taught lation and brainstorm effective strate­ A-13 Saving Sixth Grade: Creating from a Eurocentric Perspective gies that can help educators identify, Community from Day One Room 267 support, and celebrate the experiences Room 270 Presenters will share classroom tech­ of multiracial students. presenters: Sixth grade is an important intellec­ niques and learning methods to assist Anthony Witte, Chinese American tual and social transition year in teachers in teaching Africa from a International School (CA); Guybe Slan­ education. As peers become more non-Eurocentric perspective. In an gen, The Head-Royce School (CA) important so does the culture of your effort to break stereotypes and myths community. It is an excellent time to that exist about Africa and African explore the ways students see them­ people, it is necessary that educators selves, peers, and the school commu­ rethink long-standing practices. There nity. In response, we have developed will be a specific focus on the Middle a weeklong orientation for students Passage and the legacy of slavery. at the beginning of sixth grade. In the presenters: Ida Malloy, The Pennington orientation students have the chance School (NJ); James Jewell, The Lovett to examine that which separates them School (GA) from one another: race, class, religion, and cognitive and physical ability, and actively practice and develop strategies 18 December 5 Friday

for creating deep connections with and activities participants will gain Presenters will focus on the process, their peers based on appreciation of a deeper understanding of the issues resources needed, and lessons learned these differences and by celebrating as well as strategies on how to establish throughout the duration of implemen­ those things that they share in com­ similar groups. presenters: DeAndre tation. Although both experiences mon. This workshop will show the pro­ Calhoun, The Bentley School (CA); were positive and meaningful, partici­ cess our multidisciplinary team used Willie Adams, The Head-Royce pants will hear of different approaches, to educate ourselves about different, School (CA) challenges, and outcomes of being a relevant systems of oppression and Caucasian head administrator versus how we developed an age appropriate, People of Color in Leadership: a full-time teacher of color coordinat­ fully integrated curriculum designed Pathways and Programs to Success ing the assessment. Participants will to give students a voice and owner­ be able to gain valuable information ship in their learning communities. A-7 Lessons and Outcomes: and advice as to how to prepare for A Better Chance Reflects on presenters: Natalie Stone, Britt a successful process, maintain momen­ 45 Years of Opening Doors Anderson, Suzette Duncan, and tum, examine and communicate results, to Educational Opportunities Abigail Joseph, Prospect Sierra and possible steps to take after com­ Room 297 School (CA) pletion. Presenters will also share the A mosaic is a design of small pieces outcomes of AIM and how it has aided brought together to create art. So is their respective schools in moving for­ Nurturing Our Souls: Self Care the impact of diversity. This workshop ward toward creating and sustaining and Strategies for Success will help participants understand an inclusive school community. A-1 Building Relationships to diversity as an economic imperative. presenters: Christel McGuigan, The Support African-American Males Schools, organizations, and institu­ Bishop’s School (CA); Clair Ward, in Independent School tions that want to reach their full Valley School of Ligonier (PA) Room 265 potential must employ a more diverse Based on issues raised in the article workforce. We must employ individu­ “The Mental Health of African- als who understand and speak for 2:45–4:15 PM American Males in Independent increasingly diverse populations, Affinity Group Session II Schools” (Stevenson, Spencer and which expect approaches and pro­ Johnson, 2000), a group of African- gramming to mirror their culture and Food for Thought American men in Bay Area indepen­ values. This session will provide an focus: Engage in conversations that dent schools established an organi­ opportunity to discuss the history of matter–conversations designed to zation to address these issues. The the A Better Chance program, examine nurture the soul like a steaming pot primary goal of the group is to men­ trends regarding the work of access of Louisiana GUMBO–full of richness tor, support, and increase the success organizations on national and regional and sustenance of African-American boys in local levels, and provide a program update During this session, you will engage independent schools. The secondary with regard to placement and alumni in conversations designed to nurture goal is to address the need for recruit­ relations. presenter: Chantal Stevens, your soul and provide food for thought. ing and retaining African-American A Better Chance, Inc. (NY) As unique as the many distinctive men in independent schools. Through gumbo recipes are, so are the experi­ grassroot, interschool collaboration, A-9 Taking AIM at Inclusivity ences each of you will bring to con­ student and adult conferences and and Multiculturalism! versations that will focus on your retreats, and work with like-minded Rooms 275–277 strengths, affirm who you are, and nonprofit organizations the group Participants will have the opportunity chronicle the journey you travel in to hear the experiences of imple­ has made strides in helping to remedy your day-to-day life at work. In small these problems. Through discussion menting the Assessment of Inclusivity groups, you will create GUMBO and Multiculturalism at The Phillips through a dialogue centered model Brooks School (PK–5th grade) and The Bishop’s School (7th–12th grade).

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based on Donald Shon’s concept 6:00–7:00 PM of the Reflective Practitioner. These December 6 State/Regional Meetings conversations will help deepen your saturday Colorado and ACIS Room 282 awareness of your identity and your place in independent schools. k Connecticut Room 265 7:00 AM–5:00 PM Asian/Asian American Affinity k Florida Room 288 Conference Registration k Group Rooms 298–299 k Maryland and AIMS Room 270 Hall I Lobby Black African American Affinity k Midwest (ISACS) Room 266 8:00–9:00 AM k Group La Nouvelle Orleans k New England, AISNE, and POCISNE Ballroom Rooms 271–273 General Session with k Carmen Van Kerckhove First Nation/Indigenous/Native New Jersey Room 281 k American Affinity GroupR oom 283 Auditorium k New York and POCIS–NY Rooms Performance by Karma Indian International, Non U.S. Citizen k 260-262 k Affinity GroupR oom 282 k Dance Ensemble (Shivani Jani, North Carolina Room 279 Brinda Thangada, and Aksheta Latina-o/Hispanic American Affinity k Northern California and NORCAL- Jain, Isidore Newman School (LA), k Group Rooms 270, 271–273, 274 k PoCIS Rooms 275–277 Divya Ayyala, director) Multiracial American Affinity Group Introduction of Carmen Van k Rooms 275–277, 278 Pacific Northwest and PNAIS k (AK, ID, MT, NV, OR, UT, WA, British k Kerckhove by Michael Wood, Pacific Islander/Pacific Islander Columbia) Room 284 PoCC Co-Chair, Trinity Episcopal American Affinity GroupR oom 284 School (LA) k Pennsylvania and Delaware Valley Middle Eastern American Affinity k Room 268 Presentation by Carmen Van Group Room 285 Kerckhove k Puerto Rico, Virgin Islands, Hawaii k White/European American Affinity k and International Schools Room 280 Performance by Isidore Newman Group Rooms 260–262 School (LA) Middle School Chorus, k South and SAIS (AL, GA, KY, k directed by Lori Wagner k MS, SC, Central America, South 4:30–5:30 PM America) Room 267 Corporate Sponsor Recognition, Announcements, and Sending Forth General Session with Southern California and SAUCAL k John Trudell POCIS Rooms 298–299 Auditorium k Southwest and ISAS Room 285 9:15–10:15 AM Performance by Les Petites Networking Coffee k Tennessee and TAIS Room 283 k Chanteuses, Louise S. McGehee Auditorium Lobby School (LA) k Virginia Room 278 Introduction of John Trudell k Washington, DC and AISGW 9:15–10:15 AM k by Ninnette Varisco, PoCC k Room 274 PoCC Choir Rehearsal co-chair, Metairie Park Country Auditorium Day School (LA) 7:30–9:00 PM Presentation by John Trudell Dinner (on own) 10:30 AM–12:00 PM k Performance by Moyuba, Michael Workshop Session B k Skinkus, Metairie Park Country Featured Speaker Day School (LA), director Mayda del Valle Corporate Sponsor Recognition, Introduction by Lynette Moody, k Announcements, and Sending Forth Academy of the Sacred Heart (LA) Rooms 271–273

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Exploring Racial/Ethnic Identities B-5 Born Black, Raised White Building Inclusive Communities for People of Color: Our many Room 289 for People of Color: Programs and Journeys and Stages In this workshop participants will be Initiatives to Strengthen People able to discuss the challenges of sup­ of Color in Independent Schools B-2 What I Said and What I Meant: porting multiracial people of color in Cross-Cultural Communication independent schools. The workshop B-14 The Levees Broke, But Our Room 283 will focus on multiracial issues in inde­ Commitment Will Not: The Edmund We as humans communicate on so pendent schools including students, Burke School and NOLA many levels: language, tone, affect, Room 274 race based affinity groups and staff. body language, and more. Add to Hurricane Katrina hit over three years This will be done through vinettes and the differences the fact that we have ago, and while the people of the Gulf personal stories. Participants will have complex cultural identities and a slew Coast still struggle to get their lives an open and honest dialogue and will of past experiences. How do cultural together, it seems like the rest of leave with tools to guide a discussion identifiers affect our ability to genu­ America has moved on. Katrina was on multiracial issues in their own inely communicate across differences not only a natural and man-made communities. presenter: Polly Williams, and live harmoniously with one anoth­ disaster, it was also a test of our The Chestnut Hill School (MA) er? Learn about obstacles and tools democracy. This workshop focuses on that take communication beyond literal B-18 A Safe Space for Educators the creation of a class where students words. This presentation is a combi­ of Native Ancestry to Reconnect are expected to ask tough questions nation of lectures, activities, and dis­ and Learn about democracy, culture, race, and cussions. Participants will learn major Room 281 accountability. Using Spike Lee’s doc­ cross-cultural theories, gain vocab­ Educators of Native American/First umentary When the Levees Broke and ulary for describing their own com­ Nation ancestry often feel discon­ the TC curriculum guide, this class munication styles, and experience nected from their rich native heritage. begins. The course also underlines the exercises that demonstrate pitfalls of Each year, the Native American/First importance of combining history, ser­ intercultural communication. presenter: Nation affinity group only draws a vice learning, media, and volunteering Rosetta Lee, Seattle Girls’ School (WA) handful of people; yet we encounter to create a multifaceted approach to native people throughout the confer­ education, especially around issues of B-4 Visual Vignettes: Exploring ence who feel they are “not native social justice and communities of color. Our Multifaceted Selves through enough” to claim their heritage. In an presenters: Diego Duran and Elizabeth the Layers of Collage effort to counter the historical impact Bultman, Edmund Burke School (DC) Room 288 of boarding schools, reservations, In this interactive workshop attendees identity cards, etcetera, a panel of B-15 REACH Prep Partnership with will participate in a lesson that may native educators will lead attendees Independent Schools: Preparing be replicated with students and faculty through an interactive session of story­ Students of Color and used to provoke discussion on Room 278 telling. Participants will also join identity with a creative, art-based Participants will gain knowledge of a network of native educators and activity. Collage is an extraordinary recruiting, assessing, and supporting acquire a resource list of materials way to tell our multifaceted stories. students and families of color for to help teach about the contemporary Each participant will have an opportu­ entrance to independent schools. Case native. presenters: Carol Swainson, nity to use materials supplied to create studies, video clips, and a short Power­ The Head-Royce School (CA); Laura her or his own identity vignette. Partici­ Point presentation will highlight the Jagles, Santa Fe Preparatory School pants will also be able to view exam­ process from admission to graduation. (NM); Alan Lechusza, Sage Hill School ples of other artist’s collages from presenter: Paul Mayo, New Canaan (CA); Melanie Sainz, Phoenix Country great masters such as Matisse to Country School (CT) Day School (AZ) up-and-coming contemporary artists. presenter: Kerri Cottle, Rio Grande School (NM)

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B-16 Beyond the ABCs: How to B-19 Do Diversity Access to work that helps to build women of Effectively Work to TRULY Diversify Programs Integrate or Marginalize color communities across geographic, Your Community Students of Color academic, and cultural lines, schools Room 279 Room 282 demonstrate their active commitment This session will provide a philosophi­ Diversity access programs such as to building inclusive institutions. cal overview and provide practical The Oliver Program have facilitated presenters: Andrea Gutierrez, Village approaches for independent schools the entry and successful completion Community School (NY); Marisol Diaz, to better outreach, serve, and gradu­ of students of color in independent Dwight-Englewood School (NJ) ate successful students from under­ schools. The question remains how do represented communities. Participants these students experience the process B-9 Inciting Passion in the Privileged will be introduced to people, ideas, of participation in such programs as to Eradicate Social Injustice and programs that enhance their cur­ their point of access to the independ­ Rooms 260–262 rent community goals, visions, and ent school world and how does their With regard to diversity, one of the mission statements. If you really want status as a member and beneficiary biggest hurdles that independent to serve a wide variety of people, we of such programs impact their inte­ schools face is the hoard of students can help provide a pathway to get you gration into the school community? who believe they have never wit­ there. presenters: Sherry Smith, Glenn This is designed to be a panel discus­ nessed or been victims of social injus­ Holsclaw, and Sylvia Gillies, Making sion that will start with presentations tice. This workshop will detail and Waves Education Program (CA); by current and recent students who demonstrate ways to effectively chal­ Sharon Cravanas, KIPP (CA) have entered the independent school lenge students to consider the origin arena via a diversity access and and justification of their values, the B-17 Every Great Journey…The First support program and will allow the privileges they have been afforded Year: Creating a Faculty of Color Group audience to engage the panelists due to their affiliation with dominant Room 280 in understanding the benefits, chal­ groups, the true scope of their empa­ We will walk you through the step lenges, and effective approaches thy as compared to the professed by step process of creating a faculty to engaging such a program. We will scope, and ultimately the ways in of color group within your schools, present the framework of how we which their complacency and/or realistically and resolutely addressing partner with our students, families, blindness potentially contributes to the challenges of launching this type and schools that they attend and the perpetuation of social injustice. of idea and the political and profes­ present relevant survey data as a Attendees of this workshop will par­ sional fuel used to sustain its take-off. context for the discussion. presenters: ticipate in activities and leave with Highlighting the achievements of one Robert Addams and D. Diaz, The resources and ideas they can use to school’s first faculty of color group, Albert G. Oliver Program (NY) generate interest and understanding we will walk together from the first of issues pertaining to diversity in their thoughts of its creation to our first B-20 Creatively Building own classrooms. presenter: Rebecca meeting. Each step has been docu­ and Sustaining the Women Hatkoff, Westridge School (CA) mented and will be included in a useful of Color Sisterhood reference packet for each participant. Room 284 Expanding Our Tool Box: Diversity assessment sheets relevant to Presenters will discuss how they built Curricular and Professional Skills your school will be included. presenters: a personal and professional relation­ for Excellence Peaches Gillette and Nisa Frank, The ship by creating an exhibit “Re/ Town School (NY) Cuentos” in 2008 for the Guadalupe B-10 Explorando Nueva York: Cultural Center in San Antonio, TX. Modern Language and Tech Classes The month-long exhibit explored Team Up to Explore Identity memory and survival in the lives of Room 266 women of color. They also conducted Participants are introduced to a middle workshops for local youth artists. school class focused on the Hispanic/ The presenters will share their creative Latino immigrant cultures of NYC. work, as well as insights into how to Exploration occurs in the classroom, garner support from schools for such projects. By meaningfully contributing 22 December 6 saturday

online, and on field trips. This presen­ B-12 Urban Development Nurturing Our Souls: Self Care tation outlines the rationale, the tools, through Service-Learning: and Strategies for Success and the outcomes of this course. Par­ Mumbai to New Orleans B-1 How to Make the Invisible ticipants will learn strategies for Room 268 Visible: Tools for Pulling Back designing their own explorations in We will offer a model for student the Veil of Privilege. and out of the classroom, and how to exploration of urban communities Room 265 enhance these with digital technology through service-learning. Using a Why is it that the dynamics of diversity, tools and web applications. Lastly, Mumbai trip as a case study, we will power, and privilege are invisible to presenters will share their reflections use an interactive approach to break some and yet others see it clearly? about how this course can foster indi­ down social, ethnic, and cultural issues This workshop will provide participants vidual exploration of identity, as well as prevalent in urban environments. with seven easy tools to support spark awareness and discussion about Participants will first learn the Mumbai healthy dialogue among faculty, staff, the cultural make-up of the community. model and will then have be able and students. The presenter will share presenters: Josephine Salvador to apply it to New Orleans. Outcomes concepts he has utilized to support and Andres Richner-Maldonado, for participants will include; exposure leaders at various independent schools The Calhoun School (NY) to a model for urban exploration that to increase their level of cultural com­ includes interaction with government, petency. These concepts challenge all B-11 Teaching the Multicultural nonprofit, and commercial sectors, members of the independent school Middle East: Israel, Palestine, and suggestions for melding of service community to understand more about “Encounter Point” and academics, and meaningful inter­ three critical levels of diversity: indivi­ Room 267 action with the social issues prevalent dual, group, and the organizational. At PoCC 2006, the six members of the in New Orleans. presenters: Alana Rush Participants will leave this session Middle East Affinity group included and Raj Mundra, Phillips Academy (MA) Middle Easterners, North Africans, better understanding how to pull back and Central Asians; Muslims, Jews, B-13 Lessons of Katrina: Rebuilding the veil of Privilege to “help good and Christians; Arabs, Persians, and a School after Disaster people move beyond good intentions” Berbers. How did such a diverse col­ Room 270 into actions which support valuing lection of people find itself thrown Within 2 months of Hurricane Katrina, diversity and building a more inclusive together into a single group? This McGehee School reopened with almost independent school community. workshop will address Middle Eastern half of its students. Our journey begins presenter: Steven Jones, Jones & multiculturalism by looking at the in Houston where administrators ini­ Associates Consulting, Inc. (CA) Israeli/Palestinian conflict. Attendees tially gathered to make contact with will learn about the theoretical and all our constituents, place students People of Color in Leadership: political challenges of teaching the in other schools, and devise a plan to Pathways and Programs to Success Middle East, and examine teaching reopen McGehee. Once back in New B-7 A Candid Look at Preparing tools and the documentary film Orleans we faced many challenges for Leadership including, teaching in a city that was Encounter Point, which follows both Room 290 recovering and involving students in Israeli and Palestinian members of Can a graduate program in education the recovery process. Participants will the grassroots organization Bereaved prepare a person of color to meet the walk away with real life examples of Parents Circle. This interactive session current needs and challenges of secur­ developing new curriculum and teach­ will model activities for use in the ing an administrative job and exercising ing through a natural disaster, giving classroom and provide practical leadership? Independent school lead­ students a sense of hope and empow­ resources for teachers. presenters: ers, instructional and administrative, erment through community service Adam Gaynor and Yavilah McCoy, must be prepared to manage differ­ and rebuilding a school community. The Curriculum Initiative (NY) ently in a changing world. The most The crucial role of technology in successful leaders will be value driven rebuilding spans the scope of our and effective at leveraging diversity, journey. presenters: Carolyn Thomp­ son, Debby Pigman, and Sarah Smith, Louise S. McGehee School (LA)

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developing leadership in others, and and engage in discussions stimulated short films that highlight the system­ aligning the school to accomplish by Paul Laurence Dunbar’s poem — atic effects of racism, and discuss best goals. In this session participants will We Wear the Mask. You will don a practices that help students develop hear from a panel of school leaders mask to symbolize how friendships the positive and resilient racial self- who sought to prepare for these chal­ are impeded across cultures and how concepts needed to counter bigotry, lenges through a specially designed our true feelings are hidden. You will prejudice and benign neglect present master’s program at the Klingenstein digest the poem and discuss how in our schools today. presenters: Sandra Center for Independent School Lead­ removing the mask can help you Chapman Little Red School House ership at Teachers College, Columbia strengthen awareness of others and and Elisabeth Irwin High School, (NY); University. The Klingenstein program build support for stronger community Caroline Blackwell, University School was the first to professionalize inde­ and friendships across race, ethnicity, of Nashville (TN) pendent school leadership training origins, and cultures. and to specifically address the ethical, C-3 Rap and Race: A Redefinition legal, financial, pedagogical, and 3:15–4:45 PM Room 285 organizational perspectives of the Through presentation, individual reflec­ tion, group dialogue, and excerpts of field.presenters : Amani Reed, The Uni­ Workshop Session C versity of Chicago Laboratory Schools music and film, this workshop explores (IL); Nicole Graham-Victor, New Featured Speaker Kira race by analyzing spoken word poetry Canaan Country School (CT); Chelsea Orange-Jones and rap music and its impact through Pope, Kinkaid School (TX); Guybe Introduction by Marlia Pastorek, an unbiased lens. This workshop seeks Louise S. McGehee School (LA) Slangen, Head-Royce School (CA) to help participants develop an under­ Rooms 271–273 standing and appreciation of content- based rap music as part of multicultural 12:15–1:30 PM Sponsored by Cal/West Educators Placement education. The emphasis on this work­ Lunch (on own) shop is to provide concrete, practical Please take advantage of food kiosks strategies and practice to increase our and the Food Court area at the Ernest toolbox as multicultural educators. N. Morial Convention Center for lunch Participants will work to make connec­ in order to conserve time and travel tions between their experiences and away from the convention center. Exploring Racial/Ethnic Identities those of the artists, gain a clear under­ for People of Color: Our Many standing of the concepts, identify 12:15–1:30 PM Journeys and Stages commonalities with other participants, PoCC Choir Rehearsal C-2 Black, White, Other than What? appreciate differences and work La Nouvelle Orleans Ballroom How and Why Racial Identity Matters together. In addition, participants will Room 283 develop critical thinking by practicing 1:45–3:00 PM Racial identity is a key component of active listening, journaling, and exam­ Affinity Group Session III* early childhood, adolescent, and adult ining through an unbiased lens. The *(Please check your conference badge development. Thereorists agree that a facilitators will present concrete for specific room location for this complete understanding of one’s own examples of engaging, academically session) and other people’s racial identity has rigorous multicultural curriculum a positive impact on school/classroom in the classroom. presenters: Roberto Friendships That Sustain environments, but what happens to German, St. John’s Preparatory (Across Cultures) children and young people if that under­ School (MA); Seelan Manickam, St. John’s Preparatory School (MA) focus: Discover the power of taking standing is skewed, eclipsed, negated, off your MASK to strengthen your or denied? After acknowledging the awareness and support building racial lens through which they see stronger communities across race, the world, workshop participants will ethnicity, origins, and cultures. review racial identity thereories, view The entire PoCC community will assemble into cross-cultural groups

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C-6 ‘Yellow’ Privilege: API Identity rary world music and remains open to has been of tremendous assistance in the Diversity Dialogue music from outside as well. This work­ to families who do not have Internet Room 289 shop will present traditional music connections, do not speak English, Where do Asian Americans fall in the performed with African made instru­ who have other special needs, or who spectrum of privilege? How are API ments, African modern music inspired encounter catastrophic personal cir­ (Asian Pacific Islanders) and APA by the traditional, and African music cumstances. Workshop participants (Asian Pacific Americans) included inspired by music from other coun­ will leave with a clear understanding or discounted in the diversity dia­ tries. As a culmination of this explo­ of how this position creatively levels logue? This workshop will explore the ration participants will collaborate to the playing field so that all students specific location that Asian American produce African music on traditional feel like this school is their school. The students, faculty, and families occupy instruments in a charming improvisa­ FSL is a radical new way to retain fam­ in the independent school world and tion style. presenter: Edem Afemeku, ilies, especially during economic hard how their relative degree of privilege Princeton Day School (NJ) times. presenters: T. J. Vassar, Jamie serves to separate them from other Asaka, Anne Stavney, and Berni Noe, racial minorities. Building upon and C-12 Student Voices: Being, Lakeside School (WA) expanding upon the discourse of Becoming, Belonging white privilege, we will discuss how Room 268 C-15 Power, Privilege, Oppression: Asian Americans may be passively Through videotaped interviews, this Working within a Framework complicit in perpetuating social ineq­ session will provide insights into how Room 278 uities in spite of their non-white status. a cross-section of African-American This workshop will provide participants Additionally, we will reflect on the other high school students understand their an opportunity to explore issues of side of this dynamic in which API stu­ day-to-day experience in a “liberal” identity, gender, sexuality, and how dents may also feel silenced and/or day school where they are not the it relates to being a person of color. excluded from the diversity dialogue. dominant culture. In our conversations Participants will discuss issues of class, Finally, we will discuss strategies for with the students, we focus on what being marginalized, and overcoming constructively addressing this com­ skills and strategies they employ as oppression. By the end of the work­ plex dilemma with students, parents, they confront issues of academic and shop we will find solutions on how to and faculty. presenters: Cheryl Ting, social inclusion. This session will also deal with the complexities of multiple Bentley School (CA); Steve Lee, explore the resources a school can identities with an anti-oppression lens. The Athenian School (CA) provide to help African-American presenter: Benny Vasquez, GLSEN (NY) students partner with adults and other students. presenters: Linda Rose- C-16 What works? Best Practices Building Inclusive Communities of supporting Women of Color for People of Color: Programs and Winters, James Astman, and Kristine Puich, Oakwood School (CA) in Independent Schools Initiatives to Strengthen People Room 280 of Color in Independent Schools C-14 Family Support Liasion– A panel discussion of women of color C-9 Discovering Africa An Effective New Tool for Inclusion in independent boarding and day Through Its Music Room 274 schools will discuss how they support Rooms 260–262 Last year, while discussing our diver­ each other. The African-American, One way of learning about the African sity initiatives at the PoCC, there was Asian-American, and Latina women continent and the African people is lots of interest in a new position Lake­ will explore what has worked and through music. Known as a continent side created to smooth the transition what hasn’t worked in their experi­ rich with mineral resources; distinctive to independent school particularly for ences, while offering suggestions to animals, and archeological clues to low-income families. The Family Sup­ other women. The panel will discuss human evolution. Africa is a continent port Liaison (FSL) is responsible for the role men and white women can where music and rhythm make daily making sure those families in distress play as allies and advocates for their life. Full of hundreds of thousands or who do not have many resources career development and professional of types of music and rhythms, Africa are supported not only at school, but support. The results of a survey con­ has both contributed to contempo­ in their homes as well. The FSL works ducted among women of color in closely with school support systems independent schools will be shared and the parent association. The FSL

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during the presentation. The survey a recreation of the “doll test” initially C-20 Just Ask–A Documentary results will further illuminate the sto­ conducted by Dr. Kenneth Clark. Room 284 ries of these women and the bene­ Participants will leave understanding The professionally created documen­ fits of positive support to help them the process of creating, promoting, tary Just Ask is a film that initiates achieve maximum career potential. and organizing a similar community- dialogue regarding diversity within Participants will leave with a stronger building event in their schools. independent schools. Through a thirty sense of how to navigate their careers presenters: Zenaida Muslin, Maria minute series of interviews, “Just Ask” and how to advocate for themselves. Hartman, and C. Wiggins, Bank allows the viewer an intimate glimpse They will also explore the benefits of Street School for Children (NY) into the lives of nine young students allies for women of color within and of color coping within the environs outside of their school community. C-18 Visible Men: Success Networking of a predominately white independent for Black Boys and Men presenters: Tiffany Taylor Smith, TR school. The presentation will demon­ Taylor Consulting (NJ); Kassandra Room 281 strate the importance of asking tough Hayes, Kent Place School (NJ); Ida Visible Men is a success network for questions, the need to initiate honest Malloy, The Pennington School (NJ); black boys and men. The movement conversations about diversity, and Amy Mai, Tierney Gill St. Bernard’s counters the pervasive negative the worth of simply listening. In order School (NJ); Tracey Goodson, Barrett imagery of black men in our society to facilitate such a process, we offer Morristown Beard School (NJ) and presents a more complete picture a panel comprised of key student and of today’s black man. Visible Men faculty participants who will share their C-17 HAIR–It’s All Good! emphasizes success principles that experiences in making the documen­ Room 279 have led black men to success and tary and their belief that “just asking” achievement. We collect these prin­ Hair, a complex topic, especially for made all the difference. presenters: African American children in indepen­ ciples from accomplished black men Robert Kostrzeski, Wildwood School dent schools. To support the self- and disseminate them to aspiring (CA); Shane Carter, Drew School (CA) esteem of children of color, celebrate black boys. This presentation promotes their uniqueness and validate their a distinctive way of assessing the well Expanding Our Tool Box: experiences, parents of the Children being of black boys in independent Curricular and Professional schools. It espouses an approach that of Color affinity group at the Bank Skills for Excellence Street School for Children constructed develops the cornerstone principle a month long event culminating in on which Visible Men is based. Finally, C-10 Multiculturalism Research: an all school celebration of hair. This this workshop will promote the in Supporting Students and its Impact event included an interactive bulletin Vision Project, the Visible Men program on a School Community board where the entire community that links institutions around this issue Room 266 posted comments, thoughts, ideas, and provides a community forum This presentation will examine how and representations of hair and cre­ through which schools can collaborate the Independent Research Program ated a DVD where kids of color and in support of black boys. presenter: was created, how it is linked to the their friends discussed feelings and Neil Phillips, Landon School (MD) overall academic program, and the wishes about their hair. The event impact it has had on students, faculty, included haircuts, hair braiding, hair advisors, and the community at large. storytelling, hair crafts, hair poetry We will discuss strategies for how slam, and viewing and discussing the schools can develop similar indepen­ film “A Girl Like Me” by Kiri Davis, dent research programs. Participants can expect to see how our model was created and will receive a handout that can be used as a guide for how the program works. The workshop will include various perspectives about

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the program from the creator, a faculty voices of Native Peoples and accu­ lifestyles. The workshop will give advisor, and a student who presented rately address issues of tribal history, participants a necessary tool to help to the community. The result is a low culture, and lifeways as they relate balance the body, mind, and spirit cost approach to support students to contemporary lives of our students. connection, which can be used to and encourage their desire to engage presenters: Melanie Sainz, Phoenix alleviate some of the stress associated in multicultural research. presenters: Country Day School (AZ); Laura Jagles, with being a person of color in an Raj Mundra, Lou Bernieri, and Jessica Santa Fe Preparatory School (NM) independent school.presenter: Steffanie Phillips, Phillips Academy (MA) White, MS 321 (NY) C-5 Transforming Ourselves: Staying C-11 Behind the Scenes Centered on Point and on Purpose People of Color in Leadership: Room 288 of Successful Diversity Programs: Pathways and Programs to Success Building Relationships Participants will learn how to stay cen­ Room 267 tered and focused in order to avoid C-7 Leadership Skills That Matter What happens behind the scenes in burnout, frustration, and being over­ Room 290 independent schools to support the whelmed during the academic year. Massive numbers of school leaders development and successful imple­ This highly interactive workshop will plan to retire by 2015, creating oppor­ mentation of diversity programs? guide participants through the E4 tunities for educators of color to move Over the last few years, both Pike model created by Dr. Steven Jones. into high level leadership positions. School and Lawrence Academy have Activities which focus on Examination, Individuals can wait to be anointed rapidly built diversity programs with Education, Empowerment, and Excel­ to a position of leadership or they can the support of trustees, parents, teach­ lence and will allow participants to take initiative to develop and practice ers, the development office, and the experience a transformational process. leadership skills while on the job. Par­ student body. Critical to the strength Dr. Jones believes we can only lead ticipants will hear from heads of color of their diversity efforts has been the others as far as we’ve gone ourselves. and the director of the Klingenstein attention paid to constituents. A panel This session will fuel participants to Center for Independent School Leader­ of diversity professionals will discuss go further inward in order to have ship, Teachers College, Columbia Uni­ and review strategies for engaging a bigger impact outwardly. presenter: versity on the ways in which one can school communities in the work of Steven Jones, Jones & Associates cultivate their leadership potential. increasing equity and justice in school Consulting, Inc. (CA) presenters: Pearl Rock Kane, The Klin­ communities. presenters: Wonjen genstein Center (NY); Doreen Oleson, Bagley, Lawrence Academy (MA); Nurturing Our Souls: Self Care St. Mark’s School (CA); Terry Flowers, Vanessa Hynes, Nyvette Grady, Kavita and Strategies for Success St. Phillips School and Community Mundra, and Aiko Onishi, The Pike Organization (TX) School (MA) C-1 Imani’s Healing: Dispelling the Myths About Who Really Does Pilates C-8 The SAT/ACT: Implications for C-13 Real Source vs. Resource Room 265 Low-Income and Underrepresented Room 270 This movement based workshop aims Minority Students Break boundaries and expectations of to provide participants with a full Room 297 textbooks and curricular units focusing Beginner/Intermediate Pilates Mat Our democracy is being challenged on American Indian people. Develop class while tackling some of the myths to provide higher education access a consciousness for choosing quality that surround this popular exercise to historically excluded students. High- resources designed to foster an under­ system. With the “Muffin Top” and stakes tests like the SAT and ACT can standing and cultural sensitivity toward “Beer Belly” population ever increas­ significantly impact college opportu­ the subject of Native Peoples of the ing and the rise of serious health nities and options. A primary mission Americas. The workshop goal is to issues, like diabetes and heart disease of the nonprofit Princeton Review offer examples of language and visual particularly in communities of color, Foundation is to engage in advocacy arts materials that contain authentic our health crisis has reached alarming and program development to address proportions. This introduction to this issue. Xavier University, an HBCU Pilates seeks to positively change the in New Orleans, occupies a unique community’s perception of healthy living by promoting life-long active

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niche in U.S. higher education: annually, 5:30–6:30 PM it sends many more black premeds to December 7 GLBT Social Hour medical school than any other univer­ Marriott New Orleans, Blaine Kern sunday sity. Xavier embodies leadership and Ballroom–Salons AB pathways to educational success for 7:00–10:00 AM people of color, and has perspectives 7:00–9:00 PM Conference Registration on admission testing that are of parti­ PoCC Banquet with Hall I Lobby cular interest to black and other under­ Reza Aslan represented minority communities. La Nouvelle Orleans Ballroom 7:00–7:45 AM presenters: Jay Rosner, The Princeton Performance by Anais St. John Trio PoCC Choir Rehearsal Review Foundation (CA); W. Brown, Auditorium Xavier University (LA) k

C-21 Developing, Nurturing, 8:00–9:15 AM and Sustaining Independent Affinity Group Session IV School Leaders of Color Rooms 275–277 Rebuilding and Preserving Your The purpose of this presentation will PoCC/SDLC Experience be to introduce conference partici­ focus: Connect within racial, ethnic, and gender identity groups as you pants to the National Diversity Lead­ Introduction of Gertrude B. Batiste, reflect on the PoCC / SDLC experience ership Collaborative (NDLC), a new k Gene Batiste, NAIS organization dedicated to helping and share ways you will preserve the Reflections of Gilbert Academy, develop and mentor the next genera­ essence of the conference in prepar­ the first “Independent School” for tion of independent school leaders k ing to return to your schools. African Americans in New Orleans of color. The founding members of During this session adults will meet by Gertrude B. Batiste NDLC, all of them current administra­ with the students in racial, ethnic, tors of color in independent schools, Dinner (background music by and gender identity groups to reflect will provide session attendees with k Anais St. John Trio) on the conference experience and specific information about the organi­ Introduction of Reza Aslan by Pam share ways to preserve the essence zation’s purpose, structure, programs, k Guter, Trinity Episcopal School (LA) of PoCC. You will listen and observe fees, and application process. Partici­ Banquet Address by Reza Aslan from an outer circle as the students pants will leave the session equipped sit in an inner circle. They will discuss k Corporate Sponsor Recognition, with the information they need to their observations and ahha moments. Announcements, and Sending Forth apply for admission into NDLC’s first k Following the students, you will join cohort, which will begin its work in the Anais St. John Trio your colleagues in the circle to partic­ program in the summer of 2009. More k ipate in a similar discussion. The stu­ information on NDLC is available at dents will listen and observe from the www.ndlcollaborative.org. presenters: outer circle. Finally, you will engage Abram Wehmiller, Lakeside School in a large group discussion focused (WA); Karen Bradberry and Arthus on connections and discoveries made Hall, Greenhill School (TX); Amani from the varied points of view… and Reed, The University of Chicago perhaps gain a fresh approach and Laboratory Schools (IL) new ideas to take back to your school.

28 December 7 sunday

Asian/Asian American women from 10:00–11:15 AM 11:45 AM-1:15 PM k PoCC and SDLC Affinity Group Student Led Adult/Student Closing Ceremonies and Room 389 Dialogues Address with Wendell (adults in state/regional association Asian/Asian American men from Pierce, PoCC Choir, SDLC and POCIS Meeting locations) k PoCC and SDLC Affinity Group Report, Service Organi- Room 388 Colorado and ACIS Room 283 zation Recognition, 2009 PoCC/SDLC Announcement Black African-American women k Connecticut Room 270 k from PoCC and SDLC Affinity Group k Florida Room 284 Performance by the PoCC Choir Rooms 391–392, 393–396 k Maryland and AIMS Room 294 k Community Service Recognition African-American men from PoCC k Midwest (ISACS) Rooms 288–290 k Performance by Kayla Pleasant, and SDLC Affinity GroupR ooms Isidore Newman School (LA) k k New England, AISNE, and POCISNE k 265–268 k Rooms 265–268 Introduction of Wendell Pierce by First Nation/Indigenous/Native Robyn McCormick, PoCC co-chair, New Jersey Room 281 k k American women and men Affinity Isidore Newman School (LA) k New York and POCIS–NY Group Room 274 Address by Wendell Pierce k Rooms 260-262 International, Non U.S. Citizen k SDLC Report out by Liz Fernández, North Carolina Room 282 k women and men Affinity Group k Educational Consultant (NY) Room 282 k Northern California and and Rodney Glasgow, Worcester Latina/Hispanic American women k NORCAL-PoCIS Rooms 291–292 Academy (MA), SDLC Co-Chairs k from PoCC and SDLC Affinity Group Pacific Northwest and PNAIS Performance by the St. Paul Episco­ Rooms 271–273 k (AK, ID, MT, NV, OR, UT, WA, British k pal School Percussion Ensemble, Latino/Hispanic American men Columbia) Room 279 directed by Myers McAllister k from PoCC and SDLC Affinity Group Pennsylvania and Delaware Valley Corporate Sponsor Recognition Rooms 260–262 k Rooms 271–273 k 2008 co-chair Recognition, Multiracial American Affinity women Puerto Rico, Virgin Islands, Hawaii 2009 Announcement Video, k from PoCC and SDLC Affinity Group k & International Schools Room 274 2009 co-chair Welcome Rooms 288–290 South and SAIS (AL, GA, KY, Multiracial American Affinity men k MS, SC, Central America, South k from PoCC and SDLC Affinity Group America) Rooms 298–299 Rooms 275–277 Southern California and SAUCAL Pacific Islander/Pacific Islander k POCIS Rooms 275–299 American women and men from k Southwest and ISAS Room 293 PoCC and SDLC Affinity Group Room 283 k Tennessee and TAIS Room 278 Middle Eastern American women k Virginia Room 280 k and men from PoCC and SDLC k Washington, DC and AISGW Affinity GroupR oom 280 k Room 285 White/European American women k from PoCC and SDLC Affinity Group Rooms 291–292 White/European American men k from PoCC and SDLC Affinity Group Rooms 298–299

29 sdlc

SDLC Welcome

The Student Diversity Leadership Conference is in its 15th year. After a meaningful gathering in Boston, we are once again calling together student leaders from around the country to continue the work of equity and justice The Student Diversity Leadership Conference in our schools. Many of our students went back to their (SDLC) is a multiracial, multicultural gathering schools and shared the skills and knowledge they gained of upper school student leaders (grades 9-12) at SDLC. We are honored to travel to New Orleans, a from around the country that focuses on self- city known for its rich culture and history. We will con­ reflecting, forming allies, and building community. tinue to explore the unfinished business of the civil Led by a diverse team of trained adult and peer rights legacy, take a personal journey through identity, facilitators, participants will develop effective use dialogue and the arts as a means of expression, cross-cultural communication skills, better under­ and stretch ourselves as we reflect personally, act locally, stand the nature and development of effective and think globally. strategies for social justice, practice expression through the arts, and learn networking principles We are honored to bring to the table a talented and sea­ and strategies. soned faculty consisting of independent school alums, college students who are SDLC alums, educators, and In addition to large group sessions, SDLC further educational consultants. Conference participants will creates a safe, supportive environment by orga­ engage in important discussions, explore the possibilities nizing participants into cross-sectional teams of affinity grouping, and expand their networks of sup­ of 65 known as “family groups,” each of which port including meeting with PoCC participants in regional is led by two adult facilitators. Each family group groupings. Our returning conference participants may is further divided into small “home groups,” where have the opportunity to engage in an advanced group intense dialogue and sharing take place, guided called Diversity 201 or to serve as peer facilitators, by trained peer facilitators. taking a critical role in moving and shaping the dialogue SDLC participants will join PoCC participants at that happens on site. the Friday opening ceremonies, Sunday Affinity Group Session IV, and Sunday closing ceremonies. We have eagerly awaited our time in New Orleans where Culminating experiences will include joining we will affirm the commitment of NAIS and its member together with PoCC attendees in student-facilitated schools to cultivate student voices. As we enter a new dialogue sessions designed to explore concepts era of civil rights, we are called upon to preserve our­ and themes of equity and justice in our schools. selves and build community to sustain change. Afterall, Highly rated in conference evaluations, everyone that is the essence of student leadership! is encouraged to attend and support these opportunities for cross-generational work. Liz Fernández Rodney Glasgow educational consultant (NY), director of diversity and SDLC co-chair community relations, Worcester Academy (MA), SDLC co-chair

30 Student Diversity Leadership Conference Preserving Self, Building Community and Sustaining Change: The Essence of Student Leadership

Fifteen Years of Diversity and Advocacy Training for Independent School Students SDLC Chaperones Schools are required to send a chaperone(s) with their student delegation. Chaperones are expected to: SDLC Expectations Attend one of the chaperone All SDLC participants whether local or traveling A orientation sessions on: must abide by the same rules and expectations. Thursday, December 4 SDLC participants are expected to: 6:45–7:30 PM, 7:45–8:30 PM Attend all conference sessions, activities, A Friday, December 5 and meals. 7:00–7:45 AM Sign and abide by the Student Conduct Room 280, Ernest N. Morial A Agreement governing behavior throughout Convention Center the conference. Ensure students attend all SDLC activities. Cooperate with adult chaperones and A A with conference staff. Be responsible for their students during A travel to and from New Orleans, and SDLC Meals throughout their stay in New Orleans when students are not in conference sessions. Student delegates will receive lunch and dinner on Friday, December 5, and lunch and dinner on Be on call at all times during the conference. Saturday, December 6. Friday through Sunday A Meet students at designated points breakfasts are not included with student registra­ A and times. tion. Chaperones are strongly encouraged to have breakfast with SDLC delegates. Support and enforce the Student Conduct A Agreement, including participation require­ ments and adherence to curfew. Arrange for students’ meals not included A in the SDLC registration.

SDLC events and activities are open to registered students only.

31 Thank You!

PoCC 2008 Local Committee Local Committee Members

The success of this year’s PoCC and SDLC Pamela Guter Ex Officio New is due, in large part, to the countless hours Trinity Episcopal Orleans Heads of assistance given by the New Orleans- School (LA) area independent schools that hosted of School local committee meetings with meals and Dana Launey T. J. Locke refreshments, the local committee, and Metairie Park Country head of school most especially to the local committee Day School (LA) Isidore Newman School co-chairs. They helped promote the con­ Julie Lause ference, garner corporate sponsorships, Carolyn Chandler New Orleans Educator (LA) develop the program, approve conference head of school workshops, and support the conference Betsy McGovern Metairie Park Country Day logistics. Meeting regularly since March Metairie Park Country School 2008, these individuals deserve our Day School (LA) deepest gratitude. Father Michael Kuhn Lynette Moody head of school Robyn McCormick Academy of the Sacred Trinity Episcopal School co-chair Heart (LA) Eileen Powers Isidore Newman School (LA) Marcia Pastorek head of school Ninnette Varisco Louise S. McGehee Louise S. McGehee School co-chair School (LA) Merry Sorrells Metairie Park Country Day head of school School (LA) Sybil Reed Isidore Newman School (LA) St. Paul Episcopal School Michael Wood Tim Burns co-chair Dorothy Shelton head of school Trinity Episcopal School (LA) Isidore Newman School (LA) Academy of the Sacred Merry Sorrells Heart St. Paul’s Episcopal School (LA) Joan Starr Isidore Newman School (LA) Nancy Wohl Academy of the Sacred Heart (LA)

32 Local Committee Members SDLC Co-Chairs and Faculty

NAIS and participating Rohan Arjun Oscar González Antoinette Quarshie schools gratefully acknowl­ Temple University (PA) Kent Denver School (CO) Riverdale Country School edge the 2008 SDLC co- (NY) chairs and faculty for their Hamilton Boggs Marjahn Golban commitment and creativity Branson School (CA) Wellesley College (MA) Michelle Rivera in nurturing independent California State University school student diversity Gary Briggs Ricky Hernández (CA) leaders and advocates. Texas Christian University of Connecticut University (LA) (CT) Camar Robinson Liz Fernández Ethical Culture Fieldston Gustavo Carrera Gulnaar Kaur School (NY) SDLC co-chair Buckingham, Browne Duke University (NC) educational consultant (NY) & Nichols School (MA) Jonathan Rodkin Rodney Glasgow Lorraine Martinez Hanley University of Michigan Cecilia Coats Indian Creek School (MD) Survey Research Center (RI) SDLC co-chair Graland Country Day Worcester Academy (MA) School (CO) Tiané Hill Alyse Ruíz University of Maryland (MD) Maureen Cocar Dubón Brown University (FL) University of Southern Collinus Newsome Hutt Priyanka Rupani California (CA) Graland Country Day Northwestern University (IL) School (CO) Vivian English Yohancé Serrant Queen Anne School (DC) Charlotte Jacobs independent performance University of Chicago Lab artist (CA) José Filpo Schools (IL) Breakthrough Miami Cynthia Sorto at Ransom Everglades Cameron Johnson Texas Christian School (FL) NAIS (DC) University (TX) Jennifer Francis Abby Miller Yoanna Torres San Francisco University Simmons College (MA) Smith College (MA) High School (CA) Christopher Nelson Stefanie Tsosie Jamor Gaffney WJZ-TV (MD) Stanford University (CA) University of Maryland (MD) Winston Nguyen Felicity Von Sück Meredith Gendreau Columbia University (NY) DialogueDirect, Inc. (CA) MC Communications (MA) Ashley Norred Terrell Winder Aliza Goldsmith George Washington Columbia University (NY) Occidental College (CA) University (DC) Noah Goldsmith Roberta Osorio Occidental College (CA) Ethical Culture Fieldston School (NY)

33 Thank You!

Call-to-Action

The mission of the Call-to- Michelle Belton Liz Fernández Kathy O’Neal Action (CTA), NAIS’s national Lowell School (DC) Education Consultant (NY) University Preparatory think tank and advisory School (WA) counsel on diversity, is: Caroline Blackwell Heather Flewelling to address current and University School Milton Academy (MA) Eric Osorio k emerging issues of equity of Nashville (TN) Johnnie Foreman Noble and Greenough and justice in independ­ School (MA) Karen Bradberry Gilman School (MD) ent schools; Greenhill School (TX) Jacqui Pelzer to support the creation Rodney Glasgow Early Steps, Inc. (NY) k of healthy, inclusive, and Julian K. Braxton Worcester Academy (MA) equitable educational Winsor School (MA) Pat Reynolds communities; Jackie Hamilton St. John’s School (TX) Tiffany Bridgewater Tower Hill School (DE) to identify best practices The Potomac School (VA) Carol Swainson k and assist in the develop­ Josie Herrera The Head-Royce School ment of sustainable ini­ Pamela Buchanan-Miller Albuquerque Academy (CA) tiatives and action steps The Latin School (NM) for NAIS and its member of Chicago (IL) George Swope schools; and Sarah Hershey Oldfields School (MD) Crissy Caceres Chinese American to provide opportunities Abington Friends International School (CA) Manasa Tangalin k for mutual support and School (PA) Independent School Alliance professional development Laura Jagles for Minority Affairs (CA) for its membership. Clinton Carbon Santa Fe Preparatory A substantial portion Dwight-Englewood School (NM) Kisha Watts School (NJ) Thayer Academy (MA) of the work of CTA is Alan Lechusza to work with the PoCC Sherry Coleman Sage Hill School (CA) John West local committee co-chairs Independent School The Mirman School (CA) and NAIS staff in develop­ Consortium (PA) Rosetta Lee ing PoCC and SDLC. NAIS Seattle Girls’ School (WA) Nikki Wood extends its highest admir­ Judith-Ann Corrente organizational development ation for the efforts and Lawrenceville School (NJ) Evelyn McClain consultant (PA) to the members of the and the Albert G. Oliver Park Tudor School (IN) 2008-09 CTA who worked Program (NY) Christel McGuigan on this year’s conferences. Quanti Davis The Bishop’s School (CA) Norwood School (MD) Chinh Nguyen Ted Farraday Lick-Wilmerding High Miami Country Day School (CA) School (FL)

34 NAIS Onsite Staff

Janyce Bryant Experient director of administrations Joy Womack and facilities meeting and event manager Vivian Dandridge-Charles managing director of member services Cameron Johnson web director Michelle Lyde database manager Mark Mitchell vice president save the school information services Amy Pica date! marketing manager

Floyd Smith 21st People of Color Conference and member services associate 15th Student Diversity Leadership Conference Amada Torres director of academic December 3-5, 2009 research

NAIS Leadership 2009 PoCC Conference Theme: Education and Diversity (LEAD) Team Moving Mountains: Mining Within Gene Batiste vice president 2009 SDLC Conference Theme: leadership education and diversity Mine, Yours & Ours: The Jay Rapp Responsibility to Navigate director of programs the Rapids of Change Gina Rousseau Spear meeting planning consultant to the LEAD team Tina Wood director of team administration and logistics

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