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DECEMBER 4 – 6, 2014 | INDIANAPOLIS, INDIANA JW MARRIOTT INDIANAPOLIS AND INDIANAPOLIS MARRIOTT DOWNTOWN PROGRAM CC O P GOING THE DISTANCE, DRIVING CHANGE, LEADING THE RACE TOWARD EQUITY AND EXCELLENCE 27TH NAIS PEOPLE OF COLOR CONFERENCE POCC.NAIS.ORG #POCC14 | #SDLC14 SDLC LEADERSHIP AT THE RIDING AT THE WHEEL SPEED OF ACCEPTANCE 21ST NAIS STUDENT DIVERSITY LEADERSHIP CONFERENCE TABLE OF CONTENTS 1 PoCC at a Glance 2 Conference History 4 Welcome 6 Keynote Speakers 8 Overview 10 Highlights 12 PoCC Expo 16 Wednesday, December 3 18 Thursday, December 4 32 Friday, December 5 40 Saturday, December 6 43 SDLC at a Glance and Overview 46 Thank You 48 Advertisements 61 Floor Plans CONNECT WITH US ON TWITTER! FOLLOW AND CONTRIBUTE TO Madame CJ Walker, considered the first female self-made millionaire THE CONVERSATION USING THE in America, headquartered her manufacturing company in Indianapolis. HASHTAGS #POCC14 AND #SDLC14 POCC BLOGGERS Follow the 2014 PoCC Bloggers as they share their conference experiences. Find links on pocc.nais.org. This year’s bloggers are: JEN LESAR Senior Director, Digital Content Strategy, NAIS (DC) NAKEIHA PRIMUS Assistant Professor, Education Foundations, Millersville University (PA) STACEY-LEE WILLIAMS Director of Admissions and Photo courtesy of A’Lelia Bundles/ Madam Walker Family Archives Parent Relations, Somersfield Academy (BERMUDA) POCC AT A GLANCE JW Marriott Indianapolis SUBJECT TO CHANGE WEDNESDAY, DECEMBER 3 THURSDAY, DECEMBER 4 FRIDAY, DECEMBER 5 SATURDAY, DECEMBER 6 7:00 – 7:45 AM 7:00 – 8:00 AM SDLC Chaperone Orientation III PoCC Choir Rehearsal (choose one) MORE INFO, PAGE 45 MORE INFO, PAGE 11 8:00 AM – 5:00 PM 8:00 – 9:15 AM 8:00 – 9:00 AM 8:00 – 9:15 AM PoCC Affinity Group PoCC/SDLC Opening Ceremonies PoCC General Session Affinity Group Session III Training MORE INFO, PAGE 17 with Michael Eric Dyson with Derald Wing Sue MORE INFO, PAGE 41 MORE INFO, PAGE 6 MORE INFO, PAGE 6 9:00 AM – 1:00 PM 9:00 AM – 5:00 PM 9:00 – 9:45 AM School Visits* PoCC Equity 9:15 – 10:00 AM Book Signing and Networking MORE INFO, PAGE 17 Seminars MORE Book Signing and Networking Coffee Break MORE INFO, PAGE 33 9:30 – 11:00 AM INFO, PAGE 17 Coffee Break MORE INFO, PAGE 19 9:45 – 11:00 AM Student-Led Adult/Student 10:00 – 11:15 AM Workshop 10:00 AM – NOON Dialogues (by region/state) Workshop Block A Block C Master Class MORE INFO, PAGE 42 MORE INFO, PAGE 19 MORE INFO, PAGE 33 with Derald Wing Sue MORE INFO, PAGE 33 11:00 AM – 1:00 PM PoCC 11:30 AM – 1:00 PM Celebration 11:30 AM – 1:00 PM Film Screenings Luncheon and Closing Ceremonies MORE INFO, PAGE 11 NOON – 1:00 PM Appy Hour in NOON – 1:00 PM with Sonia Nazario the PoCC Expo PoCC Choir PoCC Choir MORE INFO, PAGE 7 MORE INFO, Rehearsal PAGE 13 Rehearsal MORE INFO, PAGE 11 MORE INFO, PAGE 11 1:00 – 3:30 PM 1:15 – 3:30 PM Affinity Group Affinity Group Session I Session II MORE INFO, PAGE 25 MORE INFO, PAGE 39 3:45 – 5:00 PM 3:45 – 5:00 PM Workshop Block B State/Regional Meetings MORE INFO, PAGE 26 MORE INFO, PAGE 39 5:15 – 6:30 PM 5:15 – 6:30 PM PoCC General Session PoCC General Session with Maysoon Zayid with Jose Antonio Vargas 6:00 – 6:45 PM MORE INFO, PAGE 6 MORE INFO, PAGE 7 SDLC Chaperone Orientation I (choose one) MORE INFO, PAGE 45 6:30 – 7:30 PM LGBT Social Hour 7:00 – 8:00 PM MORE INFO, PAGE 10 PoCC Newcomer Orientation 7:15 – 9:00 PM MORE INFO, PAGE 45 PoCCSpeaks MORE INFO, PAGE 13 POCC EXPO HOURS 9:00 PM – MIDNIGHT 9:15 – 10:00 PM Club PoCC THURSDAY, DECEMBER 4 MORE INFO, PAGE 10 SDLC Chaperone Orientation II 3:45 – 5:00 PM, (choose one) MORE INFO, PAGE 45 7:15 – 9:00 PM FRIDAY, DECEMBER 5 9:00 AM – 5:00 PM MORE INFO, PAGE 12 * Buses will pick up from JW Marriott Indianapolis, Event Center Drive, Level 1. Ticketed Event CONFERENCE HISTORY 1986 1995 The First National Lighting the Way to the Conference for Teachers Millennium: Our Selves, and Administrators of Color Our Children, Our Schools in Independent Schools 1989 1996 A Vision for Building Common Ground New Alliances 1990 1997 Journey to Spirit: Unity in the Midst Solidarity and Voice of Diversity through Dialogue 1991 1998 Puerto Rico — The Caribbean: From Thought to Action Encounter History, Culture, and Self 1992 1999 Mosaic: Connecting Vision 2020 Communities for Action 1993 2000 Seeing Beyond — Becoming Advocates for Creating The Children Multicultural Educational Are Our Business Institutions 1994 Los Colores de la Educación — 2001 Continuing to Build Environments in Independent Connecting Cultures, Schools that Address the Connecting Worlds Needs and Issues of Children and Adults of Color 2 #PoCC14 | #SDLC14 EACH YEAR, THE HOST CITY AND CONFERENCE THEME HAVE GIVEN POCC AND SDLC A UNIQUE CHARACTER AND CULTURAL PERSPECTIVE. 2002 Bridging Cultures, Sharing Stories 2003 2009 PoCC Moving Mountains: Mining Within PoCC E Huaka’i Pū Kākou (Let’s Voyage Together) SDLC Mine, Yours & Ours: The Responsibility to Navigate SDLC X Marks the Spot the Rapids of Change 2004 2010 PoCC Miami: Gateway PoCC Catching the Tides of Change, to Multiculturalism Riding the Waves of Opportunity SDLC Connecting to Self, SDLC Coast 2 Coast, Seek to See Connecting to Others 2005 PoCC At the Crossroads: 2011 PoCC We the People: Painting Deepening Perspectives of Our New Mural of Community the Cultural Kaleidoscope SDLC Updating Our Status: A SDLC Collide-o-scope: Twisting Declaration of Interdependence Lenses, Seeing Change 2006 2012 PoCC Energizing Our Future PoCC Nourishing Ourselves through Refining Our for the Swim Upstream Shared Sense of Community SDLC Upstream, Uphill, Up to Us SDLC Timeless Resources, Renewable Energy 2007 2013 PoCC The Capital’s Mosaic: PoCC Learning from the Independent School Leaders Past, Leading for the Future Building an Interconnected World SDLC The Time Is Now SDLC Foresight is 20|20: Capitalizing on Our United State 2008 PoCC Music for Life. Food for Thought. Friendships that Sustain SDLC Preserving Self, Building Community, and Sustaining Change #PoCC14 | #SDLC14 3 NAIS WELCOME Thank you for joining us at the 27th Engagement Initiative, which will use annual NAIS People of Color Conference. the conference’s clout to advance equity and inclusion efforts in host community PoCC serves as a clarion call to leverage schools. The Indianapolis initiative the unparalleled opportunity for includes a powerful and collaborative educational excellence that racial, ethnic, traveling exhibit demonstrating students’ and cultural differences present in our exploration of a range of “isms,” inspired schools and in our communities. This by Tahar Ben Jelloun’s book Racism conference is also a unique model for Explained to My Daughter. The debut leadership development, as it is presented display will be available at PoCC. Lastly, from an all-too-often unexplored vantage be sure to visit the PoCC Expo — an point — that of teachers, administrators, exciting new exhibit and education staff, and heads of color in independent space at the conference. schools. We are honored you have joined us to share your perspective as well. We recently shared with members our four rearticulated NAIS core values, of Our location in Indianapolis and our which equity is one. These core values conference theme inspire us to examine underpin our vision for NAIS schools to not only the ways in which our individual be a “vibrant community of independent and group paths circle and cross, but also schools for a changing nation and the way we measure our movement along demanding world.” Our diverse nation the journey to safe and fully inclusive is hungry for schools that serve all school communities. Are you at a “pit students well and that provide a collegial stop”? Do you have cause for a “victory home for quality educators of all types. lap”? Are you leading? Following? Have We are confident that our schools can you defined the markers of equity and lead the nation in equitable practice. excellence? We hope this event will fuel PoCC aims to play an important role you for the noble and necessary work in cultivating that leadership. of equity in our schools. We are fortunate and grateful to have This year, we encourage you to explore our own hard-working and motivated an array of new opportunities at PoCC. leaders on the PoCC Local Committee JOHN CHUBB Our new PoCC Equity Seminars will and SDLC Leadership Team. We all look NAIS President provide intensive learning opportunities forward to working with you, the adult for teachers, administrators, heads and student leaders who make our CAROLINE G. BLACKWELL of school, and other leaders. 2014 schools the equitable and excellent NAIS Vice President inaugurates the PoCC Community institutions all of our communities need. for Equity and Justice 4 #PoCC14 | #SDLC14 LOCAL COMMITTEE CO-CHAIR WELCOME It is our honor to welcome the NAIS irreplaceable values of teamwork and People of Color Conference. perseverance through sports. The sports movie classics Hoosiers and Rudy When people think about Indianapolis, were filmed and/or inspired in Indiana. what typically comes to mind is race car We are home to the Colts, Pacers, Fever, driving and basketball. Yes, we Hoosiers Indians, Indy Eleven, and Ice. Formerly, have a deep fondness for both activities, we were the home to the Indianapolis but this region has much more to offer. Clowns, a part of the Negro Leagues and the first team to employ a female Residents enjoy the small town appeal of professional baseball player, Toni Stone.