Strategy 3

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Strategy 3

• Interracial Learning Opportunities

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Outcomes and Results

• Action Plan 1. The District will increase the
  number of applicants from diverse backgrounds in
  all job classifications.
  
• Currently, we advertise in
• Spokesman Recorder
• Asian American Press
• LaPrensa newspaper
• Native American Newspaper

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Outcomes and Results

• Action Plan 2. The District will employ staff
  in all job classifications who are
  multi-culturally proficient and who reflect the
  Districts diverse learner population.

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Outcomes and Results

• Action Plan 3 The District will increase the
  retention rate for all current and new staff of
  
• color.
• In 2003-04, our staff turnover was 126
  employees, 25 of them were people of color. This
  amounts to 20 of the total turnover. The same
  pattern holds true today.
• Exit interview both written and oral should be
  standardized and data collected. Our goal for
  2006-07 is to formalize the exit interview
  process and continue many of our interventions.

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Outcomes and Results
Action Plan 4 All District employees will have
the knowledge, skills, and strategies
necessary to increase multicultural awareness and
provide interracial learning opportunities for
all learners.

• SEED 2005-06
• SEED1
• SEED 2
• SEED 3
• SEED 4
• SEED 5
• SEED 6
• Midday SEED
• PCLIP
• Student
• Total of 135 people participated in 2005-06 SEED
  classes, 12 SEED facilitators.
  
• Total of 146 people participated in 2004-05 SEED
  classes, 12 SEED facilitators.
  

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Outcomes and Results
Action Plan 4 District employees will have the
knowledge, skills, and strategies
necessary to increase multicultural awareness and
provide interracial learning opportunities for
all learners.

• New teacher diversity training
• Promising Practices Conference
• Valley View Elementary Staff training
• SORLA Summer Institute 2006
• Cultural Speakers Series
• Moving Lives Speaker Bureau
• Partnering with diverse families from home to
  school
  
• Survival Spanish I II
• Cultural Considerations for Educating the Latino
  Student
  
• Working With African American Males

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Outcomes and Results
Action Plan 4 District employees will have the
knowledge, skills, and strategies
necessary to increase multicultural awareness and
provide interracial learning opportunities for
all learners.

• Asian Cultural from Asian Students Perspective
• American Indians in Childrens Literature
• How To Work Effectively with Southeast Asian
  Students and Parents
  
• Using the American Indian History Culture and
  Language Curriculum
  
• Star Power
• BaFa BaFa
• Flash Judgment
• Failure is Not An Option
• Book study-Educating Everybodys Children
• Bloomington Schools Multicultural CD

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Outcomes and Results
Action Plan 5The District will adopt
multicultural curriculum and supplemental
materials, which authentically reflect our
diverse, global community.

• Elementary music teachers have produced a 5 disk
  set of instructions on how to teach the
  
• gamelan curriculum.
• The instructions are based on the three-year
  residency that was funded by the deseg budget.
  
• Elementary music teachers purchased materials to
  introduce African drumming
  
• into music program.
• Leveled multicultural reading materials have been
  purchased for K-5 classrooms to enhance the
  
• district curriculum
• Multicultural history videos were purchased for
  the High School media centers.
  

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Outcomes and Results
Action Plan 6 All district buildings will cre
ate an environment that both visually reflects
and academically supports the Districts goal of
inclusiveness of all ethnic groups and cultures.
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Outcomes and Results
Action Plan 7 All staff will have high
expectations for all students to achieve or
exceed District and State standards regardless of
their cultural or racial backgrounds.

• Purchase of teacher resource materials for all
  buildings (K-12) on meeting the needs of diverse
  learners and differentiation of curriculum and
  instruction.
• Continue to develop and refine cluster grouping
  program at elementary, middle school Honors
  program and Honors/AP/CIS programs at High
  school.
• Implementation of LAUNCH at Olson Middle and
  Valley View Middle.
  
• 9 elementary and all middle schools had 34 teams
  that competed at Destination Imagination regional
  competition in March. Westwood and OMS teams
  advanced to State!

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Outcomes and Results
Action Plan 7 All staff will have high
expectations for all students to achieve or
exceed District and State standards regardless of
their cultural or racial backgrounds.

• Supported Kennedy High School initiative to
  increase the number of students of color in
  honors and AP courses.
  
• Developing a new program at VVMS based on the
  Launch program. This program would develop
  academic skills of middle school students of
  color and from low-income backgrounds in seeking
  honors and AP course status in high school and
  assist in achieving Scholars status at Kennedy
  High School. This would incorporate effective
  learning/study strategies, leadership
  initiatives, Critical and Creative thinking
  skills, and mentorship possibilities. More
  information on this program to follow.

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Outcomes and Results
Action Plan 8 The District will increase
participation of families of color in all
district functions.

• Provide transportation as requested by
  parents/schools to conferences.
  
• Assist CEC with recruiting parents/students of
  color to be on Advisory Committee.
  
• Surveys sent to families of diverse backgrounds
  in our District.
  
• District Cultural Celebration enhanced families
  participation.
  
• Focus groups and activities at buildings
  embracing diversity helped families feel welcome
  and valued.
  

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Outcomes and Results
Action Plan 9 The District will provide school
related information to learners
in the Districts identified primary languages.

• Language Ambassador program continues for
  learners and their families as needed.
  
• At years end, we have 75 experienced
  interpreters/translators who are on-call when any
  of our schools need assistance with language.
  
• Thirty-nine Language Ambassadors specialize in
  Special Education interpreting.
  
• In the second half of this year we saw a marked
  increase in use of the program and in the number
  of requests for rare languages.

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Outcomes and Results

• Action Plan 10 All learners will demonstrate
  increased knowledge and understanding of people
  with diverse backgrounds.
  
• We continue to provide a diverse array of
  opportunities for learners including mentors
  from
  
• o North Central University
• o University of Minnesota
• o Normandale Community College
• o Day Camp and other Retreat Camping trips
• o Museum experiences
• o Hennepin County Library Collaboration
• o College Campus tours
• o Job Fairs
• o PSAT Practice
• o Etc.
• o Creative business collaborations with
• ? Bloomington Police Department
• ? General Dynamics

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Outcomes and Results
Action Plan 10 All learners will demonstrate
increased knowledge and understanding of people
with diverse backgrounds.

• Continued to provide Kindergarten Crossings
  classrooms at 2 sites,
  
• serving 48 students. We also provided a
  prerequisite to Kindergarten Crossings to 100
  pre-k students- Make Tracks to Kindergarten.
  
• Artscapade had 205 students enrolled for a
  cultural arts program experience in August,
  2005.
  
• There are presently over 500 active members in
  all Cultural Mentoring groups---his includes
  memberships in Shades of Brown, Latino Club.
  Dreamcatchers, and Asian Club.
• Ongoing support at IEPs.
• Tutoring support for at risk American Indian
  students (10) .
  
• Valley View Elementary Parent Involvement
  Coordinator continues to actively support the
  building in a variety of capacities.
  

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Results

• We have become not a melting pot but a beautiful
  mosaic. Different people, different beliefs,
  different yearnings, different hopes, different
  dreams.
• -Jimmy Carter