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Update 7/18/20: This event is SOLD OUT with 200 registrants. Join YDEKC’s mailing list for updates on future events. For a look at the workshop descriptions and speaker bios, please browse the schedule below, or check out our event flyer and Symposium webpage for more details!

Join us for this virtual learning journey for educators and youth development professionals to strengthen their individual and collective capacity to create equity-based learning environments that support the whole child, with a focus on shifting adult practices and systems to better serve youth of color in the Road Map region. 

This symposium includes live plenaries, workshops, and community building sessions (with breaks in between sessions). Most sessions will be recorded and available to registered participants through the month of August. 

Thank you to our sponsors, the Bill & Melinda Gates Foundation and Kaiser Permanente; this event would not be possible without their generous support! Sponsored by Seattle Public Schools for Washington State Clock Hours and in partnership with School’s Out Washington to offer STARS Credits to eligible attendees.
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Friday, July 31 • 10:00am - 11:30am
Mind Workshop B3 ⁠— Paths for Change: Youth Counter Stories of Disengagement and Reengagement
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“If they [teachers] really had an expectation, they would’ve helped a little more… I don’t know, sometimes I even thought it was a racist thing.” Nearly 2,000 youth in South King County are pushed out or leave high school without earning a diploma every year. When addressing the individual and systemic barriers that lead to disengagement, system leaders typically overlook insights from youth themselves. This workshop shares a project designed to amplify the experiences and voices of students of color who have been failed by the education system created to serve them. This cross-sector project team (non-profit, direct service provider and university) will share approach, methods and findings, including youth recommendations on how to create equitable learning environments that help them succeed.
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Shelby Cooley

Director of Research, Community Center for Education Results (CCER)
Shelby Cooley leads collaborative studies and builds university partnerships to support community partners turn research into action. She received her doctorate in developmental science from the University of Maryland where she examined school climate, the emergence of racial bias... Read More →
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Kanza Hamidani

Education Advocate, Northwest Education Access
Kanza Hamidani is an Education Advocate for Northwest Education Access serving in the Central and Southeast Seattle region. Kanza earned a BA in Social Welfare with a Minor in Education and Business from the University of Washington Tacoma, and is currently pursuing a Masters in... Read More →
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Charles Lea

Assistant Professor, University of Houston Graduate College of Social Work
Dr. Charles Lea is an assistant professor at the University of Houston Graduate College of Social Work. His research and scholarship investigate the intersectionality of race/ethnicity, class, and gender in educational, correctional and neighborhood contexts, and the impact these... Read More →
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Danika Martinez

Program Director, Northwest Education Access
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Nicole Yohalem

Director, Opportunity Youth, Community Center for Education Results (CCER)
Nicole is the Opportunity Youth Director at the Community Center for Education Results (CCER), where her work focuses on building a system to reconnect 16- to 24-year-olds to education and career pathways as part of a regional collective impact effort called the Road Map Project... Read More →
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Annia Yoshizumi

Community Center for Education Results (CCER)


Friday July 31, 2020 10:00am - 11:30am PDT
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