ECET2Lex March 22-23
Elevating & Celebrating the Teachers of Fayette County
We believe in you.
What to expect.
- Cultivating a Calling talks - stories of success
- Colleague Circles - small support communities
- Teacher-led Breakout Sessions - learn by creating
- Free food, a professional book, ECET2Lex swag, and a gift card
- PD credit with consent of principal
Friday, March 22nd at Pivot Brewing Company, 7-9pm
Saturday, March 23rd at Frederick Douglass High School, 8:30am-3:30pm
Understanding Equity: Personal, Academic and Systemic
Cultivating a Calling: Kennita Ballard, Kari Patrick and Monica Harbut
Kennita Ballard is originally from the DC area brought to Kentucky by way of Teach Kentucky, an alternative certification education program. She is currently in her 4th of teaching as a middle school educator at Olmsted Academy North in Louisville. She is involved deeply in advocacy work as her school's LGBT+ Support Coach and a member of her district's current SEED cohort. Ms. Ballard is the current KCTE Middle School Language Arts Teacher of the Year.
Personal Equity - This discussion will focus on the efforts needed to transform awareness of equity into equitable action. Specifically, this discussion will focus on addressing personal discomfort as a barrier to bridging the gap between all talk, no action, to being a true ally and advocate for equity.
Kari W. Patrick is a high school English teacher at STEAM Academy in Lexington, Kentucky. She is also a member of the STEAM Teacher Advisory Council, where she serves as a liaison between educators and administrators to drive teacher and student-centered policies for the school. In her years in the classroom, Kari has taught in both rural and urban settings, and was recognized for her outstanding teaching in 2016 when she was named the Kentucky Council of Teacher of English High School Teacher of the Year. She loves using Passion Projects in her classroom to spark student interest and inquiry and is passionate about supporting new teachers and elevating the voice of teachers in policy development through her role as an advisor for the Collaborative for Student Success.
Academic Equity - This discussion will share how embracing students interests and passions creates a sense of equity at the classroom level and can help pave the path for more equitable learning environments going forward.
Monica Harbut received her B.S. in Family and Consumer Sciences Education from Eastern Kentucky University and her Master’s Degree in Career and Technical Education from the University of Kentucky. She has walked in her “calling” as a Family & Consumer Science Teacher for the last 19 years and teaches by the philosophy, “I am a mother first, and then a teacher.” Because of her love and passion, her students know she has their best interest at heart. She taught at Paul Laurence Dunbar High School for seventeen years before transferring to Douglass, where she has been for the past two years. She created the PEARL (Proud, Empowered, Accomplished, Refined Leaders) Girls program seven years ago and currently runs it at Douglass. She has received several FAME awards over her educational career of which she received three this year.
Systemic Equity: While education reforms often target specific elements of an education system - such as what students learn or how teachers teach - the concept of systemic reform may be used in reference to reforms that impact multiple levels of the education system. This discussion will focus on how school and classroom systems support all students in uncomfortable settings.
ECET2Lex Schedule
FRIDAY, March 22
7-7:45pm - Gathering at at Pivot Brewery with appetizers from JY Kitchen
7:45-9:00 - Ice breakers and conversation
SATURDAY, March 23
8:15-8:45 - Coffee, registration and breakfast from Wild Eggs
8:45-9:00 - Welcome with remarks from the committee and MeMe Ratliff
9-9:15 - Cultivating a Calling Keynote - Kennita Ballard, North Olmsted Academy, JCPS
9:15-9:30 - Cultivating a Calling Keynote - Kari Patrick, STEAM Academy
9:30-9:40 BREAK
9:40-10:40 - Breakout Sessions One
10:45-11:30 Colleague Circle One
11:30-12:30 - LUNCH, Chicken Salad Chick
Cultivating a Calling Keynote - Monica Harbut, Frederick Douglass High School
1:30-1:35 - BREAK
1:35-2:35 Breakout Sessions Three
2:35-2:40 - BREAK
2:40-3:20 - Colleague Circle Two
3:20-3:30 - Wrap Up/Door Prizes/Group Pic/Thanks
Breakout Sessions:
Listen to Us: How community violence affects academic performance with Dr. Susan McLaughlin: Three young, African American women describe how the death of classmate Trinity Gay--and many classmates and friends--from community violence affected their high school academics. These young women will spend about 10 minutes providing a lens into a parallel Lexington many of us never experience. The remainder of the time they open for hard questions, and are willing to expose their own traumas to help you understand student behavior and emotional needs better.
Creating Culturally Engaging Schools: Using diversity as a resource to improve student outcomes with Dr. Susan McLaughlin: The Culturally Engaging framework won the 2016 Copper Black Award from Mensa for its creative solutions for closing achievement gaps. CEI was developed by exploring strategies a highly diverse FCPS elementary school with lower-income students used to close (and even reverse) achievement gaps in 2009. The model was then applied to a FCPS high school to create a risk-safe culture to create a foundation that allowed student support initiatives to flourish. CEI uses concrete definitions to describe the mechanisms that cause historically pervasive achievement gaps without relying on deficit descriptors. Relying on the work of Joel Spring and Claude Steele, this session will create a paradigm shift in how you view all your students, and help choose the strategies that best fit your classroom needs.
This Is Not A Made for TV Movie: Classroom management strategies to support and foster a climate and culture of equity within the classroom with Kennita Ballard: Creating an equitable classroom requires time, energy and effort. Simply desiring and being aware of equity does not manifest equity within the classroom. A teacher has to consider and implement many things to create a space and place removed of barriers. This specific session will focus on the relationship and community building/management element with a emphasis on exploring classroom management strategies to support and foster a climate and culture of equity within the classroom.
Lavender Literacy 101 with Kennita Ballard: This session will explore strategies for how to expand classroom libraries to be inclusive of LGBTQ+ narratives with a particular emphasis on how to navigate the difficult conversations that come with challenging the barriers of equity.
Minding the Gap: Strategies for Access & Opportunity for English Learners with Emily Bruner: Our work together will focus on the three central ideas of Knowing, Access, and Opportunity. Participants will examine the diversity of our English Learners and learn how to create a "knowing" that will deepen our understanding of our ELs in our classroom. Next, participants will dig into real-time, ready-to-implement strategies to support students in both accessing academic content, as well as how to provide ample opportunities authentic productive language in the classroom. By weaving these three concepts together, teachers can create an equitable culture of learning for their ELs and a deeper understanding of the learners they teach
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Captions Vs. Craptions: How to Navigate Closed Captioning to ensure Equitable Access for All with Kelly McMaine: Today's teachers use technology to enrich the student learning experience, including showing videos. Some students rely on reading closed captions in order to fully understand the message of the videos. Unfortunately, there are many videos that do not have captions and still others that use auto-generated captions that are of poor quality. This hurts the equity in a classroom. Participants will receive first-hand experience of what some students go through when there is a lack of equitable access of videos. They will also learn the benefits of closed captioning for all students. Finally, participants will learn strategies in selecting the best videos to show in class and how they can advocate for equity in video access.
Flipped Learning & Equity with Technology with Susan McGrath: Attendees to this interactive session should bring a device and will learn how to effectively flip a classroom that is equitable and successful. We will learn to use EdPuzzle as a digital learning tool and discuss the how and why of flipped learning with emphasis on equity.
Creating Systemic Equity with Monica Harbut: This session will focus on being an effective educator in a system in which you have a toolbox but sometimes have missing or wrong tools.
Teachers leave ECET2 convenings with:
- tools, best practices, and hands-on experiences
- a network that they can call upon for perspectives, advice, feedback, and strategies
- resources that help them improve their classroom practice, build the capacity of their peers, and drive school-level change.
GROW: ECET2 convenings enable meaningful professional growth and learning among participating teachers.
COLLABORATE: ECET2 convenings enable participants to collaborate with peers in their schools, districts, and beyond.
LEAD: ECET2 convenings empower teachers to take action in their classrooms, schools, districts, and communities in meaningful ways.
Planning Team:
Kelli Reno - Frederick Douglass High School
Jon Eppley - Landsdowne Elementary School
Lauren Hill - Leestown Middle School
We all know that we learn best when we are having fun, and ECET2 challenges us to discover new ideas and to think reflectively about our work while showing us a very good time – a rare and beautiful experience in the life of a teacher. --- Lauren Hill, Fayette County
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ECET2 has brought me out of my cocoon and allowed me to fly. Behind the scenes and the set-up was a building of energy and camaraderie. The connections in the room were palatable. --- Robin Burr, Berea Independent
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ECET2 was and continues to be my gateway drug to teacher leadership, and the larger Kentucky teacher network. The energy and positive solutions-oriented atmosphere was career changing for me, realizing that I was not alone. --- Carly Baldwin, KDE
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ECET2KY opened my eyes to another world of education beyond the hills of Eastern Kentucky. My PLN grew tremendously and now I have other educators across the state to call on when I have questions or need to bounce ideas off of. ECET2KY also, sparked an interest in teacher leadership for me. --- Latonya Rowe, Johnson County
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ECET2 helps passionate, engaged teachers find their tribe. These teachers can often feel like outliers in their schools, but being together with like-minded teachers for a day can provide them with inspiration and a network that can support them throughout their school year. --- David Grossman, Elizabethtown Independent
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Gave me a support system made up of like-minded, solutions-oriented, rock star educators around Kentucky and around the U.S. --- Sam Sams, Frankfort Independent
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Provided me with more confidence as a leader in KY education. --- Joe Harris, Rowan County
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ECET2KY provides teachers with opportunities to connect with like-minded individuals who can offer feedback and support to enhance their teaching practices. --- Jana Bryant, Daviess County
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ECET2KY has given me a voice. It lets me know that I matter and has provided me with a tribe. --- Lyndsay Nottingham, Gallatin County
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