SSN Innovates: Expo - Agenda and Breakout Sessions
Expo - June 27, 2018
8:30AM-2:00PM
Gibney Dance: Agnes Varis Performing Arts Center
280 Broadway (Enter at 53A Chambers Street)New York, NY 10007
At SSN, we believe that the solution is almost always “in the room.” The SSN Innovates Expo is SSN’s year-end event designed to bring together members and other leaders into one “room” to share solutions to big challenges.This is your opportunity to learn about the many ways fellow network members are innovating to create transformative experiences for students, hear perspectives from outside experts on how we can increase our impact together, and share your own expertise to strengthen NYC's education ecosystem.Preview the agenda and descriptions of the breakout sessions below.Tickets available at our Eventbrite; secure your spot by RSVPing now!
Agenda:
8:30 - 9AM Breakfast and Welcome
9 - 10AM Panel Discussion - The Power of Networks to Advance Student Outcomes: Perspectives Across Education
10 - 10:10AM Transition
Member-Led Breakout Sessions, Block 1
Opportunity Network
Leading Change through a DEI Lens
Let’s Get Ready
Improving Student Engagement and Retention
Center for Supportive Schools; ENACT
EHTP’s Racial Equity Statement: Garnering Input and Buy-in from Stakeholders
East Harlem Tutorial Program
Building Improvement Cultures: Two Case Studies
EHTP’s Racial Equity Statement: Garnering Input and Buy-in from Stakeholders
Member-Led Breakout Sessions, Block 2
Ramapo for Children
An Organization’s Journey Towards Culturally Responsive Capacity-Building
Good Shepherd; HEAF
Using Goal-Setting to Promote Positive Academic Behaviors and a Growth Mindset: Two Practitioners’ Stories
Sadie Nash; iMentor
So, You Want to Be Youth-Informed? Two Approaches to Elevating Youth Voice
12:20-12:40PM Lunch
12:40-1:45PM Working Groups: Leveraging the Network to Solve Shared Challenges
1:45-2PM Recognitions and Closing
Panelists:
Wendy Kopp
CEO & co-founder, Teach for AllFounder, Teach for America
Bob Hughes
Director of K-12 Education, Gates Foundation
Dianne Morales
CEO, Phipps NeighborhoodsCo-founder, South Bronx Rising TogetherAdvisory Board, Student Success Network
Moderated by:
Elizabeth Green
CEO, Chalkbeat
Breakout Sessions:
➔ Leading Change through a DEI Lens
Alisa France
Senior Program Coordinator, The Opportunity Network
AiLun Ku
President & COO, The Opportunity Network
This session will cover The Opportunity Network's work in moving toward a more diverse, equitable, and inclusive organization, and what/who inspired that work. The Opportunity Network team will share their lessons learned in mobilizing their staff and creating a vision through the 8 steps of Kotter's "Leading Change" model. Participants will engage in a dialogue that will hopefully inspire them to become "change agents", leading activities resulting in more inclusive and equitable practices in their respective organizations.
➔ EHTP’s Racial Equity Statement: Garnering Input and Buy-in from Stakeholders
Dawan Julien
Managing Director, OST Programs
Susan Gonzowitz
Managing Director of Teacher Residency, EHTP
East Harlem Tutorial Program (EHTP) will share their continuing journey to becoming an anti-racist organization and a replicable process through which they created a Racial Equity Statement, a statement that was crucial to aligning EHTP staff around why they do the work they do and why they lead with race. In this session, participants will learn how EHTP 1) identified key stakeholders and gained input and buy-in from each stakeholder; 2) created a truly transparent process; and 3) built a common language and vision to guide their collective work. Participants will have the opportunity to think what it might look like for their organization to begin a similar journey and will gain tools to help them along the way.
➔ Improving Student Engagement and Retention
Zoe Smolen
College Access Program Manager, Let’s Get Ready
Katie Bonner
College Access Manager, Let’s Get Ready
In this session, Let's Get Ready (LGR), a college access and persistence organization, will share two change ideas they used to improve student engagement and attendance in programming and the ultimate impact the ideas had on site culture. Participants will learn how LGR used the time before programming to hook students and boost engagement and how LGR staff used real-time attendance data to proactively maintain high levels of student engagement. Participants will have the opportunity to practice using real-time attendance data to drive improvement at their programs.
➔ Developing a Culture of Improvement
Altagracia Montilla
Community School Director, Center for Supportive Schools
Joie Golomb
Programs Outreach & Engagement Manager, ENACT, Inc.
What does it mean to be a part of a “learning organization?” What does it take to build belonging, alignment and effective collaboration towards continuous improvement within an organization? In this interactive workshop, participants will explore stages of improvement culture development, reflect on their team’s progress in achieving an improvement culture, and develop strategies for building and sustaining an improvement culture at their organization.
➔ Leaning In: An Organization’s Journey Towards Culturally Responsive Capacity Building
Albert Kim
Deputy Director, Ramapo Training, Ramapo for Children
Evelyn Alvarez
Trainer/Coach, Ramapo Training Programs, Ramapo for Children
How can we meaningfully engage in SEL work while simultaneously acknowledging its limitations regarding matters of racism and privilege? This workshop explores the journey of an emerging anti-racist organization immersed in a process of: 1) strengthening relationships via multi-level participation in honest and difficult conversations about institutional racism; 2) establishing a historical analysis and developing common language to identify and undo patterns of systemic racism; and 3) incorporating anti-racists organizational policies and practices.
➔ Goal-setting to promote positive academic behaviors and growth mindset development: Two practitioners' stories
Krystal Bostick
Director of Youth Development and Counseling, HEAF
Bill Mitchell
Director of Programs, HEAF
Krystal Melendez
Internship & Career Coordinator, Lincoln YABC, Good Shepherd Services
Caroline Cooke
Program Analyst, Supportive Housing, Good Shepherd Services
In the Fall of 2017, SSN organizations joined "Collab"orative problem-solving groups to target specific SEL competencies using research-based methods. Harlem Educational Activities Fund (HEAF) and Good Shepherd Services joined the Goal-Setting Collab to plan and try new ways of supporting their students in building academic behaviors and growth mindsets. In this session, participants will learn about the targeted change ideas practitioners from HEAF and Good Shepherd tried and their lessons learned. Participants will have the opportunity to experiences some of the practices and will be able to think about how the practices could be implemented in their programs.
➔ So, you want to be youth informed?
Nariman Heikal
Senior Program Manager, iMentor
Morgan Little
Director of Programs, Sadie Nash Leadership Project
Youth are often talked about, not with. We think it’s time to change that. Come find out how members such as iMentor and SNLP are building structures for youth to engage in meaningful discussion and decision making, and walk away with a better understanding of how to lead this work at your organization.
Lunch Discussion Topics:
Facilitators
How can higher ed institutions and nonprofits partner to support college persistence?
Ruth Genn (Bottom Line)Cass Conrad (CUNY)
Beyond the SSN Innovates Fellowship, what structures/supports can help drive continuous improvement at your organizations?
Jason Wolfe (YMCA)
How do we bring Diversity, Equity, Inclusion and Social Emotional Learning work together in schools and in nonprofits?
Dawan Julien (East Harlem Tutorial Program)
How can schools and nonprofits create internship and work-based learning opportunities for students?
Joe Carrano (The Knowledge House)
How can schools and nonprofits engage families throughout middle and high school?
Jhodessa Reimer (Center for Family Life)
How can we create stronger school/nonprofit partnerships?
Erin O'Leary (Center for Supportive Schools), Kim Cambridge (New Visions for Public Schools)
What structures or practices can nonprofits and schools use to elevate youth voice in decision making?
Laurie Dien, Danielle Pulliam (The Pinkerton Foundation)
How can we change the culture of teaching to be inclusive of a positive youth development model?
Steve Asbury (Brooklyn College Community Partnership)
How do we deepen collaboration among network members and across the sector?
Margaret Crotty (Partnership with Children), John MacIntosh (Seachange Capital Partners)
