What is one thing you are enjoying about Spring?

Return to the previous proposal of creating a Parker Parents of Color Corp? What purpose would this serve? How would this work to build community at Parker and support belonging of our families of color? What steps do we need to take to actualize the Parents of Color Corp for next school year?

Discussion: 

The purpose: Having contacts, connecting people.  Provide opportunity for unified voice, highlight successes and areas of improvement.  Identify more clearly needs. Establish a community within the Parker community, increasing feeling of belonging and support.

Questions raised but not answered:

Who can participate? Students? Teachers? People who do not identify as people of color?  It is important to be mindful that this is not intended to support and focus on ally-ship so as to avoid POC feeling responsible for others' learning/comfort.  This is nuanced and will develop over time. it is important that the group is not yet overdetermined -- ideally the group will decide their central purpose. We must be open to change, truly learning from failures and adapt. We won't get it all right -- and we have to start to get close.

Future work: 

Assess impact of lottery efforts. What was the yield? 

Have a conversation on our metrics: What is measured? What is meaningful?