Jennifer Botzojorns

educator, questioner, thinker, believer in the lives, creative minds and future of all of our children ; all opinions expressed are my own

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Check out today's daily Quest from the Kingdom East School District https://t.co/CAI0pg7FTa @vtvsa @VTEducation we are doing these each day!

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Check out the Daily Quest from Friday for the Kingdom East School District. https://t.co/a0Ab8FcMRS @vtvsa @VTEducation

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Kingdom East School Budget passes Yes: 1740
No: 517 THANK YOU to all the voters of our amazing towns. #vted @MillersRunVT @JFrancis5 @cavamount @BGRiccaVT

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Excellent resource for guiding our work as school leaders as we improve student learning! #kingdomeastreads

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Equity & eliminating bias @VTVSA Questions 4 conflict (2 make this NOT combat): I'm wondering, tell me more; help me understand; tell me about your passions around this; walk me through this; tell me why this doesn't work 4 you Dare 2 Lead- Brene Brown https://t.co/KMcW0RX8uJ

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@vtvsa Educator hiring Interview Question: How do you love young people? there are two types of educators, those who love young people, those who think they love young people... you can see this immediately when you ask this question in an interview.

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@vtvsa Recruitment and Retention .. improve working environment 4 teachers of color; mentorship, career ladders 4 current/aspiring teacher, school & district leaders.

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@vtvsa: Recruitment and retention; Embrace leader diversity organizations; collect/use data - examine district recruitment, interview/hire processes; change recruitment practices, identify additional qualified diverse applicants;...

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@vtvsa- how to change hiring practices to take out implicit bias!

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Recruitment and Retention- Get your house right; provide PD that places staff in different cultural situations; actively recruit people of color; look for experiences in diverse settings; screen & interview w/equity focus.

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@VTVSA awareness of implicit bias; self reflect why? Steps: fragility; guilt (defensive, shut down) vs. responsibility (recognize, facilitate conversations move forward); explore awkwardness & discomfort; engage with others you don't know well/harbor biases; get feedback/data

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@vtvsa implicit bias- build a common mental model, we are good people, and we have bias, we need to unpack this https://t.co/y5FKSCcwi8 - educators need to take this survey to understand our bias

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@vtvsa we have to check our bias at the door, and then react only after we question the bias; leaders have institutional power - to be honest, but we engage (unconsciously) in: White lies; Grey lies; blue eyes; colorless lies; red lies- these create deception about yourself.

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@vtvsa Video: "The look" implicit bias, most people don't realize they do this, it is unconscious. Has had a significant impact on health & well being of people of color https://t.co/8ZrPlb4KFr We have micro-agressions & implicit bias

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@VTVSA Implicit bias: Research: Scientists rate potential lab technicians lower, and pay them less when technicians are women; NBA refs call more fouls - white refs call more fouls black refs, black refs call more fouls on white athletes, white refs call more fouls black refs

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@vtvsa Implicit Bias: .. humans are consistently, routinely and profoundly biased; certain people benefit and other people are penalized/ traumatized (this is where we have blind spot- some groups benefit from biases , some do not).

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@vtvsa Implicit Bias: through associations and exposure. direct and indirect messages; actively involuntarily and/or w/out awareness or intentional control; attitudes or stereotypes that affect our understanding, actions, and decisions in an unconscious manner....

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@vtvsa Implicit Bias- we have this because our brains automatically sort, select and categorize to create us versus them. (Think watering hole and needing to survive, we have fight or flight, the amygdala makes us do this)

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@VTVSA Culturally sensitive classrooms: children conferring with others when confused or to deepen understanding -- we need cultural sensitive classrooms.

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@VTVSA Culturally sensitive classrooms: Holistic, involves options, senses and spirit, focused on interdependence and group success, collaborative and deepening relationships, processing by talking, learning by doing, distributed expertise ...