{"id":489,"date":"2023-06-26T19:50:46","date_gmt":"2023-06-26T19:50:46","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.education.uw.edu\/pre\/?page_id=489"},"modified":"2023-06-26T20:02:48","modified_gmt":"2023-06-26T20:02:48","slug":"designprinciples","status":"publish","type":"page","link":"https:\/\/www.education.uw.edu\/pre\/resources\/designprinciples\/","title":{"rendered":"Design Principles"},"content":{"rendered":"<h3 class=\"wp-block-heading\">SPS-UW Research-Community-Practice-Partnership (RCPP)&nbsp;<\/h3>\n<p>As educators, researchers, families and community leaders, we collaboratively lead racial and educational justice systems change alongside SPS youth and families to re-center their identities, communal wellbeing, transformative agency and power. We equally privilege the process and the outcomes of this partnership to build more racially equitable schools and systems.&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>Our current phase grows from the deep commitments of African and African American communities to education and literacy that are tightly bound with freedom-seeking, cultural practices, and community wellbeing despite deep systemic racial injustices. We seek to codesign more culturally-affirming critical literacy learning for K-3 Black boys and more equitable Black family-educator collaborations.&nbsp;<\/p>\n<h3 class=\"wp-block-heading\">We commit to:&nbsp;<\/h3>\n<ol class=\"wp-block-list\" start=\"1\">\n<li><strong>Make Sankofa a routine practice<\/strong>&nbsp;<\/li>\n<\/ol>\n<ul class=\"wp-block-list\">\n<li>Name and regularly revisit how our work relates to histories of both institutional oppression AND the survivance (survival and thriving) of Black, Indigenous, and other People of Color communities&nbsp;&nbsp;<\/li>\n<li>Be explicit about addressing anti-Blackness and racism (bc color evasiveness often defaults to white dominance)&nbsp;<\/li>\n<li>Design from a starting point of brilliance despite injustice, <em>not<\/em> a blank slate or a vacuum&nbsp;<\/li>\n<li>Show up as our full selves (with our own histories)&nbsp;<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<ol class=\"wp-block-list\" start=\"2\">\n<li><strong>Build from the priorities and dreams of Black children and families (&amp; other communities of color)<\/strong>&nbsp;<\/li>\n<\/ol>\n<ul class=\"wp-block-list\">\n<li>Start with the stories and specific visions of those on the ground (not in the abstract or in ways that gate keep their participation\/voices)&nbsp;<\/li>\n<li>Kings, families and communities are <em>part<\/em> of key deliberations and decision-making whenever possible&nbsp;<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<ol class=\"wp-block-list\" start=\"3\">\n<li><strong>Partner in ways that build solidarities and intersectional justice<\/strong>&nbsp;<\/li>\n<\/ol>\n<ul class=\"wp-block-list\">\n<li>Build and cultivate reciprocity and humanizing relationships&nbsp;&nbsp;<\/li>\n<li>Develop politicized trust over time (recognizing racialized, gendered, &amp; positional power dynamics), <em>not transactional interactions<\/em>&nbsp;<\/li>\n<li>Intentionally sponsor in new partners who can demonstrate they center Black possibility &amp; brilliance (don\u2019t ask people to rubber-stamp predetermined outcomes, limit the number of historically-dominant voices and perspectives, offer one-on-one meetings bf and after joining partnership)&nbsp;&nbsp;<\/li>\n<li>Center race <em>and<\/em> other intersectional identities (both\/and)&nbsp;<\/li>\n<li>Use resources to compensate students, families, and community members for their time and expertise.&nbsp;<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<ol class=\"wp-block-list\" start=\"4\">\n<li><strong>Flatten hierarchical power, tap diverse expertise<\/strong>&nbsp;<\/li>\n<\/ol>\n<ul class=\"wp-block-list\">\n<li>Modified consensus decision-making (e.g., everyone agrees or can live with a particular decision), except for organizationally-specific issues (e.g., budget or personnel decisions might need to go to steering committee\/PIs\/district leads with positional authority).&nbsp;<\/li>\n<li>Differentiated participation based on interest\/time\/capacity&nbsp;<\/li>\n<li>Rotate meeting facilitation, inclusive agenda-setting&nbsp;<\/li>\n<li>Integrate feedback loops, mechanisms for updates &amp; sharing&nbsp;<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<ol class=\"wp-block-list\" start=\"5\">\n<li><strong>Name and lean into tensions that move us <\/strong><strong><em>towards<\/em><\/strong><strong> justice-focused change<\/strong>&nbsp;<\/li>\n<\/ol>\n<ul class=\"wp-block-list\">\n<li>Be ok with messiness, willing to jump in the \u201cdouble dutch\u201d of work in motion&nbsp;<\/li>\n<li>Critique to build or refine, not solely to perform or pontificate&nbsp;<\/li>\n<li>Commit to our <em>collective<\/em> learning&nbsp;&nbsp;<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<ol class=\"wp-block-list\" start=\"6\">\n<li><strong>Work to make this \u201cthing a Thing\u201d <\/strong>(RCPP integrates into system; project integrates into ongoing work of schools\/communities)&nbsp;<\/li>\n<\/ol>\n<ul class=\"wp-block-list\">\n<li>Continue to de-silo the work&nbsp;<\/li>\n<li>Identify opportunities and work to integrate our learning into other spaces and efforts&nbsp;<\/li>\n<li>Everyone takes responsibility for leading and sharing the work (e.g., we check in with the group once a need has been identified but do not solely wait for direction or action from others)&nbsp;<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<hr class=\"wp-block-separator has-alpha-channel-opacity\"\/>\n<div class=\"wp-block-image\">\n<figure class=\"aligncenter size-large\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"791\" height=\"1024\" src=\"https:\/\/www.education.uw.edu\/pre\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/06\/ELC-CoDesign-Launch-Family-Flier_5.15.23-791x1024.jpg\" alt=\"\" class=\"wp-image-497\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.education.uw.edu\/pre\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/06\/ELC-CoDesign-Launch-Family-Flier_5.15.23-791x1024.jpg 791w, https:\/\/www.education.uw.edu\/pre\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/06\/ELC-CoDesign-Launch-Family-Flier_5.15.23-232x300.jpg 232w, https:\/\/www.education.uw.edu\/pre\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/06\/ELC-CoDesign-Launch-Family-Flier_5.15.23-768x994.jpg 768w, https:\/\/www.education.uw.edu\/pre\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/06\/ELC-CoDesign-Launch-Family-Flier_5.15.23-1187x1536.jpg 1187w, https:\/\/www.education.uw.edu\/pre\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/06\/ELC-CoDesign-Launch-Family-Flier_5.15.23-1583x2048.jpg 1583w, https:\/\/www.education.uw.edu\/pre\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/06\/ELC-CoDesign-Launch-Family-Flier_5.15.23-375x485.jpg 375w, https:\/\/www.education.uw.edu\/pre\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/06\/ELC-CoDesign-Launch-Family-Flier_5.15.23-750x971.jpg 750w, https:\/\/www.education.uw.edu\/pre\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/06\/ELC-CoDesign-Launch-Family-Flier_5.15.23-1140x1475.jpg 1140w, https:\/\/www.education.uw.edu\/pre\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/06\/ELC-CoDesign-Launch-Family-Flier_5.15.23-scaled.jpg 1978w\" sizes=\"auto, (min-width: 960px) 75vw, 100vw\" \/><figcaption class=\"wp-element-caption\">Flyer for launch of the RCPP project, June 2023.<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>SPS-UW Research-Community-Practice-Partnership (RCPP)&nbsp; As educators, researchers, families and community leaders, we collaboratively lead racial and educational justice systems change alongside SPS youth and families to re-center their identities, communal wellbeing, transformative agency and power. We equally privilege the process and the outcomes of this partnership to build more racially equitable schools and systems.&nbsp; Our current phase grows from the deep commitments of African and African American communities to education and literacy that are tightly bound with freedom-seeking, cultural practices, and&#8230;<\/p>\n<div><a class=\"more-link\" href=\"https:\/\/www.education.uw.edu\/pre\/resources\/designprinciples\/\">Continue reading <span class=\"screen-reader-text\">Design Principles<\/span><\/a><\/div>\n","protected":false},"author":6,"featured_media":0,"parent":193,"menu_order":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","template":"","meta":{"footnotes":""},"class_list":["post-489","page","type-page","status-publish","hentry"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.education.uw.edu\/pre\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/489","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.education.uw.edu\/pre\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.education.uw.edu\/pre\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/page"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.education.uw.edu\/pre\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/6"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.education.uw.edu\/pre\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=489"}],"version-history":[{"count":5,"href":"https:\/\/www.education.uw.edu\/pre\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/489\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":501,"href":"https:\/\/www.education.uw.edu\/pre\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/489\/revisions\/501"}],"up":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.education.uw.edu\/pre\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/193"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.education.uw.edu\/pre\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=489"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}