NFL
African
Americans
Other
67%
African American
Other
NBA: What are the odds?
1,000,000 boys and girls What’s your back up
wish to be in the NBA plan?
400,000 make their high What’s your back up
school basketball team career?
4,000 play in college
35 make it to the NBA
ONLY 7 starters
Average NBA career is 4
years
African American Males in Penal
System
1600000 1,500,000
1400000
1200000
1000000
800000
600000
400000
100,000
200000
0
1980 Today 70% drug
related
Difference in spending
United States
Europe
African
American
African Youth
American
Youth
3%
African
17% American
Youth
Other
Other
Other
41%
Staff Training
Role Play Exercises
Black Intelligence Tests/Teacher Opinion Survey
As a staff, discuss and cultivate the strategies of a Master
Teacher
Reflect on personal beliefs versus your own practices
Books to read: Black Students Middle Class Teachers and
Conspiracy to Destroy Black Boys (Vols. I-IV)
Characteristics of at Risk Schools
Develop a Fourth Grade Intervention Team
Discuss solutions
What is a Master Teacher?
Knowledgeable about subject matter
Provides congruent lessons plans between pedagogy and
learning styles using written, oral, pictures, artifacts, and fine arts
Bonds, motivates, enhances self-esteem, listens to students and
is in close proximity to all students
Décor of classroom is inspirational and culturally reinforcing.
High level of self-respect; therefore, students are not distracting
or sleeping.
High expectations transcending race, income, gender, and
appearance.
Equitable response opportunities for all students.
What is a Master Teacher
Maximizes time on task
Assertive, consistent, complimentary and clearly
established rules and consequences.
Provides cooperative learning experiences.
Attempts to make curriculum relevant, provides practical
experiences, field trips and role models.
Students ask more questions than the teacher.
Develops critical thinking skills by asking open-ended
questions.
Characteristics of At-Risk
Schools
Ineffective administrators
Low expectations
Incongruence between pedagogy and learning styles
Irrelevant and inaccurate curriculum
Tracking
Lack of parental involvement and support
Low student self-esteem and motivation
Negative peer pressure
Lack of African-American male teachers and role models
Lack of safety
“Judge the success of your
schools based on the success
of your African American and
Hispanic male students.”
- Dr. Jawanza Kunjufu
The Mis-education of the Negro
“If you can control a mans thinking you do not have to
worry about his action. When you determine what a man
shall think you do not have to concern yourself about
what he will do. If you make a man feel that he is inferior,
you do not have to compel him to accept an inferior
status, for he will seek it himself. If you make a man think
that he is justly an outcast, you do not have to order him
to the back door. He will go without being told; and if
there is no back door, his very nature will demand one.”