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It's All About Strategy:
An Approach to Staff Development, Parent Engagement, and Student Achievement
Who is Mychal Wynn?
For nearly three decades, Mychal Wynn has worked with
schools and school districts throughout the United States, Canada, the
Caribbean, and Bermuda. A child of poverty, product of urban schools, and
first-generation college graduate, Mr.Wynn has taught children and adult
learners, co-founded a publishing company, authored 25 books, and currently
serves as the CEO of the Foundation for Ensuring Access and Equity, a nonprofit
foundation committed to widening the primary-to-postsecondary pathway to
college and careers for all students.
What Does Mychal Wynn Do?
Mychal Wynn is a strategist who delivers high-energy,
insightful, informative, motivational, and thought- provoking presentations. He
synthesizes research, analyzes disaggregated student performance data, and uses
anecdotes, visuals, and personal experiences to frame the challenges facing
teachers, issues confronting parents, and barriers that students must overcome.
Audiences leave a Mychal Wynn presentation knowing why, “It’s All About
Strategy”—strategies to achieve school improvement goals, strategies to
increase instructional effectiveness of teachers, strategies to increase parent
capacity, and strategies to motivate and cultivate successful students.
Who Benefits Most?
School Districts, individual schools, agencies, and
organizations who want strategies that will help teachers, expand parent
capacity, and motivate students in such areas as:
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Increasing
student achievement for ALL students
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Closing the
college-knowledge gap
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Encouraging
more rigorous course taking
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Motivating
students to accept ownership of their own
learning
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Building stronger
school-community partnerships
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Increasing
cultural competency and building stronger
teacher-student-family
relationships
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Raising test
scores and increasing time-on-task
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Parent Involvement Seminar Series
Involving parents in the schooling of their children is
essential to the process of nurturing the academic, social, cultural, and
humanistic development of children. Sharing strategies and ideas with parents
of how to have such meaningful involvement in the lives of their children most
frequently occurs through our local schools, however, it may occur at faith and
community organizations, through fraternities and sororities, via lunchtime
discussions at local businesses, or at small gatherings in living rooms and on
front porches.
When or where such gatherings occur is less important
than ensuring that they do occur.
The seminars cover such topics as:
- Assisting
parents with school readiness strategies
- Assisting parents in developing K – 12 academic and social
development plans to prepare their children for college and careers
- Assisting faith and community organizations in developing
education programs to support parents in ensuring the academic achievement
of their children
- Assisting athletic programs and community organizations in
increasing parent involvement by expanding parent awareness of the
long-term college and career opportunities resulting from their child’s
involvement in athletic and community service programs
- Presenting lunchtime seminars at local businesses and
parent-to-parent discussions in living rooms and on front porches
- Building a stronger PTA/PTSA to support local schools and to
support parents in increasing student achievement...and more
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Through a
partnership with the Foundation for Ensuring Access and Equity is a 501 (c)(3)
nonprofit organization, I am presenting the Win with Wynn College-Planning
Series. The sessions
utilize humor, research, personal stories, and anecdotes that resonate with
parents, students, and educators. Visuals utilized in the PowerPoint
presentation, self-reflective activities engaged in by parents and students,
and disaggregate student achievement data shared with audiences, paint a clear
picture of the scope of work, sacrifice, and strategies required to close the
achievement gap and prepare students to pursue college and careers beyond high
school.
Why College Planning Seminars?
Based on U.S. Department of Education data, only 2 in 10
kindergarten students are projected to graduate from college1. The
challenges are even greater for students of color, students living in poverty,
and boys. Recent ACT2 performance data indicates, on average, that only
1 in 4 high school seniors are prepared for college. However, for Black and
Hispanic students, their level of college readiness is far worst—only 11 in 100
Hispanic and 4 in 100 Black high school seniors demonstrate college readiness
in all subject areas. According to 4th-grade NAEP (National
Assessment of Educational Progress) results, far too many students are falling
off of the primary to postsecondary pathway to college before they leave
elementary school!
The Win with Wynn College-Planning Series focuses on early intervention by
raising the
expectations and aspirations of students, expanding parental involvement, and cultivating
a college-bound culture within schools or organizations, through books and
seminars that:
- inspire
hope in students by connecting future aspirations to current learning,
- provide
a practical context for parents to understand their role in the academic
planning, growth, and development of their children,
- bridge
the college knowledge gap for school counselors unable to provide students
with the level of individualized attention necessary to formulate
comprehensive college-bound plans,
- assist
educators in developing culturally responsive strategies to the barriers
facing families living in poverty, students who will be the first in their
family to attend college, and immigrant and migrant families, and
- provide
a framework for expanding mentor-mentee discussions.
In this day of
sky-rocketing college tuition and highly-competitive college admissions,
winning is not simply getting into college, but getting into the right college.
The college where a student grows, learns, and graduates!
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Increasing Black Male Achievement
Black males represent a demographically identifiable
subgroup facing unique barriers and requiring culturally responsive strategies.
Through partnerships with schools, mentoring programs, faith organizations,
community agencies, and parents, we are pursuing strategic conversations
focused on achieving systemic and sustainable increases in Black male
achievement. These conversations are facilitated by Mychal Wynn, a child of
poverty, product of public education and urban schools, first-generation
college graduate, parent of two Black males, author of 26 books, and board
member of the National Council on Educating Black Children.
Through Mr. Wynn’s extensive experience, participants
are introduced to strategies that are responsive to:
- the unique socioeconomic, cultural, gender,
and academic barriers confronting Black males,
- the cross-gender, cross-cultural,
cross-generational, and cross-socioeconomic gaps experienced by students
and classroom teachers,
- the predictable college knowledge gap
experienced by children living in poverty,
- the peer and societal pressures that attempt
to define their place and limit their college/career aspirations,
- the predictable cultural isolation experienced
when enrolled in advanced academic classes or pursuing activities outside
of group and societal cultural norms, and
- the institutional and community culture of low
academic expectations.
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The Mychal Wynn and Dr. Mary
Bacon Staff Development and Parent Workshop Series
STRATEGIES TO ACHIEVE YOUR
SCHOOL IMPROVEMENT GOALS
Each year, schools engage in the arduous task
of pursuing a variety of school improvement goals: maximizing parental involvement, recruiting/retaining highly qualified
teachers, closing achievement gaps, increasing time-on-task, developing effective assessments, providing timely and effective
interventions, and creating a positive school climate and culture to name but a few. No matter what the stated objectives
outlined in your school improvement plan or the demographics of your school community, cultivating an environment where parents
and teachers are working together toward a common mission of increasing student achievement and sharing a common vision of
creating a safe, nurturing, socially engaging, and intellectually stimulating school community is critical.
Engaging parents, students
and staff in meaningful conversations that examine disaggregated P-16 performance data, individuals’ beliefs, attitudes
and expectations as well as socioeconomic educational, generational, language, and cultural differences is required to identify
barriers, conceptualize strategies and maintain effective partnerships. Dr. Bacon and Mr. Wynn’s practical strategies,
engaging style and down- to-earth approaches to this topic encourage participants to shift paradigms, discard stereotypes
and build bridges that will contribute to their mutual respect for what each group brings to the processes of teaching, learning
and childrearing.
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