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AAMA Overview
AAMA Video MDP
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AAMA Overview
Engage
Empower
Encourage
Succeed
Engage
Engaged
Students
Our classes, conferences,
and celebrations of
excellence have
reached 2,500 African
American Male students
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Engaged
Families
Our community wide
parent outreach has
reached over 700
families
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Engaged
Schools
Our professional
development trainings
and consultancies have
reached 200 teachers &
principals
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Encourage
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“Last year I had like a 2.2 GPA
now I have a 3.2. I’m headed for college.”
Enoch Hankins
Oakland High School
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Scale: 8 High Schools, 8 Middle
Schools, 2 Elementary school
Teachers: Taught by certificated
teachers
Manhood
Development
Program
Curriculum: “Mastering Our
Identity: the African American
Male Image”
Key Strategy: Transformative
Mentorship to provide support
to African-American males
across the school
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Empower
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Summer Engineering
Experience for Kids
Empowered
Learning
Read 2:Lead community
reading program
UC Berkeley Destination
College
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Empowered
Teaching
District-wide cycles of
inquiry process focused
on African-American
males at every school
Edna Brewer Voluntary
School Study Team
High school literacy
specialists
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Man-Up conferences
Empowered
Support
Celebrations of
academic excellence
African American
Family Summits
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Succeed
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Succeed
From 2010 to 2014,
suspension rates for
African American
male students
decreased by 43%
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Succeed
In the 2014-15 school
year our Manhood
Development program
will serve 650 students
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Succeed
Students in the MDP
program demonstrated
significant increases in
key skills such as critical
thinking, goal setting,
organization and
communications
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AAMA
The Black Sonrise
Manhood Development Program
Report Summary
• Recruitment and development of
African American male instructors
• Culturally relevant curriculum
• Leadership and character
development activities
MDP Supports
African
American Male
Achievement
through
• Transcript evaluation and
college and career guidance
• Parent and family training and
community building
• Cultural, college and career
field trips
Student Academic
Outcomes from
2010–2014
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1) 124% increase in MDP student
enrollment. Oakland youth want to
be in the class, and there is
currently a waiting list for
participation.
2) 79% of students have
satisfactory or improved school
discipline records.
3) 20% of MDP students have an
increase in attendance based
upon the scale of satisfactory, at
risk, moderate, and severe chronic
absences.
4) 30% of participants are reading
at or above grade level and, over
the course of two years, 8% of
students increased from below
grade level to grade level or
above.
5) The average GPA for students in
the program is 2.12 compared to
non-treatment African American
males who have an average GPA
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of 1.7.
Student SocialEmotional
Outcomes
1. MDP participants demonstrate a
significant increase in critical thinking
and communication skills.
2. MDP Life Skills Assessment for high
school students shows a statistically
significant increase in goal setting and
communication.
3. MDP youth acknowledge an increase
in the number of positive adult role
models on campus and demonstrate
a keen awareness of the benefits and
challenges of being an African
American male.
4. MDP youth show an increase in
emotional intelligence, social
acceptance, and self-efficacy.
5. MDP youth demonstrate improvement
in school belonging and academic
attitudes.
MDP Culture
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Our Standards for
“The Brotherhood”
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Respect for Ourselves and
Each Other
Keep it 100 (Tell the Truth)
Lift Ups, No Put Downs
Look Out For Each Other
Play Hard, but Also Work
Hard
Represent Your Best Self at All
Times
Be On Time
Be Responsible for Your
Actions
Build the Brotherhood
Trust Yourself and Others in
the Brotherhood
Key Findings/Next Steps
Succeed
• On multiple indicators, most
students perceive that the
MDP class adds value to their
lives.
• Cultivating creative
intelligence means students
can help solve societies
greatest ills.
• This is not just about Black
people, per se, but society as
a whole. Every time a student
disassociates from school,
society experiences larger
casualties.
• Given today's environment,
the classroom can—and
must—take on new meaning.
Succeed
• District leaders with a 50,000-foot
view will not have a substantial
impact unless they are
connected to the ground and
rooted in practice.
• Teachers can find hands-on
advice for reaching and teaching
this generation with a pedagogy
of patience.
• Perhaps the greatest result is the
sheer beauty of collective
willpower. Altogether, a
community of educators, elders,
young people, superintendents,
scholars, policy makers, and
parents are joining hands to
interrupt patterns of
underachievement. Together we
are making the vision for an MDP
into a reality!
Succeed
• The AAMA is continuing to
expand the Manhood
Development Program into
other schools, and is connecting
the curriculum to college
entrance requirements.
• All OUSD teachers interested in
effectively reaching and
teaching African American
children and youth are being
welcomed to participate in the
AAMA communities of practice
and workshop modules.
• The four cornerstones moving
forward: Developing our sons’
creative intelligence, practicing
a pedagogy of patience,
fostering partnerships with
purpose and maintaining
visionary leadership.
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