Alliance College Ready Public Schools Careers, Benefits, Review

Since being founded by Judy Burton in 2004, Alliance has at equity at the center of its mission. In 2020, we as a community experienced a lot of firsts. Our first global pandemic. Our first time doing distance learning. Our first time all working from home. Our first time watching a worldwide racial reckoning.  And amidst these firsts, we progressed, but also learned a lot about ourselves as individuals and as a community. Last year, Alliance, as an organization, experienced another first: we publicly admitted that personal, cultural, and institutional racism exist at Alliance and named our committment to becoming an anti-racist, pro-Black charter public school network. Not only did we admit and commit, but we also acted and developed a roadmap with detailed strategies of how to meet this promise. Over the course of the last school year, we have made progress on our journey, which is already beginning to have a direct impact:

• Help six forums for the Black/African-American staff, students, and families to build community and have a direct voice into our anti-racism work.
• Launched the Black/African American CEO Advisory Committee and Teacher Advisory Committee to ensure regular input and communication to and 
• Share frequent network-wide all-staff communication updates about our commitment to anti-racism and the progress we were making on our Roadmap priorities.
• Held over 30 anti-racist leader learning arc sessions for Home Office leaders, principals, and school operations leaders to develop the mindsets, skills, and/or tools needed to engage in conversationsabout race across difference, analyze systems of oppression, and lead anti-racism work.
• Launched partnership with Longview Education to support continued leader training on liberatory design for schools and to support the continued implementation of Cutlurally Responsive Teaching (CRT) at Alliance.
• Adopted trauma-Informed mindsets & practices across the network to address the disproportionate rate of discipline for Black/African American students,
• Evaluated current curriculum materials and courses and recommended a path forward for a more culturally relevant and social justice oriented ELA & History curriculum. As a result, 24 classrooms across Alliance have piloted the framework.
• PBS-HSA led a pilot case study to create a culture of belonging for African American/Black scholars, and ultimately, improve Black scholar enrollment and retention. This work resulted in four Black/African-American teachers being hired for the 2021-22 school year and four Black and African-American affinity spaces being held at the school.
• Launched Network-wide Affinity Groups in Spring 2022 to support community and to deepen our learning toward our commitent to be an Anti-racist and Pro-Black Organization.
• In 2022, our 75% of our staff identify as people of color. 
  • Nearly 80% of our school and network leaders and adminstrators identify as people of color.
    • Over 20% of those leaders identify as Black/African American
    • Over 45% of  those leaders identiy as Latinx