Making Difficult Conversations Easier: Engaging High-Latino-Enrollment Nebraska High Schools in Interschool Communication About Successes

• In Event: 73.053 - Kindergarten Through 12th Grade

Abstract

The goals of our paper are two-fold: to consider education patterns related to social context and then to consider how an analysis of those patterns sets up prospective inter-school professional development conversations that work toward justice. We examine six outcome variables at Nebraska’s 10 most proportionally Latino high schools—that collectively represent a cross-section of the state from the biggest city, to small rural meatpacking towns—to identify when schools are generating better outcomes than the 10-school average for their combination of poverty, mobility, and language isolation would predict and then invite practitioners at those schools to engage in a cross-site consideration of each of these possible examples of success.

Authors

• Edmund T. Hamann, University of Nebraska - Lincoln

• William Richard England, University of Nebraska - Lincoln