Street Data Learning Opportunities
“Student voices are incontrovertible. We can’t dismiss, deny, quantify, or rationalize away the voices and expertise of children at the margins. Allow them to be truth tellers and moral compasses for what you say you believe about equity.”
—Shane Safir, Street Data, 2021
Street Data Book
Education can be transformed if we eradicate our fixation on big data like standardized test scores as the supreme measure of equity and learning. Instead of focusing on "fixing" and "filling" academic gaps, we must envision and rebuild the system from the student up--with classrooms, schools and systems built around students' brilliance, cultural wealth, and intellectual potential. Street Data reminds us that what is measurable is not the same as what is valuable and that data can be humanizing, liberating, and healing.
Street Data Pod
Imagining the Next Generation of Education w/ Shane Safir & Alcine Mumby
Open a window into stories of school transformation. Using the bestselling book Street Data as a frame for discussion, these inspiring hosts crack the world of education and data wide open. Through compelling interviews with thought leaders, administrators, students, and teachers, we hear how education can be transformed as we move beyond our fixation on big data as the supreme measure of equity and learning and toward data that is humanizing, liberatory, and healing.
Street Data Learning Offerings
Street Data Keynote
45-75 minutes with optional fireside author chat
Street Data is the qualitative and experiential data that emerges at eye level and on lower frequencies when we train our brains to discern it. Street Data is asset based, building on culturally responsive education by focusing on what’s right in our students, schools, and communities instead of seeking out what’s wrong. Street Data embodies an ethos and a change methodology that will transform how we analyze, diagnose, and assess everything from student learning to district improvement to policy. Based on the best-selling book Street Data: A Next-Generation Model for Equity, Pedagogy, and School Transformation (Corwin, 2021), this dynamic keynote lays out the transformational Street Data model, which will help you shift your focus from satellite-level data (test scores and other metrics) to real-time, on-the-ground stories, experiences, and artifacts.
Street Data Fundamentals Workshop (SDF)
3-4 hour workshop, virtual or in person
Education can be transformed if we eradicate our fixation on big data like standardized test scores as the supreme measure of equity and learning. Instead of focusing on “filling” academic gaps, we must re-envision the system from the ground up—with classrooms, schools and systems built around students’ brilliance, cultural wealth, and intellectual capacity. This call to action has never been more timely. Street Data is the qualitative and experiential data that emerges at eye level and on higher frequencies when we train our brains to discern it. Street Data is asset-based, building on culturally responsive education by focusing on what’s right in our students, schools, and communities instead of seeking out what’s wrong. Street Data reminds us that what is measurable is not the same as what is valuable and that data can be humanizing, liberatory and healing.
This half-day interactive session offers educators the opportunity to examine their ways of being and knowing while finding the courage and agency to disrupt the incarceration of the imagination characterizing so much of schooling. We will break down the fundamentals of the Street Data model: what it is, how to gather it, and how it can complement other forms of data to guide a school, district, or region’s equity journey. Join us for this dynamic 3-hour workshop as we lay out this transformational model and an actionable framework to shift from satellite-level data to real-time, on-the-ground stories, experiences, and artifacts.
Street Data Institute
1-2 day workshop
This 1-2 day learning session is built for teams, though individually may attend, to engage in a deep dive of the Street Data model with a bias toward action. We will break down the fundamentals of the Street Data model, including what it is, how to gather it, and how it can complement other forms of data to guide your equity-centered transformation journey. Through this dynamic experience, our team will help you not only understand Why Street Data, Why Now, but actively shift your focus from satellite-level data to real-time, on-the-ground stories, experiences, and artifacts. You will walk away with an equity-centered inquiry question and a Street Data action plan.
Street Data Community of Practice (CoP)
A Year-Long Hybrid Learning Journey to Transform Your Practice
Drawing on the Street Data model from the bestselling book Street Data, this Community of Practice (CoP) is designed for cohorts of 30-80 participants, typically organized into multidisciplinary teams of 4-8 people. Teams include county, regional, or district leaders; site leaders; instructional coaches, teacher leaders, and teachers; as well as students and family/community members. At least one-third of the cohort is recommended to include students or community members, depending on the group’s area of interest. Teams receive ongoing coaching support, either directly from facilitators or through a coach-the-coaches structure.
- Listen with a Mindset of Radical Inclusion
- Uncover with a Mindset of Curiosity
- Reimagine with a Mindset of Creativity (recommended as an all-day in-person gathering)
- Move with a Mindset of Courage (typically a half- to full-day learning symposium)
- Hone a Possibility of Practice or inquiry question to guide their learning
- Identify a focal group of learners (or adults) at the margins
- Gather multiple forms of Street Data to understand the focal group’s lived experiences, perspectives, and aspirations
- Analyze the Street Data to uncover insights and opportunities for change
- Co-design and enact a meaningful transformation project in partnership with the focal learners
Street Data Partners
Alcine Mumby
With over 25 years of experience designing and leading educational systems, Alcine Mumby is the founder and CEO of ADLM Consulting and co-host of Street Data Pod. Until recently, Alcine was the Vice President of Program and the Director of ELP's Deeper Learning Leadership Forum (DLLF) for Envision Learning Partners, the consulting arm of Envision Education. (Envision Education prepares students to be successful in college through access to high quality project-based learning, performance-based assessment systems, and meaningful work-based learning experiences.) In her role as VP of Program, Alcine guided school, district, and state level leaders in NH, VA, KY, CA, CO, NM, and other educational organizations to create high quality performance assessment systems aligned to 21st century competencies. Prior to consulting, Alcine taught Humanities and was a teacher leader at one of the first small schools in the Bronx where
Jessica Wei Huang (“Way Hwong”) is an educator & school leader with more than 20 years of experience as a classroom teacher, school principal and leadership coach/facilitator. She has a wide range of knowledge for how to build equitable school communities through her on-the-ground work in schools and her support and coaching of educator leaders and teams. Jessica has a Bachelor’s of Foreign Service from Georgetown University, a Master’s of Education from Stanford University, and is currently working on her PhD on Education and Social Justice from the University of San Diego. Her experience in both the public school system in the US and in international schools equips her to lead in a wide-variety of cultural-contexts. Jessica has worked as a school leader, and teacher in international schools in Singapore and Taiwan. Jessica is a certified leadership coach through the Association of California School Administrators and a certified mindful facilitator of discussions on race and identity. She connects this belief to her consulting work focused on leadership coaching and educational-equity professional development with schools, districts, independent and international schools
Joe Truss
Joe Truss is a racial equity coach and consultant, committed to centering the success of the marginalized in schools. Through his company, Truss Leadership, he supports school districts with their antiracist transformation journey. Joe’s work focuses on racial affinity groups, co-creation of brave norms, antiracist deeper learning, and school redesign. With the Truss Leadership team, he supports school districts with system-wide change including anti bias work, curriculum redesign, instructional walkthrough audits, rewriting discipline plans, and leadership team development. Joe Truss also hosts the annual Dismantling White Supremacy Culture in Schools Conference.