Great first day of freshman registration and device pick up! In addition, students can schedule their physical with out Mercy Hospital partners!#stayfresh#DUNBARSTRONG

These are some learning conditions than can center the integration of SEL and Teaching and Learning. Using the Adult Support component of Student Connectedness, we can set the conditions for a high quality educational experience for all students.

The DVCA community focuses on integrating SEL with Teaching and Learning. We are centering SEL for adults for success. The work involves promoting vulnerability and mutual respect in routines, situating the work through collaboration and multiple perspectives to problem solving.

DVCA just finished a great conversation with our external SEL partners. We situated how the SEL and Teaching and Learning framework can be aligned to promote articulation to produce student academic and SEL outcomes.#DUNBARSTRONG

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Great day at DVCA. Our Aviation program has taken flight! Sophomore Zaire Horton flew his first solo flight today. We are extremely proud of him. Onward and upward! #DUNBARSTRONG #GAMECHANGER

Again.... ACCELERATION NOT REMEDIATION

DVCA is not sitting this year out! We are intentional about getting better and doing better. We accept this opportunity and will make it our finest hour. #DUNBARSTRONG

Yes! Let’s create a safe space to be vulnerable and reflective. Our students are allowing us into their space. We should enter with a humble spirit and gracious heart! #DUNBARSTRONG #thebestarewithCPS

The Student Connected component, Adult Support, lends itself to connecting through crisis more than distance learning. We want students to experience connection so let us lead, learn and connect through this crisis! #DUNBARSTRONG

It’s the first day of school, but not too late to get connected. Chicago Connected provides no-cost, high speed internet to 100,000 CPS - Chicago Public Schools families. Visit CPS.edu/getconnected to check eligibility.

SEL for adults is key to a positive educational experience for young people. I once read that a sick horse can’t pull the cart! Trust amongst adults helps promote collaboration and accountability that leads to student outcomes. #SELFOREVERYONE #DUNBARSTRONG

We are celebrating HBCU week at DVCA! #DUNBARSTRONG#HBCU

Many urban school leaders have suffered with compassion fatigue. As an urban school leader for past 15 years, I’ve experienced daily exposure to trauma from students and the urban community. I often wondered why am I mentally and emotionally exhausted. Self care is top priority!

We must be come intentional in planning for SEL integration to achieve academic goals. SEL is not isolated from high quality instruction. Aligning SEL competencies with standards are vital to a quality educational experience for young people. #DUNBARSTRONG

Self care starts with using our voice. The system has subconsciously programmed us to develop coping mechanisms that lead us to being the perpetrators in lack of equity in urban education! We can situate ourselves when we decide to make “good trouble.” Be a voice not an echo!

Black educators are more than co-managers and fireman. We are LEADERS. Our value has been based on the vision of the political structure in which the educational system is situated. Our voices are allowed and requested since antiracism has become trendy.

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Happy Thanksgiving from the Dunbar family. #DUNBARSTRONG