COSEBOC’s Theory of Action
If We:
- Define standards for successfully educating boys and young men of color
- Develop assessment tools and processes for using these standards to identify relevant organizational strengths and needs
- Identify and develop programs and approaches for achieving those standards
- Strengthen and expand our strategic partnerships with national organizations and experts that share our mission
- Convene and mobilize our national network of members, contacts, and allies
Then We Can:
- Facilitate and support education leaders to develop their capacity to use the standards and assessment tools to identify their schools’ organizational strengths, assets, and needs
- Facilitate and support education leaders to strengthen their capacity to establish and sustain collaborations with national and local organizations to promote equity for boys and young men of color
- Facilitate and support education leaders and their staff to develop plans that leverage their strengths and assets to implement effective culturally-responsive and authentically-designed programs and approaches identified as advancing the relevant standards
- Develop and support long-standing and emerging community leadership to promote school change efforts focused on promoting equity for boys and young men of color
- Advance efforts to disrupt policies and practices that have been punitive and dehumanizing for boys and young men of color
Then:
- School and community leaders working together can transform the schooling experience for boys and young men of color by attacking systemic racism and offering more equitable opportunities;
Then:
- Boys and young men of color will demonstrate greater academic, social-emotional, and cultural development and more equitable outcomes in their educational achievement, promotion and graduation rates, and post-secondary success.