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The 10 Elements of Black Excellence

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Description

A community-informed framework developed by LBUSD's Center to organize its foundation, aims, and practical approaches for advancing Black excellence.

Components

  • The 10 Elements of Black Excellence as an organizing design pattern: The brief organizes the Center's foundation around 10 Elements of Black Excellence: Empowering Genius, Overcoming Systemic Barriers, Embracing Black Identity, Liberating Greatness, Elevating Intergenerational Wisdom, Promoting Advocacy and Awareness, Centering Health and Well-Being, Uplifting the Community, Encouraging Authenticity, and Cultivating Beauty and Joy. Each element emerged from recurring themes in community listening sessions and is elaborated with community quotes, a collective definition, Center aims, and practical approaches. The brief notes "These elements were identified and named based on the expressed envisioning of representative voices of LBUSD's Black Community" and tha (Powell (2024))

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Key Sources

  • Powell, K. (2024). The center of black student excellence: A place without barriers and the 10 elements that lay its foundation. Long Beach Unified School District. https://www.wested.org
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