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Christopher Chatmon is the deputy chief of equity in California鈥檚 Oakland Unified School District. Chatmon was recognized as a school district Leader To Learn From in 2015 for his efforts to support boys of color. In this speech from Education Week鈥檚 annual Leaders To Learn From Event, he explains how schools can better serve African-American males. 鈥淭ypically when people ask me to come speak, it鈥檚 always around the gloom and doom and deficits of black children or brown children,鈥� he says. 鈥淚f we don鈥檛 enter conversations around the beauty and brilliance and collective genius then we鈥檙e going to perpetuate this self-fulfilling prophecy.鈥�