by Courtney Mykytyn | Oct 24, 2018 | news, race, social justice
From Charlottesville, Virginia to Vista, California, glad to see that school segregation is getting media attention. And though the details might be different, the stories are familiar: attendance battle zones, magnet/gifted programs and classroom-level...
by Courtney Mykytyn | Oct 1, 2018 | book club, news
Join us for Book Club on November 13th for a discussion of Margaret Hagerman’s new book White Kids: Growing Up with Privilege in a Racially Divided America! As excited as we are to be reading this book, we are also happy to be able to share a 30% + free...
by Courtney Mykytyn | Sep 27, 2018 | news
A few years ago, a proudly progressive school board member told me that while he would like to talk about school integration, he simply couldn’t spend his political capital on the issue. “White parents,” he said “would eat this alive.” Since then, we’ve heard similar...
by Courtney Mykytyn | Sep 14, 2018 | news
Today’s hour of listening is the (free) audio download of Chapter 7 of Daring Greatly: Wholehearted Parenting: Daring to be the Adults we Want our Children to Be from Brene Brown In Daring Greatly, Brown writes that “Who we are, and how we engage with the world, are...
by Courtney Mykytyn | Aug 15, 2018 | news
Honestly, I don’t know what to say about this Yet Another White Family Leaves the City for the Suburbs article. The author, who “believes in justice, integration, anti-racism and the daily battle to dismantle America’s many systems of racial and economic...