by Hazel Kight Witham | Jan 23, 2018 | our stories
It’s “School Choice Week” and as we think about the ways in which choice can deepen segregation, we hope you’ll enjoy this from teacher and guest-author, Hazel Kight Witham. A few months ago, I walked onto my old middle school campus for a...
by Integrated Schools | Jan 1, 2018 | book club, our stories
2018 is starting off strong — Professor Noliwe Rooks has graciously offered to join us in discussing her new book, Cutting School, for our January Online Book Club selection! We are thrilled and honored — and hope that you all RSVP ASAP for this special...
by Courtney Mykytyn | Oct 24, 2017 | our stories
** Book Club is coming up at the end of October! Register now to discuss Beverly Daniel Tatum’s re-release of Why Are All The Black Kids Sitting Together in the Cafeteria! ** Having just returned from the Network for Public Education conference in Oakland and...
by Integrated Schools | Oct 11, 2017 | events, our stories
Now that school is back in session, Integrated Schools is continuing our monthly Book Club Meetings. We’ve heard reading suggestions from many of you (keep it coming!) and will start this October with a re-read of Beverly Daniel Tatum‘s Why Are All the Black Kids...
by Integrated Schools | Oct 9, 2017 | our stories
When white and/or privileged families enroll their kids in schools serving a majority of students who come from different racial, linguistic, and socioeconomic backgrounds (as many of us across the country are doing!), we often replicate a kind of white supremacy in...
by Integrated Schools | Oct 5, 2017 | our stories
It is that time of year again! For many of us, the stress over where we will enroll our rising kindergarteners, middle schoolers, and high schoolers next year is ramping up, compelling us to put together spreadsheets of schools and obsessively instigate...