How Students of Color Confront Imposter Syndrome
Beautiful Ted Talk from an inspiring teacher! “I centered my instruction on the lives, histories and identities of my students. And I did all of this because I wanted my students to know that everyone around them was supporting them to be their best self. So...I was the smart black girl schooled in a white world, but zip code shouldn’t be our education destiny anymore
This is a beautiful essay. This part especially got me: “When we start comparing predominantly white communities to communities of color, I want to help people start to change the narrative from “better”… to different.” She’s right. The way we talk about schools...Read Dirk Tillotson!
From his blog GreatSchoolVoices.org based out of Oakland, CA… “The basics of desegregation are simple. It just takes will.”A Divided America Gave Us the Problem of a Donald Trump Presidency. Integration is the Solution.
by Kelly Bare Many of us are still in shock: How could so many Americans know the hurtful, unacceptable things Donald Trump has said about and done to other human beings — not to mention the outright bigotry his campaign failed to thoroughly disavow — and vote for him...Take the TWO TOUR Pledge!
As a Parent-with-Choice in support of the fundamental premise that all children have the right to a quality education, and with the belief that in choosing a school for my child I am also building the world they will live in as an adult, I pledge…