Award-Winning Teachers Demand 4 Anti-Racist Policies to Ensure Schools Are a Place of Liberation

• Responsive Curriculum and Systems of Evaluation: We move that each learner deserves pathways for success and personal safety in school. Therefore, we must adopt and implement inclusive curriculums that reflect multiple voices and perspectives, particularly those BIPOC and LGBTQ+ communities who have historically been left out of the curriculum. Anti-racist and anti-bias training must be prioritized for all educators. In addition, we must carefully evaluate how assessment metrics preserve White supremacy and White supremacist power structures that further marginalize communities serving predominantly Black student populations. 

• Recruit and Retain Educators of Color: We move to institute supported teacher pipelines to recruit, retain and support Black educators. Representation matters for our students, and we need to lift up BIPOC voices as leaders in the profession. 

It is time to \”show up\” to support one another. Through reflection, research, and action, we are renewed in our work to remove systems of oppression and pursue justice. It is our moral obligation and our professional charge.

While these conversations may be uncomfortable, we owe it to our students to engage in them. Without these conversations and intentional action to disrupt systems of oppression, we continue to be complicit in the perpetuation of violence and systemic racism.  

We invite educators, parents and community members to rise in solidarity. To listen, learn and to dismantle a system fraught with White supremacy, so that we may build a system that will honor, celebrate, support and uplift each and every student we serve. Let us turn our anger and our sadness into action. 

Join us. 

With hope, and in solidarity,

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