5 Ways We Can Start to Dismantle White Supremacy in Our Schools

5 Ways We Can Start to Dismantle White Supremacy in Our Schools

All children deserve a good education, but too many of them do not receive one. Unsurprisingly, students who are most likely to attend under-resourced scho

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Happy african american boy playing with her smiling father at home

Making a Difference: Black Father Advocates for Students with Special Needs

This blog post highlights the inspiring story of a Black father and educator advocating for students with special needs, particularly his son with autism.

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Our Co-Teaching Relationship Helped Ease the Daily Pressures of Teaching, Even During a Pandemic

Our Co-Teaching Relationship Helped Ease the Daily Pressures of Teaching, Even During a Pandemic

It was early March 2020 at Boston Collegiate Charter School in Boston, Massachusetts. We—two seasoned public school educators—were getting ready to wrap up

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It's Up to Us to Teach the Real History of Greenwood to Future Generations

It’s Up to Us to Teach the Real History of Greenwood to Future Generations

One hundred years ago in Tulsa, a white mob looted, burned, and firebombed the community of Greenwood, home to Black Wall Street—a thriving economic and so

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Three (Ignorant) Arguments Used to Ban Critical Race Theory

Three (Ignorant) Arguments Used to Ban Critical Race Theory

To understand the legislative attacks on Critical Race Theory (CRT) that aim to make teaching CRT in schools—including concepts like white supremacy, syste

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Award-Winning Educators Call on States to Halt Bans on Critical Race Theory

Award-Winning Educators Call on States to Halt Bans on Critical Race Theory

As award-winning elementary and secondary school educators, we seek to ensure that our students receive an excellent education, to advance our students’ sk

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We Will Not Shy Away From Teaching Our History

We Will Not Shy Away From Teaching Our History

During their senior year, all scholars at all of Democracy Prep’s schools take a rigorous year-long course called Sociology of Change. For the first half o

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We Don't Have to Wait for Permission to Create Restorative Model Schools

We Don’t Have to Wait for Permission to Create Restorative Model Schools

If our goal is to uproot the systemic racism and other prejudices that live within the structure of our educational system and in every school building, th

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All This Performative Pettiness in Activism Diminishes Our Collective Power

All This Performative Pettiness in Activism Diminishes Our Collective Power

*In my Principal Joe Clark voice* I need all of the Black education activists to join me in a church basement conversation, expeditiously! I’m not liking w

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