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If You Believe Education Is For Liberation, Follow The Examples of Liberation Schools

December 9, 2020
by Rann Miller
6 min read
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When it comes to education, I have a well-rounded and unique perspective. I received a Catholic school education, I taught middle and high school history for two charter schools and I am currently a program director for a public...

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Dr. Love & the 8 Black Hands

October 1, 2019
by Sharif El-Mekki
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In the current, at times, toxic educational debates, cancel culture is rampant. But, there is room, space, and precedence for cordial debates, fierce and persistent differences in outlooks and strategies, yet solidarity in the...

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I’m Not Black. I’m O.J.: How Understanding Privilege Can Help To Disrupt Inequity

July 2, 2018
by Kelli Seaton
11 min read
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If you have ever done a privilege walk, you know it can be a very moving, and sometimes emotional, visual of how some of us have been given opportunities and head starts and others of us have not. In the video above, the...

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The Total Sum of Our Childrens’ School Experiences

September 3, 2016
by Sharif El-Mekki
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“We are the total sum of our experiences.” This quote is attributed to a few and experienced by all. I had three very distinct and radically different school experiences growing up. The collection of these experiences...

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A Student’s Perspective on Teaching Social Justice in Schools

August 2, 2016
by Sharif El-Mekki
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Schools have a responsibility to support students in their overall growth and development. You often hear that schools aren’t just expected to teach the traditional Rs (reading, ‘riting,’rithmatic), but they must...

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