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Educators, How are you teaching about the strange fruit that our students continue to see?

November 3, 2020
by Sharif El-Mekki
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In the 1930s, the incomparable Billie Holiday sang about the horror of Black lynchings—the strange fruit hanging from Southern trees, the blood on the leaves that flows from the savage anti-Blackness at the root. Nearly a...

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I’ve Been a Principal for 15 Years, Here’s 12 Things I’ve Learned Along the Way

October 18, 2017
by Sharif El-Mekki
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This marks my 15th year as a principal. I have learned directly from my coaches, mentors and colleagues. Many of the lessons I have learned and continue to learn, are no different than any leadership advice that I have read in...

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