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Sri Lanka: A Moment of Silence for the World
Photo courtesy of Reuters I have immense privilege as a white, heterosexual, cis-gender, able-bodied person living in the United States. I can spend my time thinking about cheese boards or my upcoming vacation. I’m processing through the shame I feel about how I get to live my life to its fullest while others can’t even worship without the threat of losing their families in explosions, like what happened in Sri Lanka on Easter Sunday.
It’s too easy to numb ourselves to the terror and violence that erupted in Sri Lanka. Terror and violence are proliferating around the world and in our own country. I try to hold front … Read More
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Dismantling White Supremacy Book Discussion
As part of my work at Montessori For All, I help facilitate a group of public Montessori leaders. We commit to figuring out how to fully implement Montessori in a way that ensures equitable outcomes for all children. Therefore, dismantling white supremacy is absolutely part of our work. One of the participants, the amazing Jacqui Miller from Stonebrook Montessori, had the idea to do a bookclub. As a result, she recommended that we focus on Bettina Love’s book entitled, We Want to Do More Than Survive. Additionally, the subtitle is Abolitionist Teaching and the Pursuit of Educational Freedom.
Description of the Book
… Read MoreDrawing on her life’s
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White Supremacy Culture: How do we dismantle it?
The play illuminates white supremacy culture. It tasks each of us with thinking about the role that we play in upholding it or dismantling it. Last week I had the honor of watching Notes from the Field at the Zach Theatre. The play illuminates white supremacy culture and tasks each of us with thinking about the role that we play in upholding it or dismantling it.
Zach Theatre describes the work in this way:
… Read More“Incredibly timely and moving, Notes from the Field depicts the personal accounts of individuals caught in America’s school-to-prison pipeline as they navigate inequities in their communities. Based on interviews with over 250 people living and working