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Sandra Bland Day: Let’s Continue to Do the Work
This past weekend I had the opportunity to attend Sandra Bland Day in Austin. The amazing Community Advocacy and Healing Project organized the event.
Sandra Bland’s death hit me hard back in 2015. And whenever I think something is hard for me as a white person, I pause. I try to put myself in the shoes of People of Color to the extent that I can. At the Sandra Bland Day event, I got to listen to a Black woman talk about what Sandra’s story was like for her. She explained that most of the police brutality she had witnessed prior to that point had been on Black men. Those … 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
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