Elevating Emerging Leaders: Amplifying Voices and Promoting Principles at BELA
Deconstructing Racism in Schools by Taking Action
I am a mother, stepmother, wife, educator, researcher, author, school board member, and so much more. However, my professional life and personal life cross paths in my identity as a white mother of a socially perceived Black son. Why “socially perceived”? He is biracial but is viewed by the world as a Black boy/man purely […]
Reflection and Realities
This post is a Special Edition of CT3’s “Dear Walkie,” a mini-series of podcast episodes that provide a quality place for advice for anti-racist educators. CT3 Associates Chris Cantu and Jackie Surratt, both veteran teachers and school leaders, interview Maria Wilson, Dean of Culture at E Prep Cliffs. They discuss the work Maria is leading to center […]
Racism Is Not a Mental Illness
In recent weeks, I planned to write a blog about problems of practice that affect instructional coaching and support in schools. However, due to the recent mass shooting in Buffalo, New York, and the resulting news coverage, I decided to write about something even more pressing. The mass shooting took the lives of 10 people, […]
Fellow White Person, What Are You Prepared to Do?
The atrocity that occurred in Buffalo this past weekend is the latest horrific installment in this country’s war on Black people, a war that has been raging for centuries. Little good comes from describing the violence or declaring our shock here: those have been expressed in countless speeches, podcasts, exposés, poems, and more. For […]
Stop.Killing.Us.
For too long, Black people have been murdered because the color of their skin is offensive to someone with a weapon and the mindset to use it. No person in this nation — which is quick to celebrate her ideal that all people are created equal and have fundamental rights of liberty, free speech, freedom […]
CT3 Team Scales to Deepen Impact
As we seek to serve millions of students and thousands of schools, CT3 is planning for broad expansion over the next five years. To ensure our programming and service delivery remain best-in-class as we scale, we are thrilled to announce a number of team member promotions. The multitude of promotions from within are a testament […]
Statement on Recent Anti-LGBTQ+ Legislation
Proposed legislation to exclude the identities and histories of LGBTQ+ students are emerging across the nation. As our commitment is to every student, every day, we will always support inclusion and advocacy for all students, and specifically those in the LGBTQ+ community. Legislators: we call on you to respond to the needs of all the […]
It’s Black History Month. Sigh.
February is here, so the Black History Month ornaments are everywhere. Company statements on websites affirming their commitment to celebrating Black history. The Black History Month assignments where students have to select an inspiring Black person from “the list” and do “the report,” the best of which get read at “the program.” The endless name-checking […]
Still Living in “The Other America”
Seeking to write something poignant about him as we celebrate the King holiday always pales in comparison to Reverend Dr. Martin Luther King’s own eloquent words and clear-eyed analysis of the state of racial injustice in America. And though his words were written over fifty years ago, the fact that they are still relevant — […]
