READINGS
The following excerpts and articles will be discussed or referenced at this year's meeting.
Please take time to read them before the meeting so you are familiar with them.
Please take time to read them before the meeting so you are familiar with them.
We Want To Do More Than Surviveby Bettina LoveTo dismantle the educational survival complex and to achieve educational freedom—not merely reform—teachers, parents, and community leaders must approach education with the imagination, determination, boldness, and urgency of an abolitionist. Following in the tradition of activists like Ella Baker, Bayard Rustin, and Fannie Lou Hamer, We Want to Do More Than Survive introduces an alternative to traditional modes of educational reform and expands our ideas of civic engagement and intersectional justice.
The Little Book of Race and Restorative Justiceby Fania E. DavisFania Davis’ examination of the issue of race in America is based in personal experience that resonates with as well as a beacon of hope as we learn to work together to repair damage, change perspectives, and strive to do better. -- adapted from Skyhorse Publishing
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Emergent Strategyby Adrienne Maree BrownThe world is in a continual state of flux. It is a stream of ever-mutating, emergent patterns. Rather than steel ourselves against such change, Emergent Strategy invites us to feel, map, assess, and learn from the swirling patterns around us in order to better understand and influence them as they happen.
To Be Black and WokeTo Be Black and Woke is a personal reflection on being Black in America, framed by James Baldwin’s quote, “To be a negro in this country and to be relatively conscious is to be in a rage almost all the time.”
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