Equity-Driven • Data-Centered • Student-Focused To kick off Season 2 of ExtraOrdinary Districts, we brought together an all-star panel to discuss school district improvement. Janice Jackson, CEO of Chicago P… Historically, early childhood educators have often been women of color who have had a wide range of educational backgrounds, and as a whole have been more raci… At a young age, I became conscious of issues of equity. My family emigrated in 1981 from El Salvador — a country that was torn apart by a civil war caused by i… More Latinos are going to college than ever before, but as Joscelyn Guzman, a first-generation Mexican-American learned firsthand, getting there is the first o… In the past four years, my life has transformed for the better. I am a newlywed with a full-time job and working toward a bachelor’s degree in nonprofit manage… “Emotionally, it is harder to see students who look like me struggle, while higher-up administrators didn’t seem to truly care.”So says a Black teacher, summin… My son has started the fifth grade, and I couldn’t be prouder. Last spring, I wrote about my son’s challenges not being met in the third grade and how I had to… As a White woman progressing through college and my internship at Ed Trust, I have come to understand the extent to which systemic racism permeates every aspec… My kid’s elementary school was located in an affluent part of town. But in a nondescript building about a mile away, there was a homeless shelter. So, unbeknow… Lifting the ban on Pell Grants for incarcerated students is one of Ed Trust’s policy priorities for higher education reauthorization, and we are proud to advoc… I was born and raised in the central part of the Navajo Nation in a town called Chinle, which is near the Canyon De Chelly national monument in Arizona. For mo…Fierce advocates for the high academic achievement of all students — particularly those of color or living in poverty.
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Live! With ExtraOrdinary Districts – A Discussion on District Improvement
5 Things That Policymakers Can Do to Improve Early Childhood Education (ECE)
Why I Teach Where I Teach: To be a Positive Light for Latino Students
Getting To & Through College: Joscelyn Guzman
Second Chances are Real — Let’s Make Sure More Students Get Them
Why Teachers of Color Leave
When a School Meets a Child’s Individual Needs
Reconciling Your School’s Racist History
Free and Reduced-Price Lunches Are Essential to a Child’s Education
What Happens When Incarceration Meets Education
Student Voices: Hearing and Supporting Native/Indigenous Students
by Sarahi Monterrey
by Malika Kidd
by Coleman Evans
by Luis Mattei Jr.
by Charlie Scott
