Seattle Schools Community Forum: Let's Talk About Race (Part One)

Seattle Schools Community Forum: Let's Talk About Race (Part One):

Let's Talk About Race (Part One)

We could start this discussion with the micro-view of what is happening in Seattle Public Schools.  But that doesn't work because that's just peering down into a silo and trying to figure out what's happening. 

The real pressures of the entire society AND our nation's history cannot be ignored.  (This is one place where I part company with ed reformers who just want to look at the micro-view and ignoring what is happening out in the greater world.)  Poverty and racism do not stop at the schoolhouse door. 

But we will talk about racial equity as it relates to schools in Part Two.

Rules of engagement:
- NO name-calling especially of children.  It will not be tolerated.
- We all bring to this where we were brought up, who brought us up and their thinking, our education (both K-12 and beyond), where we have lived and worked and who we partnered with, etc.  That is all part of where we ALL get our implicit bias.
- I do not profess to know everything on this topic nor have the answers.  I'm learning and I hope all of you have that desire as well.  But with these initiatives rolling out the district - without any widespread discussions in our Seattle Schools Community Forum: Let's Talk About Race (Part One):



 Seattle Schools Community Forum: Seattle Schools This Week - http://saveseattleschools.blogspot.com/2016/10/seattle-schools-this-week_23.html