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Monday, June 8, 2020

Boston

Sarah Iddrissu, Executive Director, E4E-Boston

Supporting the whole student in welcoming schools Build A Movement

I was 11 years old and my family and I were driving to an amusement park for the first time. My brother, cousin and I noisily discussed our exciting plans and dared each other to take the scariest...

Thursday, June 4, 2020

Chicago, Minnesota

Madaline Edison and Stacy Moore, Executive Directors, Minnesota and Chicago

Supporting the whole student in welcoming schools Build A Movement

Fact: we are two white mothers, raising two white boys. And although many would be right to say, don’t make this about you, we also know it is incumbent upon us to reflect on how we show up in...

Wednesday, June 3, 2020

Connecticut

Andréa Comer, Executive Director, Connecticut

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My husband is vigilant. He has to be. He’s a Black man – and a police officer.  As the events of the past few weeks have played out, I’ve watched people watching him, both in and out of...

Monday, June 1, 2020

Connecticut

Andréa Comer, Executive Director, Connecticut

Supporting the whole student in welcoming schools Build A Movement

  “I can’t breathe.”  Perhaps it’s because this isn’t the first time we have heard those words as a dying declaration of a Black man as his life was extinguished at the hands of police....

Saturday, January 18, 2020

Craig Wesley, National Manager of Diversity, Equity, and Inclusiveness

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It has now become routine and common practice to celebrate the life of Dr. Martin Luther King, Jr., on the third Monday of January, however it was not always this way. My name is Craig Wesley and...

Wednesday, October 16, 2019

Chicago

Deepening union engagement Funding schools equitably Build A Movement

October 16 (Chicago) – As more than 30,000 teachers and school support staff begin their strike tomorrow, their reasons vary. Members of Educators for Excellence-Chicago (E4E-Chicago), who are...