DPS Student Voice & Leadership, Civic Leadership, Leadership Development, Action Civics, Don't Ask - LEAD!
Denver, CO
Joined August 2017
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Tashan and Xavier are hosting a weekly Wellness & Awareness space on Fridays @ 4PM! This week they’ll be using the space to explore how media informs our understanding of culture, identities, and politics. RSVP here:
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🎉 We are so incredibly excited to introduce our bill! SB21-009 would ensure undocumented people can get #Medicaid coverage for contraception and help close gaps in access by providing a one year supply for anyone who uses Medicaid. Read our statement: Bit.ly/MedicaidSB21009
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Join us for our annual MLK Youth Summit next Saturday, January 16th. We encourage you to attend, as youth and elected officials will be sharing out their issue work. Click the link below to RSVP. See y’all there!
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Thank you Dr. Anne Keke and @us_alg for highlighting and honoring the civic labor of our students concerning public safety in schooling spaces.
Our youth are deconstructing & reconstructing the issue of police in Aurora schools
Read the full article:
usalg.org/the-time-is-now-to…
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A helpful reminder that addressing racial bias is complicated and requires a well thought out strategy linked to improving educational practice: "Training Bias Out of Teachers: Research Shows Little Promise So Far edweek.org/ew/articles/2020/… via @educationweek
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Earlier today, @MayorHancock announced @CityofDenver has moved to “Safer at Home” Level 3. We have made adjustments to scale back in-person instruction in response to the rising #COVID19 cases.
Learn what this will look like for all grades and programs ➡️ bit.ly/3jDX74K
Tashan & Xavier teach a class on the relationship between art, identity, & liberation @EmpowerHS.
“It's our hope that we can help out students understand their relationships with each other and themselves as we move through world that is constantly telling us who and how to be.”
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Mark your calendars! Our first listening session about why schools should act on climate is Monday 10/19 at 1:30pm EST. Hear from @FirstLadyNJ @DrAriBernstein @mayagrreen @NicholeABerg about their work to help schools act on climate change. Join us here: ow.ly/ewtc50BTPk2
ALT Text reads: "Listening Session 1: Why Should Schools Move Toward Climate Action?" with date and time. Headshots, names, and titles of four panelists included
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Fear of COVID is having an enormous impact on kids, especially those who were already introverts. Parents must encourage their kids to get off screens and go outside w precautions. If they don't, mental health will worsen for many. "Generation Agoraphobia nytimes.com/2020/10/16/style…
Growing stronger every year 🤎🖤 – at Denver, CO
Two years ago and still going strong. ✊🏾 Cc: @soliciaelopez @DPSStudentVoice
Shoutout to our community partners, Project VOYCE!🤩Every day through their dedication to youth, PV builds
transformative youth leadership by organizing underrepresented communities! PV promotes self-love and the discovery of power! THANK YOU FOR YOUR WORK!✊🏽❤️
"The future belongs to those who prepare for it today." - Malcolm X. Your contributions to liberation lives in the youth✊🏾❤️
#FreedomFighterFriday
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“You say #BlackLivesMatter? That means #BlackGirlsMatter” Hear more from @kaylamichele26 in our latest video in partnership w/@nwlc about the systemic racist #SchoolDiscipline policies our girls of color face everyday in the classroom. edtru.st/SchoolDisciplinePol… #ActNow
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"Maybe this is a nerdy-history-teacher way to frame this, but I was a nerdy history teacher. We have a choice between the Hoover path & the F.D.R. path." Hear more from @JohnBKing in @nytimes' "Will This Be a Lost Year for America’s Children?" edtru.st/3mp40d0
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Seeing a lot of emails promising to deliver that "Antiracist Reading List". Please handle the term with care. It wasn't born to become a buzz word. Your teaching stance and mentality need to become antiracist. This is about so much more than a reading list...
