Solidarity 2025 Training Series
Starts January 29!
It’s a new year and people around the country are ready to come together to grow our movement.
Solidarity 2025 is a training series equipping activist educators, school board members, students, parents, and allies to unite against attacks on public education outlined in Project 2025. This training series is part of the Public School Strong campaign, and is designed to empower participants to advocate for students, schools, and communities at local school boards and beyond.
Punished for Dreaming Book Study
Registration is closed for the Punished for Dreaming book study set to kick off on January 22nd, but that those interested the book can still access the TOOLKIT for Punished for Dreaming here: https://bettinalove.com/toolkit/
The Campaign Lab
An Initiative of the Campaign to Promote, Protect, and Strengthen Public Education
In 2023, NEA and its allies launched the Promote, Protect, and Strengthen Public Education campaign (the Campaign). Among its initiatives is The Campaign Lab (the Lab), which aims to help local communities and their partners address various issues of equity and racial justice in education through well-planned campaigns. These issues could be related to schools or broader community concerns, such as class size reduction, affordable housing or increasing the minimum wage. Learn More | FAQ
The world is changing rapidly. We’re approaching a time when there will be no single racial majority in the United States. Are we ready? Can we move beyond our perceived differences that divide us? Can we tackle a system of patterns, conditions and barriers that hinder opportunity based on geography, group membership or gender?
We can. And we do. Our commitment to equity and excellence in education requires the centering of cultural competence in all of our endeavors and utilizing a racial and social justice framework to support all students.
Educational professionals, regardless of background or identity, must bring both a cultural understanding and a deep self-awareness to their work.
We offer professional development, resources and support.
Join us. We’re Stronger United.
The goal of the workgroup is to provide support, resources, and training opportunities to further enhance IEA’s mission and commitment to excellence and equity in public education.
WORKGROUP
- Ambor Cottrell
- Lindsay Powell
- Camille Grant
- Angela Harkless
- Kelsey Harms
- Susan Hudson
- Sherri Jones
- Al Llorens
- Unique Mickens
- Sylvia Rios
- Holly Survance
- Dylan Swank
WHAT’S THE SUMMARY?
LOVEWORKS will assist educators by raising their personal awareness, knowledge, and skills to implement educational equity/abolitionist teaching into their classroom. Abolitionist teaching is both external and internal, as it addresses systemic oppression and educational inequities, as well as creates classroom, student-centered environments that promote and sustain individual and collective wellness rooted in joy and belonging.
WHAT’S THE STUDENT IMPACT?
The potential to positively impact student success is greatest when efforts are centered within not just the academic needs or outcomes but deeply within the imagination and creative genius that lies within each student. Rather than utilizing the white supremacy framework of deficiency, other-focused, and problem-elimination, abolitionist teaching starts with the assumption of human wellness – especially that of our most marginalized students – and bridges joy and learning, love and accountability, and structures that inspire, cultivate, and sustain wellness and hope. From this perspective, abolitionist teaching is a system of sustainable education no longer predicated on harm or profit.