Students, Families and Educators Should Lead the Way on the Gun Crisis.
Teaching Tolerance, February 26, 2018.
A conversation starter I wrote with my daughter, on gun control and our schools.
Category: convo starters
Leveraging a University to Create Local Opportunities to Learn
These conversation starters on the CREATE STEM Success Initiative at UC San Diego share our Center’s efforts to leverage an entire university to create local opportunities to learn. This is essential antiracist equity work. Rather than just describe unequal opportunities as education researchers, we actually work to create more opportunities to go around.
“The CREATE STEM Success Initiative: Year 6 Report.” The Center for Research on Educational Equity, Assessment, and Teaching Excellence (CREATE), UC San Diego, July 2019.
“The CREATE STEM Success Initiative: Year 5 Report.” The Center for Research on Educational Equity, Assessment, and Teaching Excellence (CREATE), UC San Diego, July 2018.
“The CREATE STEM Success Initiative: Year 4 Report.” The Center for Research on Educational Equity, Assessment, and Teaching Excellence (CREATE), UC San Diego, July 2017.
“The CREATE STEM Success Initiative: Year 3 Report.” The Center for Research on Educational Equity, Assessment, and Teaching Excellence (CREATE), UC San Diego, July 2016.
“The CREATE STEM Success Initiative: Year 2 Report.” The Center for Research on Educational Equity, Assessment, and Teaching Excellence (CREATE), UC San Diego, July 2015.
“The CREATE STEM Success Initiative: Year 1 Report.” The Center for Research on Educational Equity, Assessment, and Teaching Excellence (CREATE), UC San Diego, July 2014.
Mica Pollock, Susan Yonezawa and Barbara Edwards. “Solving the Math Problem in San Diego Together.” San Diego Union Tribune, May 23, 2014. (This conversation starter talks about the key role of math in K12 opportunity.)
“From Denial to Creation: Meeting the Opportunity Goals of Title VI Today.” Anthropology News, June 2014. (This conversation starter talks about the key role of universities in local opportunity creation.)
Three challenges for teachers in the era of Trump.
The Washington Post, December 9, 2016.
A conversation starter about educators’ key role in standing up for facts and inclusion, in an era threatening both.
Link here.
The Election, One Year Later: Stories from Anthropologists of Education.
Teaching Tolerance, January 18, 2018
A conversation-starter series I designed and edited, by anthropologists who were embedded in U.S. schools before the 2016 election and returned a year later.
Link here.
The frightening effect of ‘Trump Talk’ on America’s schools.
The Washington Post, November 6, 2016.
This conversation starter comments on how to handle the post-2016 explosion in hate incidents plaguing our schools.
Link here.
“Commentary: For Young San Diegans, Choosing Freedom Over Fear is Not About Republican or Democrat Politics.”
San Diego Union Tribune, May 9, 2019.
This conversation starter shares the #USvsHate project in San Diego in its 2019 context.
Link here.
“We’re All More Connected to Immigrants – and Immigration Policy – Than We Think.”
Des Moines Register, July 20, 2019
This piece explores and rejects anti-immigrant sentiment that pervades our local communities.
Link here.
“The Perils of Warning Teachers about ‘Political’ and ‘Partisan’ Speech.”
In Meira Levinson and Jacob Fay, ed., Ethical Dilemmas of Democratic Education: Cases and Commentaries. Harvard Education Press, 2019.
This piece is a conversation starter about how calling much of teachers’ speech on controversial social issues “political” or even “partisan” can chill classroom discussion of crucial issues of our time. Standing up for facts and engaging the world we live in is not partisan.
Link here.
Overcoming Hate in Our Backyards. Rethinking Schools
Rethinking Schools, November 29, 2017.
This conversation starter, focused on my own community of San Diego, talks about uniting every community to overcome “hate” in its backyard.
Link here.
Standing Up Against Hate.
Teaching Tolerance, 2017.
This piece makes the case that standing up against hate and for facts is not “partisan” at all, but a longstanding educator responsibility.