The Limitation Effect: Exploring Education Restriction and Opportunity Removal Today

What happens to education opportunities when restriction pressures cascade through systems? How do we keep increasing and improving opportunity, so every student and all groups of students can thrive in public schools? Derived from 5 years of collective research on efforts to restrict K12 work on race, sexual orientation/gender identity, and “DEI,” this presentation shares first hand experiences of how restrictions influence schools and raises questions about how to protect and expand educational opportunity for all students.


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Exploring the Principles of Schooltalk

In March 2021, I spoke with principal Candace Hunstad, school instructional coach Brigid Dux, ESOL teacher/school equity lead Samantha Gauta (all of Fairhill Elementary), and district coordinator of professional learning/cultural responsiveness Junena Thomas — all educators from Fairfax County, Virginia — about their use of Schooltalk for sustained antiracist equity work at the school level. It was a really exciting discussion about how to go beyond initial use of books to long-term use of texts for change. Sharing here to support others in similarly sustained efforts!

Session guide here.

#USvsHate LESSON LISTS

These lessons for K12+ students draw from nearly 20 national teacher-support organizations. I curated these lists for #USvsHate. I’m working right now to add youth-facing lessons based on Schooltalk and Everyday Antiracism.

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