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Joined July 2011
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Happy #PiDay! Girls’ school grads are 6 times more likely to considering majoring in math, science, and technology compared to girls who attend coed schools.
Closing out #BlackHistoryMonth with a spotlight on Shayne Swift & Karen Venable-Croft, 2 CityBridge entrepreneurs of color who are designing an all-girls, International Baccalaureate high school focused on global citizenship for women of color. @GirlsGlobalDC #education
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Women & girls of color are over-represented among trafficking victims & survivors of sexual exploitation. The US commercial sex trade cannot be separated from the legacy of colonization & oppression whereby female bodies--esp. Native & Black bodies--were regarded as property.
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Some juvenile court judges are considering the effects of trauma on youth in their courtrooms--a shift in focus that is critical for girls in the system, as most of them were funneled into the system because we have criminalized their responses to trauma. thenotebook.org/articles/201…
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I just signed the #GirlsToo Pledge. Join me in creating a culture where girls grow up safe, respected, and valued. Take a stand: girlstoo.girlsinc.org girlstoo.girlsinc.org/
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"It's critical that we listen to our girls and let our youth lead the way. Girls are experts of their lives. It's our duty to ensure that their voices are heard." @yvafa of @rights4girls #IAmTheVoice
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Thanks to @rights4girls for spearheading #GirlsJusticeDay ! @ wlproject2 youth spoke out for Black queer youth & #SayHerName visibility
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Fifteenth Annual Brown Lecture in Education Research #AERABrownLecture
"Voice & language are powerful, important tools for our girls. As educators, we must always be thinking, modeling, & guiding our girls to speak up & out in ways that allow them to be heard & that positively effect change." --@MPerrySCS @SCS_Clementines bit.ly/2PFKBna
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Kicking off our Cohort Spotlight, meet Shayne Swift and Karen Venable-Croft! They co-founded @GirlsGlobalDC - a high school focused on global citizenship for women of color. Learn more about Shayne, Karen, and the #CityBridgeCohort2019 below! citybridge.org/meetourentrep…
AP with WE Service is now available in all AP Courses. Learn how students can apply their classroom work to the real world through service learning: spr.ly/6014DN5oq
Parkdale Professional School Counselors at the College/Career Fair
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@KVCalso @theberknologist @MizFrenchy @LearnServe @knowmyworld_org Fire ignited&sustained Not finalists & NOT DONE BY A LONG SHOT @XQAmerica
Created using Bomomo for the PHS Art Challenge #DLDay #DLDayPHS
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