I work at the intersection of #learning and #evaluation, #orgchange & #antioppression practice. Affiliations: @createknoworg, @TeachingArtists
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Kai Fierle-Hedrick (she/her) retweeted
We can’t create equity without restorative justice. We can’t get to reconciliation without reparations. We can’t unite as a country and w/o addressing the sedition, fascist violence, and racism we witnessed last week. If we minimize what happened there is no united future.
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I am sharing this so I don’t have to be tired and frustrated all week. 😎 Decolonizing Thanksgiving Toolkit: medium.com/age-of-awareness/…
Kai Fierle-Hedrick (she/her) retweeted
Very relevant, esp now. We must move toward conflict as we organize & work together. This may produce loss, reveal weaknesses, & reroute us, but w/o doing so we close off opportunities for “more possibilities, greater connection, and fuller expression.”
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Abortion later in pregnancy is necessary for a number of reasons, including risks to the women’s health, or a lethal fetal diagnosis. It’s what Prop 115 seeks to ban with NO exceptions. Read more about it, and vote #NoOn115. health.com/condition/pregnan…
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Reminder==>> YESTERDAY was the last day USPS says it could guarantee delivery of a ballot by election day.
If you're still planning to vote by mail, time to change plan.
Vote in person. Or return you ballot via an official drop box, or in person to your election office.
Kai Fierle-Hedrick (she/her) retweeted
Justice Kavanaugh issued a rare public "correction" to his false claim by changing ONE word. Are we satisfied? In a word, NO. We won't sit by while he uses mistruth about the Green Mountain State as cover to erode voter rights. #FactsMatter Full statement: sos.vermont.gov/secretary-s-…
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As we keep seeing images of long voting lines, its important to remember there is nothing inspiring about people having to wait hours and hours to vote. Long lines are discriminatory, suppressive, and a direct result of the Supreme Court gutting the Voting Rights Act.
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“In philanthropy, we’ve gotten the question all mixed up. We center ourselves around what we want to know about the work, rather than asking our partners on the ground, who we’re funding, what is it that you need to know?"
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how are school leaders supporting SEL, and what do they need to do this better? Hear from principals who participated in @RANDCorporation's American Educator Panels and #PrincipalProject's virtual community dialogues @OriuminProcess rand.org/blog/2020/09/learni…
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I’ve raised this issue with my White DEI peers and I’d have to say I’ve always been met with an incredible defensiveness rather than a curiosity to explore the topic with intellectual rigor and honesty. forbes.com/sites/janicegassa…
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Instead of waiting for ‘traditional’ map makers and data scientists to reform their systems and become literate in a map culture other than their own, the team at Native Land have generously come to them. weallcount.com/2020/08/07/ch…
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Because systems change without deep equity is NOT systems change. New monograph on Systems Change & Deep Equity → bit.ly/EquitableSystemsChang…
#EquitableSystemsChange #BeyondEureka
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Kai Fierle-Hedrick (she/her) retweeted
Racial equity is the defining challenge of our time. With partners @PERE_USC, we are proud to share the new Racial Equity Index w/ analysis & #equitydata for tailored local policy solutions to dismantle structural racism. Read the findings & explore tool: bit.ly/racial-equity-index-f…
Kai Fierle-Hedrick (she/her) retweeted
I wrote a little something about abolition and how it permeates my paid and unpaid work. If you are interested in engaging in a dialogue about this topic, please reach out!
Kai Fierle-Hedrick (she/her) retweeted
For those of us practicing eval, if our eval reports are devoid of literature that names the ways in which racism produces structural inequities, do we not risk reinforcing individualized understandings of the inequities we document and perpetuate blame the victim tropes? (1/3)
Despite the wealth of scholarship outlining racism’s effects, preeminent scholars + the journals that publish them routinely fail to interrogate #racism as a critical driver of #healthinequities, says @RheaBoydMD, @edwinlindo, @Lachelle_Dawn, @mclemoremr bit.ly/31B2Suv
Kai Fierle-Hedrick (she/her) retweeted
"You have to adapt to survive." We hope educators are listening to Black students as they explain the harms done by whitewashed curriculum and unaddressed racism in schools—and why they're fighting for better.
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The Curb-Cut Effect described by @agb4equity is one of the most important concepts for our sector, and the entire world, to understand and base our work on
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Kai Fierle-Hedrick (she/her) retweeted
Educators, please understand what we are really saying when we use these terms. Let's interrupt systemic racism in education #deficitthinking
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If you want to know why so many of Korean descent/diaspora stand so strongly with Black Lives Matter, you have to understand the Korean emotional concept of 한/Han.
Han roughly translates to “the collective grief and sorrow we all share due to all that we have lost.”
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"We cannot discuss how to meet the needs of K-12 students—in general and particularly students from historically marginalized communities—without tackling the thorny issues of budget cuts and federal funding." psychologytoday.com/blog/cul…