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Honoring Juneteenth & Our Spring Resources Roundup

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June 18, 2022

Honoring Juneteenth & Our Spring Resources Roundup

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In this Week’s Issue

As we share more messaging and open source resources on our website this school year, we are curating regular summaries to give you a second look at what you might have missed. Explore below for a message honoring Juneteenth, followed by a recap of the content we’ve published since March. We hope these materials resonate with you and encourage you to send the links to your friends and colleagues!

Honoring Juneteenth

The Highlander Institute team will be observing the Juneteenth holiday, and will be hosting our full staff for an onsite retreat throughout the remainder of next week.

Juneteenth commemorates belated news of the emancipation of enslaved African Americans in the United States, marked on the day June 19, 1865. This occasion, after a difficult school year and heartbreaking tragedies over the past month, brings a powerful opportunity to learn, build community, and recommit to meaningful work.

This week, our team reflected on joy as an act of resistance. While we as educators and coaches tackle hard and uncomfortable truths, we strive to infuse our work with joy and optimism. We recognized the distinction between joy and happiness, and shared stories from our school partnerships that center joy and positive student experiences in the face of challenge.

We’re also thinking back to December, when we signed on to Nellie Mae Education Foundation’s Open Letter: Teach Us Everything. We believe that efforts to stop our students from learning about systemic racism serve only to maintain a system that directly creates the negative experiences and outcomes our students face, particularly for those from marginalized backgrounds. In order for our students to be engaged learners who are empowered to think for themselves, their learning should not be censored to appease those who are afraid of our students facing historical realities.

As the 2021-2022 school year comes to a close, we know how necessary it is to bring history and non-dominant perspectives to the forefront of all of our conversations and we remain committed to honoring truth with all of the partner schools we support.

Spring Resources Roundup

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