Some EMS YPAR Accomplishments

  • Raised the Black Lives Matter Flag

  • Helped to create an anti-racist curriculum at Edmunds Middle School

  • Presented Findings at the 2018 Annual UVM Research Consortium.

  • Presented Findings at the School Counseling Conference.

  • YPAR students led a surprise, school-wide “Walkout Against Racism”.

  • Proposed raising the BLM flag at Edmunds to the BSD school board

  • Black Lives Matter Flag Raising and Flag Raising Ceremony

  • Revised the school dress code to redress gender discrimination

  • Presented research to school leadership about the online learning inequities faced by EMS students

  • Delivered the keynote address at the annual Middle Grades Institute Conference

  • Won the 2021 Impact Award from the American Educational Research Association

  • Created a school-wide lesson to raised awareness about ableism and celebrated divergent thinking at our school

  • Created a Student Led Gender Task Force to give voice and disrupt the continued gender bias and discrimination present at our school

  • Presented at the John Dewey Memorial Conference

  • Invited to ask questions of the panel at the Flynn Theater’s Diversity Speaker Series

  • Students wrote and won a grant from the Vermont School Boards Association (VSBA), the Vermont Superintendents Association (VSA), and the Vermont Principals’ Association (VPA)

  • Organized student-led rally to share about gender discrimination issues for solidarity, connection, and change

  • Created new school policies for how and when femme-identifying students can leave the classroom when they feel uncomfortable

  • Gained approval and funding for the installation of cabinets in all bathrooms to house feminine products of all types for EMS community members to access for free

  • Designed a two-page pamphlet for families to explain their rights, who to contact, and how to ensure that their student receives all their entitled special education services from the school district

  • Designed a resource-rich rubric to support teacher learning related to anti-racist teaching which many teachers accros the district are using for their annual teaching goals

  • Designed and taught a lesson about gender, sexuality and the use of pronouns that all students and staff at the school experienced . This lesson is now being shared with other schools across the district and organizations within the Burlington community