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Freedom Dream #1
Freedom Dream #1
We want the district to adopt a culturally responsive curriculum that affirms the identity of Black and Brown students.
Demands:
Demands:
- We demand current and relevant, asset based curricula that represent the students we teach, written by credible people with multiple lenses.
- We demand primary resources.
- We demand that teachers in DDSD use curriculum that highlights BIPOC as assets and combats the erasure of history.
- We support the Black Student Union’s demand that Black studies be a mandatory course at the high school level.
- We demand that our teaching staff have deep professional development to support the above demands!
Updates/Connections:
School Board Racial Equity Sub-Committee - working to develop equity lens to be used in decision making district-wide, including in selection of curriculum.
Black Studies course being added at high school (optional version of English).
Multiple groups examining elementary’s Fuel Ed curriculum for cultural unresponsiveness / insensitivity (CODE, union, etc.).
District Strategic Plan emphasizes equity and prioritizes culturally responsive curriculum and practice.
Connection to Freedom Dream #2 - PD must be provided not only in practices, but in content to equip teachers to teach adopted curriculum appropriately.
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