BLM Alliance

As Educators and Wake NCAE members, we know that we do not get what we need on our own. We believe that in building the strength of our organization, we have the power to choose to take collective action towards more effective change and improved working, learning, and living conditions for all. Because of this and our unique position in building relationships with students, their families, and members of a larger community, we know that we have a specific responsibility to understand, interpret, and disrupt systems that create inequitable outcomes for our students.

Earlier this year, Wake NCAE building leaders and members adopted a set of values that guide the culture we aim to support and nurture within our organization and in all spaces we occupy. One of these values is collective self-interest meaning, “Our lives are connected and we are willing to work towards something, even if it doesn’t directly impact us as individuals.” Another is the commitment to racial and social justice, “A specific responsibility and commitment to understanding and intentionally interrupt systems that create inequitable outcomes for our students, confronting our biases and other forms of injustice in our curricula, our classrooms, our schools, and in our world.”

Grounding ourselves in the values above, we admonish police brutality against Black bodies. We hold Black lives as sacred and accept the responsibility that comes with our moral authority as trusted public school employees to defend and protect Black students, Black parents, Black families, and Black educators.

SEE FULL STATEMENT from Wake NCAE Board of Directors: