Signatures
This is the list of people who have signed the pledge or petition to date.
Kate Iverson | Morton Grove, IL
Cherrelyn Napue | Raleigh, NC
Kendra Lampron | Durham, NC
Chelsea Chandler | Toledo, OH
Brad Pulles | Brooklyn Park, MN
Emily Fulmer | Collierville, TN
Megan Heefner | Lebanon, PA
Lacey Williams | Miami, FL
Kourtney Vincent-Woodbury | Kansas City, MO
Jessi Dimmock | Lawrence, MA
Tiffany Gagnon | Londonderry, NH
If learning about history doesn't make you uncomfortable, you are not learning real history. Our education system has remained static for decades as the global job market as evolved. We do a disservice to our students by not preparing them for the real-world -- and the real-world unfortunately includes systemic racism. This is a hard fact. Students want to learn so that they can go into the world and shape it as their generation sees fit. This is NOT indoctrination -- this is giving kids the understanding of our society/market/environment as well as the tools to think critically and compassionately in all their future endeavors.
Alana Russell | Everett, MA
This past year I have never had students more eager to talk about the current climate of our country, racial and social justice issues, and what they can do as young people to make our society more equitable for all. Our robust discussions helped me understand their experiences and the information and misinformation they were receiving from online sources. To ban these critical conversations is an attack against our first amendment rights and does an extreme disservice to our young learners who are eager to improve our community, country and our world.
Brooke Bockenstedt | Dyersville, IA
Allison Segarra Hansen | Indianapolis, IN
Kayla Ellison | Bothell, WA
Stacy Burnett | Jericho, VT
Victoria Mazur | Durham, NC
Kelli Serbin | Boston, MA
Megan Kuensting | Alexandria, VA
Anthony Bradburn | Arlington Heights, IL
Connie Ecklund | Minneapolis, MN
All students need to know all of our countries history
Katherine Novinski | Denver, CO
Adrien Logsdon | Fairfield, IA
Ariel Krakowsky | San Marcos, CA
Toni Wahlberg | Chicago, IL
Selected Pledges
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As an educator who is serious about teaching the truth I will not be bullied into silence. I will do my part in the fight for equity and equality by making sure my students are most equipped to fight this ugliness in the real world.
Yes, the truth of American history needs to be taught, but also its impact on the rest of the world, such as its role in WWII. I just finished teaching a college-level course on the Holocaust, and could not believe how little the students knew about the rest of the world’s participation in the war! They seemed to believe that WWII was ended by the US alone!
“When you begin to do things that raise the achievement of the poorest and disenfranchised students, you may not always get applause. You need to be ready for that.” Dr. Asa Hilliard
“Resistance is a powerful motivator precisely because it enables us to fulfill our longing to achieve our goals while letting us boldly recognize and name the obstacles to those achievements.”
Dr. Derrick Bell
Our young people deserve the truth and it is our kuleana (responsibility) to give space and opportunity for the truth and the difficult conversations.
If we don’t teach it all, we teach nothing…
Social justice is a major theme of my Humanities 7 course, and my school uses Dr. Gholdy Muhammad’s HILL framework (development of identity, skills, knowledge, Criticality) to frame our entire curriculum. Student agency through research work and essay writing, and action-oriented civic engagement work, define what we “cover” in my course.