Django Paris

Toward Building the Educational World We Need  - Harvard Education Press The interrelated crises of climate catastrophe, emboldened white supremacy, resurging fascism, pandemics, and ongoing genocides have been increasingly unrelenting features of our lives and those of th...

Hoping this short piece continues to resonate with world-building work so many are doing. Also, this is the last open access week for Ladson-Billings, Alim, Nasir & me "The Past, Present & Future of CSPs-- download those free PDFs if useful (linked in the blog).

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Saw someone say, "End your friendships with people who are going about life like nothing is wrong." I will never understand people who think that further isolating ourselves from everyday people who don't get it is going to save us. It's not. Your judgment and disdain will not save us.

A Black Family Now Owns the Site of America’s Largest Slave Revolt Twin sisters, whose ancestors were enslaved in the area, purchased the plantation to ensure the history will never be buried again.

A Black family now owns the site of America’s largest slave revolt. Twin sisters, whose ancestors were enslaved in the area, purchased the plantation to ensure the history will never be buried again. capitalbnews.org/largest-slav...

Remember What Audre Lorde Told Us: The Oppressor Doesn’t Determine What’s True To navigate these terrible times, we need Audre’s Lorde’s audacity: Protect the public sphere. Refuse to be silenced.

To navigate these terrible times, we need Audre’s Lorde’s audacity: Protect the public sphere. Refuse to be silenced.

What Are We Seeking to Sustain Through Culturally Sustaining Pedagogy? A Loving Critique Forward In this article, Django Paris and H. Samy Alim use the emergence of Paris's concept of culturally sustaining pedagogy (CSP) as the foundation for a respectful and productive critique of previous formu...

Here is the link to that 2014 piece, also now open access. It's been a (long!!!) decade but still some things ringing real true for the work of today, and tomorrow. Peace!
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Weapons embargo now.

Reminder that Octavia Butler and her mother are buried in Altadena in a cemetery now surrounded by blocks of burned down buildings. #listentotheprophets

Toward Building the Educational World We Need  - Harvard Education Press The interrelated crises of climate catastrophe, emboldened white supremacy, resurging fascism, pandemics, and ongoing genocides have been increasingly unrelenting features of our lives and those of the children, families, communities, and lands we teach and learn alongside.

"Maybe everyone who moves through unprecedented times feels like their moment is somehow the direst, but there does seem to be something especially existential, especially world-ending about this past decade." —@djangoparis.bsky.social in his Voices in Education blog post https://bit.ly/4ff6u7G

There is nothing Amazon sells that cannot be purchased elsewhere.
I made my last purchase on 12/1. An order of gifts they promptly lost and I replaced elsewhere.
Folks should start buying direct from companies that have a website. Prices are the same and the original company keeps more profit.

Organizing My Thoughts Kelly Hayes writes about things you should know if you want to change the world.

My goal for the month is to get eight new paid subscribers for my newsletter. I will never add paywalls to the essays, interviews, and reports I publish, but paid support makes this work possible. If you value this work, I would be extremely grateful for your support.

“We also share how education research and practice can join contemporary global movements for justice and liberation to offer necessary paths forward out of multiple intersecting crises in and far beyond education.”

From the intro: “We invite readers into this discussion of what we have learned over the past decade alongside communities about teaching and learning that centers and sustains young people, families, and the land.”

Huge thanks to the Harvard Ed Review Editorial Board for their thoughtful and generous work with us over the past year. Special shoutout to Woohee Kim and Jane Choi for guiding our article through the review and publication process.

This article marks the 10th anniversary of our 2014 CSP Forum in the Harvard Ed Review where GLB dropped CRP 2.0, McCarty & Lee dropped CSRP with Indigenous communities, and Alim & I shared our loving critique forward. Hard to beleive it's been a decade. Here's to the needed work ahead...

The Past, Present, and Future of Culturally Sustaining Pedagogies: An Invitation to Teachers, Researchers, and Communities In this Voices: Reflective Accounts of Education essay, Gloria Ladson-Billings, Django Paris, H. Samy Alim, and Na’ilah Suad Nasir speak to the past, present, and future of culturally sustaining pedag...

Friends! Grateful to join Gloria Ladson-Billings, H. Samy Alim & Na’ilah Nasir in our new article, “The Past, Present & Future of Culturally Sustaining Pedagogies.” Open Access in the Harvard Ed Review. Hope it can be useful in our collective work! meridian.allenpress.com/her/article/...

Rebecca Nagle Calls for Confronting the Legacy of Colonization and Its Ongoing Threat to Native Rights Rebecca Nagle discusses the ongoing fight for sovereignty, urging deeper understanding of Indigenous histories.

I got to sit down with the amazing @mskellymhayes.bsky.social from @truthout.org to talk about tribal sovereignty, the Supreme Court and the importance of Indigenous storytelling. Check it out!

truthout.org/articles/reb...

Well-known Virginia Tech professor dies at 81 Virginia Tech professor and poet, Nikki Giovanni, has died at the age of 81.

Nikki Giovanni will forever be a legend. This headline doesn't do her the justice she deserves. www.wdbj7.com/2024/12/10/w...

Even though CSP has always been about far more than academic outcomes in nation-state schools, we also know that it importantly improves those outcomes while transforming education to center & sustain communities in an far beyond schools. Very much appreciate this work!