Kindel Turner Nash

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Education Solidarity Collective - statement only To add your name, go to this Google form. Education Solidarity Collective On Coast Salish Lands We are living, teaching, and learning under a U.S. administrative regime that seeks to forcibly isola...

Sharing this statement from the Education Solidarity Collective on Coast Salish Lands which reaffirms our commitments to one another, the land, and working towards more just futures. A possible model for those not on these lands & an invitation to those with us here: docs.google.com/document/d/1...

A federal directive is coming after inclusive campus policies. Will North Carolina university leaders fight back? The Trump administration's "Dear Colleague" letter comes at a time when N.C. universities are already paring back their diversity efforts.

Almost across the board, university leaders are remaining quiet on what changes they may implement to adhere to the Trump administration's "Dear Colleague" letter.

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Of course it is not the most elite institutions with the most resources fighting back. It is those with the fewest resources who serve the most marginalized populations. For these institutions DEI is not an optional add-on but their entire mission.

That was when they suspended the Constitution. They said it would be temporary. There wasn't even any rioting in the streets. People stayed home at night, watching television, looking for some direction. There wasn't even an enemy you could put your finger on.

Margaret Atwood, The Handmaid's Tale

A Poem on Hope by Wendell Berry
It is hard to have hope. It is harder as you grow old,. . .and hope is harder when it cannot come by prediction
any more than by wishing. But stop dithering.
The young ask the old to hope. What will you tell them?
Tell them at least what you say to yourself.

And today I read this letter from my university system president.

Today I called my senators yet again to ask them to not slash Medicaid funding that has been critical to healing a family member who went through traumatic DV.

Today, in a grant meeting, we wondered if our proposal would pass through our university with the word ‘equity’ in the title.

Today, two beloved colleagues received word that their multimillion Teacher Qaulity Grants, grants that support recruitment of teachers (during a national teacher shortage) were axed.

A reminder of who BUILT America! #kendricklamar #superbowl

YouTube video by The Late Show with Stephen Colbert “What We Carry” - Amanda Gorman & Jan Vogler (LIVE on The Late Show)

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“Poetry is a life-cherishing force … For poems are not words after all, but fires for the cold, ropes let down for the lost, something as necessary as bread in the pockets of the hungry.” -Mary Oliver

Nikki Giovanni: Why We Need Poetry Poetry is like a child in many ways: it grows and grows adding whatever is needed: teeth, longer legs, a mind that discriminates. Or maybe its like a thorn tree: it grows but you have to be careful…

“There is no “Oh my goodness! The poetry is growing!” It is the soil that keeps all of us growing. So that the lemons will fall from the tree. And Beyoncé can make Lemonade.”
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<em>Reading Research Quarterly</em> | ILA Literacy Journal | Wiley Online Library Click on the title to browse this issue

The Reading Research Quarterly Special Issue, Culturally Sustaining Early Literacy Pedagogies and Our Futures features a brilliant slate of authors. What a generative collection, with a moving introduction by Drs. Django Paris & Gloria Boutte!

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AUPresses Joins in Repudiating Executive Order on K-12 History Education - Association of University Presses Supporting the AHA-OAH Statement on Executive Order “Ending Radical Indoctrination in K–12 Schooling”

Association of University Presses statement on the recent Executive Order on K–12 history education: https://buff.ly/42DosOK

Teachers College Press is proud to publish critical books for educators that look at American history education in all its complexity. For more: https://bit.ly/4jHLGJv

The 15 Year Battle for Martin Luther King Jr. Day Despite the national fervor inspired by his death, it took 15 years of persistence by civil rights activists for a holiday created in remembrance of Dr. Martin Luther King, Jr. to be approved by the f...

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Call for Book Chapters: "Culturally Sustaining Early Literacy Pedagogies and Our Futures" Sandra Lucia Osorio, Sakeena Everett, Bilal Polson, Kindel Turner Nash, Shanan Fitts, Greg McClure (Editors) Culturally sustaining pedagogies (CSPs) are part of an evolving and collective movement, a...

This is for my 5 followers to share! Call for book chapters -- CSP literacy futures for young children!
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Call for Book Chapters: "Culturally Sustaining Early Literacy Pedagogies and Our Futures" Sandra Lucia Osorio, Sakeena Everett, Bilal Polson, Kindel Turner Nash, Shanan Fitts, Greg McClure (Editors) Culturally sustaining pedagogies (CSPs) are part of an evolving and collective movement, a...

Hi friends, please consider submitting a chapter abstract for consideration within the book, Culturally Sustaining Early Literacy Pedagogies and Our Futures. Deadline Jan. 17! forms.gle/WAPScA9Hw7tg...

Culturally Sustaining Early Literacy Pedagogies and Our Futures Book Chapters Sandra Lucia Osorio, Sakeena Everett, Bilal Polson, Kindel Turner Nash, Shanan Fitts, Greg McClure (Editors) Culturally sustaining pedagogies (CSPs) are part of an evolving and collective movement, a...

If you are working with CSPs in elementary settings, please consider submitting a piece to our edited book. We welcome stories in creative forms in additional to traditional chapters. We prioritize the work of scholars of Color. Deadline 1/17
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