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Teaching in Material Context
In spite of well researched inequities in the U.S., many educators work without an understanding of the material conditions that perpetuate these inequities. Disproportionalities based on race and low socio-economic standing are often the silent giant in classrooms...
Voting as a Right and Responsibility
We as a people must reconstruct the meaning and the importance of voting. For many, the perception of civics and the perception of voting have been damaged and altered. Many believe that casting a ballot is the beginning and end of one’s civic duty. Yet even more...
A Call for Democracy Education
Most media and corporate backed discussions about school improvement focus on continuing to make schools a testing field that results in the separation, segregation and disintegration of communities. We’re not opposed to testing. But testing, like...
The Role of Criticism and Self-criticism in a Life of Public Service
In the United States, a deadly fissure within the personality of many public servants pressures some to choose indifference over love. The lifestyle of constant exploitation for personal gain, privilege, and profit has shattered many personalities which have...
A Call for Democracy Education
Most media and corporate backed discussions about school improvement focus on continuing to make schools a testing field that results in the separation, segregation and disintegration of communities. We’re not opposed to testing. But testing, like...
The Role of Criticism and Self-criticism in a Life of Public Service
In the United States, a deadly fissure within the personality of many public servants pressures some to choose indifference over love. The lifestyle of constant exploitation for personal gain, privilege, and profit has shattered many personalities which have...
Police Ethics: Defining the Forgotten Principles of Law Enforcement
Ethical Reform of American Policing My pathway into law enforcement began unexpectedly as a ‘you got no choice’ assignment during my enlistment in the U.S. Airforce during the Vietnam War. Upon discharge, I began my California peace officer career in the...
Teaching and Learning Self-forgetfulness
“There is joy in self-forgetfulness. So I try to make the light in others’ eyes my sun, the music in others’ ears my symphony, the smile on others’ lips my happiness”–Helen Keller (1966). Self-forgetfulness, defined as the ability to put the interests of the...
A Tough Mind and a Tender Heart
Junior at Kent Meridian High School Dr. King says, “Life at its best is a creative synthesis of opposites in fruitful harmony.” Life is in a constant motion it isn’t all of something and nothing of something else. Life manages to present the most complex of situations...
Step One of Dr. King’s Six Steps of Nonviolent Social Change
Our youth leaders and staff are studying Dr. King’s Six Steps of Nonviolent Social Change during the To Us, You Matter Civic Engagement Summer. They share some of their views on Step 1: Information Gathering. To understand and articulate an issue, problem or injustice...
Personal Digital Devices and the Work of Segregation
In his Letter from Birmingham Jail, Dr. Martin Luther King addressed fellow clergy on the evil of segregation. “All segregation statutes are unjust because segregation distorts the soul and damages the personality…. Segregation, to use the terminology of the...
Democracy Schools
The work for Democracy Schools calls all participants into the realm of “outside oneself.” Most Westerners don’t desire to go there, or we hold little understanding of where “there” actually...