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Centering Black Girls in School Safety

School hardening policies—such as the presence of police and security, metal detectors, and harsh discipline codes—contribute to a criminalization culture in schools and students being pushed out of classrooms and into the school-to-prison pipeline. For Black girls, this criminalization culture causes serious additional harms.

  • Keep Her Safe: Centering Black Girls in School Safety
  • What Is the School-to-Prison Pipeline, and How Do We Dismantle It?
  • You Are Welcome Here
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Dismantling the School-to-Prison Pipeline

School policies that include harsh punishments, automatic out-of-class time and police involvement for discipline contribute to pushing young people out of classrooms and into the criminal legal system. These punitive practices disproportionately affect Black and other children of color, students with disabilities, young people experiencing poverty and children from communities that have been historically marginalized. Urgent change is needed to end school pushout and dismantle this school-to-prison pipeline.

  • What Is the School-to-Prison Pipeline, and How Do We Dismantle It?
  • Only Young Once: Dismantling Georgia’s Punitive Youth Incarceration System
  • The Heart of Facilitation in Restorative Justice
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Why I Teach: Lighting a Fire

Every week I write a quotation on the board and ask my students to write responses to it in their journals. One of our favorite quotes is by William Butler Yeats: "Education is not the filling of a pail, but the lighting of a fire." This quote aptly captures the reason why I teach. A group of minds in a room–thinking through problems together–can generate amazing heat and ignite a fire.