COVID-19: Matt Gonzales on Equity

<p><a href="https://twitter.com/matttheg">Matt Gonzales </a>is an educational justice advocate and Director of the <a href="https://research.steinhardt.nyu.edu/metrocenter/staff/gonzales_matt">Integration and Innovation Initiative</a> at the NYU Metro Center. We are incredibly fortunate to have him as a member of the Integrated Schools <a href="https://integratedschools.org/about/board-of-directors/">Advisory Board.</a> We had a chance to sit down with Matt this week and talk to him about the implications of COVID-19, what building equity could look like now and in the future, and why anti-racist integration matters now more than ever.</p><p>Please join us for the <a href="http://school-diversity.org">NCSD</a> Virtual Keynote on <strong>May 14th</strong> at <strong>2pm EDT</strong>.  Free registration is available <a href="https://www.eventbrite.com/e/ncsd2020-keynote-presentation-virtual-tickets-103974743256">here</a>.  </p><p><strong>LINKS:</strong></p><ul><li>Grading for Equity <a href="https://docs.google.com/document/d/1BBJfGfKePQPFjiPixDNJq0K3OTVoKKsSEfCCg0v-Vmk/edit">Recommendations</a> - inspired by <a href="https://gradingforequity.org">Joe Feldman</a> and his <a href="https://www.indiebound.org/book/9781506391571?aff=IntegratedSchools">book</a></li><li><a href="https://www.integratenyc.org">IntegrateNYC</a> with the <a href="https://www.integratenyc.org/realintegration">5Rs of Real Integration</a></li><li><a href="https://www.freire.org/paulo-freire/ ">Paulo Friere</a> - Author of <a href="https://www.indiebound.org/book/9781501314131?aff=IntegratedSchools">Pedagogy of the Oppressed</a></li><li><a href="https://education.uw.edu/people/dparis">Django Paris</a>- Author of <a href="https://www.indiebound.org/book/9780807758335?aff=IntegratedSchools">Culturally Sustaining Pedagogies</a></li><li><a href="https://research.steinhardt.nyu.edu/metrocenter/staff/gray_richard">Richard Gray</a>- "Segregation is a generational problem that requires intergenerational solutions"</li><li>This American Life - <a href="h