Reopening Schools and Equity

<p><a href="https://twitter.com/shaylargriffin">Dr. Shayla Reese Griffin</a> is the co-founder of <a href="https://www.justiceleaderscollaborative.com">The Justice Leaders Collaborative</a>, an author, educator, and mother.  As the challenges of school for the fall have come into focus, finding solutions based in equity has been a struggle.  Dr. Griffin has written about it, calling for space in buildings to be <a href="https://medium.com/@shaylargriffin/some-students-should-go-to-school-most-should-stay-home-8a57894b8487">prioritized to those with the highest needs</a>, for us to consider <a href="https://medium.com/@shaylargriffin/if-most-students-should-stay-home-what-do-i-do-with-my-kids-b7b7f32e11df">where our time and energy might best be spent in this moment of crisis</a>, and for parents to be <a href="https://medium.com/@shaylargriffin/schools-arent-opening-we-have-to-pay-parents-to-stay-home-with-their-kids-78a9ac8ab9d1">paid to stay home</a> to take care of their kids.   </p><p>She joins us for a conversation about the fall, but also about justice and race in schools more broadly.  Her 2015 book, <a href="https://www.indiebound.org/book/9781612507668?aff=IntegratedSchools">Those Kids, Our Schools: Race and Reform in an American High School </a>is an inside look at a racially and socioeconomically diverse high school in America.  It explores the way students recreate existing racial hierarchies when not giving the time, space, and instruction for how to have productive conversations about race.  </p><p>This work led her to co-author <a href="https://www.indiebound.org/book/9780807761304?aff=IntegratedSchools">Race Dialogues: A Facilitator's Guide to Tackling the Elephant in the Classroom </a>which aims to give teachers (and others) the tools to facilitate more helpful and hopeful conversations.  </p><p> </p><p><strong>LINKS:</strong></p><ul><li><a href="https://medium.com/@shaylargriffin">Dr. Griffin on Medium </a>- including the three posts about COVID</li><li>Dr. Griffin's <a href="https://www.indiebo