Striving Towards Multiracial Democracy with Andrew Lefkowits [IEP 159]

<p><span style="font-weight: 400;">We’re excited to share this enlightening conversation with you today. It will give you a whole new meaning of the term “good schools” and it will give you a reason to consider the benefits of an integrated school.</span></p> <p><span style="font-weight: 400;">Our guest, Andrew Lefkowits, is part of the leadership team at Integrated Schools and is the host of the Integrated Schools Podcast. Integrated Schools is a grass-roots organization started back in 2015 with the focus on parents with the racial or economic privilege to engage in the education system in a different way than they have in the past, in the hope that all kids are learning together and strides toward true, multiracial democracy are being made.</span></p> <p><strong>Show Highlights:</strong></p> <ul> <li style="font-weight: 400;" aria-level="1"><span style= "font-weight: 400;">Andrew explains why he has trouble with the traditionally-understood meaning of “good schools”.</span></li> <li style="font-weight: 400;" aria-level="1"><span style= "font-weight: 400;">Integrated Schools started out as a blog by Courtney Everts Mykytyn, and Andrew shares how their lives intersected.</span></li> <li style="font-weight: 400;" aria-level="1"><span style= "font-weight: 400;">Desegregation and integration: defining the differences.</span></li> <li style="font-weight: 400;" aria-level="1"><span style= "font-weight: 400;">Children have to be a central part of the difficult conversations.</span></li> <li style="font-weight: 400;" aria-level="1"><span style= "font-weight: 400;">We are not providing the same education to all our children.</span></li> <li style="font-weight: 400;" aria-level="1"><span style= "font-weight: 400;">Create a supportive environment for people to do their self-work so that they can learn to engage in a more helpful way.</span></li> </ul> <p><strong>Connect with Integrated Schools!</strong></p> <p><span style="font-weight: 400;">Visit their</span> <a href= "https://integratedschools.org/" target="_blank" rel=