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Marcus Croom Intended Audience: Middle School And/Or High School Overview: Children are socialized into the thought and practice of race as common sense by the time they enter Kindergarten (Apfelbaum, Norton, & Sommers, 2012). By middle school and high school, children have had very sophisticated experiences with race, but typically have not been adequately…
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Aja Reynolds & Stephanie D. Hicks Intended Audience: Middle and High School Objectives: To create and deepen awareness of black girls’ interactions with law enforcement in schools and the school to prison pipeline; to critically examine and respond to policies and laws that shape students in-school experiences; to participate in large and small group…
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Tyson E.J. Marsh, Ph.D. Intended Audience: Middle School and/or High School Students Overview: By middle school and high school, Black and Brown youth are disproportionately likely to encounter police or experience punitive zero-tolerance policies. As schools that serve predominantly Black and Brown youth are increasingly militarized through the presence of surveillance cameras, metal detectors and…
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On The Road to Becoming the Person that You Were Born to Be! At the front of my new book, “Sparking the Genius: The 2013 Carter G. Woodson Lecture,” I include a poem for my children to spark their genius where I encourage them to “Commit themselves to becoming the people that they were always…