We now have a record of members of Congress calling for a ceasefire: –Cori Bush –Rashida Tlaib –André Carson –Summer Lee –Delia Ramirez –Jamaal Bowman –Bonnie Watson Coleman –Chuy Garcia –Jonathan Jackson –Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez –Ilhan Omar –Ayanna Pressley –Nydia Velázquez

JEWS SAY: STOP THE GENOCIDE OF PALESTINIANS! We are at the White House with IfNotNow🔥✡️ demanding CEASEFIRE now!

“Solidarity and building deep relationships was a big theme of the day, both in terms of the energy in the room and identifying the steps we can take to support educators of color. We all have the power to build a culture where people show up for each other.”

UVEI has joined the @EdJCoalitionVT network as an affiliate organization, with the goal of expanding our own learning and deepening our influence on the region’s schools when it comes to supporting educators of color in the workforce.

I graduated 6th grade with Pam in Moretown! So great to hear of this work she and the community are doing. "Originally, the ECO program was limited to just kindergarten students; now, students of all grades participate"

“If the ESG boom has had any systemic effect, it may have been to weaken the demand for government action by fostering the illusion that corporations can solve, and indeed are solving, the world’s problems on their own” theatlantic.com/ideas/archive/…

It was a treat to write about high school principal Ken Cadow and his outstanding, Vermont-based young adult novel Gather, which is up for a Nat'l Book Award (tomorrow night!) #vted National Book Foundation VT Principals' Assoc Upper Valley Educators Institute sevendaysvt.com/news/from-a-ca…

I got to know Ken as he transitioned into school administration. What a gift to have worked with him for so many years at RU! (And I just visited him at Oxbow and will share a post about that visit via Upper Valley Educators Institute blog soon!)

The Israeli siege on Gaza has killed thousands of civilians, thousands of children. Millions are without food, water, fuel and medicine. This is dire. What is needed right now is an immediate break in violence to allow for a true negotiated ceasefire. vtdigger.org/2023/11/16/bec…

“In a nation this unequal, the income generated by a growing G.D.P. is so unevenly shared that the impression of widespread prosperity falls apart” Bidenomics Has a Mortal Enemy, and It Isn’t Trump nytimes.com/2023/11/16/opi…

What a great visit to Ken at Oxbow HS and the River Bend Tech and Career Center!

#WeAreCrew #ELNC23

Info sessions coming up. Spread the word! More info: uvei.edu/information-se…

Know anyone who should consider UVEI? @EdJCoalitionVT Rowland Foundation @nhjustschools Christie Nold Alex Shevrin Venet New Hampshire UDL @violetsnichols UP for Learning @Sheila_SouleVT - Principal cert! - Teacher cert! - Curric/Assessment! - Literacy! More info: uvei.edu/information-se…

Forbes: "Inflation was a direct result of pricing power to glean windfall profits, power emboldened by market concentration." forbes.com/sites/errolsch…

They work well together, and are not mutually exclusive. Best captured in this classic “Exile Has It’s Place” by T. Elijah Hawkes rethinkingschools.org/articles/exile…

Jared Francis T. Elijah Hawkes Amazing article! New to me. Holds up really well 15 years on, when many of these central tenets have been forgotten.

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A book review : Walter Feinberg. Educating for Democracy. New York: Cambridge University Press, 2023. 165 pp. ' journals.uchicago.edu/doi/10.1086/72…