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Friday Aug 16, 2019
We Rise Together - 6CR #48
Friday Aug 16, 2019
Friday Aug 16, 2019
The Peel District School Board's implementation of the action plan to support black male students - We Rise Together is under scrutiny. Darnell & Joel review this action plan and covering the following:
- student focus group underlying the action plan
- Other factors impacting students success beyond the school
- The student's experience section of the report
- Contrasting achievers & non-achievers
- Our experiences in school
- Positive influences on our desire to learn
Related episodes: 6CR #30 & 6CR #28
https://www.sixcentsreport.com/
Reference Links:
Here Is Why Many Peel Students Are Demanding Better Action Against Racism
Peel school board considers recommendations to enhance We Rise Together program
Parents critical of Peel School's We Rise together anti-Black racism effort
Suzanne Nurse - We Rise Together
Ep. 1462 The Moral Mess of Higher Education
Black Students' Perspectives on Academic Success
We Rise Together contact:
http://www.werisetogether.ca/index.html
Twitter: @WRT_PDSB
Email: WRT@peelsb.com
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4 years ago
A very informative podcast
4 years ago
I like how you emphasize that they both figures are needed. Not just one figure in a child's life
4 years ago
Reverse rascism- oof now that hurts. Because focusing on one kind of solution could end up poisoning the others.
4 years ago
The point about asking the students who are successful, is a very good perspective. What works most of the time is disregarded when the majority is in some sort of slump. That outlook on asking where it hurts does not provide the medicine that someone else might be using to treat their wounds.
4 years ago
I like the analysis of the control group, where it only focuses on what the study wanted to focus on and disregard the other 3% that could have been used to benefit others. The other topic on where the environment is set being at home, is fundamental. At times off course there are situations where there could be students who does not have a stabilized household. That's where the extension of the stable environment comes to school