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Power to the People: We Can’t Afford to Ignore Education
I began my professional career as a middle school teacher in Washington, D.C., teaching sixth, seventh, and eighth grades in a public school in a low-income neighborhood. While in graduate school, I studied the ins and outs of the public education system with a particular focus on urban schooling. Though my student teaching experience was in a rural Georgia high school, I figured that teaching in D.C. couldn’t be that much different — kids are kids, after all, and good teaching is good teaching.
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Ways Employers Can Support Their LGBTQ+ Employees During Election Season
“This should be mailed to every leadership team and HR leader in the country. To many, this is an election. To our LGBTQ+ folks, it’s trauma on trauma.” A connection of mine on LinkedIn commented that on a post I created about how employers can support their LGBTQ+ employees during election season. I can’t help but agree. Not only because I wrote the post with leadership teams and HR leaders in mind, but because I’ve never received any kind of support during election season while at work. As an openly queer, nonbinary, transgender, biracial person, I could use it. And I know many others can too.
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Hiding Under the Covers: How Covering May Not Keep Us Safe After All
As children, many of us feared the monsters under our beds or lingering in our closets. Some of us sought nightlights for refuge from the dark, many found ease in shutting our closet doors tightly, and others ensured they were tucked away, hidden under the covers. As we age, the mythical monsters under the bed are replaced by more tangible threats. Our classrooms, and then our workplaces, are filled with various anxieties and for many of us — especially those from marginalized groups — bias, discrimination, and othering present daily threats.
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Gen Z and Y on D&I: Recognizing Toxic Organizational Culture
How does one recognize when an organization’s culture is toxic? To follow, I will outline four types of toxic culture that might be present in your organization.
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