by Andy Sense | May 1, 2023 | DPS Policy, Equity, School to Prison Pipeline
Opinion by Andy Sense I am a high school teacher. One of my most brilliant students this year is severely impacted by trauma which, for him, often manifests as defiance and disengagement. Working with me and his affective education teacher he’s been doing heroic work...
by Erin Pier | Nov 1, 2021 | Anti-racism, Equity
Originally Published in the Greater Park Hill News – Oct 31st, 2021 White Supremacy Is Not A Shark; It Is The Water By Erin Pier For the GPHN Erin Pier My husband and I have been on a 90’s movie kick lately. Recently, after tucking the kids in bed, we decided it...
by Laura Lefkowits | Oct 4, 2021 | Anti-racism, DPS Policy, Equity
Originally published Oct. 1st, 2021 in the Greater Park Hill News. More Support Needed To Install Black Excellence In All Schools By Laura Lefkowits For the GPHN Black and African-American students represent only 13 percent of DPS enrollment but in 2017-18 they...
by Erin Pier | Jun 1, 2021 | Equity
Originally published in the Greater Park Hill News, June 1st, 2021 Identifying Dyslexia Should Be The Norm, Not The Outlier By Erin Pier For the GPHN Erin Pier My daughter’s brain operates in a beautifully different way from mine. She has an episodic memory that...
by Erin Pier | May 4, 2021 | DPS Policy, Equity, School to Prison Pipeline
Originally Published in the Greater Park Hill News – May 3rd, 2021 It’s Hard To Learn, When You Don’t Know Where You’ll Sleep By Erin Pier For the GPHN Erin Pier I grew up in the suburbs of Kansas City, surrounded by white, middle-upper class Catholics. Because...
by Erin Pier | Apr 1, 2021 | Equity
Originally published in the Greater Park Hill News, March 31st, 2021 A Time To Move, Create, Connect, And Be Kind By Erin Pier For the GPHN Erin Pier Last September in these pages, I compared the crisis of COVID-19 with that of Sept. 11, 2001. I shared my opinion that...
