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We speak with Soledad Hiciano, executive director of Community Association of Progressive Dominicans (ACDP), a multi-service community organization in Upper Manhattan and the Bronx. She describes the challenges of supporting children who may have experienced multiple traumas, including homelessness and the deportation of close relatives.

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References

For more information about Soledad Hiciano and Acacia Network, go to acacianetwork.org.

Overview

00:00-01:18 Introductions

01:19-06:16 Impact of immigration and deportation policies on young people and families

06:17-07:45 Capacity of schools and after-school programs to deal with trauma’s effects

07:46-15:11 ACDP programs

15:12-20:17 Segregation in NYC schools and its impact on students

20:18-27:45 Teachers and communities; charter schools and public schools; collaborations between charters and Dept of Ed (DOE) schools

27:46-31:13 English language learners and their needs

31:14-35:59 UPK, salary differences between DOE and community-based programs

36:00-39:53 Department of Youth and Community Development—NYC out-of-school-time programs

39:54-48:06 Professionalizing after-school youth work

48:07-51:26 ACDP and Acacia Network

51:27-53:54 Immigrant communities responding to the current challenges

53:55-54:45 Outro

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We speak with Soledad Hiciano, executive director of Community Association of Progressive Dominicans (ACDP), a multi-service community organization in Upper Manhattan and the Bronx. She describes the challenges of supporting children who may have experienced multiple traumas, including homelessness and the deportation of close relatives.

The post Soledad Hiciano on nurturing and educating immigrant children in an age of deportation and deprivation first appeared on Ethical Schools.

We speak with Dr. David C. Bloomfield, Professor of Education Leadership. Law & Policy at Brooklyn College. David Bloomfield condemns the social Darwinism and “hoarding” mentality of our education systems. He explains how school resource allocation exacerbates segregation and inequality, a process deliberately abetted by the proliferation of school districts around the country.  Education policy and financing reinforce an us against them view of schools. Until we start thinking of the nation’s children as our collective responsibility,  we will continue to seek todeprive “other people’s” children in order to benefit “ours,”  thereby impoverishing all of us.

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References

Find more about David on davidcbloomfield.com

Overview

00:00-01:03 Intros

01:04-02:41 Education as private property or as social good

02:42-03:51 “Educationism”: are failing schools the cause of inequality?

03:52-04:27 Charters and traditional schools fight; “our children” and “other people’s children”

04:28-04:57 Racism and racialization of poverty

04:58-07:10 Race, class; nationalization of education not a solution

07:11-09:08 Teacher unionism; valuing education?

09:09-09:58 Mass education movement?

09:59-13:30 NYC school segregation; “good schools/bad schools” are code for racialized systems; social Darwinism in school admissions;

13:31-15:59 NYC selective high schools; screened schools

16:00-20:34 Restorative justice

20:34-21:33 View of schooling as encompassing all children

21:34-24:06 Class size; concentrations of low-income students—need schools where everyone has a chance

24:07-25:00 Outro

Transcript

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We speak with Dr. David C. Bloomfield, Professor of Education Leadership. Law & Policy at Brooklyn College. David Bloomfield condemns the social Darwinism and “hoarding” mentality of our education systems. He explains how school resource allocation exacerbates segregation and inequality, a process deliberately abetted by the proliferation of school districts around the country.  Education policy and financing reinforce an us against them view of schools. Until we start thinking of the nation’s children as our collective responsibility,  we will continue to seek todeprive “other people’s” children in order to benefit “ours,”  thereby impoverishing all of us.

We speak with Dr. David C. Bloomfield, Professor of Education Leadership. Law & Policy at Brooklyn College. David Bloomfield condemns the social Darwinism and “hoarding” mentality of our education systems. He explains how school resource allocation exacerbates segregation and inequality, a process deliberately abetted by the proliferation of school districts around the country. Education policy and financing reinforce an us against them view of schools. Until we start thinking of the nation’s children as our collective responsibility, we will continue to seek todeprive “other people’s” children in order to benefit “ours,” thereby impoverishing all of us.

The post David C. Bloomfield on why we need a revolution in attitude to see education as a social good rather than an individual property right first appeared on Ethical Schools.

We speak with Silvia Canales, who coordinates the college advisory program at Brotherhood/Sister Sol, an organization that provides comprehensive and holistic support services to underserved youth. Silvia talks about fully integrating college counseling into a program environment in which adults know young people well and students engage in systematic self-reflection.

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Find more about Silvia and The Brotherhood/Sister Sol on brotherhood-sistersol.org

We speak with Silvia Canales, who coordinates the college advisory program at Brotherhood/Sister Sol, an organization that provides comprehensive and holistic support services to underserved youth. Silvia talks about fully integrating college counseling into a program environment in which adults know young people well and students engage in systematic self-reflection.

“Nurturing, Healing Love” was the message that Scarlett Lewis found on her kitchen chalkboard shortly before her son, Jesse, was murdered in his first-grade classroom at Sandy Hook Elementary School. In order to become part of the solution to the violence, Scarlett founded The Jesse Lewis Choose Love Movement with a mission to ensure that all children have access to Social and Emotional Learning (SEL) in their classrooms. We talk about post-traumatic growth and how the program educates and encourages students to choose love over anger.

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Find more about Scarlett and the Jesse Lewis Choose Love Program on jesselewischooselove.org