On March 21, 2021, the Detroit Free Press featured an op-ed by Deborah Ball and Alyssa Brandon, communications coordinator at TeachingWorks and a master's student in leadership and policy at the University of Michigan School of Education. In their essay, Ball and Brandon discuss the safe return to school by examining the larger context of white supremacy in education.
“As districts emerge from the quarantine of the last year, the plans for a safe return to school must take a fuller view of the safety needed to dismantle anti-Blackness and white supremacy in our educational systems. Taking a fuller view of safety requires refusing crisis language about Black and Brown children. It requires instead planning for the return to in-person schooling in ways that build from where children are and what they know and can do, rather than constructed imaginings of where they ought to be.”
Read the op-ed here.