In this article in Teaching Tolerance, educators at Boston’s Gardner Pilot Academy talk about teacher-led professional development about examining educators’ own biases. As part of the work, they invited paraprofessionals, students, and families to share their perspectives on the issue.
“I think what was great about it was that it wasn’t someone coming in and saying what we’re lacking and, ‘Here’s what you need to do instead,’” one teacher who led the work said. “It was truly from the community: the community asking for our strengths, our challenges and for us to pull together.”
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