https://www.spiritsinthedark.org/home daily 1.0 2020-11-10 https://static1.squarespace.com/static/5f99898182a07719492b22fe/t/5f9cd21524342c46de91f3db/1604112678492/ Home - Black children in America are entitled to a proper education. The right to education is one the community will always protect. https://static1.squarespace.com/static/5f99898182a07719492b22fe/t/5f9dcf01a48e4130feea2854/1604177674555/nyc+liberation+school.png Home https://static1.squarespace.com/static/5f99898182a07719492b22fe/t/5f9d90b21e3be610d60b943e/1604161737168/great+schools+for+all.jpg Home https://www.spiritsinthedark.org/new-page daily 0.75 2020-11-05 https://static1.squarespace.com/static/5f99898182a07719492b22fe/t/5f999d4d64539f79a1f16c30/1603902809447/Sydoni%2BEllwood%2B3.jpg Who's Behind This? - Sydoni Ellwood Spirit in the Darkness: How the Community Bears Light Curator Born in Brooklyn, cultivated by Jamaica, WI, I am a 90s baby who appreciates great books, stellar Nike retros, ardently follows the WNBA, and regularly quotes scripture and rap lyrics with the same fervency. In the last decade, I worked as a Higher Ed adjunct, creating learning material for reading and writing workshops. During that time, I observed the many ways some of our "tried and true" educational practices alienate Black students in the classroom as well as their families and community at large and wondered what could be done to change that. https://www.spiritsinthedark.org/faqs-4 daily 0.75 2020-11-05 https://www.spiritsinthedark.org/the-spirits daily 0.75 2020-11-01 https://static1.squarespace.com/static/5f99898182a07719492b22fe/t/5f9df39b622e88214e791190/1604187046180/ The Spirits - Listen to the kids, bruh! Black children and youth are NOT deficit learners. Our children possess the ability to think critically and assess the world around them. Even more, they can teach us! One of the many ways community-based/centered/influenced radically differs from traditional schooling is youth agency is encouraged and reinforced, which enables students to be co-teachers and active in the development of curriculum and classroom/building policies. https://www.spiritsinthedark.org/keep-the-lights-on daily 0.75 2020-11-05 https://static1.squarespace.com/static/5f99898182a07719492b22fe/t/5f9e144816697f692f504782/1604195415988/black+boys.jpg Keep the Lights On - “As a classroom community, our capacity to generate excitement is deeply affected by our interest in one another, in hearing one another’s voices, in recognizing one another’s presence.” — bell hooks Teaching to Transgress: Education as the Practice of Freedom https://www.spiritsinthedark.org/resources daily 0.75 2020-11-05 https://static1.squarespace.com/static/5f99898182a07719492b22fe/t/5fa375317fbddb74093264b1/1604547901347/ Resources https://static1.squarespace.com/static/5f99898182a07719492b22fe/t/5fa37c5f803b56055d2eabf2/1604549736128/ Resources https://www.spiritsinthedark.org/care-in-the-classroom daily 0.75 2021-05-10 https://static1.squarespace.com/static/5f99898182a07719492b22fe/6095a122096c11533120edcb/6095ac9d3b0429493d7d5289/1620421789633/Slide1.PNG Care in the Classroom https://static1.squarespace.com/static/5f99898182a07719492b22fe/6095a122096c11533120edcb/6095ac9e9110fd50fea9965b/1620421791214/Slide2.PNG Care in the Classroom https://static1.squarespace.com/static/5f99898182a07719492b22fe/6095a122096c11533120edcb/6095ac9d68be1425b94c8917/1620421789524/Slide3.PNG Care in the Classroom https://static1.squarespace.com/static/5f99898182a07719492b22fe/6095a122096c11533120edcb/6095ac9b914a816d2770c1dc/1620421788144/Slide5.PNG Care in the Classroom https://static1.squarespace.com/static/5f99898182a07719492b22fe/6095a122096c11533120edcb/6095ac9d3b0429493d7d528a/1620421789523/Slide4.PNG Care in the Classroom