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After 20+ years, charter school leaders are still facing the challenge of explaining that charter schools are free, public, and open to all. We have a little fun busting some persistent charter school myths in this episode, but getting the truth out there is important so families know that excellent educational options are available for their children. #freepublicopentoall

How does one approach a design project with justice in mind? Terresa Moses answers that question and discusses what the world could look like if we designed it with justice. Read more about how this initiative is taking shape in the University of Minnesota College of Design, and make a gift in support of the Design Justice Initiative today. https://bit.ly/3PcuSwD

Check out our new case studies, Student-Centered Solutions Through Distributed Leadership! Learn more about the #TransformationalLeadership of our featured principals and how they integrated summer learning into the school year. #PrincipalPrideChi #PrincipalAppreciationMonth #HotOffThePress

Fascinating… 👇🏼you will gain a comprehensive understanding of the business benefits offered by AI, the strategies to navigate the hype surrounding it, and how to prepare for the evolving nature of work. Anjuu Trevedi MBE Neil McGhee Mukesh Bulsara

Today makes it a year I journeyed into the NYSC program. It was a roller-coaster of emotions, disappointment, and learnt lessons. In the course of celebrating the end of the program, here is a summary of how I dabbleed into the experience. Read this story from Bright Debbie on Medium: https://lnkd.in/eDYZ7YXf

It's the two day countdown! Paris Alston has joined the lineup for PRSA Boston's Diversity and Inclusion Month panel discussion Framing Equity Storytelling on October 16th with Douglas Banks, Crystal Haynes, Sandy Lish and moderator Kelley Chunn. These public relations practitioners who represent equity and social justice clients, and Boston journalists who cover these topics will offer their insights about framing the narrative and translating a pitch and press release into earned media. Equity is top of mind in today's society -- from the housing crisis, to the Supreme Court decisions overturning Roe v. Wade and striking down affirmative action in college admissions, to the 50th anniversary of school integration in Boston, as well as disparities in healthcare, the Heat Resilience Solutions Report findings that the entire City of Boston is a heat island, and the COVID pandemic having exposed digital inequity - the multitude of people without access to information technology (internet access and computer hardware and software) when they aren't at school, their place of employment or at public libraries, and therefore struggled to participate in a digital society during the shutdown. Equity, or the gaps thereof are an ever present news headline. Get your tickets today at https://buff.ly/3Rtuhsu and be part of this timely and dynamic discussion.

Join us for the DEI Workshop and Reception, Sponsored by Barnes & Thornburg, which takes place from 2:30 p.m. - 4:00 p.m. in the Crystal Room. The first hour of the event will be a workshop, and then the reception will take place from 3:30 p.m. - 4:00 p.m. at the conclusion of the workshop. Workshop details: PUSHING FORWARD IN A POST-AFFIRMATIVE ACTION ERA – A WORKSHOP ON THE IMPLICATIONS AND STRATEGIES FOR THE ONGOING PROMOTION OF DE&I It is widely known that the United States Supreme Court has recently issued multiple decisions that are certain to have broad implications for those focused on the promotion and progression of diversity, equity and inclusion. In light of these decisions, not only educational institutions, but also corporations and organizations such as TMA Global are thinking about the implications of these decisions as well as the best paths forward to continue to promote these principles to which TMA is committed. This workshop will be designed to foster discussion during the session and will be led by a number of industry experts. Please join us to participate in a discussion on these important and complicated issues.  Panelists: Lauren Berret, EisnerAmper Professor Julia A. Nice, University of San Francisco  Jeffrey Tsai, DLA Piper Buffy Wicks, California assemblymember, District 14