The November 3 election and its fallout have created unrest and unease throughout the country. 线上博彩平台 has gathered resources to support students and families as we continue to deal with the results of the election through the inaugaration and beyond.

院长的留言 

2011月15日

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American democracy offers a myriad of ways to participate and engage. 我们正处在一个社会分化加剧的时代, 年轻人要求种族清算, 全球大流行, 经济危机, 以及持续暴力骚乱的威胁. The 2020 presidential election and aftermath are further testing our community and country. They challenge us to ask ourselves: Who are we, and what do we want for our future?

作为教育者, we have an opportunity and obligation to support our students (most of whom are not yet of voting age) by helping them understand how our democracy works and ensuring they have the objective knowledge of current issues to put in context the outcomes of an election. We have a responsibility to make sure our students understand that civic participation is necessary for our democracy to thrive. The more our students know about our systems of government, the more prepared they will be to engage in critical civic discourse and participate in the betterment of our community. 另外, our values of racial equity and social justice require us to provide culturally responsive curriculum and instruction. We must assist students to develop critical consciousness and sociopolitical awareness to challenge injustice and disrupt inequities and oppression of any group of people. Public education can be a powerful antidote for the lack of civility we often see in political discourse today. We have the skill and practice to support students as they develop their own critical thinking and empowerment skills.

现在比以往任何时候都重要, we need the next generation of leaders to demonstrate the characteristics outlined in our vision, PPS备用. 我们愿景的核心是毕业生肖像. 这是我们对学生和家庭的承诺. 此时此刻, our students are called upon to navigate and adapt to complex challenges, and three elements of the graduate portrait are especially applicable:

• 适应力强的学习者 where students can embrace discomfort and navigate persistently through failure to success by adapting themselves to the environment or changing it. They make use of community and cultural assets to develop networks of allies to help them persevere through challenges and embrace continuous learning for professional growth and personal fulfillment.
• 反思、同理心和赋权毕业生 where students demonstrate empathy, curiosity, respect, and interest in other points of view. They seek to empower others and are accepting, appreciative, compassionate, and kind toward others.
• 变革的种族平等领袖 where students understand how our communities have been impacted by racial injustice, and they can recognize and interrupt the conditions that enable it. They can deconstruct the dominant narrative and change it to a more balanced and inclusive one. 作为种族平等驱动的问题解决者, they engage in community conversations about social justice issues and help develop and implement solutions that respect and include the perspectives of other cultures.

I want to encourage all of the adults in our PPS community to draw upon our reserves of resilience to support our students’ learning and the contextualization of this time in our democracy. I believe as strongly as ever in the power of democracy and our role as educators to support it.If we want to champion positive transformative change, we have to fight misinformation with education and support the principles of a just democracy. I want to continue to stress the importance of everyone in our PPS community coming together to support one another. 通过认识到我们相互依存, we can continue to strengthen our school system so that our students are empowered and prepared for all the challenges before us.

We updated and adapted our 2020 Election Tool Kit into our 公民 订婚 and Unrest: A Tool Kit for Resilience and Empowerment (上图). 它包含信息, 指导, and resources to assist staff preparation for the inauguration and beyond. This tool kit includes an outline of staff expectations, access to lesson plans that align with our graduate portrait, 选举和公民内容, 教育工作者的专业发展工具, a directory of internal and external supports for students, our Guidelines for Political Speech and PPS Hate Speech Protocols, 以及为员工提供的额外支持清单. This tool kit can also be found on the PPS Site Admin Portal and will continue to be updated over time.

瓜达卢佩格雷罗州
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