In the wake of the Minnesota jury finding former police officer Derek Chauvin guilty of all charges for the murder of George Floyd in May of last year, our state California Teachers Association issued a statement calling for educators to “recommit to shared solutions for confronting racism, pursuing accountability, and advancing justice so that we can build a world together that is safer, more just, and more humane.”
Our SDEA Board of Directors unanimously approved a racial justice statement that challenges us to examine whether our practices contribute to systemic racial inequities. As educators, we have a responsibility to model the growth mindset for students by recognizing that our work toward building anti-racist classrooms and school communities is never done. Together, we must continue the call for justice and to hold powerful people, organizations and each other, accountable. What are we doing as union members to work toward anti-racism every day?
