I Been Gettin’ To This Movement, Everybody Mad [For Us, By Us, About Us] #EduColor
This year, I came into Chicago the same way I came out of it: trust first.
This principle applies for any number of situations, but the stakes increase when planes and anxious New Yorkers get involved. On the way into Chicago, my original flight got delayed several hours, but an earlier flight out was delayed to the time slot I originally had on my ticket. I rushed through a couple gates and made it safely there. On the way back, I thought I’d outmaneuver nature by hopping on an earlier flight only to have our plane sit on the O’Hare tarmac for an hour and the LaGuardia tarmac another half an hour. But our plane said that, if we had waited 30 seconds more on the O’Hare tarmac, we would have spent another hour on that tarmac. Making it to NYC later sounded fine by comparison.
Things get delicate when we’re 30,000 miles up in the area, but trust we must.
In Chicago, the EduColor team met up for our third annual summit, a fortunate collection of some of the best and brightest educators and education organizers in the country (and internationally!). I generally appreciate this collective because it serves as a corrective to so much of what we experience in our schools for doing what we do. With what little hair I have left on my head, I know this organization…
