| Brad Rathgeber A Message From Brad The events of this past week have hit One Schoolhouse hard, as I know that they have for all. Personally, as a Washingtonian, leading a Washington DC based organization, the last week has been particularly trying. At One Schoolhouse, first and foremost, our concern lies with our students, particularly our most vulnerable students. In addition, we have taken steps to make sure that our faculty and staff feel both personally safe, and sufficiently equipped to help students in any ways needed. We're but a supplemental school; you are our students' primary community and our trusted partner. So, if there are students who need additional support and care during this time, please make sure to connect with Beta Eaton, our Director of Student Support, or me directly. In last week's pulse survey, we asked which areas of the One Schoolhouse catalog you are most excited to leverage next year. There was a lot of excitement around the way our catalog has expanded, particularly around the identity-centered courses! In response to the unprecedented challenges of the dual pandemics over the last 10 months, schools want to continue to expand their online course portfolio and offer academic courses that elevate the diversity of their students and their communities. In order to help meet your needs, we're excited to be able to offer two new fall semester courses, Black Identity in the United States , and Latino/a/x Identity in the United States . These courses take a trans-disciplinary approach to explore the history, culture, and politics of oppression and resistance in Black and Latino/a/x communities in the US. They join our current course, Gender and Sexual Identity in the United States , in our identity-centered course strand, which helps students build awareness of how cultural identity is developed and its relationship to social change and activism. Click Here for 2021-2022 Course Catalog Resources to Read: Beyond The Spotlight : This article by Dr. Alyssa Hadley-Dunn, Associate Professor of Teacher Education at Michigan State University and founder of Teaching on the Days After: Dialogue & Resources for Educating Toward Justice, is on creating equitable and caring classrooms for children. To Sustain the Tough Conversations, Active Listening Must Be the Norm : This Teaching Tolerance article is on how we have to prepare students—and ourselves—to communicate, question and work our way through a disconnect when the outside world spills into the classroom. For our first Academic Leaders Webinar of the new year, Sarah, Corinne, Meera and Peter had a conversation about our 2021-2022 courses. Watch a recording here or read more about them in last week's blog . |
 Brad Rathgeber |
A Message From Brad
The events of this past week have hit One Schoolhouse hard, as I know that they have for all. Personally, as a Washingtonian, leading a Washington DC based organization, the last week has been particularly trying.
At One Schoolhouse, first and foremost, our concern lies with our students, particularly our most vulnerable students. In addition, we have taken steps to make sure that our faculty and staff feel both personally safe, and sufficiently equipped to help students in any ways needed.
We're but a supplemental school; you are our students' primary community and our trusted partner. So, if there are students who need additional support and care during this time, please make sure to connect with Beta Eaton, our Director of Student Support, or me directly.
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In last week's pulse survey, we asked which areas of the One Schoolhouse catalog you are most excited to leverage next year. There was a lot of excitement around the way our catalog has expanded, particularly around the identity-centered courses! In response to the unprecedented challenges of the dual pandemics over the last 10 months, schools want to continue to expand their online course portfolio and offer academic courses that elevate the diversity of their students and their communities. | |
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Beyond The Spotlight: This article by Dr. Alyssa Hadley-Dunn, Associate Professor of Teacher Education at Michigan State University and founder of Teaching on the Days After: Dialogue & Resources for Educating Toward Justice, is on creating equitable and caring classrooms for children.
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To Sustain the Tough Conversations, Active Listening Must Be the Norm: This Teaching Tolerance article is on how we have to prepare students—and ourselves—to communicate, question and work our way through a disconnect when the outside world spills into the classroom.
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For our first Academic Leaders Webinar of the new year, Sarah, Corinne, Meera and Peter had a conversation about our 2021-2022 courses. Watch a recording here or read more about them in last week's blog. | |
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