Listen to Boston Public Schools educators Randyl Wilkerson and Alison Mann describe how they joined forces to lead teachers and parents at their school in confronting bias together. Their work was also recently featured in Teaching Tolerance magazine in “A Hopeful Case of Teacher Leadership and Confronting Bias in Education.”
Randyl Wilkerson is in her 7th year as a 6th grade Reading and Writing teacher at Gardner Pilot Academy. She is in her 3rd year leading Anti-Racist Initiative at her school and providing teachers professional development on combatting bias. Randyl has also worked as a consultant for The Teacher Collaborative and other education organizations in Boston. Hailing from Chicago and growing up in a tracked public school system, Randyl is committed to working on programming in the educational field that promotes an equitable space for all stakeholders of a school community.
Alison Mann is an early childhood teacher and has been serving students and families at Gardner Pilot Academy (GPA), in the Boston Public School district, for over a decade. She has served as a teacher leader at GPA for 8 years. Together with her colleague, Randyl Wilkerson, she is leading teaching staff, families, and students, in anti-racist work.
Teaching Tolerance article:
https://www.tolerance.org/magazine/fall-2019/a-h opeful-case-of-teacher-leadership-and-confronting -bias-in-education
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