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  • About
    • Mission and Vision
    • Values
    • Equity Agenda
    • Our Team
    • Our Funding
    • The Latest
  • Teacher Campaigns
    • Restore Community Voice >
      • Our Schools Our Voice: Take Action
      • Myths and Realities on Mayoral Control of School
    • Latinx Educator Campaign
    • Teacher Turnover Action Group
    • Recruiting/Retaining Educators of Color
    • COVID-19 Teacher Response >
      • Coronavirus Recursos Espanol >
        • Información de Bienestar- COVID 19
        • Sitios de Comida en Las Escuelas
    • Transparency
    • Teacher Voice Summit 2018
  • Take Action
    • Teacher Voice Summit 2021
    • Join Teacher-led Campaigns
    • Contact DC Officials
    • Action Calendar
  • Research
    • The DC Landscape
    • About Teacher Turnover
    • Teacher Policy
    • Equity & Diversity
  • For Schools
  • Donate
  • Teacher Testimonies
  • EmpowerEd Blog

OUR VALUES

DEMOCRACY​

Our schools are a fundamental bedrock of our democracy and the place we come together as a community. Our schools must be guided by those closest to our students and their needs- the students themselves, parents and educators. Those voices shouldn’t just be engaged, they should be part of governing.

TRANSPARENCY​

Public schools are public institutions and should be publicly accountable.  If we value the voices of educators, students, families and community members, we should arm them with full access to the information they need to take informed action.  Transparency builds trust.

EQUITY​

All students, regardless of background or zip code, deserve access to the same high quality education- appropriately funded, culturally relevant, empowering and accessible.  We fight for diverse schools, representative staff and district policies that uplift and advance, rather than rate, shame and deprive our schools and students furthest from opportunity.

HOLISTIC & JUST SCHOOLS​

Our schools must meet the need of the whole child.  Students deserve an education that is well rounded, culturally relevant, empowering and just- because it’s right and because it works. Curriculum and evaluations (of students, of staff and of schools) should be holistic, justice should be restorative, and schools should bring all resources to bear to ensure students are supported, sustained and ready to learn
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