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Statement from Presidential Line of POWER

6/5/2020

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The Providing Opportunities for Women in Education Research consortium was developed to address inequities that people who identify as women or non-binary experience in educational research. We also work with our membership and broader research community in their efforts to address issues of social justice and systemic inequities. The most current iteration of blatant racism and violence, as those of the past, is deeply troublesome for us; we know that we cannot fully understand how it has impacted our membership and their communities. As an organization we unequivocally say that Black Lives Matter. We acknowledge and condemn white supremacy and racism. We recognize that centuries of systemic inequity and racism have a real and profound negative impact in the day to day lives of our colleagues of color, both professionally and personally. We acknowledge that now is the time to listen, engage, and take specific actions that combat systemic inequalities and racism in all of our organizational structures. Most of our research and scholarship engages young children and adolescents. These children and adolescents should not have to fear for their lives and those of their family and friends. We urge our membership to consider how they can use their expertise to take action in their own communities. We are committed to change in our own organizational structure and goals to ensure that we are supporting these efforts. We are committed to doing this through our own reading and learning, engagement and action in our own communities, and as always, we welcome feedback from all our members about how we can better serve both our membership and the broader educational research community.  
 
We are here to connect, support, and advocate,
 
Emily Solari, President, ejs9ea@virginia.edu
Sara Hart, President Elect, shart@fcrr.org
Jill Pentimonti, incoming President Elect, jpentim2@nd.edu
 
On behalf of the Steering Committee.
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Natalia Kucirkova link
6/5/2020 05:54:51 am

Re: actionable steps for the consortium moving forward- systematic changes to national curricula, including children's literature and children's media.

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Gina Biancarosa
6/5/2020 12:47:11 pm

I am proud to be a POWER member and fully endorse this statement!

My students have been asking for two things I think are relevant as action steps. One is for ALL classes to hold discussions regarding the specifically relevant equity issues, as opposed to superficial treatment of them that tends to be more common. The other is to create courses that teach students about how the education system reproduces inequities and how in their future professional roles they can actively work to disrupt that reproduction.

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