Onward: Lessons and Celebrations of the DPS Community During the 2020-2021 School Year In January 2021, Student U and the Durham Public Schools Foundation identified the need to document community experiences during the COVID-19 pandemic. This included compiling and synthesizing the work of numerous community organizations...
Continue readingWe co-hosted a virtual community conversation with Durham Public Schools Foundation as a companion to DPS' Growing Together community engagement sessions. Together we learned more about the history behind past policies and their effect on Durham Public schools. We also processed how our racialized history and...
Continue readingVer traducción al inglés Durham está orgulloso de nuestra política progresista y afirmamos ser un faro progresista. Sin embargo, nuestra comunidad está eligiendo no ir a la escuela juntos. De los 115 distritos escolares de Carolina del Norte, tenemos la quinta tasa más baja de inscripción...
Continue readingIt has been an excellent start for the High School Program! We enjoyed hosting our high school students and their families at The W.G. Pearson Center Monday evening for our first U-Prep of the school year! Families learned more about the high school program, and they...
Continue readingRestorative Practices Training for School Leaders: A two-day training specifically for school leaders and educators seeking to implement Restorative Practices in their communities. Hosted at: Community School of Digital and Visual Arts 1955 W Cornwallis Road, Durham, NC 27705 About this event In this intensive, highly interactive two-day training,...
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Dear Friends, After a transformative 12 years at Student U, I will be stepping down as Executive Director in October to join Duke's Sanford School of Public Policy as a Professor of the Practice with the Hart Leadership Program. Though a bittersweet moment because I have loved...
Continue readingSUMMER ACADEMY 2021 The first week of Summer Academy 2021 was a success! Last week was filled with learning, positive energy, brilliance, and JOY! Overall, we had a great week filled with so much community building and we're excited to see what Week 2 has to...
Continue readingYouth Work 101: Supporting Queer And Gender Nonconforming Students In The Classroom This month's blog on Supporting Queer and Gender Nonconforming Students is paraphrased from an interview with Lucy Bergwall, a current Middle School Math Teacher and Student U teacher alumnus, with writing by Dexter Phuong,...
Continue readingAlthough Abraham Lincoln's Emancipation Proclamation was signed in 1863, it would be over two and a half years for it to be fully enforced. Many slave owners intentionally withheld this information to avoid freeing slaves. Slave owners from Mississippi, Louisiana, and other Eastern states had...
Continue readingJoin a program designed to teach teens about sexual health and to train them to educate their peers. Topics include: communication skills, healthy relationships, consent, safer sex, sexual and reproductive health Sessions are interactive, we learn through games, group work, role-plays, videos, etc. students will get to...
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