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All students deserve the best education we can provide.

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To ensure all students have access and are able to achieve at the level they deserve!

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To ensure all students have access and are able to achieve at the level they deserve!

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To engage, improve, and make more equitable the systems in the community I live in.

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My why is to be a positive influence and champion for the students that I serve. I want to ensure that all students have the opportunity to receive high-quality instruction that is both supportive and pushes and challenges them.

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My Why- I have a responsibility to the collective community to dismantle systems of power and privilege in order for our students, our future civic leaders, to have equal opportunities in life to make for a safer and more inclusive community.

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I want to serve  and ensure that ALL students in the school Thrive and receive the  education they deserve. 

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I want to serve  and ensure that ALL students in the school Thrive and receive the  education they deserve. 

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I am committed to finding innovative ways to provide all of my students, especially my SoC, with access to an excellent education. I aspire to be a leader who provides voice to my students and builds capacity of my staff to continuously determine concrete actions that increase equity and inclusion and honor diversity. This work is the only work that makes sense to me. In my mind, it is the only work that matters.

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because kids deserve better

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To positively influence a broken system and ensure that I provide students, especially BIPOC students, with positive and equitable opportunities and access to education

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I do this to support and serve youth.

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Because at my core I believe that every student deserves to have the very best school experience.  

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Because at my core I believe that every student deserves to have the very best school experience.  

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My experience in K-12 varied from effective to distinguished. I believe it was because of dedicated teachers and admin. I admired the teachers and leaders throughout my education and I wanted to be like them as an adult. They made it look easy but it’s hard. So I do this because we have the opportunity to shape the minds of the future. The molding is done through our actions, words, and presence.

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As the first person to graduate from college on my mom's side of the family  I felt inspired to make a change.

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As the first person to graduate from college on my mom's side of the family  I felt inspired to make a change.

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To give histortically marginalized students a voice and the skills that they need to advocate for themselves, their families, and communities.

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I have seen inequity in my own experience in school growing up in poor neighborhoods and want to fix them

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To make sure every child feels safe and loved in my building.

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I want all students to be seen, connected and uplifted. All students deserve to be pushed & supported and every student deserves excellence.

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1. To challenge the status quo and break down barriers that keep power and privilege within the system of white supremacy.            2. DPS serves the most amazing students and families in the state, and I'm proud to be a part of the team.

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To ensure that all students have access to a quality education/experiences because they are all highly capable. I also want to break down patterns of inequity that continue to exist across the district.

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To ensure that all students have access to a quality education/experiences because they are all highly capable. I also want to break down patterns of inequity that continue to exist across the district.

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To continue to carry the responsibility of those that came before me both Brown and Black educators and civil rights leaders to ensure equity and opportunity first provides hope and then success for life.

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Past experiences

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Students in large urban school districts have consistently been underserved and we are doing the work to end this problem and increase the opportunities for all. A solid educational foundation gives the best opportunities!

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I know that with the right supports from SW and school I can make a difference in mindsets. There will be discomfort but the seed will be planted.

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I know that with the right supports from SW and school I can make a difference in mindsets. There will be discomfort but the seed will be planted.

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Education is a door to more opportunities... We need to help our students, our youth, our future to open that door

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To be a part of change to support all students having the opportunity I had and my kids have so all parents can have the confidence that when their kids come to our schools, we are doing right by them and providing the all around education they can be proud of and can help their students be successful in all phases of life.

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To fight for powerful change that break systems of inequities.

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As a mom, I have experienced how diligently I have had to advocate for the needs of my own children's educational needs and was drawn to serve students and families who don't have the same privilege as me and need support to advocate for their own children's high quality education. 

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As a mom, I have experienced how diligently I have had to advocate for the needs of my own children's educational needs and was drawn to serve students and families who don't have the same privilege as me and need support to advocate for their own children's high quality education. 

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Justice for those who have been silenced. Joy for all students and families in being seen, heard, and valued in their educational journey.

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To teach kids that have grown up like me...

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To work to change systems of privilege and oppression

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I find it to be a moral responsibility to leave my community better than I found it. I definitely don't have all the experience or knowledge I need to be able to do that yet, so it's important to keep putting in the work. I think that's the best way to honor those around me.

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To ensure all students have a grat education that is reflective of themselves and helps the understand others.

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I choose to engage in equity work because we can not all be free until everyone is free. Our world is filled with inequities and I want to do my part to help erase those so that everyone can have the same privileges that I do.

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To serve others and ensure that
students are able to access all opportunities.

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To make a difference in my students' & families' lives. The inequities are deeply disturbing and we can do a much better job as human beings.

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I engage in equity work because I am committed to advancing social justice, and how I want to spend my time in this life. Education for me is the place where I believe we can have great impact . My father is an immigrant and always taught me about the power of education in giving each of us what we need and the opportunities to have the life we each want to have.

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I want to engage in equity work because all children and adults deserve equal opportunities to achieve their potential. Over the past 7 years at my school, I have become committed to our students and families who are beaten down by oppressive systems of injustice on a daily basis. I work in a large urban school district because that's where the need is the greatest.

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1. As Maya Angelou said, when you know better, you do better - I want to do better. My students and community deserve it.
2. This is my home and heart (SW)

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My "why" is because I am tired of seeing our black and brown students walk through life with no hope of success or support, almost like they are programmed to think that. We need to help change that.

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My "why" is because I am tired of seeing our black and brown students walk through life with no hope of success or support, almost like they are programmed to think that. We need to help change that.

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School cannot help create a more equitable society if I and we do not dismantle the inequities within our schools and ourselves - the practices, systems and mindsets. My why in doing this is because I believe it is my moral responsibility to be part of the change that our Black and Brown students and communities deserve.

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I engage in this work and choose to work for DPS because education can make such a difference in the lives of our students and for our community. Education is a tool for creating more a more equitable society and helps me work on "upstream" solutions. I'm committed to making a positive difference in the world and need to understand my own lens & bias in order to identify and uproot inequities.

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I am leading and being a disrupter of patterns of inequities. It's not enough to just learn, but to take action. In my work, I want to be a mirror and a window to my own students, advocating for change and building allies to continue the work not only at my school but where ever they are--students and adults.

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To ensure all kids have access to education that empowers them to think for themselves

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I am passionate about supporting the development of each child’s unique assets and to provide access to resources and opportunities that will help students who have been historically disadvantaged to achieve their potential.

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Upon understanding and acknowledging my own bias, I realised that I cannot lead through a biased lens.  This completely shifted my focus and my leadership is now 

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Upon understanding and acknowledging my own bias, I realised that I cannot lead through a biased lens.  This completely shifted my focus and my leadership is now 

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To be of service to others in reaching their full potential and highest goals- students, staff, and community through strong relationships, togetherness, and celebration. -As a white woman of privilege, I recognize that my students have traditionally NOT had the same access to education (and so many other rights) as me.  I want to disrupt the status quo for them!

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1. My why;
My two daughters
All Brown Kids
Making an impact in the lives of kids that look like me so they have better opportunities and access to a better education and better decision making.
2. This is the district with more initiatives around equity, cultural responsiveness.

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I choose to work within the community I work precisely because I have seen the historical inequities and the brutality of low expectations for populations of kids like those who attend Knapp.  We know that while most of our English Language Learners may speak with an accent, they certainly do not think with an accent.  Our students are just as capable, and in many ways bring far more strengths to the classroom than their white, monolingual, more economically advantaged peers.  However, our community and similar communities across the country have been plagued by low expectations and poor pedagogy, significantly hampering the future success of our students.