2019 NDSG Annual MEETING
THuRsDay, February 14 - Sunday, FebRuary 17
Visions of Excellence in Schools and Community: Learning from and with Jackson Students, Educators and Community Members
Join us in Mississippi during Black History Month for a deep, intergenerational and interracial dialogue over the
broad-based work occurring in Jackson and the Jackson Public Schools (JPS). Threatened by a state take-over, JPS is fighting back and reaffirming its identity through community-based leadership, and a commitment to self-determination that includes students.
We will continue our support for and study of Jackson’s historic and present-day activism, and make connections between this work and our own daily work— and decide what actions to take in our schools and communities. What’s next for NDSG? For us in our communities?
We will learn better how to act individually and collectively push back against racism and injustice. In doing so we will deepen our own reflective practice. We will continue to enlist in the struggle of marginalized youth in our systems of education.
NDSG and IDEA enter this meeting with optimism about our collective efforts to realize a vision of equity in our country. The founder of NDSG, Vito Perrone, memorably laid out our meetings’ many aims when he closed one annual meeting 20 years ago. More than ever, at this critical time for the nation, for Jackson and for our schools and communities, we want this year’s meeting to heed Vito’s call “to change the world.” (See video)
broad-based work occurring in Jackson and the Jackson Public Schools (JPS). Threatened by a state take-over, JPS is fighting back and reaffirming its identity through community-based leadership, and a commitment to self-determination that includes students.
We will continue our support for and study of Jackson’s historic and present-day activism, and make connections between this work and our own daily work— and decide what actions to take in our schools and communities. What’s next for NDSG? For us in our communities?
We will learn better how to act individually and collectively push back against racism and injustice. In doing so we will deepen our own reflective practice. We will continue to enlist in the struggle of marginalized youth in our systems of education.
NDSG and IDEA enter this meeting with optimism about our collective efforts to realize a vision of equity in our country. The founder of NDSG, Vito Perrone, memorably laid out our meetings’ many aims when he closed one annual meeting 20 years ago. More than ever, at this critical time for the nation, for Jackson and for our schools and communities, we want this year’s meeting to heed Vito’s call “to change the world.” (See video)