- Shoreline Public Schools
- Race and Equity Leads
Equity and Family Engagement
- Equity and Family Engagement Department
- Equity Advisory Team, Tools and Resources
- Race and Equity Leads
- Ethnic Studies Fellows
- Equitable Family Engagement
- Family Affinity Groups
- Community Events and Opportunities
- Monthly Calendar Observances
- Professional Development
- Social Justice Library
- Information Regarding LGBTQIA+ Student Rights
- Information Regarding Immigration Status and Student Rights
- Video: Pulling Back the Curtain on Equity in Shoreline Schools
- Equity Spotlight Webinar on May 13, 2020
- Black and Brown Town Hall
We Want to Do More Than Survive
Drawing on her life’s work of teaching and researching in urban schools, Bettina Love persuasively argues that educators must teach students about racial violence, oppression, and how to make sustainable change in their communities through radical civic initiatives and movements. She argues that the US educational system is maintained by and profits from the suffering of children of color. Instead of trying to repair a flawed system, educational reformers offer survival tactics in the forms of test-taking skills, acronyms, grit labs, and character education, which Love calls the educational survival complex.
To dismantle the educational survival complex and to achieve educational freedom—not merely reform—teachers, parents, and community leaders must approach education with the imagination, determination, boldness, and urgency of an abolitionist. Following in the tradition of activists like Ella Baker, Bayard Rustin, and Fannie Lou Hamer, We Want to Do More Than Survive introduces an alternative to traditional modes of educational reform and expands our ideas of civic engagement and intersectional justice.