Newcomer Students Antwan Jefferson, PhD “Stay in your lane” is a colloquialism that I have heard on occasion. When I stay in my lane, I speak about things that I understand fairly well. I do what I do. I also allow others to do what they do. My mother didn’t Read more…
Amending Colorado’s Constitution Antwan Jefferson, PhD Laws are made by people–they are neither absolute nor right. They may be best understood as signals of the times in which they are constructed. And while these times change, laws typically do not change as quickly or substantively. At least, that’s Read more…
Teacher Retention Antwan Jefferson, PhD What’s really interesting to me about this teacher retention issue of the Journal, is that it highlights some of the same kinds of concerns that we’ve been interested in learning about since we started. For instance, when we began in 2018, we were Read more…
Reposted from The Black Resilience in Colorado (BRIC) Fund Blog The Black Resilience in Colorado (BRIC) Fund Blog features the unique voices and perspectives of people who make up the diverse fabric of the Colorado community who are engaged in Black philanthropy. It’s a platform to share their comments and Read more…
School Data Antwan Jefferson, PhD I’ll keep this letter brief. First, on the day that I’m writing this letter, our city and region are experiencing the immediate after-effects of an act of gun violence in another of our community’s schools. There is nothing, really, for a local, community-based Read more…
Student Safety Antwan Jefferson, PhD As I reflect on the topic of school safety, I am reminded of the Maasai proverb, “And how are the children?” Reminded that the health of our society will be most evident in the lives of our children. And, because public Read more…
Success by Any Other Name Antwan Jefferson, PhD Welcome to the summer 2022 issue of the Denver Journal of Education and Community (DJEC: n. dee-jeck). Since we are at the beginning of a new school year, one that is possibly the closest to the start of a “normal” school year Read more…
Housing and Education Antwan Jefferson, PhD Welcome to a major inflection point in the as-yet infant life of the Denver Journal of Education and Community. For the past two years, we’ve been working hard to discover our collective identity–not an easy task in an information-saturated society in which “traditional” media Read more…
Working Together To Make Change Antwan Jefferson, PhD It’s difficult these days to remember why we pursue, invest in, and rally around public education. An election is just a few weeks away: that’s important, right? In fact, in a representative government, the role of the school board is to govern Read more…
Learning about “American” Ideologies, Values, and Identities in Public Schools Antwan Jefferson, PhD I was a first grader at Wythe Elementary School in Hampton, Virginia in 1983. Each morning, following the school announcements, we stood up, turned our bodies in the direction of the US flag hanging in the front Read more…
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