This year, Independent School Magazine asked Julie Parsons, Lower School Common Ground Coordinator, and Director of Diversity and Multicultural Practice Kim Ridley to co-author an article on Lower School Common Ground.

Independent School Magazine is published quarterly by the National Association of Independent Schools. The article, Identity, Affinity and Reality: Making the Case for Affinity Groups in Elementary School, appears in the winter issue. 

 

 

The feature article outlines the genesis of Gordon's Lower School program, bringing in the research of Beverly Daniel Tatum, Rebecca Bigler, Michael Thompson and others, as well as voices from the Bank Street School for Children, St. Stephen's and St. Agnes School, Georgetown Day School and the Little Red School House and Elisabeth Irwin High School, other independent schools that have developed race-based affinity groups in lower school.

 

On Wednesday, March 7th, Mariama Richards and Dr. Elizabeth Denevi of Georgetown Day School and Gordon faculty will discuss Racial Affinity Groups at Gordon as the final event in this year's parent education series.