Talking about race with students
Gordon's eighth grade humanities teacher Luke Anderson on teaching about race, in this morning's Boston Globe
photo: Luke Anderson, left, with Gordon eighth graders at the National Memorial for Peace and Justice in Montgomery Alabama, one stop on Gordon's annual Civil Rights Trip - www.gordonschool.org/civilrights
The Boston Globe highlighted eighth grade humanities teacher Luke Anderson, alongside other area educators as well as Rhode Island Education Commissioner Angélica Infante-Green and Providence mayor Jorge Elorza.
In this morning's Rhode Map feature, writer Dan McGowan wrote:
I don’t have the answers, but there are smart people all across the state who can help. So I asked a few of them to weigh in with some thoughts on how to talk with our kids about racism and the unnecessary death of George Floyd.
Mr. Anderson response is here.
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The Gordon family reconvenes
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Dedicated father and husband will be honored later this week