Reflecting on pathways to equity

Last Saturday, our local school and district partners joined Harvard students in RIDES courses for our annual Pathways to Equity conference, where we reflect on our work over the past school year. Educators and students shared their challenges and successes as they pursue true integration, as well as steps they're excited to take next year.

Here is just an abbreviated list of what our partners accomplished this year:

A team from Bowman Elementary continued work on a schoolwide Dismantling Racism curriculum.

Cambridge Rindge & Latin High...

Student voice in reimagining integration Alumni of Color Conference

Earlier this month, hundreds of educators, students, academics and activists descended onto Appian Way, home of the Harvard Graduate School of Education, for the annual Alumni of Color Conference. The theme this year was “Radicalize, Reimagine, Reconstruct,” and so RIDES’s work on reimagining integration fit right in.

For one of the panels, educators and one student who we’ve worked with talked about how they are reimagining integration at their schools, with a special focus on the role of students.

Here are some highlights from...

Well wishes to RIDES's first Program Coordinator, Amber K. Boyd

Today, we wished good-bye to RIDES's first Program Coordinator, Amber K. Boyd. Amber joined the team in 2016, and has been instrumental to RIDES's growth and development ever since.

Amber's good-bye