Iniya traces the roots of her advocacy back to Pinkerton Elementary School in Coppell ISD, near Dallas. She credits teachers there with inspiring and encouraging her to find her interests and her voice. But the roots Pinkerton nourished grew from seeds planted at home. Her family inherited a belief in advocating for what is right. […]
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An Educator Becomes an Advocate for Inclusive Education
Sue Anderson has been making a difference in the realm of education for over 35 years, first as a special education teacher for pre-school and elementary school children, then later as a professor, helping to prepare pre-service teachers to enter the profession. Yet she had not been deeply involved in education advocacy until a few […]
Faith Inspires Student’s SBOE Advocacy
Through public school, homeschooling during the pandemic, and now online school, 14-year-old Austinite Abdurahman has had at least one constant in his education: parents who taught him to be an inquisitive and deep thinker. They are raising him to critically analyze information rather than accept it at face value. When he heard about the proposed […]
Mom Advocates to Preserve History
When Kiyomi Beach decided to dive into advocacy, she asked herself how she could contribute in a way that allowed her to speak from her own lived and personal experience. She knew someone who was serving as a work group member providing feedback on a new social studies curriculum to content advisors appointed by members […]
Governor, We Need to Talk About Discrimination
Texas Governor Greg Abbott says he’s protecting Texans from religious discrimination. Then, in the same breath, he told Fox News which religions don’t matter. Abbott recently threatened to pull grant funding from the DFW International Airport after it revealed plans to add Islamic ablution stations for pre-prayer washing. He made the same threat against Houston’s […]
