Ms. Clay

Race based discrimination + bias = race based trauma. Consider race-based traumatic stress theory (Carter, 2007). Trauma informed MUST be paired w/ABAR (antibias/antiracist) actions. Failure to do so = prime example of what @DenaSimmons calls “white supremacy w/a hug”

Also PLEASE sign up your babies with An IEP for the Vocational Rehabilitation Program georgia.gov/organization/g…

do you know a high school assistant principal whose responsibilities include student discipline? tell them to HOLLA at me! im studying the discipline gap and i want to hear what they have to say. flew through IRB and now it’s CALL FOR PARTICIPANTS time. #drclayloading

This future is not just bright for BTW, it is BLINDING! Whew! This is an Admin Team🤩🤯👏

A District-by-District Accounting of the $6.2 billion U.S. Department of Education Has Held Back from Schools newamerica.org/education-poli…

can’t believe i’ve been an educator for 18 school years. teacher case manager SST chair grade level lead curriculum creator assistant principal district specialist no matter the role, my heart belongs to the children + adults i have the privilege of serving. packed up and out!

💛🖤ASTRO PRIDE🖤💛

It’s not in your head—but it’s also not in your genes. After 40 years of research, Dr. Gabor Maté found that childhood trauma is the hidden root of all disease, addiction, and suffering. Here are 10 mind-blowing lessons he teaches about healing trauma and reclaiming your life: 🧵

What’s going on with Douglass football???? This is what’s going on!!! The main thing is still the main thing! The Astro Way! Seven athletes have signed to play college football!!! That brings our total to nine!!! #AGTG #collegebound

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this is why I’m passionate about discipline disproportionality. Because I believe it’s absolutely something we can address if we change our lenses and thinking about how it happens. Now let me log off and go write. #theroadtodrclay

im focusing on leaders as levers but let’s bffr, teachers are a major linchpin here. listening to them teachers plot to punish punitively is a reality that is far too real. i KNOW im not the only 1 who loved this. school safety requires community not carcerality or its systems.

hoping this semester is productive for me and that I’m able to successfully defend my proposal and begin my research. black children deserve more than trauma at school. community always trumps carcerality + consideration of the teaching force’s demographic comp is a MUST.

@heymrsbond OH YES. Cmon brilliance 🥰

We must not delude ourselves in this moment. Multiracial democracy in the United States is less than 60 years old. It has always been contested, often violently so. It has always been fragile. Since this nation's inception large swaths of white Americans -- including white women -- have claimed a belief in democracy while actually enforcing a white ethnocracy. In the face of shifting demographics where white Americans will lose their numeric majority, we see a growing embrace of autocracy to keep the "legitimate" rulers of this country in power. History teaches us that we are in a perilous moment.

All hands on deck! This is why I love my principal! Original members of the Student Athlete Advisory Council Seniors Adonis McCrary, Miranda DelValle Genchi, and Jontae Gilbert enjoyed being on the other side of the table!!! Served for 3 years, now let us serve you!The Astro Way!

School improvement warriors make a mistake in thinking everyone wants the same things they want. Often, job security and/or not upsetting the status quo is much more important to leaders than doing whatever it takes to teach a child to read. Playing it straight is a non-strategy.

i did a workshop last week w/ a group of yt queer organizers and i told them that their so called « activist fatigue » is b/c they don’t have an embodied liberation practice they can draw from since they spend more time appropriating the knowledge systems of non-yt people instead

to the people just trying to find themselves and their direction amongst grief, change, loss and the winds of life: