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Codesigning Critical Literacies for Black Youth in Seattle: Part 3
I joined a codesign session at Wing Luke Elementary in April 2024. At that point, families and students had developed a strong community. Members of the RCPP noted they felt[..]
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Codesigning Critical Literacies for Black Youth in Seattle: Part 2
by: Ji Ho (Geo) Yang, PHD Candidate at the University of Washington Note: If you haven’t read the first post from this blog series, I encourage you to read it before reading[..]
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Codesigning Critical Literacies for Black Youth in Seattle
by: Ji Ho (Geo) Yang, PHD Candidate at the University of Washington This blog post is the first part of a three-part blog series about my experience with the research communit[..]
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Real-world Superheroes: Honoring and Celebrating our teachers!
by: Ji Ho (Geo) Yang, PHD Candidate at the University of Washington This summer, I was blessed to have one of my fellow teachers from Chicago visit me in Seattle. During his[..]
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Celebrating Resilience: How My Students Overcame Adversity and Achieved Success
by: Ji Ho (Geo) Yang, PHD Candidate at the University of Washington The last group of students that I taught have just recently graduated from high school. To them (and [..]
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The Role of Whiteness as Property in Today’s Segregation”
by: Ji Ho (Geo) Yang, PHD Candidate at the University of Washington Whiteness as property is a key concept within Critical Race Theory (CRT) which was developed by Dr. Harris [..]
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What is “Interest Convergence”?
by: Ji Ho (Geo) Yang, PHD Candidate at the University of Washington Interest convergence as a concept suggests that progress and justice in social issues are based on the inte[..]
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Teachers and Race: The Cultural Schemas Behind Resource Management
by: Ji Ho (Geo) Yang, PHD Candidate at the University of Washington My doctoral journey began in the summer of 2020. This journey includes saying goodbye to my fellow ed[..]
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What is CRT and what’s the big deal?
by: Ji Ho (Geo) Yang, PHD Candidate at the University of Washington Broadly speaking, Critical Race Theory (CRT) is a conceptual framework used in academia (i.e. research) to [..]
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70 Years after Brown v. Board of Education, Desegregation in Public Schools continues to be the Wild West
by: Ji Ho (Geo) Yang, PHD Candidate at the University of Washington Where has Brown v. Board of Education led us to? What are the implications of this monumental court c[..]
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