As if parenting young children isn’t hard enough. Add the pandemic, remote learning for preschoolers, all kinds of added stress and we know that parents could use a celebration of all they’ve been through.
As we plan for our respective acknowledgments of Juneteeth, and our government confirms it as a national holiday, I have been thinking about how we each have been introduced to this part of our country's history, and the different ways that key events in Black history are communicated in our families and educational environments.
I have been reflecting this week on how social experiences shape so powerfully the way we each think, perceive, expect, and respond.
We'd like to pay tribute to Johnathan Trost, a former board member who passed away on December 22, 2020.