It was a Wednesday. I was a high school junior, not yet 17. Throughout the day, I found myself glancing behind me, mentally noting how I could get out of any of my classrooms should the threat arise. At 16, I taught myself situational awareness because just 24 hours before, Dylan Klebold and Eric Harris […]
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Video: Free Formula Exchange
Video: Boston Red Cloaks Rally Remarks
I am not your model minority.
The American cultural mythos of the “model minority” is toxic, insidious, and rampant. It perpetuates racial injustice that harms every member of the Asian-American community, even though most who use it “mean well.” The inherent othering baked into the term — when paired with the unspoken comparative to which “model” a “minority” must strive to […]
Boston Public Schools’ 461 Million Dollar Question
Once you start talking about numbers with more than one comma, it can be hard to conceptualize what half a billion dollars could really look like. The entire package of federal funds — that full $461 million dollars — breaks down to about $9,581 per BPS student. Remember, this is in addition to the roughly $23,000 BPS already […]
The Real Costs of Soft Landings for Under-Enrolled Schools
All things being equal, Weighted Student Funding (WSF) is one strategy Boston Public Schools (BPS) uses to accommodate the ways in which student need can impact individual school budgets by providing school leaders with the funding they need to best serve their students and meet their unique needs. The flexible formula that is WSF provides […]
Video: Line of Love Counter Protest
Client: Lodge of the Royal Secret
Project: Lodge Seal for Boston’s first new Masonic Lodge in the 21st century (currently Under Dispensation) Scope: Full suite of Lodge Seal variants for use in web and print, incorporating key visual symbols from the Scottish Rite and Freemasonry