“How would things have been different if we’d been able to talk about all this sooner?”
-Maya Wanner
Is It Freedom? is a song featured in Episode 06: Where Do We Go. The song is the result of a unique collaboration between Jorie, Erica’s niece, and Larii, a young Chicago-based artist.
“In civics, my teacher taught that the 4th of July was when we gained our freedom from Great Britain. I waited for her to talk about the rest of the Americans and when we gained our freedom. But that part never came.”
-Jorie
What happens when students identities are not represented in the curriculum?
“We are in the midst of a great shift. At every turn we face new adversity and we are forced to reckon with new realities”.
- Erica Young
When you know you belong, you feel free to learn. You feel free to interact. You feel free to bring your whole self to the classroom.
- Erica Young