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Emily Berry
Apr 10, 20193 min read
Comments on the work ahead.
Below is a written version of comments I made at the board meeting tonight, April 9. Tonight will be one of the last times I speak to you...
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Emily Berry
Jan 7, 20192 min read
Writing racial equity into policy
Just a few months ago, our fall play was cancelled after objections to the racial slurs in the play. Suddenly systemic inequities that...
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Emily Berry
Jan 3, 20194 min read
I'm in.
Shorewood, welcome to campaign season 2019! This year I'll be on the ballot as a candidate for school board, and I'll be knocking on...
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Emily Berry
Nov 14, 20183 min read
"Please don't say 'this is a journey'"
Three of our five school board members are professors, so if there is one way to reach them, it is with an academic study of something....
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Emily Berry
Oct 19, 20185 min read
Unequal access to power
There's a phrase that people use now, sometimes jokingly: "all the feels," that describes Shorewood right now. All of us watching or...
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Emily Berry
Oct 15, 20184 min read
Waiting for leadership
The last few days of "To Kill a Mockingbird" controversy in Shorewood have swirled to the surface a lot of resentments, assumptions,...
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Emily Berry
Oct 12, 20183 min read
We failed. Let's get out of the way.
I'm lucky, I guess, to have a blank page here to draft my thoughts about the district cancelling its production of "To Kill a...
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Emily Berry
May 7, 20189 min read
Full email thread: our Superintendent on Student Transfers
Readers, our district superintendent Bryan Davis emailed me earlier today taking issue with the way I framed my recent post on transfers...
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Emily Berry
May 3, 20185 min read
Are students of color and their families giving up on Shorewood School District?
A few months ago, I started hearing talk of several African-American students leaving our high school and transferring to other nearby...
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