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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...

Emily Berry
Apr 10, 20193 min read
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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...

Emily Berry
Jan 7, 20192 min read
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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...

Emily Berry
Jan 3, 20194 min read
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"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....

Emily Berry
Nov 14, 20183 min read
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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...

Emily Berry
Oct 19, 20185 min read
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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,...

Emily Berry
Oct 15, 20184 min read
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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...

Emily Berry
Oct 12, 20183 min read
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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...

Emily Berry
May 7, 20189 min read
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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...

Emily Berry
May 3, 20185 min read
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