Community Support
Designs for Learning supports ongoing efforts during the recent uprising in Minneapolis and across the world. We feel the outrage and anger at the system that allowed a white police officer to murder a black citizen, George Floyd, while 3 other police officers stood guard. We can’t support rioting and arson but as we watched the fires burning, the protesters marching and the uprising of people who are fed up with the system, we could feel the flow of the disruptors and the power that this disruption may wield. These protests following the latest in a sad string of examples of how Black people, brown people, Native people, immigrants have been treated over hundreds of years will not be enough to bring reform to the inequities of the systems in place – but it is something.
We at Designs for Learning are lucky enough to have been fighting for disruptions in the education system alongside some amazing Charter School and Alternative Ed leaders over the years. We welcome changes to the old system and we honor the unique contribution each school, each student, and each DL team member makes. Each staff member at Designs for Learning will be given paid time off to do the work of racial justice, to volunteer to support charter schools, to do something that may affect change. Designs for Learning cares deeply about each of you. We care about the work you do, the lives you lead, and the people you are. And it is with this sense of caring that we say … we are here for you… we care for you. Tell us what you need .. tell us how we can help.
