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The Dialectic of Social-Emotional Learning

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The Quote Spirit Murdering of Black and Brown Children

When young people don't see themselves reflected in the curriculum or learn deficit narratives about their communities contributions, it is a form of quote spirit murdering. In 1987, legal scholar Patricia Williams conceptualized the term spirit murdering to describe the product of racism that not only inflicts harm and pain onto black and brown people, but kills their spirits. See, the exact opposite of what they teach us is actually correct. If you actually treat every child as an individual, regardless of who they what their background is, then there is no disproportionate anything. It's only when you start taking this into account that there are disproportionate.

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