Good Morning, ESMEC !Students can talk about a future

only when they can see one.

Education must be an equalizer.

The best for the best of students is the best for all students.

- Jody Zepp, Maryland TOY 2015

Mom-Mom & Pop-Pop

Tenant FarmersPoverty Dawn to DuskOwner’s mansion glowing with electricityEconomic InjusticeClass consciousness / Injury of ClassHow Green Was My ValleyMoral Outrage / Ethics

Dad & MomFrom 1-Room School houses to

Western Maryland College, which

became my backyard full of life &

academic lessons for a 4-year old girl…

1964

Political Justice

Economic Justice

Social Justice

Access & Opportunity

Equal Rights

Civil Rights

…Conditioned Jody’s Lens

Political SciencePsychologyNational Women’s Law CenterDOJCo-Author GAO reportSchool to Prison Pipeline…Now a 5th Generation of Women MCIWMinority Majority SchoolsClass / Race / Economic InjusticeMoral Outrage / EthicsBridge the Achievement Gap – BUTA bridge is effective only if it touches both sides of the stream

Where is education when…

• 1 in 30 U.S. kids were homeless during 2013• Low income students are now a majority of

the schoolchildren attending public school• “The trends will be prologue for a nation not

at risk, but a nation in decline.” Southern Ed Foundation

• Economic immobility & inequality is a systemic and pervasive problem

• Child poverty has reached record levels

The children speak to the CDF’s The State of America’s Children 2014

A shopping cart was my first crib.My sister and me.Our home was on the street.Finally a roof.Two beds for six.No is always on our minds. No running, no jumping, no fun.-- Shanika, age 5

There are six people in our family.But only five sit down to dinner.That’s because my mom doesn’t eat.She wants to make sure we have enough food.-- Vanessa, age 6

Teachers in Rural Communities know…

Poverty is the worst form of violence. – Ghandi

Education is the most powerful weapon which you can use to change the world. – Mandela

Have the audacity to believe that people everywhere can have 3 meals a day for their bodies, education… and dignity… -- King

…and meanwhile back in the Classroom

If we have to deal with the human soul, we must meet it on its own ground—and we are bound to do so when confronted with the real and crushing problems of life. -- Jung (psychologist)

One person with a belief is equal to a force of 99 who have only interests. – Mill (political scientist/philosopher)

We cannot rest until each of us would be satisfied with randomly assigning our own children to any public school in the nation. – Jason Kamras (2005 NTOY)