Kechi Ladapo

The plan boiled down to the following: Make students write more all through the core, and improvement will follow. It really wasn’t a bad premise. But reading samples of student papers semester after semester, I wasn’t sure it quite delivered. Why not? I have four reasons to propose here that are relevant to the rest of us.

1. The best writers read a

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Beautiful letter from W.E.B. DuBois to his daughter Yolande

Trish Thomas

Principal & Lead Strategist at Akamai Strategy, Founder of Lark Builders

March 12, 2016

I just had the privilege of discovering this beautiful letter from a father to a daughter as she stepped into the great unknown. Yolande was the daughter of W.E.B. DuBois and went abroad to a... See more

There are no prerequisites or “qualifications” to teach what we know to be true beyond white supremacy culture, to offer what our community has told us they need, to share our skills and seeds of wisdom with the folks we dream of serving. We do so much work trying to convince ourselves we are worthy of our desires when, in fact, it is the systems... See more

I'm hopeful that as the world spins faster,

Sublime will help us stay grounded.

Sublime isn't about productivity

it's about clarity.