7/8 come lay a new Corner Stone of Justice for Public Edcation

Howard Zinn said: “We don't have to engage in grand, heroic actions to participate in the process of change. Small acts, when multiplied by millions of people, can transform the world.”

These are my sisters in justice Ruth Rodriguez and Ceresta Smith, we met some years ago on the road to change. We are three small acts of change, come join us as we become millions?

Trust me America's children will love us, not because we won, or lost, but because we stood up for them. We can do this people, we can become the change that transforms our public schools. Know this angels of change are gathering this July 8 at the Lincoln Memorial. We are gathering to lay a new corner stone for justice in America. Justice begins by reclaiming our public schools and demanding an end to this era of test, punish and privatize.

My sisters, our brothers and I are already marching arm in arm to a new tune of No More Justice Denied.
We reject that old corner stone of that "School To Prison Pipeline" rooted in racism, inequity and injustice for Black, Brown, Poor and Special Needs Children.  We will not tolerate 49 states spending more money on their wealthy schools than their poor schools.  We will give our political leaders and policy makers:
No cover for injustice,
No cover for inequity,
No cover for segregation,
No cover for their bigotry of false choices,
Not one vote for inequity,
Not one vote for injustice,
Not one vote for the lies of testing equals equity liars.
Calling all you masons of justice come lay that new corner stone in our nation's capital at the place where Dr. Martin Luther King gave birth to a new dream.  Come join us as we demand that Pledge of "Liberty and justice for all" in our public schools become real? You can stay on the sidelines of apathy and silence, or you can come lay the new corner stone with us? 

One Man Walking In The Name Of Love,

Jesse The Walking Man Turner

PS you can march for free people on July 8.
If you want a little more come join us at Howard University for a day of social justice conference sessions.  https://www.eventbrite.com/e/save-our-schools-activists-conference-new-experienced-organizers-working-for-public-education-tickets-24822224943 

If you want to know what this listen to the tune this Walking Man listened to on his walk on this windy day....it's " One Day" by Matisyahu > https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=cXACMQtuuZI&index=15&list=PLf8sMnaEtkFRxgw3K-K7F92_x0y2S3uMM < 

We refuse to do fast, we educate teachers the old fashion way

 Our Jamaican teachers hanging with Doctors Chuck, Carol, Lynda, Lousie and Jesse last July. Their two year learning journey ends this June with me.  

Some of our graduating Connecticut Reading Specialists graduating next week at our Teacher Love Fest last May

Harry Chapin sang:

"All my life's a circle, sunrise and sundown
The moon rolls through the nighttime, till the daybreak comes around
All my life's a circle but I can't tell you why
The season's spinning' round again the years keep rollin' by"

Today we welcome a little over 30 new teachers into our Central Connecticut State University graduate program for Reading and Language Arts, and next Thursday we graduate about the same.
It never gets old, it's always fresh, the new ones are always bright, and the ones leaving are always shinning stars.
We don't do it online, we don't do Graduate Education Relay scams, we don't do Teach For America 5 weeks over the summer, our students are full time teachers, and it usually takes around two years to complete our program. We don't do fast, we do well, and we have been doing it well for 167 years. We prepare teachers the old fashion way. We mentor them in apprenticeships of love and compassion for learning and teaching. We are not some fly by night hedge fund manager's dream. Our teachers are taught by real educators with PhDs in Education from top research institutions with years of public school experience.
We are not in the business of preparing CEOs. We are in the business of preparing teachers to become something far more important, Reading Specialists, Literacy Coaches and Reading consultants.
We are wise enough to know along the way the teachers we work with teach us. Learning is funny you can't teach without learning.
So my circle today welcomes new teachers, and my circle next week sends genuine experts in their field on their way. We can't do fast.
We do exemplary with compassion, love, and right,
Dr. Jesse Patrick Turner (AKA The Walking Man)

If you want to listen to the song from this mornings walk it Harry's "All My Life A Circle" https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=fW0vjZiu_rw

Grit another word for continued inequity and injustice for Black, Brown and Poor Children

Valerie Strauss has a good read in her article in the Washington Post. It does an excellent job exposing the thinking about teaching Grit in our public schools. This is the link below for her article. When you have some time it is really work a read.
https://www.washingtonpost.com/news/answer-sheet/wp/2016/05/10/the-problem-with-teaching-grit-to-poor-kids-they-already-have-it-heres-what-they-really-need/

Let me make this clear "GRIT" is a code word for Progressive racist reforms that keep Black, Brown and Poor Children down. It means don't change a thing, just tell children to toughen up. It means Progressive Ed Reformers are not willing to do the right thing.
Grit is such a convenient smoke and mirrors cover up for 49 states spending more money on their wealthy schools than their poor schools. Black, Brown and Poor children in America have endured generations of inequity in our public schools. Every Ed Reform policy claiming forcing children and poor schools to meet standards without equity is the same status quo lie that preserves the School to Prison Pipeline.
I am marching with my Moral Monday Leaders Bishop John L. Selders and Rev William Barber in DC this July 8 at the Peoples March for Public Education and Social Justice for equity denied for over a hundred years to Black, Brown, and Poor American children in our public schools. Equity is not grit it's doing the right thing for America children.

I have been walking, talking and marching for 50 years for equity and justice in America. I have march every step of the way out of love for my nation and it's people. I march, because I think inequity and injustice ends in America on the day we all march. The only question I have is why isn't everyone marching with us? 
Marching for my people,
Jesse The Walking Man Turner 

If you like to know what song this walking man is listening to on his walk this morning....its Ben Harper "with My Own Two Hands" https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=aEnfy9qfdaU