Student Rights in School? There’s an App for That!
This website and video provides an overview of the Student Rights App created by the Boston Student Advisory Council (BSAC) for the students of Boston Public Schools. This app is ... MORE
Toolkit on Organizing to Combat the School-to-Prison Pipeline
Strategies for Base-Building
- Base-Building
- Advocacy and Alliance Building
- Accountability Strategies
- Campaign Strategies
- Solutions for Change
- Strategies for Base-Building
The Labor Community Strategy Center—Finally—Gets the Tanks and M-16s Out of the LA School System
This May 2016 Huffington Post Blog from Eric Mann, Director of the Labor/Community Strategy Center, details the Strategy Center’s “ferocious uphill organizing” that removed military grade weapons from Los Angeles ... MORE
- School Pushout
- Understanding the Educational System
- Solutions for Change
- Strategies for Base-Building
ACLU: Gone Too Far: Our Kids in Handcuffs
ACLU has created a three-minute video introducing Kyle Thompson and his story. A succinct infographic framing Brown at 60 is also offered to add context to the video illustrating the ... MORE
- Coalition-Building
- Leadership Development Activities
- Becoming an Organizer/Leader
- Strategies for Base-Building
ACLU Safe Classrooms Pledge
This is a flyer resource which is effective in redesigning or re-imagining what effective leadership in schools could look like. Research proves that the presence of law enforcement doesn’t create ... MORE
Power Building Tips
Author: Youth Justice Coalition This document shares valuable tips for building community power – such as working with, not for people, consistency of meetings, aim for and celebrating small victories, ... MORE
FIERCE Ford Foundation Report
The Educating + Recruiting + Engaging = Base Building formula is discussed in this report. FIERCE’s local base -building efforts presented are connection, follow up, and concrete opportunity to plug ... MORE
Building Your Power: Organizing 101 (Wellstone)
This PDF resource introduces the Wellstone Triangle encompassing aspects of leadership: community organizing, public policy, and electoral politics. This guide identifies components necessary for building power in communities and addresses ... MORE
TU: Lehman High School
This Teachers United testimonial was written by an educator who taught at Lehman when it was a much larger school (4200 students), and discusses the history of the school and ... MORE
Stanford’s Gardner Center for Youth and Their Communities
This Online resource is devoted to data use and capacity building. The strategy presented by the John W. Gardner Center for Youth and Their Communities is a three-pronged approach to facilitate ... MORE