JusticexDesign's first two years
by Sarah Sheya | 10 May 2021
Featured on this page are the teachers who participated in JusticexDesign's (JxD) first two years of collaborative inquiry (2019-2021). Some of the educators below are Origin Educators and helped launch the project. Others joined in year two. All of the participating teachers contributed immensely to the early phases of the research, the development of the JxD framework, and many of the JxD tools. This page serves to honor their work—all of the grappling, muddying, puzzling, collaborating, and co-constructing they have done and continue to do.
Below each image is the teacher's name, preferred personal pronouns, position, school, and a powerful book/film/podcast/artwork that got them through the past year. Thank you for joining us in honoring these educators and their tremendous work!
Upper School Spanish Coordinator and TeacherWashington International SchoolBook: Helping Our Students Change the World by Angie Thomas
Middle School Spanish TeacherWashington International SchoolMujeres del Alma Mía, Isabel Allende
Upper School French TeacherWashington International School
Book: In the name of identity by Amin Maalouf
Upper School Art TeacherWashington International SchoolExhibition: "Incoming" by Richard Mosse
Middle SchooL Visual Art and Design Technology TeacherWashington International SchoolPodcast: "Unlocking Us" with Brené Brown
Middle School Spanish Language Arts Teacher
Sacred Heart School
Poetry: Antología Poética by Pedro Salinas
PrincipalSacred Heart SchoolBook: Broken Horses by Brandi Carlile
4th Grade Teacher
St. Thomas More Academy
Book: Ghosts in the Schoolyard by Eve Ewing
Principal
St. Thomas More AcademyBook: Stamped: Racism, Antiracism, and You by Ibram X. Kendi and Jason Reynolds
Instructional CoachSacred Heart School
Music: Brandi Carlile
Middle School Global Studies Teacher/Language Acquisition Coach
Sacred Heart School
Book: The Water Dancer by Ta-Nehisi Coates
Upper School and Middle School Chinese Coordinator and TeacherWashington International SchoolPodcast: "On Being" with Krista Tippett
STEAM Community CoordinatorWashington International School
Letter/Spoken word: "For Everyone" by Jason Reynolds
she/her/hers
Middle School Math TeacherSacred Heart School
Column: "What's Going On in This Graph?" from the New York Times
she/her/hers
Upper School Theatre TeacherWashington International School
Book: The Science of Storytelling: Why Stories Make Us Human and How to Tell Them Better by Will Storr
Digigriot & J.E.D.I.Washington International School
Album: "Mr," album by Leslie Odom Jr.
Middle School Language Arts Teacher/ Arts Integration Instructional CoachSacred Heart School
Painting: "Behind the Myth of Benevolence" by Titus Kaphar
she/her/hers
Middle School Language Arts TeacherSt. Thomas More Academy
Podcast: "The Homecoming" with Dr. Thema
Middle School EL TeacherAlice Deal Middle SchoolMini Series: "When They See Us" by Ava DuVerney
Book: To the Lighthouse by Elizabeth Woolf
she/her/hers
Middle School Science Teacher
Sacred Heart School
Book: The Overstory by Richard Powers
she/her/hers
Early Childhood TeacherWashington International School
Book: How to Be an Anti-Racist by Ibram X. Kendi
Middle School Social Studies TeacherSt. Thomas More Academy
Series: "Attack on Titan" by Hajime Isayama
she/her/hers
Middle School English Coordinator and TeacherWashington International School
Book: Hunger: A Memoir of My Body by Roxane Gay
she/her/hers
Middle and Upper School Chinese TeacherWashington International School
Book: Orphans of Asia by Wu Chuo-liu
A huge thank you to Edward P. Clapp, Jim Reese, and Agency by Design's Making Across the Curriculum project for providing the space—both physical and conceptual—for the JusticexDesign work to grow and develop in its first two years!
Edward P. Clapp
he/him/his
Principal Investigator
Project Zero, Harvard Graduate School of Education
Album: The Moana Soundtrack
Jim Reese
he/him/his
Director, Professional Development Collaborative
Washington International School
Book: Begin Again by Eddie S. Glaude Jr.
Another great big thank you to Lynneth Solis for her generative thought partnership over the course of JusticexDesign's second year and in particular, her efforts in co-translating the JxD pedagogical framework into the JxD research framework.
Lynneth Solis
she/her/hers
Research Director
Project Zero, Harvard Graduate School of Education
Series: "On My Block"