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Join me today as I discuss “Decolonising Education: Imperatives for 21st Century Principalship at the NCEL Leadership Series meeting, Ministry of Education Jamaica 🇯🇲@OISEUofT @LHAEUTOISE. Scan the QR Code to register

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People who lack empathy should not be in positions of leadership.

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My peonies bloomed this year. So beautiful. Enjoying while they last

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Can’t to join the amazing educators, students, community members @isatt2025.bsky.social @oiseuoft.bsky.social @lhaecomms.bsky.social

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Looking forwards to the conversation @oiseuoft.bsky.social @lhaecomms.bsky.social

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So sorry to hear that Ngũgĩ wa Thiong'o has joined the ancestors. His writings have influenced my work over the years especially his book Decolonising the Mind. RIP Ngũgĩ🕊️

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Phang: We don’t need the Ten Commandments hanging in Texas schools. What we need is common-sense gun legislation—so the kids can live. If my kid goes to a public school in Texas and they can’t come home alive, I don’t give a shit about the Ten Commandments being posted on the wall.

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My latest in the Journal of School Leadership. Leaders must use their leadership agency and know as leaders what they will not be complicit in, be silent about, and advocate for @OISEUofT @LHAEUTOISE @CLD_Leadership

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Happy 100th Birthday to Malcolm X Omowale El-Hajj Malik El-Shabazz born May 19,1925. He fought for justice Black people and all oppressed people everywhere. His words continue to inspire.

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Says a lot about a society and embedded anti-Black racism when racist slurs are hurled at a Black child by an adult and that adult is financially rewarded for their racist act.

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Colonizers will never give up willingly the benefits and resources they reap from colonization

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NEW: Mississippi Gov. Tate Reeves has declared April 2025 as Confederate Heritage Month. He did so at the behest of the Sons of Confederate Veterans, a neo-Confederate organization that espouses “Lost Cause” ideology, which whitewashes the role of slavery in the Civil War. 🧵

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Black people are not safe among them

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What an awful thing to do all while they wrap themselves in the Bible

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Leadership that centres the most vulnerable and lead with humility. He called into Gaza daily and apologized for Residential school harm in Canada.

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When we revolt it’s not for a particular culture. We revolt simply because, for many reasons, we can no longer breathe - Frantz Fanon

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Happy Easter to all who celebrate

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"In a racist society, it is not enough to be non-racist. We must be anti-racist." - Angela Davis

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Two weeks to go 🙌 Have you registered yet for CLD's next Focus on Research Series, to be presented by Dr. Paul Campbell on April 30 2025, @ 12:30pm EST & moderated by Dr. Caroline Manion @oiseuoft.bsky.social @drannlopez.bsky.social 💫 🔗 oise-utoronto.zoom.us/meeting/regi... See you there! 💫

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What happened to law and order Republicans? They are participating in the most lawless acts and denying folks their rights.

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The master’s tools will never take down the master’s house”. - Audre Lorde

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We live in a world of misinformation and lies by propelled by narcissistic and leaders whose sole agenda is power for oligarchs.

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Do not miss this opportunity to engage, share research, ideas, and actions at CLD Virtual and On-Line Conference Oct 16-18, 2025. Link below to send in Abstracts ⬇️

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Leadership that does not centre humanity is not leadership.

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When people show you who they are the first time, believe them - Maya Angelou

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To educate the masses politically does not mean, cannot mean, making a political speech. What it means is to try, relentlessly and passionately, to teach the masses that everything depends on them. - Frantz Fanon

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Thank you @uofgheadship.bsky.social for the privilege of being in space and sharing some ideas with amazing educators engaging in antiracist education

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A fabulous Audience with Professor Ann Lopez: Decolonising Education Leadership, chaired by Ecucation Leadership and Policy lead @mariemcquade.bsky.social Thank you @drannlopez.bsky.social and to everyone who contributed questions!

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We’re facing an era where fools are calling for a renewal of colonialism, where descriptions of violence and instability draw on the very colonial language of “barbarism” and “backwardness”….While colonialism in its formal sense might have been dismantled, the colonial state has not. Aimé Césaire

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Anti-Black racism to be specific

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White supremacists & racists feeling emboldened because leaders have made it okay. Can you imagine a Black child being in this person’s class, or a Black patient having this person as a nurse. Sadly they are everywhere endangering Black people’s lives

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I’m so grateful I was introduced to this podcast. #Decolonizing and #Uncolonizing #Leadership: How do we undo and disrupt coloniality and engage in decolonizing and uncolonizing leadership? The encouragement I needed today. #Disrupting in a good way! www.yorku.ca/edu/unleadin...

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