It has been quite a year for social justice advocacy, especially combating anti-Black racism. We have re-evaluated our strategies for supporting the community in this moment. Gwinnett SToPP has doubled-down on education and training – equipping parents, students, and community members with the knowledge and skills they need to navigate new and existing challenges to […]
Category Archives: Training
Education System in Crisis Series
On November 9th, Gwinnett SToPP will be presenting our fourth installment to the Education System In Crisis series titled, “Native American Boarding Schools and the COVID Response.” We have been discussing racism in education including: the foundation of the education system, disparities in discipline and opportunities, and Police Free Schools! We educate the public on […]
Green Light!
School’s out, but we are hard at work preparing for Year Two of our ending the school to prison pipeline project in partnership with the Georgia Council on Developmental Disabilities. That’s right! We have been given the green light to move forward to the training phase of this coalition-building effort. The second activity of this […]
Official Launch- ESSA Engage for Equity Campaign & Toolkit
The Dignity in Schools Campaign, Partners for Each and Every Child, and the NAACP Legal Defense and Educational Fund, Inc. developed this toolkit to serve as a call to action and to empower parents, families, caregivers, students, and other community members with the information and tools they need to take action on ESSA in schools. This Toolkit provides resources […]
ESSA Engage for Equity Campaign & Toolkit
Dignity in Schools Campaign members, NAACP Legal Defense Fund, and Partners for Each and Every Child launched the ESSA Engage for Equity campaign and pre-released its accompanying jointly developed Toolkit. The campaign is designed to empower students, parents and other stakeholders to hold conversations in their local school that can only positively impact education. This […]
Sit Tight, Education is a Human Right!
This year, Gwinnett SToPP partnered with the ACLU of Georgia, Georgia Legal Services Program, and Interfaith Children’s Movement to conduct a day-long education civil rights workshop as part of the Dignity in Schools Campaign’s National Week of Action. Participants met at Salem Missionary Baptist Church in Lilburn, Georgia on October 21, 2017 to learn their […]
Looking for a Silver Lining
Greetings Friends of Gwinnett SToPP. For those passionate about public education, it is true that the stakes have never been higher. On national, state and local levels the quality of education and safety of our children in public schools is uncertain. School police forces are emboldened to treat our children like adult criminals at the […]
YLI and PLI To Be Offered Concurrently in January – Sign Up Today!
We need leaders today more than ever and Gwinnett SToPP is happy to step up and provide our road-tested and proven advocacy/activist leadership training once again to the young people and parents of Gwinnett County and the greater Atlanta metro area. For the third year in a row, we have tightened our timelines and created […]
Georgia APBS Conference
November 30th – December 1st, 2016 Infinite Energy Center Duluth, GA Interfaith Children’s Movement (ICM) and Gwinnett SToPP will be on deck presenting “Creating a Welcoming School Through Family and Community Engagement” at the Georgia APBS conference. This is our third year presenting at the conference. Our goal is to ensure the parent and […]
Our Youth Are On The Move!
Gwinnett SToPP offered Youth Leadership Institute to young people over the past year because we felt that to affect real and lasting change in schools, our elected officials needed to hear from the voices of parents, teachers and especially the students they serve. We are so proud to see the seeds of activism and civic […]