Restoring Your Commitment to Progressive Education

Restoring Your Commitment to Progressive Education: Fostering Agency, Affirming Identity, and Liberating Students and Teachers

Evening with Trustees, Staff, and Parents/Caregivers Featuring Dr. Denisha Jones

Dr. Denisha Jones is the Executive Director of Defending the Early Years. She is a former kindergarten teacher and preschool director who spent the past 19 years in teacher education. Denisha is an education justice advocate and activist working with various grassroots organizations to dismantle the neoliberal assault on public education. She is a part-time faculty member in the Art of Teaching program at Sarah Lawrence College and the School of Education at Howard University. Since 2017, she served on the steering committee for the national Black Lives Matter at School Week of Action. Her first co-edited book, Black Lives Matter at School: An Uprising for Educational Justice, was published in December 2020 by Haymarket Books.