Transcript: One of the things that we often are asked is, “How are things changing as a result of our work?” In the education world, the change is coming very slowly. Sometimes it can be discouraging. We see very good examples of change that's happening, but it's pockets of change. 

I'll lift up Greensboro, NC as one of the places where there's actual shifts in the way in which policies are being made. Decisions are being made not just for the students in the classrooms and the curriculum, but for things such as purchasing, and building buildings, and the things that make a lot of money. So the people in North Carolina who are our friends and allies there are working both within the system and outside of the system. Building a base outside of the system, in the community, and then really continuously building a core group of people inside the schools who are really working together. This outside and inside effort is really making a difference in that area. Not only has the school board been through the Undoing Racism Workshop, but they meet monthly as people of color caucuses, they meet as white caucuses, to continue to deepen their understanding of what [the Undoing Racism analysis] is meaning for the schools and what is this meaning for the school district.

You have to be able to get a cadre of people inside the school working together with the people in the community who are the parents and the advisers and the leaders in the community so that when they work together they can speak with a voice that's going to be heard by the powers that be and start the changes that are going to be made.

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