Hello Ontario educators, I’m hoping this post will provide some much needed clarity around Richard Bilkszto’s tragic death as it relates to DEI training. First and foremost, let me say that I support DEI training, but it needs to be done by people who are “awake,” not by people who are “woke.” This next part is going to be hard for some of you to hear. Being “woke” is not the same thing as being “awake” or “enlightened.”
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Time magazine’s cover for its February 8th issue is a single, pink, knitted hat with the words “The Resistance Rises” written above it. An estimated 500,000 women wore pink hats at the Women’s March in Washington on January 21, 2017. The hat has become an iconic symbol of resistance. Here are eight powerful reasons why you should wear a pink hat (and take a stand against gender and race discrimination in other ways):
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Studies show that we grow up psychologically quite naturally until about the age of twenty. Then, for reasons that are not terribly well understood, we simply stop growing. We remain at whatever psychological level of development we reached in our early twenties until the age of sixty or so, and then we start growing up again. Very few people actually grow up to the point of self-actualization. Currently only five percent of the world’s population is self-actualized or "fully" psychologically grown. There are things we can do between the ages of twenty and sixty to ensure we grow up psychologically fully. We need to do these things to become the very best version of ourselves we can be.
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