Thread by @iamlisalogan

🧵CRITICAL (RACE) THEORY HAS BEEN REBRANDED YET AGAIN

Just as the science behind social emotional health was twisted to justify Transformative SEL, the science of learning & development has been curated to require “Robust Equity."

Not just at school but from the WHOLE community

🧵Zaretta Hammond (who wrote a chapter in the book explaining how they want to use the science of learning as a “disruptor”), says the previous ways that science was used “spirit murders” oppressed children & fosters white supremacy culture so now we need “cognitive justice.”

🧵Cognitive Justice means "Robust Equity”

For students to thrive, it’s not enough that they have equal access to opportunity, but all opportunities to learn MUST address “institutionalized privilege & prejudice & systemic deficits” & be committed to “long-term complex change.”

🧵The "science" says learning needs to be done in an identity-affirming, safe (culturally-relevant) environment & that ALL adults that come into contact w/ children need to know how to provide that.

It will include those providing services to students in/out of community schools

🧵This means ALL adults will need to be taught culturally responsive (cough: critical) pedagogy & then put that into practice by talking about systemic oppression in ALL learning spaces (everywhere).

Even museums, libraries, after school programs, faith-based & civic orgs, etc.

🧵ALL service providers will be taught to think that society was built to benefit some & disadvantage others (critical consciousness), to know their position in that structure & to help them understand their role (becoming an ally/activist) in dismantling those social structures.

🧵The Science of Learning and Development (SoLD) Alliance’s scientific analysis of the research and their call for additional research papers through AERA seems to be biased and “cooked” to reverse engineer the social justice narrative they want to push.

Listen:👇

🧵The Global Science of Learning Education Network (GSoLEN)-which the Science of Learning & Development Alliance is a part-is figuring out how to scale this Freirian model of education GLOBALLY.

They want to use SoLD as a social movement to create culture and systems change.

🧵Escuela Nueva is one of the examples given to be imitated of how this is being done at scale in the Global South.

The changes they've made are similar to Personalized Competency-Based Learning & Portrait of a Graduate in the U.S.

"It's like Paolo Freire in the classroom."

🧵The SoLD Alliance is trying to accomplish this in the U.S. through their Whole Child Design Principles, which will transform learning environments & push the adoption of the WSCC model/Community Schools through their Integrated Supports Plank.

https://twitter.com/iamlisalogan/status/1643671410085351425?s=20

🧵Remember this @FoxNews story about how the CDC was associated with AASA’s Learning 2025 program, which calls for an equity-focused, “holistic redesign” of the U.S. public ed system?

foxnews.com/media/cdc-link…

It’s a much bigger story.

It’s also based off of SoLD's “science."

🧵The SoLD Alliance, GSoLEN, Aspen's NCSEAD, CASEL, AASA & other linked people & orgs seem to be participating in a coordinated cabal to create cultural revolutions in the U.S. and across the globe by pushing critical theories in education.

People should be sued & go to jail.