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Ali Collins 高勵思 is on Spill Profile picture
Ali Collins 高勵思 is on Spill
@AliMCollins
Educator, public school mom, former SF Board of Education Commissioner. I’m fighting for safe, high quality schools for every child. | she/her
Jun 7, 2023 • 19 tweets • 11 min read
Yesterday was out of control in LA, my “hometown”. The same folks radicalizing Christian Armenian immigrants in Glendale, CA invited Proud Boys and other Jan 6 insurrectionists to anti-LGBTQ protests at the GUSD. It got violent. 1/ Media continue to frame this as being driven by “conservative parents”, when we see many of the same activities happening that happened in SF and nationally.

Media often cite“conservative parents” in reporting who don’t even know which school district they are protesting. 2/
Jun 6, 2023 • 6 tweets • 2 min read
Everyone needs to watch this and watch it until the end.

Anyone posting images of homeless people and people struggling with addiction to shame them are only showing how cruel and inhumane they themselves are. People don’t choose suffering. When I was a kid, I once told my dad, “What are you going to do? There have always been homeless people.” And my dad corrected me. He told me I was wrong.
Jun 5, 2023 • 8 tweets • 5 min read
This piece by @SandyBanksLA from a while back is really wonderful. It’s a testament to the powerful work Ethnic Studies educators are doing in schools. Rufo and DeSantis’ are campaigning to restrict this type of critical inquiry in our society via regressive ed policies. “There is nothing natural about camaraderie among people of color,” Pérez wrote in a 2020 opinion piece for the WaPo. “For every commonality, a point of difference intrudes on unity.”

Right wing pol strategists are exploiting those diff. in “blue” cities like NY, SF, DC and LA.
Dec 1, 2022 • 11 tweets • 4 min read
Now is your chance to see the legendary Ishmael Reed's new play. The Conductor is a satirical take on the SF School Board Recall. Catch this irreverent, informative, and funny virtual screening before it goes LIVE on stage in Spring 2023 Off-Broadway!
medium.com/@alimcollins/i… I was no doubt a canary in a coal mine. As a parent organizer, educator, & former SF school board member, I was on the front end of the wave of right-wing attacks against educators dismantling anti-discriminatory policies in our schools. #truthbetold aapf.org/truthbetold
Jul 13, 2022 • 25 tweets • 9 min read
Our SF school board is listening to folks who promote Jim Crow Education policies. For real!

Let me explain… (A thread. 🧵) 1/ It is not surprising many “Save Lowell” proponents (and others) are also fighting against anti-racist and LGBTQ-affirming education and believe CRT is “indoctrinating” our kids). 2/
Jul 12, 2022 • 5 tweets • 2 min read
This article by @jiasunlee is everything that’s going on in SF. The dynamics outlined here animate political life and are destroying our city. We need folks from all backgrounds to start talking about this, and especially members of API communities. jiasunlee.com/white-supremac… “From a racial perspective, think of White supremacy as the narcissistic parent, and BIPOC as its triangulated children. Black, Indigenous, Brown Hispanics and Latinx, and dark-skinned Asian Americans have been scapegoated.
Jun 20, 2022 • 28 tweets • 19 min read
This past Juneteenth, I was in New York and went to visit the site of Seneca Village in Central Park. A whole thriving Black town erased. To make a respite from urban life for the rest of New York City (and raise the value of its real estate.) How is this any different that what happened to the Filmore in SF?

How is this constant erasure any different from what is happening around Lowell High School?
Jun 19, 2022 • 4 tweets • 2 min read
This is a really good thread on how “respectable” journalism has been weaponized to spread disinformation to undermine public discourse (and our democracy). This is specifically about the SF DA recall of Chesa Boudin, but the same patterns apply coverage of the SF BOE recall. This is really helpful language. The “self-referential loop of false information” fuels a large degree of SF stories meant to push political agendas under the guise of “facts”.
Jun 6, 2022 • 20 tweets • 10 min read
This is really important, and has major implications in SF political activity and the targeted harassment of IBPOC leaders by alt right, and pro-fascist operatives. I will be sharing info. Please disseminate widely. If you are wondering what Jack has to do with SF politics, look no further than the SF Board of Education recall campaign which was, in a way, officially kicked off with an online information attack against me.

Pay close attention to the dates on the tweets below. 👇🏽 ImageImageImageImage
Mar 10, 2022 • 12 tweets • 5 min read
This is a must listen episode of the @NomikiKonst show featuring @DrEricDing talking about the upcoming Omicron wave. It reaffirmed for me why being cautious is the best move when navigating this continuing epidemic. #CovidIsNotOver

A thread on some key points he shared. 🧵1/ .@DrEricDing said this new wave of Omicron 2.0 is 30% more contagious, with more reinfection potential. This does not bode well for a predicted April surge, considering a boosters ability to protect for infection is reduced by about half after 10 weeks from getting boosted.
Oct 25, 2020 • 6 tweets • 2 min read
The banality of racism in education brookings.edu/blog/brown-cen… “We are a country only a century-and-a-half removed from the enslavement of African Americans and its accompanying anti-literacy laws, which prohibited teaching slaves to read and write. The end of that era led not to some type of egalitarian or meritocratic society—“...
Oct 24, 2020 • 11 tweets • 5 min read
TY @DrIbram for your letter. SFUSD voted last Tuesday to suspend the regular admissions policy based on essay, exam and GPA due to similar concerns for COVID. Yet unlike BPS we will allow any student to apply via the general lottery. As you can imagine, this was met with controversy and online harassment and targeting of me and @lopez4schools the Black and a Latinx female Commissioners and a Black female representative to the Board who is also a Lowell student.
Oct 12, 2020 • 14 tweets • 3 min read
This is a “learning moment”. So let’s get educated.

This article was recommended by Dr. @DumiLM an associate professor at NYU, my alma matter! (Thank you! 🙏🏽 )

It discusses the history of eugenics and standardized tests, and their relationship to the concept of meritocracy. ImageImage Here’s a link to the full article: files.eric.ed.gov/fulltext/EJ101…
Jul 20, 2020 • 7 tweets • 2 min read
In talking with educators about the #poddemic (my husband’s term, not mine🤣) a colleague made an observation:

“One thing that is occurring to me is that we need to also take into account that our capacity for work etc. is not at 100% because we are in a collective trauma! But what we are asking is at 150% to reinvent everything! It's going too fast and is decreasing my capacity to think and be creative even more! My head is spinning!”
Jul 18, 2020 • 22 tweets • 4 min read
1/ I am finally coming up for air from a post I did on FB the other night. After posting late at night, I woke up and found I was quoted in the Washington Post story on the pods. (A thread) 2/ My quote read: “The frantic activity I am witnessing of families soliciting private tutors for their children at the tune of hundreds to thousands of dollars to ‘home-school’ their children is frightening to many Black parents and parents of color,”
Jul 8, 2020 • 97 tweets • 23 min read
1/ OK... here goes! Sharing some thoughts from watching SFUSD’s Educator Town Hall last Monday. This is a loooong one so buckle up! 2/ First off, let’s talk process. I really liked the ThoughtExchange platform to share thoughts/questions and “like” others thoughts/questions. I’m wondering how to make public the list of staff thoughts/questions when it closes. FYI: the District is still collecting input.
Jun 7, 2020 • 17 tweets • 4 min read
I am seeing a resurgence of interest in educators calling on other educators to stop pushing kids out of class, to do deep reflective work on their own implicit bias, and to implement restorative practice approache to discipline. #ClearTheAir Thread/ While I deeply appreciate the challenges educators are posing to one another, and also agree, that we as educators must call on our peers to do deep reflective work about our own internalized bias and the ways we view student “misbehavior”,
Jun 26, 2019 • 13 tweets • 4 min read
Robin DiAngelo and other critical race scholars consistently cite the fact that intent does not mitigate impact. Because we are a product of our times and our socialization, we may do and say things that are horribly racist and not understand why. Folks invoke “intent” to negate the harm that individual and structural racism causes. Sorta like, “I didn’t mean to run over your cat, I was just pulling out of the driveway.” E.g. “get over it.”