Back to School Safely: Educators and the Work to End Mandatory Reporting

Are you an educator trying to make sense of your role as a mandatory reporter? Are you an abolitionist still exploring the role family policing has in criminalization? Join collaborators Erin Miles Cloud, Charity Tolliver, Shawn Koyano, Erica Meiners, Jasmine Wali and Shannon Perez-Darby as we explore the intersections between mandatory reporting, anti-blackness and education. 

This event will be on zoom webinar and is free to attend. This event will be a panel and discussion format with time for Q&A. ASL interpretation and live captioning will be provided. For access requests or questions please email mandatoryreportingimpact@gmail.com 

Background:

In the Spring of 2023 a group of organizers came together to explore the intersections of mandatory reporting, education and anti-blackness. From that conversation the resource Survival Until Revolution: Mandatory Reporting, Anti-Blackness and Education, was born. The piece will be available in a forthcoming issue of the CUNY-based journal Theory Research and Action in Urban Education on Black Geographies and Abolitionist Education.  You can find an illustrated version of the resource here.

This project was made possible with support from Just Beginnings Collaborative, Movement for Family Power, Mandatory Reporting is Not Neutral Project, Ayla Gelsinger and Van Jordan.

Artwork by Alexis (@PIZZAGIRLLEX)