Posts by Kelly Niccolls
Equity & Access
Decentering Whiteness from Our American Schools
There is a narrative surrounding decentering whiteness in American education spaces. Kelly Niccolls, Rebecca Midles, and Susan Enfield walk you through this journey.
Difference Making
Collaborative Conversations to Shephard Communities Forward, Together
Rebecca Midles and Kelly Niccolls explore how school systems set the future of communities and the urgency of intentional design of community building for our learners.
Equity & Access
First They Came for Critical Race Theory…
A year ago, there were protests all across the country building a movement and calling for action and systems that believed Black Lives Mattered. Hundreds of thousands of people advocated and proclaimed wanting to learn how we can build communities of support and care for each other and…
Leadership
Year of Listening
Are you in your years of questions or your years of answers? Kelly Niccolls shares where she's at on her educational leadership journey and how she's listening now more than ever for what's next.
Equity & Access
Emancipating Equity for Learning Justice
Kelly Niccolls and Rebecca Midles discuss how we must dismantle the machine that is schooling and emancipate equity for learning justice.
Future of Learning
Getting Clearer: Schooling Loss, Not Learning Loss
By: Kelly Niccolls & Rebecca Midles. Students have experienced school loss and peer interaction loss, not learning loss. Kelly and Rebecca outline how educators can help students continue forward in their learning journey.
Series
Getting Clearer: Student Access
There are key inequities in student access that need to be addressed across the country to support improvement in learning experiences and outcomes.
Leadership
Getting Clearer: Our Students Need Sponsors, Not Saviors
Kelly explains the importance of students having sponsors - concerted communities of mentors that in various roles and responsibilities invest in the talents and desires of our young people.
Personalized Learning
Getting Clearer: Human-Centered Design
Where do we start when thinking about the new system design for teaching and learning in America? We start with people. Specifically, our students.
Personalized Learning
What is Curriculum in the year 2020? From Managed Instruction to Personalized Learning
Kelly answers the question of "what is curriculum in 2020?" and how that must correlate to outcomes that matter to students and to their futures.