Do all the good that you can
In all the ways that you can
In all the places you can
At all the times you can
To all the people you can
An organization filled with honest, motivated, connected, eager, learning, experimenting, ethical and driven people will always defeat the one that merely has talent. Every time.
Veronica Myers
vmyers1955@gmail.com
M.S. Ed (Early Childhood Certification), Temple University
ESL Program Specialist, Temple University
M.B.A., Texas A & M University at Commerce, Texas
B.A. Elementary Education, Anderson University
20 year resident of West Powelton Village
Philadelphia School District Retired Teacher (Pre-K - Adult Basic Education teaching experience)
Adoptive Mother
Nyanza Bandele
nyanza@temple.edu
M.A. African-American Studies, Temple University
B.A. English Education, Livingstone College
Philadelphia School District Retired Teacher (9-12 experience)
PA Certified in English and Social Studies
Overbrook HS
Sayre HS
Parkway West HS
15+ years West Philadelphia volunteer experience
Emotional Intelligence developer/trainer
Featured in Baobab Flowers documentary on education
West Philadelphia Lifelong Resident
Marlyn Tillman
mtillman@gwinnettstopp.org
Gwinnett SToPP (Gwinnett Parent Coalition to Dismantle the School to Prison Pipeline), Co-founder
Child Trends Healthy School Environments Initiative, Advisory Committee
Dignity in Schools Campaign, Federal Strategies Co-Chair
Gwinnett County Public Schools GEMS Committee (curriculum review)
Gwinnett Neighborhood Leadership Institute, Alumnae
ACLU of Georgia Civil Liberties Award for Community Activism
Local, State and National Advocate for Education Policies
West Philadelphia Native, Former Mill Creek Projects resident
Mother of 2 sons
HIStory (Root Cause)
Slavery
Jim Crow
Systemic Racism
Inferior Schools
Economic Oppression
Police Brutality
Mass Incarceration
Societal Subordination
Three things can not be long hidden: the sun; the moon; and the truth.
Our Revitalization
PTSD Recovery
Spiritual Healing
Experiences
Exposures
Opportunities
Instruction
“A skinny dog no longer manages to jump over a wall, even with help.”
Experiences / Exposures / Opportunities / Instruction
It is perhaps a puzzle that a country so rich is seemingly so untroubled by poverty. It is not that high rates of poverty are altogether ignored: We of course have all manner of poverty reform discussions, poverty conferences, and poverty commissions. The poverty reform business is hardly a small one. But it is striking that we enter into poverty reform discussions with such circumscribed objectives and such narrow-gauge proposals for reform. We assume that the best we can do is contain the problem, and we seldom even consider the idea that we might actually solve it.
Michelle Jackson Don’t Let “Conversation One” Squeeze Out “Conversation Two”
Pathways Spring 2017 Conversation-Two
Our Village
“The chief problem of any community cursed with crime, is not the punishment of the criminals, but the preventing of the young from being trained to crime.”