by Dan DeMarle | May 10, 2023 | Parents/Guardians, Race/Racism
“Having a black child in America has always been an act of faith. In the antebellum South, one in every two children born to an enslaved woman was stillborn or died within a year. If they lived, the babies were often sold away from their mothers. Black women in...
by Dan DeMarle | May 10, 2023 | Bipolar Disorder, Emotional Disturbance, Race/Racism
Code Switch”Three springs ago, I lost the better part of my mind,” Naomi Jackson wrote in an essay for Harper’s Magazine. On this episode, Jackson reads from that essay about her experience with mental illness, including how she has had to decipher...
by Dan DeMarle | Feb 28, 2023 | Parents/Guardians, Pediatrics, Race/Racism
Benjamin Danielson Some years ago one of my young patients, a medically complex nine-year-old who was chronically ill with a lung disease, had been hospitalized for about a week. The head nurse caring for him, a long-time colleague and friend, reached out to me as a...
by Dan DeMarle | Oct 25, 2022 | American Psychological Association, Race/Racism, School Psychologist
American Psychological Association Apologizes for Role in Promoting, Perpetuating, and Failing to Challenge Racism in U.S. The American Psychological Association recently issued a detailed statement owning up to and apologizing for not only for its own role in...
by Dan DeMarle | Jul 26, 2022 | Dignity for All Students Act (DASA), Race/Racism, School Districts, Social Skills/Bullying
Preventing CROWN Act Incidents is the second in a series of guidance briefs aimed at supporting the implementation of the New York State CROWN Act, which stands for Creating a Respectful and Open World for Natural Hair. The first brief, Understanding the CROWN Act,...
by Dan DeMarle | Jun 23, 2022 | Classroom, Parents/Guardians, Race/Racism, School Districts, Special Education, Teaching, Teaching
When I was a special education teacher at Myrtle Grove Elementary School in Miami in 2010, my colleagues and I recommended that a Black girl receive special education services because she had difficulty reading. However, her mother disagreed. When I asked her why, she...
