Photo gallery: Demand2Learn launch event
Photo gallery: Demand2Learn launch event – Photos by Lisa Irish/AZEdNews
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- People attending the Demand2Learn launch on Aug. 9 at the Phoenix Center for the Arts. Photo by Lisa Irish/AZEdNews
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- “Over the past couple of years, the American Civil Liberties Union of Arizona has received an increasing number of complaints from parents who were extremely frustrated because their kids had been suspended or expelled from school,” said Alessandra Soler, executive director of the group at the Demand2Learn launch. Photo by Lisa Irish/AZEdNews
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- Some of the data collected by the American Civil Liberties Union of Arizona for the Demand2Learn initiative. Photo by Lisa Irish/AZEdNews
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- Dr. Yara Vargas presents at the Demand2Learn launch event in Phoenix. Photo by Lisa Irish/AZEdNews
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- “How can anyone learn if they can’t be who they are?” said Gabriel Fuentes, a Hopi and Latino student who spoke at the Demand2Learn launch event. Photo by Lisa Irish/AZEdNews
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- Dr. Yara Vargas talks about the three main ways schools push students away at the Demand2Learn launch. Photo by Lisa Irish/AZEdNews
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- Dr. Yara Vargas describes the role that ACEs, or Adverse Childhood Experiences play in behavior and school discipline at the Demand2Learn launch. Photo by Lisa Irish/AZEdNews
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- Dr. Jeff Smith, superintendent of Balsz Elementary School District in Phoenix, says “We are starting a restorative justice center in our district,” at the Demand2Learn launch in Phoenix on Aug. 9, 2017. Photo by Lisa Irish/AZEdNews
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- Some of the consequences of exclusion from the Demand2Learn launch. Photo by Lisa Irish/AZEdNews
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- ACLU of Arizona executive director Alessandra Soler, left, listens to Janelle Wood with the Black Mothers Forum, right, who said, “Many mothers have told us they’ve benefitted from our input and our support as they go through these challenges,” at the Demand2Learn launch. Photo by Lisa Irish/AZEdNews
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- Dr. Yara Vargas discusses the economic costs of dropouts to the state at the Demand2Learn launch. Photo by Lisa Irish/AZEdNews
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- ACLU of Arizona Executive Director Alessandra Soler, left, listens to Valle del Sol Chief of Arizona Operations Carmen Heredia says that the group is providing evidence-based behavioral health services for students at school campuses in six school districts in Maricopa County including Balsz Elementary School District. Photo by Lisa Irish/AZEdNews
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- Dr. Yara Vargas emphasizes the goals of the Demand2Learn initiative at the launch event in Phoenix on Aug. 9, 2017. Photo by Lisa Irish/AZEdNews
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- The schools, parent, community groups and education advocacy organizations partnering with Demand2Learn. Photo by Lisa Irish/AZEdNews
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- The people partnering to make a change with the Demand2Learn initiative take the stage for a group photo after the launch event on Aug. 9, 2017 in Phoenix at the Phoenix Center for the Arts. Photo by Lisa Irish/AZEdNews
