Pirette McKamey is fighting for anti-racist education.

Over her more than 30 years as an educator, the principal at Mission High School in San Francisco spent a decade leading an anti-racism committee.

"To be an anti-racist educator means I commit to educating all of the students sitting in front of me, including Black and Latinx students," McKamey tells NPR's All Things Considered.

In a high school English class, for instance, if students are struggling with writing introductions to essays, teachers will reteach that skill — after figuring out how to do it using a different approach or different angle.

"[Anti-racist education] also looks like organizing the curriculum around rigor and around having high expectations for all students, and the curriculum is not based on what students come in knowing, but based on what all students do not know together," she says. "So, therefore, you're scaffolding and teaching everyone at the same time, and not giving credit to students for knowing when they come in."

The work of an anti-racist educator, McKamey says, must be ongoing by nature. But, she says, it's also "joyful."

"It's very joyful to work in collaboration with other educators to figure out what the best teaching practice is and then to implement it and see success," she says. "It's so exciting to see all of your students thrive. It makes you want to keep growing and changing and doing better by your students."

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