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Reflections from Roderick “Rudy” Bankston on education, healing, literacy, restorative practice, poetry, and the communities that help us begin again.
Roderick Bankston • August 22, 2023
Radical Welcoming
A reflection on radical welcoming as a living commitment to culture, identity, trust, and belonging in learning spaces.
Roderick Bankston • July 31, 2023
Begin Again: A Haiku Conversation
Rudy and Vera use haiku as a collaborative practice for resisting silence, asking better questions, and beginning again.
Roderick Bankston • December 21, 2022
Mirror Work and Rest
A powerful invitation to claim rest as wellness, survival, and a justice practice for Black and Brown communities.
Roderick Bankston • October 30, 2022
Our Cypher on Literacy: Casting Stones
A cypher on literacy, liberation, judgment, and the urgent need to re-humanize students through teaching practice.
Roderick Bankston • August 17, 2022
The Cypher Calls Us to Reflect and Shift
An educator-facing meditation on vulnerability, collective care, freedom dreaming, and shifting the paradigm.
Roderick “Rudy” Bankston
Rudy writes and teaches from a life shaped by survival, education, music, restorative justice, and community transformation.
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