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Letters From The Lab

Letters from the Lab is the writing home of Dr. Asia Lyons, essays and reflections from Liberated Educators Lab exploring Black educator wellness, truth-telling, retention, and the conditions needed for liberation. Rooted in story, research, and lived experience, these pieces name what’s often overlooked and imagine what becomes possible.
June 2023 Newsletter
June 17, 2023

June 2023 Newsletter

Hey Exit Interview Community!As a consulting firm focused on supporting youth-serving organizations, we feel it important to focus on some of the most minoritized folks in the youth-serving spaces; Black educators. Amid ongoing conversations surro…

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Clean Pain
April 11, 2023

Clean Pain

 As a part of the Black Educator Wellness Cohort, a program Dr. Ellie Cahill and I co-facilitate monthly for educators in the Denver Metro Area, we are reading, My Grandmother's Hands. The author talks about clean and dirty pain in one of the…

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Take The Detour
March 14, 2023

Take The Detour

In May 2022 I graduated with my doctorate in Leadership for Educational Equity.  Of all of the things that happened during the commencement (besides me crying like a newborn as dr. jefferson hooded me), the commencement speaker’s speech i…

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If You Are Living with Racial Battle Fatigue
March 7, 2023

If You Are Living with Racial Battle Fatigue

 Four years ago, I was an educator in a district teaching middle schoolers about what happens in society when a lack of humanity exists.  I asked them to examine with me what social justice means and why it is necessary when humanity is …

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One More Thought
Feb. 20, 2023

One More Thought

Last year, during a discussion in a pre-service teaching class I instruct, a Black woman asked me a simple and complex question, “Do all Black teachers experience racism at work?”.  My answer is, “Yes, of course. If we experie…

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