{"id":541,"date":"2021-07-07T20:59:31","date_gmt":"2021-07-07T20:59:31","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/sites.soe.umich.edu\/create\/?page_id=541"},"modified":"2025-10-07T15:29:56","modified_gmt":"2025-10-07T15:29:56","slug":"ouradvocacy","status":"publish","type":"page","link":"https:\/\/sites.marsal.umich.edu\/create\/ouradvocacy\/","title":{"rendered":"Our Advocacy"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">The CREATE Center maintains community-engaged partnerships that support the use of high quality, educational research to inform justice-driven educational advocacy by offering research assistance and helping to disseminate research-based information to the public. We partner with justice-driven community-based education organizations and leaders of non-profit initiatives dedicated to fostering equitable public education.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<h3 class=\"wp-block-heading\">DLUB <\/h3>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\"><strong>Don&#8217;t Leave Us Behind<\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">We currently partner with organizers of the<a href=\"https:\/\/sites.google.com\/umich.edu\/dontleaveusbehindcampaign\/home?authuser=1\"> Don&#8217;t Leave Us Behind (DLUB) Campaign<\/a>, who include community members, family members, current and former PreK-12 educators and university researchers. DLUB advocates for equitable and evidence-based literacy practices, policies, and assessment to ensure increased educational opportunities and improved learning for all students.&nbsp;<\/p>\n\n\n\n<figure class=\"wp-block-image\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/sites.marsal.umich.edu\/create\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/23\/2024\/04\/20221003_150735-768x768.jpg\" alt=\"\"\/><\/figure>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Coming Soon! We are pleased to share the trailer for DLUB&#8217;s upcoming documentary series about literacy and the future of our democracy: DON&#8217;T LEAVE US BEHIND, &nbsp;<a href=\"http:\/\/tinyurl.com\/DLUBtrailer\">tinyurl.com\/DLUBtrailer<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n<figure class=\"wp-block-embed is-type-video is-provider-youtube wp-block-embed-youtube wp-embed-aspect-16-9 wp-has-aspect-ratio\"><div class=\"wp-block-embed__wrapper\">\n<iframe loading=\"lazy\" title=\"DON&#039;T LEAVE US BEHIND | a documentary series (Trailer)\" width=\"500\" height=\"281\" src=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/Lo89_zZkJQ0?feature=oembed\" frameborder=\"0\" allow=\"accelerometer; autoplay; clipboard-write; encrypted-media; gyroscope; picture-in-picture; web-share\" referrerpolicy=\"strict-origin-when-cross-origin\" allowfullscreen><\/iframe>\n<\/div><\/figure>\n\n\n\n<h4 class=\"wp-block-heading\">482Forward <\/h4>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">In the past, CREATE researchers also partnered with&nbsp;<strong><a href=\"https:\/\/www.482forward.org\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">482Forward<\/a><\/strong>, a non-profit organization of Detroit-based education organizers who are devoted to &#8220;building power to make systemic change and win educational justice for our communities&#8221;. CREATE lent research assistance that helped inform the CBO&#8217;s successful campaign to halt the closure of dozens of Detroit public schools and we aided in the development of the CBO&#8217;s adult and youth participatory action research endeavors.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<figure class=\"wp-block-image\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/sites.marsal.umich.edu\/create\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/23\/2021\/07\/1463980027.png\" alt=\"\"\/><\/figure>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\"><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The CREATE Center maintains community-engaged partnerships that support the use of high quality, educational research to inform justice-driven educational advocacy<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":20,"featured_media":0,"parent":0,"menu_order":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","template":"page-templates\/template-pagebuilder-full-width.php","meta":{"footnotes":""},"class_list":["post-541","page","type-page","status-publish","hentry"],"fimg_url":false,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/sites.marsal.umich.edu\/create\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/541","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/sites.marsal.umich.edu\/create\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/sites.marsal.umich.edu\/create\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/page"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sites.marsal.umich.edu\/create\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/20"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sites.marsal.umich.edu\/create\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=541"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/sites.marsal.umich.edu\/create\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/541\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":4671,"href":"https:\/\/sites.marsal.umich.edu\/create\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/541\/revisions\/4671"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/sites.marsal.umich.edu\/create\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=541"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}