for - quote - multiscale competency architecture - quote - book - Emergent Strategy - Adrienne Maree Brown

• Cells may not know civilization is possible.
• They don’t amass as many units as they can sign up to be the same.
• No — they grow until
  • they split,
  • complexify.
  • Then they interact and intersect and discover their purpose
    • I am a lung cell!
    • I am a tongue cell!
  • and they serve it. And they die.
• And what emerges from these cycles are
  • complex organisms,
  • systems,
  • movements,
  • societies.

adjacency - between - Adrienne Maree Brown quote - Michael Levin - adjacency statement - Adrienne's quote is the subsumed under Levin's term of multi-scale competency architecture (MSCA)

I read this paragraph three times, blinking back tears. Moments like this get collected by many (not all) of our students. It's amazing to ask them, to give them space -- perhaps a little information -- to tell their own memories of these weeks. There's something here for curriculum, for teasing out the memories of our students over the past years. And asking them what these stories mean to them, and asking them to use writing to remember and to make meaning of these moments. That's how anti-racist education with African-American and Latino youth is different.