Sophie Rutstein
Sophie Rutstein was a special education teacher in a co-taught ICT classroom at Community Roots, the learning site for Roots ConnectED, from 2017 until 2020. She works to integrate an anti-bias lens to project based curriculum and facilitates training for families to close the home-school gap in education. It is evident that children are drowning in false messaging about privilege hierarchies in their society and Sophie believes that implementing an anti-bias curriculum is the most direct and systematic way to challenge and tear down that messaging and those social hierarchies. Her work with Roots ConnectED allows her to share her practical classroom experience with educators around the country in the practices of anti-bias and inclusive education in deep and meaningful ways. She graduated from New York University with a degree in Childhood Education and Special Education and has been a workshop facilitator with Roots ConnectED since early 2018.