When Black girl energy is uncontainable, we can jump up and dance with them. When the world is painful, we can scream with our girls, not at them. If the world weighs heavy on them, we can teach them to write, and we can sit and write with them. We can have longer conversations and longer tempers. We can let them lead and question and thrive. As educators, there will be times we must push hard—push girls to fulfill their unique promise, their brilliance, and their capacity for greatness. But sometimes Black girls don’t need a push at all. Sometimes, as any educator who genuinely engages the
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