Sandra Day O'Connor Award Candice Pierce The Sandra Day O’Connor Award is given in honor of retired and first female Justice of the U.S. Supreme Court, Sandra Day O’Connor, who in retirement made it her mission to highlight and facilitate the importance of legal civics education. The award is made to the person who has significantly advanced the teaching of the 1921 Tulsa Race Massacre Curriculum in Tulsa County schools and this year’s recipient is Candice Pierce. Mrs. Pierce is the 7th grade language arts and social studies teacher at Thoreau Academy in Tulsa. She started her journey of learning about the then called Race Riot by attending the professional development
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class hosted by the 1921 Tulsa Race Riot Commission. Upon learning and then incorporating the curriculum into her coursework back in 2018, Thoreau students and she had extensive discussions about the definition of a riot vs. massacre. She and students lobbied Senator Kevin Matthews about changing the name from Race Riot to Massacre and invited him to come to Thoreau to discuss the legislative efforts he was pursued about the name change. As part of Mrs. Pierce’s curriculum on the race massacre, a field trip to the John Hopkins reconciliation park is included. Thank you to Mrs. Candice Pierce for highlighting, educating, and facilitating important discussions around the massacre.
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