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  1. Dec 2020
  2. Nov 2020
    1. “Our struggle to live never matters to other people,” is poi-gnant for a number of reasons. First, it points to his belief that Black lives and, by extension, Black history, struggle, and liberation, do not matter to others, or to say it more explicitly, to many White people

      This is why there aren't enough texts and books about minority.

    2. adolescents can develop literate identities if they have access to resources such as supportive writing communities. She

      Agree! As educator, we need to bring cultural related resources to them.

    3. Thus, it is important for literacy scholars to consider what literacy means and represents, and how and for what purposes young people engage in literacy events in relation to out-of-school time and space.

      This is an important point. I wonder how African American students get to enjoy learning literacy and engaging in literacy event when current literacy curriculum have nothing to do with their lived experience.

    4. technology

      Agree! They always close schools in areas who need school the most!

    1. language

      I love this. It engages students in learning content knowledge and teach students use the power of their own fund of knowledge to fight for their rights.

    2. media

      This is a good beginning. It's crucial to teach our student critical media literacy and use critical thinking to obtain or ignore the information they read.

    3. By providing a safe place for students to share their ideas and to make students' voice to be heard.

    4. evidenced

      They always publish things they want people to believe in order to manipulate majority minds. Even happened in social media, show large quantity of information that they want people to read to make people stand with them especially to the youth.

    1. When absent in teacher education programs and national policies, it is little wonder that many English teachers may be both stymied and fearful about addressing the civic, healing needs of classrooms

      This is true. As a second year teacher, I don't know how to address this political topic that happen the same time as the pandemic. There is a standard for me to refer to.

    2. The nuances of a “safe space” for SEL in our classrooms requires looking across social, political, and cultural factors for all members of a school community.

      We need to be vulnerable in order to take care of all of our students whose come from different background.

    3. English educators must address trauma in classrooms, while also recognizing how individuals and groups are positioned differently in the material and emotional stakes of this election.

      Just last week, my students asked why we only take one day off, we should take days off until the election settled. They can't focus in class because they worried about the election. I felt the emergence of anxiety in my students, and it depressed me. They need to face a new round of election every four years. How can I address this hot topic to them?

    1. wanted

      It makes me think about why we need to create spaces. The spaces are exited. The problem is how teachers can invite students into the space, and comfortable to write and share their thinking in the spaces.

    1. I prayed that none of my students or colleagues would see the article.

      I have the exact same feeling. What would students think about themselves when they figure out how the world, the society called them and label them? The influence is negative!