This is shows how impactful a simple project can be for a school. That by giving students these opportunities they might start to develop a new identity and develop counter narratives.

I think this is an important point. That you can be the most educated person in the world but you can still encounter racism. Education may help with economic status but that doesn't fix the prejudice embedded in society.

I think this is a very valid point. What happens when public education does not accurately prepare students for the real world. Students often feel like they are being prepared for prison because the conditions in the classroom or school often emulate those of prison conditions.

I think this is an important distinction. Students may feel passionate about an issue and it is important to turn that passion into tangible action that they can use to further empower themselves.

This is an interesting observation. I experience similar responses to students when I try to make them civically engaged or have them combat against a rule that they deem as unjust. They talk a lot but when it comes to actions there is almost a type of indoctrinated helplessness.

I like this quote here because it shows the intersectionality of issues. Very rarely is it only a race, health, or class issues but it can be a mixture of all of these things put together! Having students understand these power dynamics is extremely valuable.

I like this idea in particular because it is creating counter narratives that can combat stereotypes. In addition, it draws on funds of knowledges that the students may have. This is a great way to take ownership over their education.

I think this is an important point along with the rest of the paragraph. That the language we uses softens the blow of what happens. That this was another nation we took over and we act like they disappeared and treat them as a monolith when these people exist are some of the marginalized people in this nation. Marginalized to the point that they are often left out of discussions of people of color.

I think this is a very important point to dehumanizing Native Americans or depicting them as "savages". They had university, school, made complex calendars, and had advanced farming techniques. The idea of Native Americans as one monolith who never had a real civilization is propaganda.

This is a really important point as it relates to the importance of counternarratives and why representation matters. In recent years you will hear artists say that they created their story, movie or hero because they did not see themselves represented and wanted young kids to have someone to look up to.

I think an important point of this is that it's not only in English classes that there is a Eurocentric focus but in history classes as well. I think the fact that there is an AP Us History and an AP European History speak to how Eurocentric the education system is.

The production part of counter narratives is really important to shifting dominant narratives and countering white supremacist practices. By allowing our students to do this we get them to question the status quo and realize that they can be products of change which can be invaluable in the future.

I think one thing that is not brought up here is the deliberate altering of photos as well. In the OJ Simpsons case Time Magazine deliberately altered photos of OJ Simpson to seem darker and more menacing. This is in contrast to Newsweek which just used a photo of him unaltered. So there is the addition of deliberate choices by the media to negatively stereotype African Americans. Time Magazine also changed the image in response to backlash stating they had no racial agenda. Which may further bemoan the point they may even be participating in white supremacist practices unconsciously

I think this is an important reminder to ourselves and to our students. That it is important to be hopeful to our students but it is important to not lie to them. We need to have them engage with the world in order to make the world a better place.

This is an interesting idea. It very much reminds me of the TED talk video "Every Kid Needs a Champion.". The idea being that Kids don't learn from someone the don't like. It reminds me very much of a parent and child relationship or a mentorship. It just makes me realize just how important being a teacher is to a person. That we see kids so frequently that we can have a profound impact on them.

This is an important point for helping our students and people generally become more politically active and avoid indoctrination. Have them realize that maybe they are just repeating lines or ideas that they have heard. Are they engaging with the discourse that is happening or are they passively accepting it. This could also relate to the banking model of education. Remember education does not just happen in school.

This very much reminds me of Pose, Wobble, Flow where it was stated one should assume the pose of a writer in order to teaching writing and said similar things about cultivating a space where students have opportunities to write. It is similar in the considering the context of the students as well. I wonder if the author would include social media in this new form of writing.

I think this shows the practice of just doing actions daily and encouraging one to become a writer instead of just writing. By becoming a writer they are likely to increase in skill every day. However, in school we can often discourage this type of behavior by having students write in only set spaces.

I think this is an important point. Though we may certain experiences because of our racial or ethnic history that does not mean that other people could not experience similar things. There are stories and experiences that are universal amongst the human experience.

I think this is an important paragraph because it points out that academic English can often times act as a barrier to acknowledging the true ability of our students. We may focus on the grammar or misspellings and mistake that for a lack of intelligence or ability when it's simply the hegemonic norm we continue to enforce.