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me, writing is like breathing. I need itto survive.”
This is super powerful. I have some students that also use writing as a coping tool. Often times when they are frustrated, they will request to write in their journals.
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“If you treat students more professionally,then they are likely to act more professionally.
I think this is so important - even with my young elementary school students I see this. Sometimes people will come in and talk with them like they are younger than they are and I have had students that have said "stop talking to me like I'm a baby". They want to be treated with respect and they want to have a voice. I have found that my students are most successful with their plans when they have a voice in them!
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When teachers useThanksgiving as the vehicle for their instructionabout Native peoples, they are inadvertently locat-ing Native lives in the past.
Utilizing books by Native People and about Native people only around Thanksgiving and to discuss Thanksgiving is not the best way to teach Native stories in the classroom. Native writers can be used all year and does not need to be limited to Thanksgiving. As well, dressing up and reenactments feels very inappropriate and it feels like there are so many more options and ways to bring these stories into the classroom besides this.
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schools are under-funded and over-challenged”
I couldn't agree with this statement more - this feels really accurate - especially after covid. We are still being pushed to hit test numbers and high scores and crazy challenges that are impossible to meet with limited resources and students who need so much extra support.
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When the only images that Blackgirls see of themselves in the classroom are rootedin their dehumanization, it sends messages of dis-affirmation and educational neglect that may neverbe emancipated.
This example discusses more about the modern weaponry of system racism. It's so important that Black girls see themselves in the classroom in a positive way, like in their literature - as main characters!
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Black girls are still experiencing slav-ery through more modernized weaponry that hasadvanced beyond shackles and chains. We unapol-ogetically state that schools not only are prison forBlack girls but that schools are actively reproduc-ing slavery in its afterlife in English language arts.When Black girls’ identities, ways of learning, andleadership capacities are symbolically bonded bychains through a White-only curriculum, cultur-ally biased literary texts, and pedagogical standards,Black female students are in fact experiencing nor-malized racial violence
Yes! And as a white educator, I am constantly finding myself reflecting on my teaching and thinking whether or not I am conforming to the white - only curriculum or thinking am I doing something about it? It's so important that I do reflect on this all the time and ensure that my students are experiencing a diverse and culturally responsive curriculum and not a white-only curriculum.
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