This is an interesting point and one I've never encountered before about a teacher's role when interacting with families. While I think this could be useful, I'm wondering what this would look like in practice, especially if teachers are working with a group of students who each bring their own families into the mix. Is it really the teacher's role to also navigate familial trauma?

I really love this idea, and I think it gets at the heart of what should be happening in all classrooms, which is LEARNING. This type of learning expands beyond the sometimes confining walls of academia, and really helps students understand what it means to be students of the world.

This self-reflection is always the first step towards any type of change, and it also reminds me of the positionality readings we did earlier on in the term. As teachers (or tutors!), we are bringing our own identities to the classroom, and it would be a shame to not understand our strengths and also our limitations before interacting with others.

This week's readings and video are really making me reflect on my career goals. I someday want to teach writing, but as a white woman who speaks English and took a few years of ASL courses, how can I best show up for students who don't share the same background as me? I think this will be a lifelong question I ask myself, and with more experience will come more answers, but I'm grateful that these readings have opened a sort of door for me to think about.

This reminds me of the statistic Dorinda Carter Andrews shared in her TED Talk, that there is an "inherent cultural mismatch" between students of color and the majority of their teachers being white. So when teachers preach "I don't see color" and try to approach every student in the same way without understanding the inequalities some students are facing, then they're failing as educators.