Moving Past the Good White People Narrative
This post is a response to “I Don’t Know What to Do with Good White People” by Bennett and Chapter 3: “The Eye of the Beholder” of Revealing the Invisible by Sherry Marx. I happened to read …
This post is a response to “I Don’t Know What to Do with Good White People” by Bennett and Chapter 3: “The Eye of the Beholder” of Revealing the Invisible by Sherry Marx. I happened to read …
At the lovely Katia Hildebrandt’s suggestion, I have started reading Revealing the Invisible: Confronting Passive Racism in Teacher Education by Sherry Marx, a book discusses the “damaging effects of unaddressed racism and white privilege on the capacity of white teachers …
This video tells the story of my journey through ECS 210, a class about the complexity of curriculum. It shows how this class challenged my beliefs and helped me grow as a future educator.
This semester, I started to actively construct my PLN (personal learning network) in order to tap into a broader knowledge base than my immediate school and community and to aid in my professional development as …
This week, I was asked to watch this video and read this story from the New Teacher Book, both of which discuss standardized testing, and to respond with my thoughts and understandings. As I listened to Alfie Kohn and …
I really enjoyed the story “Building Community from Chaos” from the New Teacher Book. I made a visual representation of the story as a response, including quotes that resonated with me and pictures that I …
After Katia’s lecture, we were asked to reconsider our autobiographical assignments and respond to the following question: What hidden messages are now visible to you in what you could offer as your autobiography? For example, …
How might the changing nature of learning and the increased prevalence of technology be related to social justice and anti-oppressive education? What is made possible/impossible by these tools and this type of learning? Here are …
This is my How Stories Shape Our Lives Assignment for ECS 210. Part 1 consists of summaries of 10 short stories from the New Teacher Book. It can be found here: Part 1: Summaries Part …
I really enjoyed Claire Kreuger’s presentation on Treaty Education. I appreciated the honesty she approached us with, highlighting the mistakes she made in implementing treaty education and transforming those mistakes into lessons she learned and …