I’ll leave this right here. The voice of a grade 2 student after watching @MatthewACherry’s beautiful Hair Love short film. This is all the feedback I need to keep enriching my students with slow, steady, daily representations, provocations and affirmations.
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Listening to @GholdyM drop some serious words. One I’ll take with me is that teaching children about identity is a form of protection. Once a child knows and loves who they are, can’t nobody tell them anything. I love this deeply.
Calling all children “scholars” centralizes academic performance as the most important part of a student’s identity.
I call students “children” because it represents all of their qualities, their whole identity, their humanity.
#WholeChildFirst
THREAD: Elder Blu Waters shared with us during a session on Two-Spirit and Indigiqueer pride that there are Two-Spirit trees around us as well. Today, the Grade 2/3s looked at this Two-Spirit tree that Ms. Sharla found in her backyard. @UIEC_Tdsb
Children responded:
"Two-Spirit people are in the middle of two genders like the tree trunk bridge."
"Two genders come together in one like tree trunk roots coming together."
"Two-Spirit people are powerful and special, and two tree trunks make a strong tree."
My heart!!!
We noticed that there are two different tree trunks that, at some point in time, decided to join together as one.
I asked the children, "How is this Two-Spirit tree similar to Two-Spirit people? Here we see two tree trunks coming together, what comes together in Two-Spirit ppl?
THREAD: In preparation for @UIEC_Tdsb's event tomorrow w @MSCorneau & Elder Blue Waters on Two-Spirit and Indigiqueer Pride, Gr. 2/3s learned about & discussed what it means to be a Two-Spirit person. We started by listening to Ma-Nee Chacaby's teachings https://t.co/ZfTjLK9L38
The story is titled, 47, 000 dresses. The child is wrapped with love in different ways from their community as they find themself as a Two-Spirit person.
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