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3rd grade! Shout out to Mr. Orszulak! Would be interested to ask and see the responses to a similar question: what grade were you in when you had your first BIPOC (black, indigenous, person of color) teacher? I had my first black teacher in graduate school. Hello @lewis_raynold!
Talking to a kid on a plane ✈️
Him: the worst is when they put the objective on the board
Me: Why?
Him: It shuts me down, takes away my curiosity... I don’t care anymore. Let me discover what we are learning!
Me: You are smart beyond your years
He is 14
Toni Morrison was a national treasure, as good a storyteller, as captivating, in person as she was on the page. Her writing was a beautiful, meaningful challenge to our conscience and our moral imagination. What a gift to breathe the same air as her, if only for a while.
Thank you Jack M. for loaning me @colsonwhitehead 's "Underground Railroad." It was powerful and stirring. I managed to score a signed copy of his new book "Nickel Boys" at Amherst Books! Woo! #WahconahReads
@_DavidDahari_@BostonGlobe Whitehead himself said this was an abysmal choice in terms of characters for this task. While we should examine these challenging perspectives, I don't know if a standardized test is the place, especially in an education system that continues to largely ignore marginalized voices
"We define who we are by casting aside who we are not." -Julianna Campbell, Westfield State U '20 on Abjection and Anti-Racist education #crossculturalsymposium#beyondourborders
A few weeks ago I partnered with the TED Education team to make an short animated video of my poem “Ode to the Only Black Kid in the Class.” You can check the whole segment out via the link below. Shout out to Niv Sekar for the great animation.
https://t.co/oWBwN0pMiY