Ashia Ravanh

Illinois State University ‘21 / Elementary Education 🍎❣️

[Ashia Ravanh @RavanhAshia]

Self-reflection, research to educate yourself, and receiving feedback as an educator is crucial to teaching. Constantly evolving as an educator who incorporates diversity and knowledge of racial issues benefits our students as people and learners. #TCH26410

[Ashia Ravanh @RavanhAshia]

“What they (readers) bring to a book shapes what they take from it” -#EmpowerTheReader
Materials that connect students to the variety of cultural backgrounds that challenges their own, & bring relevancy to them as individuals further benefits them as learners & people #TCH26410

[Ashia Ravanh @RavanhAshia]

“I teach for the little Black girls who are told their voices don’t matter... who feel as though they aren’t good enough” -Bria Wright
As educators we need to make Black female students feel heard & cared for without biases controlling the success of their education. #TCH26410

[Ashia Ravanh @RavanhAshia]

“#BlackLivesMatter doesn’t mean your life isn’t important — it means that Black lives, which are seen as without value within white supremacy, are important to your liberation” - Black Students’ Lives Matter #TCH26410

[Rebecca Sonido @RebeccaSonido]

We need to break the cycle of silence &speak up about race.Take other peoples truths as your own.Just because something might not happen to you does not mean it’s not happening.We cannot be afraid to start these conversations.Ask questions,get informed,& use your voice.#tch26410

[Jenna Gilleland @GillelandJenna]

Racism is not just something we need to teach for our students of color, they already know racism. It is something we teach to educate our white students so that change can happen, and intolerance and ignorance can end. #TCH26410

[Aly Nezgoda @NezgodaAly]

“For me, as an educator, racism looks like certain people’s stories being included in curriculum and in texts that we read, while others are being omitted.” -Dr. Sonja Cherry-Paul #TCH26410

[Ashia Ravanh @RavanhAshia]

(Racism)“isn’t something that is perpetuated by people of color. It isn’t something people of color benefit from... People of color can’t be the only folks doing the work. It has to be white folks doing the work” -Cornelius Minor, Dismantling Racism in Education #truth! #TCH26410

[Ashia Ravanh @RavanhAshia]

I’ve always known I wanted to be a teacher since my elementary years, because of my experience with my teachers. They shaped my life as a student during tough times in my life. I love teaching because I have the opportunity to transform young lives like how mine was✨ #TCH26410