A fundamental piece of making #GoodTrouble in education is challenging what is perceived as good and what is perceived as trouble. Quiet≠good, Obedient≠good, Loud≠trouble asking questions≠trouble #HipHopEd#GoodTroubleEdu
We teach students before curriculum. We reach souls before standards. We teach character before content. In that order or its not really teaching at all #HipHopEd#GoodTroubleEdu
I may have punched a couple pillows earlier. I was working on three sentences (no joke) for like an hour and in some 1990 plot twist, my work didn’t save. End rant.
I gulp into
my lungs for
a few cents of
oxygen. It is for the
dead’s inability to do so
that I rattle the coins in my
chest.
——Our #PoetoftheWeek, @xandriaphillips https://t.co/Lu3MffVUjt
do 2-year old birthdays have to be a thing when you’re still on quasi-shelter-in-place and you’re three thousand miles away from family and friends? if so, what to do?? 🤷🏻♀️
I am floored by this apology and so grateful—while also being filled with anger and hurt all over again at the way the original boycott letter was constructed. I refused to sign it and have spent the past two days burning to say something about how problematic it was
You're killed police, you're told it's your fault. You're killed by covid-19, you're told it's your fault. You live in neighborhoods saturated with poverty, you're told it's your fault. Rarely are you told about the policy, about the history, about the literal knee on your neck.