I enjoyed reading your post, Jane! I also appreciated Horsford’s candor throughout the readings this week. In particular, the role of white allies stuck out to me and how problematic it can be when white folks are […]
A quote that resonated deeply with me this week was, “Those closest to the problem are closest to the solution. If Black lives matter, so should Black thought, especially when it comes to any agenda for […]
Hi August! Thank you for sharing your post — I enjoyed reading it. Particularly your feelings around Duncan-Andrade’s talk. I similarly felt really uncomfortable when he shared the audio of his student’s very […]
This week’s readings and video left me thinking a lot about hope and how essential it is to cultivate a critical hope in ourselves as educators so that our classrooms become spaces of critical reflection and a […]
Hi Fatima! I enjoyed reading your post this week. You make an incredible point about resiliency; to your point, it is not often by choice that communities of color are resilient but rather a survival mechanism […]
The readings this week definitely left me with mixed feelings and some questions. First, Yosso’s notion of community cultural wealth I feel is an important response to Bourdieu’s theory of “cultural capit […]
I enjoyed reading your post this week 🙂 I agree re: your perspective on how we share counternarratives… so much of the dialog around urban schools tends to focus on what they are lacking – ie the […]
Reading about SFSJ and Johnson’s leadership has left me feeling INSPIRED. The shift towards a radical care, a care that encompasses the tenets of critical care along with a radical hope seems to be ingredients f […]
Hi Jordan!
Your post really resonates with me, specifically the question: how do we teach empathy? After going through the readings this week, I was left wondering a lot about the how. How do we move teachers […]
There was a clear distinction made this week between “soft” and “hard” care that really spoke to me. Teachers who exhibit “soft care” are “Sympathetic … teachers who take pity on students’ social circumstan […]
I enjoyed reading your post and your insights this week! Particularly your call for group solidarity and a need to incite more solidarity between schools and communities. Your suggestion to invest in community […]
As someone who has been working in education for nearly ten years now, I find that I spend the majority of my time thinking about education and the education system. It has become almost a default to blame our […]
I really enjoyed reading your post this week, Jordan! I agree that there is an empathy gap between white teachers and their students of color. I think the point you make about this being a result of the […]
This week’s readings helped me to appreciate the many ways in which critical care shows up in our schools through black women teachers and leaders. I loved unpacking the concept of mothering and motherhood in […]
Hi Lucy! The quotes you pulled out also resonated with me, particularly the connections you draw to white teachers and the culture of whiteness and white supremacy that is rewarded and perpetuated in our school […]
