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…for So You Want to Talk About Race, by Ijeoma Oluo. Because we do want to talk about race, even if we might not get it right 100 percent of…
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…talk about race. It’s not polite. I mean, that’s been said many times, oh, you can’t talk about race because we’re all white people. So we can talk about race,…
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…meant that you didn’t talk about race and you wouldn’t say that race didn’t matter, right? And I no longer believe that. But it’s still really common when I was…
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…not. You don’t want to be treated differently. You don’t want people to kind of talk down to you because they think somehow that’s helpful. I don’t know. So yeah,…
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…the perfect weather.” “For what? Freezing your –” I think I’ll stop there. Do you want to talk a little bit about Bri’s experience of the magnet school that she…
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…race. And so I think that it’s not inappropriate to engage with race and talk about race. What is inappropriate is to single out and other the children of color…
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…and they’re losing their home. I’m also reading Race Talk and the Conspiracy of Silence: Understanding and Facilitating Difficult Conversations on Race, by Derald Wing Sue. Very good, lots of…
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…is only in the Dow. I want us to measure economic progress by how many children are living in poverty. I want to know the number of kids who went…
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…them the multiple ways you can interpret a story. And a lot of people are like, “No, there’s just– what happened? I want to know what happened. I don’t want…
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…row and in a seat and start learning the same thing all at the same time. Talk about assessment! Literally just look at somebody learn to talk, just look at…
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…thank you for that. I want to talk pedagogy a little bit. And I want to talk about Vermont. You’re probably not familiar with our Act 77, but it’s this…
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…or do but this is the place where if you want to write your legislator, let’s do it. If you want to, you know, go talk to the principal about…
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…they can talk to one another about this and especially talk to a trusted adult when something just doesn’t feel right, you know? Kids have pretty darn good intuition and…
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…piece. But. The way I feel like we tend to talk about it in middle grades work — myself included — is that we talk about it in terms of…
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…when I heard him say, one: put it out there. You know: race, the R word. We know we want to run from that! And then he just says like,…
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…is changing. Do you want to talk more about that? Meg: I’d love too. She’s seeing it change right before her very eyes. And what she’s noticing is the changes…
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…Jeanie: Yeah. A can of worms if you will. Well, I want to open that door a little bit. I want to start with another quote because I think it…
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…gave. Which is just to stack all the books in your classroom library, all the books you read, stack them by race. So his students stack them by race and…
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…are.” She goes on a little bit more about that. Like, how wonderful to do that? And I want to connect it. I want to talk about that. But I…
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…What kind of white folks do we want our graduates to be in the world? If we never talk about race, if we don’t equip students with conversations about race…
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…my vision is to really make schools places where kids want to be and where parents want to send them. And I don’t mean to say that schools are terrible. …
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…the natural world. Aimee: Yeah, and there’s when you talk to people who consider themselves to be nature educators or people who are connected to nature. And want to build…
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…don’t see color”. Or “We’re all the same race: the human race.” But then they would also hold stereotypes about Black people. And they also saw any mention of race…
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…· #vted Reads: So You Want to Talk About Race Episode #38 -Complete transcript of You Want To Talk About Race with Life Legeros The 21st Century Classroom · #vted…
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…participated in discussions of Ijeoma Oluo’s excellent book So You Want to Talk About Race? Now, I believe in the power of dialogue about racism to help lay the foundation…
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…like you’re prying or talking about things that aren’t just comfortable for him to talk about or that he’s not ready to talk about. Yeah, I agree. You do want…
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…If I said something like that, I would want to be called out on it. Kathleen: Yes, absolutely. Jeanie: I would want to be reminded to be my best self….
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…from anyone’s perspective in the school because students are like, “Well, I want to know what the expectations are in a class. I want to know my grades look like.”…
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…book in the classroom is to kind of do it in collaboration with some art. And to talk about collaging and figuring out how students may want to piece themselves…
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…yay, public libraries! Yay libraries. I also just want, for listeners who may not be familiar, could you talk to me a little bit about the shorthand you use? You…
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…that there are two equal sides to that and you want both sides to be heard and want young people to make up their minds? No, you’re going to take…
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…now I am listening to So You Want to Talk about Race by Ijeoma Olou and it is a profound, moving, angst-inducing book about systemic racism and its impacts. (Also…
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…over the past few years talk about: while there are more and more books that do this, they often want a book that is not just about coming out. A…
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…Thank you so much for your enthusiasm for this book and for joining me to talk about it. Corey: Yes. Thanks for inviting me to talk about it. Books mentioned…
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…class — but also, in English class. Because not only does Emily talk about her experiences in her books, she talks about teaching English classes and the relation to race….
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…want to talk with them about what’s going on, and how it’s affecting them as learners. How they can affect the situation themselves, as participating members of this society. But…
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…Test on race. watching and reflecting upon Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie’s Danger of a Single Story Ted Talk about stereotypes. examining their social and author influencers and asking “who are we…
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…to… they want to do that education piece in their community. They want to see the atmosphere, the climate change. That’s been one of their goals. I think what brings…
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…out her TED Talk, Bodies as Resistance: Claiming the political act of being oneself (and shout-out to Rhiannon Kim & Erika Saunders who introduced me to her work!). Next up…
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…uncomfortable talking about race, and so I’m just going to not really talk about it.” Students are leading these conversations and growing their agency, voice and understanding of critical issues…
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…It involves the self work: how do I look at my own race, my own implicit bias, and then use this learning to address and dismantle systems of oppression and…
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…In a recent article, Tony Winger and Kimberly Race trace the costs of grading, which include teachers acting as gatekeepers for success, the proliferation of fixed mindsets, and the toll…
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If you want to know what an organization prioritizes, examine its budget. If you want to know what educators care about, look at their curriculum. Curriculum is perhaps the most…
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…personalization, so I’m not going to. But I am going to take this moment to talk about a few things that are really, really important to me, as you take…
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…and begin to understand the world. Need norms? Proctor School’s Courtney Elliott for the win: https://twitter.com/MsElliott345/status/1169782441457987585 Resources for difficult conversations about current events Let’s Talk: Talking about race, racism and…
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When we talk about a student in an intervention meeting, we often start with what is amazing about that student. Teachers and caregivers who know the students deeply rattle off…
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…dialogue is so very important, especially in our schools. We want to model for our students that adults can talk about hard things, and it’s essential for a thriving democratic…
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…sending a message. That message is that some people don’t belong, are not intelligent, or that school has no relevance to their lives. CRP asks us to name culture, talk…
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…great value in this work, but we also need to be mindful of the ways that equity, race, and socioeconomic status can impact this view. We want this work to…
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…Alex’s brilliance, compassion, and experience. The 21st Century Classroom · #vted Reads: Equity-Centered, Trauma-Informed Education Then there are those books that you just need. Like when you need to talk…
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