#Repost @angeljonesphd ・・・ They fought for you. Would you have fought for them? #Antiracism #antiracist #diversity #diversityandinclusion #whiteness #whitesupremacy #whiteprivilege #culturallyrelevantteaching #culturallyrelevantpedagogy #lgbt #lgbtq #lgbtqia #lgbtqiaplus #stophomophobia #audrelorde #jamesbaldwin #gloriaanzaldua #gay #lesbian #queer #feminism #blackfeminism https://www.instagram.com/p/CYXCjfKP7Y3/?utm_medium=tumblr

John Brown should have a national holiday and be taught extensively within all public schools. ✊🏿✊🏾✊🏽✊🏼✊🏻✊ #AntiRacistTraining #CriticalRaceTheory #EndSchoolToPrisonPipeline #ResponseToIntervention #TraumaInformedInstruction #CulturallyRelevantPedagogy #RestorativeJustice #SocialJustice #Reparations #AchievementGap #STEMGap #HealthGap #WealthGap #DigitalDivide #GreenNewDeal #LoveLearningTeachingAndProfessionalDevelopment (at Philadelphia, Pennsylvania) https://www.instagram.com/p/CC_B5__HwEI/?igshid=jh85bequyfe8

#Repost @drcourtneyrose ・・・ It can be overwhelming to try and think of your WHOLE story at one time. So, this weekend focus on a few of the key chapters-the moments that changed you, helped you grow, led you down the path you’re on today. Find and feel your strength and power in their lines...and just sit with that for a moment or two. * * * * #teachersofinstagram #culturallyrelevantpedagogy #teachereducation #teachereducator #blackeducator #antiracisteducator #socialjusticeeducator #blackteachersmatter #urbaneducation #teacherssupportingteachers #teacher #selfreflection #educationalequity #reflection #hiphoped #knowyourstory #chaptersoflife #chaptersofmylife #findyourstrength #findyourpower https://www.instagram.com/p/CCycYrRg6PF/?igshid=saxx7au5s444

Always thinking #alternativenarratives #crt #philosophy #LIS #Analysis #teaching #culturallyrelevantpedagogy #cannabis #hiphop #notaonetrickpony https://www.instagram.com/p/CCmYbycl_M9VMyDmy2LqTmlpRbLvOc8KrZFXCI0/?igshid=1kj1e9f9j9tp7

Academic Integrity: A Short Answer For Those Who Question Why We Teach

“We are women. Everything we do matters. I am not my sister’s keeper; I am my sister.”

- Iyanla Vanzant

To be a Black womban under whiteness is to be taught to loathe yourself. It means rarely seeing representations of yourself in media or positions of power. It encourages you to believe that you are irrelevant. Popular images of Black womyn defeminize us as angry, loud, aggressive, “superwomyn” while simultaneously sexualizing us as mammy, tragic mulatto, and Sapphire. Our femininity is questioned regularly and our spirituality is invalidated. But, white people’s refusal to acknowledge our magic, does not make it any less real.

I grew up in Richmond, California, and was considered “ghetto” before I was considered human. The descriptive words for my community were; dangerous, dirty, and crime-filled. The people who lived there were thought to be lazy and uneducated. I went to schools where the students, teachers, and staff looked like me but, the people I learned about did not. The history books were filled with information about white people, written by white people. The English that we spoke at school was different than the English I spoke at home. The games and music that were so important to me meant nothing in an academic setting, and the foods that I had grown up eating were rarely acknowledged as a balanced diet. All of this taught me that the social components of my immediate environment were unwanted. My neighborhood, my community, and my identity were wrong and improper.

I was so detached from much of the material provided inside my classrooms. I moved from grade to grade without ever understanding anything that had been taught to me. The inability to relate most of what I was learning to my personal life made it difficult for me to retain information. I got by on my talent of following directions. I did very well in school because I was able to regurgitate whatever my instructors fed me. Eventually, I formed a distrust of educational institutions in general. Fear that I was being indoctrinated rather than educated.

This miseducation is a common reality for Black girls with low-income in schools throughout the US. So when they asked me how I planned to leave my name on this world, how else was I supposed to answer?

Growing up in a post-civil-rights era, during the age of Obama, with the skin I’m in, I HAVE to bring Octavia Butler and Julie Dash into the next generation. I have to pay my dues with cultural capital.

If not, who will?

My artifact, a slide from a project I completed in my Educational Foundations course with Erika Kitzmiller, is all about Gloria Ladson-Billings. Shange cites GLB a few times throughout her work and culturally relevant pedagogy is something Shange clearly has in mind as she enters and assesses Robeson as an institution.

Curated my first PD in 3 years today. Give thanks to activists Malik Rahim, founder of the Louisiana chapter of the Black Panthers, Robert King of the #Angola3, Malcolm Suber of #TakeEmDownNOLA and #PeoplesAssemblyNOLA and Dr. Rev. Marie Galatas, the first to call for removal of white supremacist monuments in New Orleans. It was unspeakably epic and powerful to have over 150 years of organizing history in a school building helping relay the importance of #CulturallyRelevantPedagogy to the staff at #MartinBehrmanCharter School. Not pictured: Dr. Clyde Robertson and Linda Hill of SUNO who are bringing to our school the first Center for African & African American Studies to be integrated into a school since before Katrina. I've done over a dozen actions, rallies and protest in the last few years. I can't say that any of them were any more important than what happened today. Nothing better than bringing it black home. Hollaz to my egun. 😉🙏✊ (at Martin Behrman Charter School: Academy of Creative Arts and Sciences)

Xtranormal: Lisa Delpit and Christine Sleeter

OMG! This is BRILLIANT! I just Youtubed “Lisa Delpit” and this was one of the search results. I remember loving to read her research in my credential program..

Just added this to my library 📚 today! @DrTJC table of contents is 🔥 by itself. Looking forward to reading and analyzing this 📖. ✊🏿✊🏾✊🏽✊🏼 #AntiRacistTraining #CriticalRaceTheory #EndSchoolToPrisonPipeline #ResponseToIntervention #TraumaInformedInstruction #CulturallyRelevantPedagogy #RestorativeJustice #SocialJustice #Reparations #AchievementGap #STEMGap #HealthGap #WealthGap #DigitalDivide #LoveLearningTeachingAndProfessionalDevelopment (at Philadelphia, Pennsylvania) https://www.instagram.com/p/CCwBsEDHcFi/?igshid=1ky4n9hk42qjo

#Repost @drcourtneyrose ・・・ I was so excited to get the artists of the week up (go check out their powerful work in my last post) that I almost forgot to put this weekend’s challenge up. We can all agree that 2020 hasn’t been the year we expected, but that doesn’t mean it hasn’t brought some new insights and clarity about who we are and who we want to be like all the #2020vision posts we all posted on New Year’s Eve and Day said. 2020 can still be your year if that’s what you intended for it to be Jan 1. The first 6 months may have felt chaotic, but take the lessons you learned about yourself and the world around you to action and change what the next 6 months, and beyond, look and feel like. * * * * #teachersofinstagram #culturallyrelevantpedagogy #teachereducation #teachereducator #blackeducator #antiracisteducator #socialjusticeeducator #blackteachersmatter #urbaneducation #teacherssupportingteachers #teacher #selfreflection #educationalequity #reflection #hiphoped #newgoals #takethefirststep #halfwaythere #make2020youryear #lessonlearned #newsight #deeperinsight #weekendchallenge https://www.instagram.com/p/CCP3wpPgraN/?igshid=156r4e5c9x7gs

If you are an information professional, you should be reading #lowriderlibrarian #criticalAnalysis #Antiracism #CultureAndinformation #hipHop #culturallyrelevantpedagogy #indigenous #anticolonial #weed and more! There is nobody like the #lowriderlibrarian in the information field! #Deep https://www.instagram.com/p/CBs2eHiFQa5UKxM4USmbcJ0DLA89o57sPE9dfY0/?igshid=1ijh8xh7r2o32

America's entire system is broken. The failure of how America handles COVID-19 and systemic injustices demonstrate this to be self-evident. America is fractured because too many of its citizens refuse to get the necessary treatment to eradicate diseases such as white supremacy, racism, and internalized racism (WSRIR). These three insidious mental disorders continuously steal, ravage, and abort the American dream from Black and Brown communities. WSRIR molests, rapes, emasculates and silences, America's true potential of our children, adults, and every American institution. The first step is to admit that each of us is an addict. Addictive to WSRIR, and we need a diagnosis to treat. One demand is to get the American Psychiatric Association to add white supremacy, racism, and internalized racism as mental disorders to treat. It's time for America to address all dysfunction associated with each deadly disease. #AddWhiteSupremacyToTheDSM #AddRacismToTheDSM #AddInternalizedRacismToTheDSM #WSRIRDisorder #BlackLivesMatter #TherapyMatters #MoreCounselorsNotCops #FundOurSchools #AntiRacistTraining #CriticalRaceTheory #EndSchoolToPrisonPipeline #ResponseToIntervention #TraumaInformedInstruction #CulturallyRelevantPedagogy #RestorativeJustice #SocialJustice #Reparations #AchievementGap #STEMGap #HealthGap #WealthGap #DigitalDivide #GreenNewDeal #LoveLearningTeachingAndProfessionalDevelopment (at Philadelphia, Pennsylvania) https://www.instagram.com/p/CBbijkjHdst/?igshid=923z3ly88tra

Blessed to teach live virtual classes from April 20th to June 11th to our 7th grade students at Bethune. Every school day our brilliant Black & Brown students analyzed Black and Brown text. #AntiRacistTraining #CriticalRaceTheory #EndSchoolToPrisonPipeline #ResponseToIntervention #TraumaInformedInstruction #CulturallyRelevantPedagogy #RestorativeJustice #SocialJustice #Reparations #AchievementGap #STEMGap #HealthGap #WealthGap #DigitalDivide #GreenNewDeal #LoveLearningTeachingAndProfessionalDevelopment (at Bethune Mary McleodSchool) https://www.instagram.com/p/CBTn8p_Hhj-/?igshid=1kf1id6h3rrk4

Worked out 💪🏾 taught and now playing with my pup! #PlantFueled #CulturallyRelevantPedagogy #DobermanPinscher (at Philadelphia, Pennsylvania) https://www.instagram.com/p/B_kupz_n8pw/?igshid=8b48mliu5see

Last summer we got together and planned our school year. Today was the first day that we rocked out virtually. One thing is for certain Men of Bethune go hard in the classroom regardless if it is face to face or online. #WeLoveTeaching #EnterToLearnDepartToServe #LiveLessons #AntiRacistTraining #CriticalRaceTheory #EndSchoolToPrisonPipeline #ResponseToIntervention #TraumaInformedInstruction #CulturallyRelevantPedagogy #RestorativeJustice #SocialJustice #Reparations #AchievementGap #STEMGap #HealthGap #WealthGap #DigitalDivide #GreenNewDeal #LoveLearningTeachingAndProfessionalDevelopment https://www.instagram.com/p/B_NrCOunYKT/?igshid=1m1jd7kjd2l8v