#Repost @teach_for_justice (@get_repost) ・・・ Today I’m just going to post a series of questions with some thoughts strewn about. My brain feels like the rainbow spinning circle on a Mac when it’s loading I’m so overwhelmed with relearning how to teach and the two pandemics happening right now. ✊🏽 Every single teacher has the power to shift the culture, shift their pedagogy, and design lessons. If we’re talking about addressing power structures start with the power you wield over the students you teach. How will you change? ✊🏽 How are you advocating for your students in the IEP meeting? In the disciplinary hearing? In the faculty meeting? In the board hearing? In the streets? In the election? In the city council hearing? In the mayors office? Advocacy takes many forms, you don’t have to do them all, but here’s a start. ✊🏽 How are you learning their cultures? How are you educating yourself and using your knowledge to connect with the kids? How are you using your knowledge to include diverse texts, stories, histories? How are you including diverse ways of teaching? How are you criticizing your own practice in order to best serve your students? ✊🏽 Are you expecting others to “teach” you and you have the privilege of soaking it up? Nah. Do the heavy lifting. It is uncomfortable. Painful. Eye opening. That doesn’t mean you shouldn’t embrace it and use it to push yourself forward. How will you check yourself? ✊🏽 How are you advocating for change? How are you organizing with other educators? ✊🏽 If we really want to create antiracist educators we need a mindset shift. You want to be a better teacher then we’ve got to do more than what we’ve been doing. Clearly what’s been happening doesn’t work, so try something different. Engage our children. Engage our community. Engage yourself in more than just teaching. We will all be better for it. ✊🏽 I’m tired. ✊🏽 . . #abolitionistteaching #blacklivesmatter #teachforjustice #justice #power #antiracistteacher #antiracist #teachersofinstagram #teachersfollowteachers #teachergram #teachersofthegram #secondaryhistory #teachblackhistory #liberatedteacher #freedomeducation #blacktranslivesmatter #antiracisteducation #decoloniz https://www.instagram.com/p/CEvgEhUAnJi/?igshid=4vcl5dcxc6wk