#HipHopEd Chat is a weekly cyber cypher (chat) where stakeholders within Hip-Hop and Education come together to discuss issues that impact the youth and adults within our local, national and global communities. #HipHopEd Chat is a virtual form of professional development for Educators, workshop for Parents and other Adults and a brainstorming session of Hip-Hop practitioners. Our #HipHopEd chats are every Tuesday from 9-10 EST. on Twitter.
How do our experiences impact how we see our students and colleagues within our schools and how we see people in the communities where our schools are located #HipHopEd
i saw Blindspotting at Grand Lake Theater in Oakland. always intense to walk out of a theater into the place the film you just watched is set...
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Stereotyping has made many teachers afraid of their students of color based on the stereotypes that young boys of color are violent, or in gangs #HipHopEd
I could really use a definition of the *verb* blindspot. From what I see here it is being used (mostly) synonymously with stereotyping, but I also get the sense that there's more to it. #HipHopEd
We have to understand as educators how the experiences of our students affect how they view us, this can happen at any point in the year. We have to give them space to share & process what happens outside the classroom #HipHopEd
Without giving the movie away, it involves incidents that change how you view a person even if you've known them well beforehand #HipHopEd#Blindspotting It is also loosely related to Rubin's Face
Stereotyping can also lead to the de-emphasis of ones own race. If you're an educator, you can't love and value your kids if you don't love and value yourself. #HipHopEd
In a STEM discipline, I've been amazed at how teachers' stereotypes have impacted their interaction with students but informing how they view their own abilities to teach STEM #hiphoped
We all have to be educated to recognize our biases - before we can work on coming together. With that said, getting to really know your students and letting them know you can help. #HipHopEd
It is imperative that we work to create “clean slates” and “safe spaces” in our classrooms so that the content our our character can be how we are seen and how others are seen #HipHopEd
I love it! "At its worst blindspotting and stereotyping can make one’s inner-me their enemy and people will begin to turn on one another while the true culprit stays out of harm’s way." #HipHopEd#Blindspotting
Teachers must confront their own internalized stereotypes of what they believe “good teaching” is. We must keep revisiting & challenging ourselves & each other. #hiphoped
I have already seen and heard comments from teachers that tell me how they feel about our students, not just verbal but non-verbal expressions when they are talking. Students feel that when they step in the school & in the classroom #HipHopEd
This all reminds me of Kenneth Clark's Brown v Board "doll test" study where black children were shown to have blindspots about their very own selves...a good teaching tool to use and to introduce the question: "Where does this blindspotting come from?" #HIpHopEd
We must reconsider stereotypes of what it means to learn & know. S.L. Lightfoot reminds, “Part of teaching is helping students learn how to tolerate ambiguity, consider possibilities, and ask questions that are unanswerable.” #hiphoped
What will it take for us to become champions in the midst of adults stereotyping youth based on dress, zip code or culture to stand up and bring correction in love? #hiphoped
In a way, the process of creating a clean slate sounds very similar to the process of healing trauma -- regardless of how engaged or responsible we/the student were. #HipHopEd#Blindspotting
When discussing practices to implement in class this year, first thing a group of new teachers talked about was making sure kids have their phones put away, we have to start seeing it as a tool rather than a distraction #HipHopEd
@chrisemdin discusses in his book For White Folks Who Teach in The Hood, Courage chapter, that the teachers, even himself, brought biases & stereotypes to the classroom & were afraid of students, he eventually realized that his students reflected who he was growing up. #HipHopEd
i appreciate the reframe i have been hearing from ‘safe spaces’ to ‘brave spaces.’ it may not be possible for a diverse classroom to feel safe to everyone simultaneously (at least not anytime soon), but it is possible to encourage all students to speak their truths.
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It is imperative that we work to create “clean slates” and “safe spaces” in our classrooms so that the content our our character can be how we are seen and how others are seen #HipHopEd
Yes! @chrisemdin does a great job of describing his evolution through this process of confronting and correcting his own stereotypes/beliefs in #ForWhiteFolks#HipHopEd
Essential question: who do you think your students are?
Enduring Understanding: how you answer previous shapes your pedagogy allllll the way down #hiphoped
Many in higher education have Stereotypes and Blind Spots when it comes to recognizing and embracing scholarship from non-traditional sources #HipHopEd
Totally agree. Teaching the whole student. How to use their phone in an educational setting, how to self regulate, and not ask them to be who they are not. #hiphoped
I agree. But what an undertaking to get this movement started, finally! I have so much to learn and am willing to learn and change; so thanks for reaching out to help all of us grow. #HipHopEd#equity#shapeamerica
We must change the way we engage in conversations with colleagues about our students, highlight the brilliance of the young people sitting in our classrooms and speak positively about and to all of our students #HipHopEd
AGNOSIA: inability to interpret/recognize things often as a result of brain damage. CULTURAL AGNOSIA: Cant see youth brilliance as a result of bias #HipHopEd
Hip hop encourages shattering of stereotypes & what can(t) be done. Notions of who, where, how hip hop looks spunds & feels is constantly disrupted. This is the same brilliance we must bring into classroom. #hiphoped
We are either complicit (including when we do nothing) or we are actively working to dismantle the stereotypes -- there's no in between here. #HipHopEd
Blind spotting or implicit bias plays out in so many, often harmful ways. As educators we must first have a healthy sense of our own sociocultural consciousness before we delve into the cultural space of others. #HipHopEd
I feel those adults should be in their own spaces where they analyze and work through their biases as part of their professional development. And to make the mistakes they make in the process with an equipped facilitator present
What we tell other people about our students matter. We often tell single narratives about students of color that perpetuate discrimination & white supremacy, making school the breeding ground for inequity #HipHopEd
And I say their own spaces because I don’t feel their process or development should be at the expense of hurting marginalized folks nor should it be their burden #HipHopEd
For some of us, the first step was recognizing whiteness in our classroom structure, expectations, and norms. Only when we name it can we recognize the brilliance we’ve been leaving out. #hiphoped
Blind spotting or implicit bias plays out in so many, often harmful ways. As educators we must first have a healthy sense of our own sociocultural consciousness before we delve into the cultural space of others. #HipHopEd
What we tell other people about our students matter. We often tell single narratives about students of color that perpetuate discrimination & white supremacy, making school the breeding ground for inequity #HipHopEd
Part of resisting #blindspotting is development of critical media literacies. The ability to meaningfully analyze & engage is a must! #beyondraplessons#hiphoped
Getting comfortable with being uncomfortable is social-emotional yoga: you might not really enjoy being in that pose, but it gets a little easier every time and is flexing some really important stuff. When you get lazy (a white privilege) you get stiff and outta shape! #HipHopEd
We are either complicit (including when we do nothing) or we are actively working to dismantle the stereotypes -- there's no in between here. #HipHopEd
True in some cases and I think we also create blind spots for our students when we shun it rather than teach them responsible and useful ways to use social media & smart tech #HipHopEd
I saw a sign outside an administrator office that said "even a fish can avoid problems if it keeps it mouth shut." This directly discourages students from sharing their truth even if that is not the intent #HipHopEd
True in some cases and I think we also create blind spots for our students when we shun it rather than teach them responsible and useful ways to use social media & smart tech #HipHopEd
Higher education perpetuates inequity and was built on it. The fact that not everyone has access is enough evidence; the more exclusive, the more they’re deemed desirable. We need a higher education revolutions y’all #HipHopEd
Schools should be safe, nurturing environments for students of all backgrounds to excel. Is it time for teachers to receive cultural awareness/cultural sensitivity training? #HipHopEd
And then those of us in the academy need to challenge the pressure to publish in academic journals that not everyone has access to. If we care about equity, we have to make sure everyone has access to the knowledge, not just those who have access to journals #HipHopEd
I saw a sign outside an administrator office that said "even a fish can avoid problems if it keeps it mouth shut." This directly discourages students from sharing their truth even if that is not the intent #HipHopEd
Think of the teachable moments we can have with students by helping them to see that parts of their internalized identities maybe perpetuated stereotypes and blind spots #HipHopEd
Schools should be safe, nurturing environments for students of all backgrounds to excel. Is it time for teachers to receive cultural awareness/cultural sensitivity training? #HipHopEd
YES! Teachers have needed to receive cultural awareness and multicultural training for years! I wrote my Bachelor's Essay discussing White History teachers biases and how it affects their teaching. @chrisemdin discusses the need for multicultural education #HipHopEd
Schools should be safe, nurturing environments for students of all backgrounds to excel. Is it time for teachers to receive cultural awareness/cultural sensitivity training? #HipHopEd
Sometimes we bring students and colleagues out from behind by getting out of the way and letting folks have the power to tell their own stories instead of silencing them by doing all the talking #HipHopEd
Let this one sink in for a minute, fam.
Intentional acts of racism getting cloaked in phrases like "unconscious bias" is damaging on so many levels. I'm hoping I can be courageous enough to call people out when I see this occur, & I hope you can be, too. #HipHopEd
Storytelling helps me with this, the Ss are reminded that I too was once a kid - you should see their faces - and we almost always have a ton of things in common. #HipHopEd
And the question of "audience" is major here... to whom do we owe allegiance when we write and research? I would argue for the neighborhoods and folks we fight for #HipHopEd
“How you gonna win when you ain’t right within?” L Boogie made it plain years ago. Stereotypes rely on reinscription of power structures. Flip the (sometimes literal) script. #hiphoped
"protect ya neck" is critical now, more than ever. educators of color need to support and protect one another - at all levels of the academy - and provide that same cover for our young people. #HipHopEd
Agreed and that’s why recruitment is also so important. We may see schools where teachers are more representative of the communities but what do the principals and superintendents and decision makers look like and is this a priority to them?
In reply to
@chrisemdin, @tdj6899, @darylhowardphd
We are sometimes guilty of carrying emotional baggage into our relationships with our students the same way some carry emotional baggage into personal relationships #HipHopEd
One of the most troubling blindspots I witness is how young men are unaware of just how harmful their understanding of masculinity is and by no fault of their own... caught up in some self-destructive ish...but through love, vulnerability, and solidarity... they can see #hiphoped
Negativity raging from unsupportive parents, low socioeconomic status, behavior, low scores...Some don’t realize that’s its really how you react to and engage your students that will make the difference-not depending on the blame game. #HipHopEd#culturallyredponsiveteaching
Social media and tech can be tools for learning. Instead they easily become barriers to connection and learning because we get lazy and call that shit individualized learning #HIpHopEd
Not everyone has the privilege of blindspotting. To be Black is to obsessively question one’s place AND to learn everything about whiteness to survive. #HIpHopEd
Pushing back on stereotypes means bringing a critical eye to pre-packaged curricula even if it has “hip hop” on the label. Often it’s just repackaged garbage that reinforces stereotypes. #gritrap#hiphoped
Social media and tech can be tools for learning. Instead they easily become barriers to connection and learning because we get lazy and call that shit individualized learning #HIpHopEd
We work relentlessly to rid the blind spots when it comes Hip-Hop. Our work is directed towards those in the culture as well as those outside of the culture #HipHopEd
It is essential to recognize how racism in edu has affected and still affects our indigenous brothers and sisters & make necessary connections to urban youth #HipHopEd
Blindspotting has different impacts on different folks. If you’re white, it’s all good because everything else is centered on whiteness so the world’s got you. If you’re Black or POC, you’ve gotta spend yo’ time rewriting single narrative already diminishing your worth. #HIpHopEd
There are blind spots that the community has when it comes to education in their neighborhoods that are real and must be addressed #HipHopEd#RealityPedagogy
Pushing back on stereotypes means bringing a critical eye to pre-packaged curricula even if it has “hip hop” on the label. Often it’s just repackaged garbage that reinforces stereotypes. #gritrap#hiphoped
There is rarely accountability on the teachers or institutions. If students are talkative it is seen as them being disruptive rather than disconnected and perhaps needing a new approach more conducive to their learning style that’s more culturally relevant #hiphoped
Be willing to model by sharing what you have experienced that may fortify your blindspots and work with your students together for a collective vision of clarity #HipHopEd
Assuming there's some awareness of the baggage, how does an educator balance being authentic and open with placing unrealistic expectations (i.e., w/o asking for their "help")? #HipHopEd
I think that’s a great idea, using social media and tech as a tool. Have you used #breakoutedu ? It’s a great “working together” type of activity. Would love to collaborate develop a game on personal bias!! #hiphoped
Let's not forget that some of the most insidious blindspots are intersectional, the ones that fool us into re-stratifying one another and trick us into thinking that the person sitting next to you isn't of you, isn't your kinfolk #hiphoped
Getting ready to teach pre-service HS English teachers @stcloudstate. This chat was/is everything as I prepare to start my 1st professoring gig. Love y’all!! #hiphoped
