Finding a base camp of chats that you can join helps tremendously to find a tribe of people that are like-minded but still push you. I'm partial to #EDpiper#BmoreEdchat (on right now) and #r12digin
#Bmoreedchat Being aware of social injustices that my students face daily while I try to teach them the history of WI. The 16 hours a day they're not in the class, there are injustices they are tryin to overcome.
hey Kristen. Welcome back. Good point about the lives our students live outside of the school house. We need to channel these experiences in our instruction. #BmoreEdchat
A1: I'm partial to @edutopia description of tching Ss to make positive change in the world, discussion of real-world problems & possible solutions from multiple perspectives. #BmoreEdchat
Q1: For me, it means creating an environment where students feel safe to have important - and real world - conversations about issues in their world and supporting them as they pursue work that matters. I say yes a lot, and then find experts. #BmoreEdchat
A1: To me social justice means facilitating discussions about social issues so students can understand themselves and others better. It allows scholars to form opinions of their own that may differ from their teachers, families, and peers. #BmoreEdChat
Hello all! Pattie - Instructional Technology Specialist in Milwaukee - say a prayer for me - taking a HUGE national certification test next Monday!!#bmoreedchat
A1: I'm partial to @edutopia description of tching Ss to make positive change in the world, discussion of real-world problems & possible solutions from multiple perspectives. #BmoreEdchat
A1: Social justice education is an understanding your role as an educator is to supply students with the tools to make sense of the world AND practice self-determination #BmoreEdChat
A1: For my students, social justice is providing them the opportunity to learn how to participate in a community and state their needs in a safe space so they will be empowered when they leave me. #BmoreEdchat
Q1: For me, it means creating an environment where students feel safe to have important - and real world - conversations about issues in their world and supporting them as they pursue work that matters. I say yes a lot, and then find experts. #BmoreEdchat
A2: Two that sick out are through debate (fishbowl, four corners, Socratic Seminar) and service learning. These activities open students eyes to the world beyond the classroom. #BmoreEdChat
A2: Infusing real world issues into the curriculum. Talking with students at recess about their opinions. Using community circles during homeroom and advisory. #BmoreEdchat
To me, social justice education means teaching students to place less emphasis on finding a profession and more on finding a social problem they want to solve. #BmoreEdchat
Love how Newsela doesn't skirt the issues...factually written in leveled texts for Ss to discuss and express their feelings. #BmoreEdchat
U.S. border agents fire tear gas on migrants, close Mexico crossing https://t.co/WS6T7uxm7X
Yes! Last year I had sixth graders ask to do their final Scratch project (I teach computer science) on teaching tolerance. I reached out through my network and connected them with a Doctoral Candidate at UD who they interviewed and consulted with. #BmoreEdchat
A2: This has been my life’s work from leading a HS law program, to being a founder of a social justice school, to using #HipHopEd pedagogy with my dual enrollment students & next semester serving as a lecturer teaching teachers how to teach in a diverse society #BmoreEdChat
A1: To me, social justice education means that means that students 1) are taught empathy and tolerance; 2) are presented with accurate depictions of events that highlight many diverse perspectives - not provided whitewashed/one-sided versions. #BmoreEdchat
A1: There are some dark caves that I need to enter to come to grips with my own bias and privilege, being ok to go there and encouraging others to do so as well to root out unfair practice and systems #BmoreEdchat
A2: Picture books are also a great way to discuss characters and issues without it being personal to students...they are often more apt to discuss a character than themselves. #BmoreEdchathttps://t.co/YHAiP2Cf1Y
This is so important! When the students understand the concepts enough that they can apply them in other situations and with other people! #BmoreEdChat
A2: Each of my classes has a large scale project where students choose an issue or cause that’s important to them in order to create a delivered product for an org. We do a collect and connect to help them find their client. Here’s a pic from one with my 7th graders. #BmoreEdchat
Q2) Awe man let's see we learned about the Dakota Pipeline, Environmental Justice Issues, we learned about the Libyan Slave Trade and wrote letters to the United Nations, we studied the #FlintWaterCrisis and wrote letters of support to the Mayor of Flint #BMoreEdChat
Q3) Fear of being revoked by parents, administration, etc. Even if the students in the class are interested in a SJ topic and want to do more, it's a tricky balance between being professionally neutral and SJ supportive. #BmoreEdChat
Q2) Awe man let's see we learned about the Dakota Pipeline, Environmental Justice Issues, we learned about the Libyan Slave Trade and wrote letters to the United Nations, we studied the #FlintWaterCrisis and wrote letters of support to the Mayor of Flint #BMoreEdChat
A3: I think it's hard for Ts to discuss issues that they are passionate about without passing on their own beliefs. Teaching vs Indoctrination...fine line to walk. #bmoreedchat
A2: examining discipline and academic performance data for bias, constantly reviewing content for inclusivity, and taking time to reflect on how bias impacts how I react and interact with faculty, students and administrators. #BmoreEdchat
A1: There are some dark caves that I need to enter to come to grips with my own bias and privilege, being ok to go there and encouraging others to do so as well to root out unfair practice and systems #BmoreEdchat
Social emotional learning is the bedrock for most of what I do with students. SEL helps them discover themselves and social justice helps them examine how that "self" makes society a better place. #SEL#BmoreEdchat
One of my favorites. Cogenerative circles in combination with coteaching works wonders in the classroom. Empowered kids to lead and be master communicators. Thank you for sharing! #BmoreEdchat
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@Ed2BeFree, @Tolerance_org, @EduColorMVMT
A3: Ultimately through social justice we want our Ss to be able to open their minds, to develop tolerance and empathy...not to persuade them to believe as we believe. #BmoreEdchat
A2) I’m not in the classroom anymore, so my use of social justice is often framed in discussions about digital citizenship, their ‘digital tattoo’, and how they can use social media to effect positive social change. #bmoreedchat
I know that growing up I learned a lot of tolerance at school that I wasn't necessarily seeing at home...hard to stand up to your parents and say, that's not what I believe...I choose to be different. #BmoreEdchat
#BmoreEdChat A3: Building a safe environment for students to share. Making sure educators and scholars can lean into discomfort. Facing personal and student prejudices is enough to hold many back, but that is exactly why SJ education is needed.
Q2) Awe man let's see we learned about the Dakota Pipeline, Environmental Justice Issues, we learned about the Libyan Slave Trade and wrote letters to the United Nations, we studied the #FlintWaterCrisis and wrote letters of support to the Mayor of Flint #BMoreEdChat
Would you emphasize going beyond inclusivity to identifying text that centers students identities as humans and beyond standard stereotypes? Inclusion often means fitting the other in versus widening the umbrella for everyone to have their own place #BmoreEdChat
A2: As a Baltimore City teacher, I gave each of my students all the time and options they needed to be heard. Now, I focus my teaching on digital equity and to make sure those same voices are heard. #BmoreEdchat
A3: Limiting curriculum that makes educators feel like they can’t stray. Educators unaware of implicit biases and how they manifest. Lack of resources dedicated to training teachers on SJ. And the elephant in the room: we’ve got a whole lot of white teachers. #BmoreEdChat
Social emotional learning is the bedrock for most of what I do with students. SEL helps them discover themselves and social justice helps them examine how that "self" makes society a better place. #SEL#BmoreEdchat
A4: Transparent and courageous conversations with a relentless attitude to reflect regarding my own bias and connection to the world. Listening to students and letting them lead is how I learn the most. #BmoreEdchat
A3) @polishwonder02 and I have the added benefit of learning from the elders who speak to the children at our school. Social justice has a whole other lens when you’re able to learn from Native Americans who have been impacted by historical trauma. #bmoreedchat
A4: I always find this an interesting question, because it relates to personal beliefs about where your power is centered. Some folk are located in schools/districts where there livelihood is absolutely at risk. Others not so much. #BmoreEdChat
A3: Realizing that K-12 and higher education were created for an elite, white, male population and their reluctant expansion in terms of access cares little about student success. If it did, the system would operate differently than it did 100 years ago. #BmoreEdchat
A4: Transparent and courageous conversations with a relentless attitude to reflect regarding my own bias and connection to the world. Listening to students and letting them lead is how I learn the most. #BmoreEdchat
A3: Limiting curriculum that makes educators feel like they can’t stray. Educators unaware of implicit biases and how they manifest. Lack of resources dedicated to training teachers on SJ. And the elephant in the room: we’ve got a whole lot of white teachers. #BmoreEdChat
I work with school leaders to focus first on creating the conditions where the adults and students in schools can thrive. I need to think more intentionally how a focus on strengths, wellbeing, and engagement also addresses social justice in schools. #BmoreEdchat
A3: Limiting curriculum that makes educators feel like they can’t stray. Educators unaware of implicit biases and how they manifest. Lack of resources dedicated to training teachers on SJ. And the elephant in the room: we’ve got a whole lot of white teachers. #BmoreEdChat
A3: Not sure people always understand what SJ education actually is and the reason for it. Also, teachers an feel like they have so much on their plate with math and literacy and mandates that SJ is an after thought. #bmoreedchat
A4 Ct’d So if you are a practitioner interested in teaching through a lens where students should be, reflective, questioning the truth about everything, becoming critical thinkers, comfortable with and effective at challenging data presented - you have to do that too #BmoreEdChat
A3&4: meeting the developmental needs of my students while addressing these issues is difficult due to difficulties communicating. Trying to create alternative ways to promote SJ that they will understand #BmoreEdchat
A4: Ground the work in class in standards. Use reliable sources. Recognize when I am NOT the expert (this is very often) and connect Ss to someone who is. Not being afraid to start tough convos w/ other staff members. #BmoreEdChat
Absolutely! Though I like to see folk put in more work to identify text where lead characters are multi-faceted not only depicting tropes. Like Black kid—>athlete, civil rights era story, getting out of the hood etc Can they be regular kid doing normal things? #BmoreEdChat
A5: Twitter in terms of collaborating with educators and professionals. I know it was already listed but #projectLITbookclub is a great thread to check out. #BmoreEdchat
A4: I liken this work on Social Justice with learning to see, I like to take the light rail and city bus on my commute once or twice a term. You can't understand this work from the front seat of a Nissan Rogue, you have to get proximal, open your eyes and listen #BmoreEdchat
A: teaching with the intent of providing our minority, underprivileged students with what they need to improve their lives. Teaching with compassion and awareness, the list goes on....#BmoreEdChat
A4: I would argue it depends on the obstacles. People- close the door and teach. Resources- ask for support from allies. Lack of knowledge- get on Twitter and follow the people in this chat:) #BmoreEdChat
A5: Teaching is #SocialJusticeEducation If the School of Ed or whatever program you came through isn’t the primary resource (and yes I’m being facetious) then we have a problem. SJ teaching isn’t an other, it is the thing #BmoreEdChat
Q2: I allow my students to have a voice in their communities through their art. No topic is off limits and I show them that their experiences are all important. #BmoreEdChat
This is a great way to incorporate social justice into an elementary setting. Read alouds model so many important skills and themes for our students. I would argue read alouds are one of the most important activities when done right! #BmoreEdchat
Yes! There's an article on the blog that talks abt the power of the book when there is time for discussion and appropriate questioning...just a cold read won't do it. #BmoreEdchat
A4: I would argue it depends on the obstacles. People- close the door and teach. Resources- ask for support from allies. Lack of knowledge- get on Twitter and follow the people in this chat:) #BmoreEdChat
Agreed. Still, personal narratives shouldn’t be a cop out from finding formal text that show a real world including the kids. It may be difficult conceptually if you believe in a cannon, but it’s possible #BmoreEdChat
Q3: sometimes the curriculum leaves little room to explore SJ but I try to incorporate issues/questions/curiosities that impact my students into the content. I also try to find mentor artists that reflect the students that I teach #BmoreEdChat
Q6) My favorite was probably the Libyan slave trade mini-unit ...we started by researching the topic, we looked at a Primary Source account of a child who was living through it, and Ss either wrote letters to the UN or created protest posters #BMoreEdChat
A6: Our Service Learning Unit! Students researched problems in B-More and partnered with organizations tackling these problems. Students partnered with Baltimore Ceasefire, Chesapeake Bay Foundation, and Baltimore Outreach LLC. #BmoreEdChat
A6: Favorite book to read aloud is @mattdelapena The Last Stop on Market Street. Here is a great outline for questioning and a philosophical discussion for the book. The whole philosophy site is pretty awesome btw! #BmoreEdchathttps://t.co/EX0PcrDVGw
A6: Use the work of @chrisemdin to promote students coteaching in class. They know how they want to learn and they have the skills to teach if we provide them the time and opportunity. #BmoreEdchat
A6: See my A5 response. Looking at teaching through a social justice lens is trivialized if the thought is it can be done through units or single lessons. For many students in Baltimore, making it and persisting through school is a revolutionary act #BmoreEdChat
Tell me more about this. Do you feel constrained from using daily prompts or pedagogical strategies that support inquiry and text-to-life reflections #BmoreEdChat
A6: Group Project to design a school that was created for the students and not the teachers/faculty. Does it have grades? Does it have bells to tell you to start-stop learning? Is it open to parents? Does it treat everyone like they matter? Go! #BmoreEdchat
A7: Continuing a focus on Baltimore, lots of folk talk past each other when it comes to the actual issues our students and City face. Centering #SocialJusticeEducation could literally save our City by equipping our kids and families to be engaged #BmoreEdChat
A6) I think an understanding of rights is a matter of social justice so Ss also creates their own Universal Declaration of Human Rights based on a study of the document #BmoreEdChat
A7: Continuing a focus on Baltimore, lots of folk talk past each other when it comes to the actual issues our students and City face. Centering #SocialJusticeEducation could literally save our City by equipping our kids and families to be engaged #BmoreEdChat
A7: Students must learn the power that they hold as community members. SJ Education illuminates for students that they matter and can make a positive impact on the world around them. #BmoreEdchat
A7: Continuing a focus on Baltimore, lots of folk talk past each other when it comes to the actual issues our students and City face. Centering #SocialJusticeEducation could literally save our City by equipping our kids and families to be engaged #BmoreEdChat
A7: because 2,000 children are in incarcerated in tents tonight separated from their families. And many more are in juvenile and adult prisons with no access to education. #BmoreEdchat
Yup. Our high school juniors should all be readying and excited about registering to vote if we’ve actually been doing our jobs, because see @BmoreDoc’s Black Buttefly theory #BmoreEdChat
