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Hey, Annie, moderating this #educolor chat. 6th-year special education teacher, looking to build coalitions with my mostly Latinx and Arabic students and help my Chinese/Asian coalitions do the same. Also looking for ideas and examples from y'all! @EduColorMVMT
Hey friends, Khalilah co-moderating tonight in #EduColor Mom of three, former school leader, former 1st deputy director of the White House Initiative on Educational Excellence for African Americans, working for liberation…
A1: Xian 4/5th grade #SpEd math teacher in Little Village/South Lawndale, Chicago.
Here to learn how to build this intersectional movement together! #educolor
Q1: What does interracial coalition-building mean? When, personally or historically, have you seen communities of color (CoC) come together in solidarity to advocate for an issue? #EduColor
I wonder what the Civil Rights Movement means for folks in this case, and, how communities of color participated in that movement? I am still learning. #educolor
A1 - If I'm completely honest, I have no idea! I decided to join this chat so I could learn a little bit more about this whole topic, and here's hoping I do! #educolor
A1: For #blackhistory month, I celebrated #AfroLatino/a heritage to bridge the cultures. As an educator I used a short story by Sharon Draper to heal the racial tensions after a gang fight in the community. #educolor
Q1: What does interracial coalition-building mean? When, personally or historically, have you seen communities of color (CoC) come together in solidarity to advocate for an issue? #EduColor
A1: The building of long-term relationships across the lines of division our oppressive society has drawn around us via deep listening and empathy that leads to meaningful, collaborative struggle. #educolor
Q1: What does interracial coalition-building mean? When, personally or historically, have you seen communities of color (CoC) come together in solidarity to advocate for an issue? #EduColor
Q1: What does interracial coalition-building mean? When, personally or historically, have you seen communities of color (CoC) come together in solidarity to advocate for an issue? #EduColor
In recent history, coalitions like @DignityinSchool is a shining example of communities across cultures standing up for civil rights of students by disrupt #school2prison pipeline #EduColor
Q1: What does interracial coalition-building mean? When, personally or historically, have you seen communities of color (CoC) come together in solidarity to advocate for an issue? #EduColor
A0) My name is Zack, I teach middle-school special-ed teacher in Denver, doc candidate in educational studies. I want to learn more about fostering connections between online communities that are geared toward social justice #EduColor
Hey #EduColor fam! I'm Tamara, CEO of African American Teaching Fellows. Aiming to diversify the teaching staff through recruiting, supporting, and developing African American educators.
... and a Spanish teacher :-)
A1: Interractial coalition building sounds to me like working together to achieve a common goal regardless of race. CoC coming together to advocate for an issue brings to mind the Greenboro sit-ins. #educolor
A1: While leadership credit must go to the black women who have led the movement, the interracial collaboration in Chicago that drove out Anita Alvarez and has fought police violence has succeed due to intersectional collaboration. #educolor
A1 Currently advocating for a TOC affinity group / standing committee in my district. Even in the same district, TOC are often isolated and need to find ways to connect. #EduColor
A1: I do this same thing for Hispanic Heritage Month with my Spanish students. Bridging the African and Latinx cultures has really enriched my classroom environment. #EduColor
A1: For #blackhistory month, I celebrated #AfroLatino/a heritage to bridge the cultures. As an educator I used a short story by Sharon Draper to heal the racial tensions after a gang fight in the community. #educolor
Q1: What does interracial coalition-building mean? When, personally or historically, have you seen communities of color (CoC) come together in solidarity to advocate for an issue? #EduColor
Here's an awesome example of coalition building in Detroit, led by the grassroots community, for active and positive change: https://t.co/dtfax7BlUb#EduColor
In reply to
@WeThePeopleDet, @Detroit_Equity, @PeoplesWaterDet
Q1: What does interracial coalition-building mean? When, personally or historically, have you seen communities of color (CoC) come together in solidarity to advocate for an issue? #EduColor
A2: I’d say understanding & partcipating in public office. We need to hold hands and uplift each other as we preach what we know in our hearts. That starts with councils, panel discussions & student-led liberties on campus. #educolor
A1 Literacy instruction that is inclusive of all voices, but particularly those in CoC. Representation matters. Many stories matter. Ss need mirrors, windows, sliding glass doors in what they read/write. #EduColor
A1: I do this same thing for Hispanic Heritage Month with my Spanish students. Bridging the African and Latinx cultures has really enriched my classroom environment. #EduColor
A1: For #blackhistory month, I celebrated #AfroLatino/a heritage to bridge the cultures. As an educator I used a short story by Sharon Draper to heal the racial tensions after a gang fight in the community. #educolor
Q1: What does interracial coalition-building mean? When, personally or historically, have you seen communities of color (CoC) come together in solidarity to advocate for an issue? #EduColor
A1: While leadership credit must go to the black women who have led the movement, the interracial collaboration in Chicago that drove out Anita Alvarez and has fought police violence has succeed due to intersectional collaboration. #educolor
Q1: What does interracial coalition-building mean? When, personally or historically, have you seen communities of color (CoC) come together in solidarity to advocate for an issue? #EduColor
A2 - Immigration policies and controversies are big in the media today, and I believe it is so important to show our immigrant students that they are loved, appreciated, and cared for - no matter what decision the government makes #educolor
Here's an awesome example of coalition building in Detroit, led by the grassroots community, for active and positive change: https://t.co/dtfax7BlUb#EduColor
In reply to
@WeThePeopleDet, @Detroit_Equity, @PeoplesWaterDet
A1: I do this same thing for Hispanic Heritage Month with my Spanish students. Bridging the African and Latinx cultures has really enriched my classroom environment. #EduColor
A1: For #blackhistory month, I celebrated #AfroLatino/a heritage to bridge the cultures. As an educator I used a short story by Sharon Draper to heal the racial tensions after a gang fight in the community. #educolor
Q1: What does interracial coalition-building mean? When, personally or historically, have you seen communities of color (CoC) come together in solidarity to advocate for an issue? #EduColor
A2: CoC should coalition build around any issues that they feel passionate about, and that need change. Coalition-building of any form is a powerful tool. #educolor
An issue in education would be the lack of resources for people of color and programs that would help deconstruct the school to prison pipeline #educolor#Ludual
Ethnic algorithms!!! I would be so interested in learning more. And, really, inputting ourselves in mathematics education. @TheJLV knows this life well. We're creating SJ math as we go. #educolor
Q1: What does interracial coalition-building mean? When, personally or historically, have you seen communities of color (CoC) come together in solidarity to advocate for an issue? #EduColor
A2 I want to lift up issues facing First Nations in education. I think it’s important for us to fight for their access to equitable education that respects their native culture as the country’s primary culture #EduColor
I'm not a math teacher, but this fascinates me. I really want to learn more! It's incredible to think about all the ways that we're taught that have been colonized. #EduColor
In my own words I believe interracial coalition building means for all the different races to come as one and build with each other instead of us trying to knock each other down #educolor#ludual
A2: Right now, in Detroit, CoC are uniting in the struggle for sustainable, inclusive, and anti-racist education. The goal is liberation, so the fight is against white supremacy, settler colonialism, and neoliberal austerity policies. #educolor
A2: CoC should coalition build around any issues that they feel passionate about, and that need change. Coalition-building of any form is a powerful tool. #educolor
I’m intrigued about this… Today I attended a STEM entrepreneurship conference and heard a great deal about how artificial intelligence needs to respond to multiple ethnicities & cultures #EduColor
The access to quality education due to the fact that if you can’t even paint the little pictures which is the basics of education when will you ever build be able to paint the bigger picture. #EduColor#LUdual
A2: I would love to see a focus on the achievement gap, especially as it pertains to students of color. I know that a lot of research has discussed "closing the achievement gap" - but I really want to see conversations lead to action. #EduColor
A2 I want to lift up issues facing First Nations in education. I think it’s important for us to fight for their access to equitable education that respects their native culture as the country’s primary culture #EduColor
A3 - I think the idea of offending someone unintentionally, or saying something that wasn't politically correct can scare people away from organizing interracially. It is important not to let this fear stop us from building relationships with people of different races! #EduColor
Yes. It frightens me that as AI takes over, so little about the needs/preferences of marginalized people are even known, let alone involved in these algorithms. #educolor
RT TamaraWDias: A1: I do this same thing for Hispanic Heritage Month with my Spanish students. Bridging the African and Latinx cultures has really enriched my classroom environment. #EduColorhttps://t.co/94NvXoG9bD
A1: For #blackhistory month, I celebrated #AfroLatino/a heritage to bridge the cultures. As an educator I used a short story by Sharon Draper to heal the racial tensions after a gang fight in the community. #educolor
Q1: What does interracial coalition-building mean? When, personally or historically, have you seen communities of color (CoC) come together in solidarity to advocate for an issue? #EduColor
A2: Students Not Suspects in LAUSD protesting “random” metal detector searches in LAUSD is SoC led w/support from @ACLU_SoCal - policy impacts multiple CoC, wking across schls that r segregated by geography &Black &Latinx local histories #educolor
A3 Social, historical structures (racism) work to pit CoC against one another, leading to segregation and implicit bias/beliefs that are then passed down. Isolation in schools & segregation in society exacerbate this. #EduColor
As a former Detroiter, there's along tradition of that kind of work in Motown, going back to the work led by the city-wide Black Student Union in late 60s-early 70s. #EduColor
A2: Right now, in Detroit, CoC are uniting in the struggle for sustainable, inclusive, and anti-racist education. The goal is liberation, so the fight is against white supremacy, settler colonialism, and neoliberal austerity policies. #educolor
A3 Intentionally making it seem there is a scarcity of resources in the richest country in the world… it’s not pie. There’s enough for everyone. Also, model minority myth pitting us against each other is pervasive in schools #EduColor
A3: I think it's difficult for any communities to organize interracially because we fear the unknown and we cling to the people that we know and feel we can relate to. #educolor
Something that I believe makes I.T hard for us as colored people to effectively organize interracially with others is that we have so many stereotypes against us that we began to believe them instead of us trying to change them we act on them #educolor#LUdual
A3: White supremacy has helped perpetuates a caste-like hierarchy in our country for POC. Segregation in living areas, schools, & communities. Stereotypical beliefs b/w POC groups hinder as well #educolor
A3 Social, historical structures (racism) work to pit CoC against one another, leading to segregation and implicit bias/beliefs that are then passed down. Isolation in schools & segregation in society exacerbate this. #EduColor
In order to get over the fear of being politically correct, there needs to be built respect, rapport, and relationship. We need to build that if we're going to be honest with each other. #educolor
Yes. Even within communities people are hesitant to see one another. Black Americans vs new Black Americans (especially when they speak another language), the idea that Latinx doesn’t include many races, lack of disaggregation of ‘Asian’ #EduColor
A3: I think it's difficult for any communities to organize interracially because we fear the unknown and we cling to the people that we know and feel we can relate to. #educolor
Which hits right at the core of school districts who still has “the privilege” writing curriculum that’s out of touch and not enrichment to those needing that affirmation in what the read, acquire & apply. #educolor
A3 Divide and conquer has been a strategy colonizers use the world over, setting themselves up as the standard all others should aspire to. The roots of this strategy are deeply embedded. #educolor
A3: White supremacy creates an environment where proximity to whiteness can subvert coalition building by developing model minorities, colorism, and tokenism. And white folks have embraced that to co-opt CoC movements #educolor
The achievement gap puts the onus on individuals and fails to address the disparity and lack of resources. The focus needs to be on policies and resources rather than individuals.
@DrIbram speaks much on this in #StampedFromTheBeginning#EduColor
What makes it hard for communities to effectively organize interacially is the lack of understanding eachother and just attcking rather than getting to know there background and purpose #educolor#Ludual
Yes. This. Too often those who in power do not recognize the short- and long-term damage that their decisions inflict on Ss of color (and white Ss, too), esp. in the name of testing. #EduColor
As a Chinese Asian American woman, I am learning to let African Americans and Blacks lead, and that's something I had to learn- by unlearning everything I was taught as a kid about black folk. #educolor Thanks for being open about that.
The utilization of power is at the root of "race" to begin with. "Who is in control?" White supremacy infects everything, including CoC relationships.
#EduColor A3
Read more of Gloria Ladsen-Billings work on the opportunity gap. Gaps in achievement are contrived if the measure is a race where no one started at the same point. It’s not so much a myth as it is not nuanced #EduColor
A2: ethnic studies curriculum & pedagoy for all. So wish I had known more of an ethnic studies perspective when I was still teaching social studies. #educolor
Internalized racism is definitely an issue #educolor Hoping we realize this racism's been placed on folk and not truth. but that takes years to unlearn.
Something that I believe makes I.T hard for us as colored people to effectively organize interracially with others is that we have so many stereotypes against us that we began to believe them instead of us trying to change them we act on them #educolor#LUdual
A4 I don't agree that people of color are used as a wedge of pitted against one another. As African Americans can make wise decisions on our own, and we do not have to be pitted against one another. We need to come together instead of fighting and make a difference. #educolor
Exactly! It presupposes certain races are just unable to achieve so we have to fix them, when the fix would be equity in resources and opportunity. Everyone starts the race at the beginning, the gap in achievement dissipates #EduColor
In reply to
@tiffanymjewell, @TamaraWDias, @AngryTeachr, @DrIbram
What makes it hard for communities to effectively organize interacially is the lack of understanding eachother and just attcking rather than getting to know there background and purpose #educolor#Ludual
A3 Divide and conquer has been a strategy colonizers use the world over, setting themselves up as the standard all others should aspire to. The roots of this strategy are deeply embedded. #educolor
A4: I think people actively decide to be pitted against one another, and it creates dissension and an unloving, aggressive environment in the community.. #educolor
A3 Social, historical structures (racism) work to pit CoC against one another, leading to segregation and implicit bias/beliefs that are then passed down. Isolation in schools & segregation in society exacerbate this. #EduColor
A3: I am actively learning about the time, patience, intention, and love that it takes to sustainably coalition build. It takes everything from you and emotions are strong. This can add a complex layer to an already tricky context. #educolor
As a Chinese Asian American woman, I am learning to let African Americans and Blacks lead, and that's something I had to learn- by unlearning everything I was taught as a kid about black folk. #educolor Thanks for being open about that.
A3 Intentionally making it seem there is a scarcity of resources in the richest country in the world… it’s not pie. There’s enough for everyone. Also, model minority myth pitting us against each other is pervasive in schools #EduColor
A4 As a child of immigrants I readily was witness to subtle but palpable cues that American Black people are not as hard-working, not as smart, not as “good” as immigrants and new Americans. Even from my family TBH #EduColor
A2 There are questions around whether we really CAN fix this system that was not built for us. It's going to take radically different thinking and actions. Do we repair or build anew? I haven't found an answer to that yet... #EduColor
A4 - By pitting PoC against each other, we push aside the real issue and get caught up in anger and frustration instead of dealing with the actual problem #EduColor
A3: Antiblackness from nbpoc. Point blank. nbPOC think they can achieve whiteness and have institutional privilege they aren’t willing to give up to achieve liberation for all. #EduColor
A4: pitting us against each other is standard practice for white supremacists. We won’t achieve true liberation for anybody until we all unite against our oppressors. #educolor
A5: I've been actively reading the Indigenous work of Dr. Sandra Gonzales at Wayne State. She's a SW Detroit native & does tremendous work to uplift Indigenous Peoples, knowledge, & cultures to liberate education. #EduColorhttps://t.co/0YActepypw
RT TeachMoore: A2 ...and development of such curriculum by CoC coalitions and collaborations among educators, parents, and students! #EduColorhttps://t.co/ofjebTjbdh
A5 - By bringing these issues to the forefront, people are not able to say they "didn't know." Now they DO know, and it is their decision what they are going to do with that knowledge. #EduColor
Model minority myth, or the myth that some minorities are better than others. Has real consequences for all "minorities", specifically scapegoating the ones that aren't "making it." #educolor
Q6: What would you like your community to understand about other communities of color? What would you like other communities to know about yours? #EduColor
A3: White supremacy creates an environment where proximity to whiteness can subvert coalition building by developing model minorities, colorism, and tokenism. And white folks have embraced that to co-opt CoC movements #educolor
Whiteness and proximity to it have always been set up as "the ideal," making Blackness, and thus Black people, the enemy, to be avoided at all costs. Gaining power often looks like "who can be the most White?"
#EduColor A4
A5: If no one speaks out about racism and indigenous people's struggles it is easily swept under the carpet. It's easier to not do anything, but actively working to ease struggles is the only way changes will be made. #educolor
I want people to know Chinese Americans and Asian Americans are not afraid to speak up, that we're not perpetual foreigners or exotic, that we believe in justice as well, and that we're learning. #educolor
Because this nation is built on the destruction, oppression and subjugation of these people groups. It is in the countries makeup, like a cancer. If we don't excise it, it will destroy us all. #educolor
YES. Very important to understand, too, trying to "pass" or "achieve" whiteness in our culture. This assimilation and acculturation piece that we're taught in public schools. Toward white middle class values! #educolor
A3: White supremacy creates an environment where proximity to whiteness can subvert coalition building by developing model minorities, colorism, and tokenism. And white folks have embraced that to co-opt CoC movements #educolor
A4 Just mentioned El Salvadorans vs Mexicans in my community. There have been all out brawls in the parking lot involving students from these two groups. It's horrible. #Educolor
A3: White supremacy creates an environment where proximity to whiteness can subvert coalition building by developing model minorities, colorism, and tokenism. And white folks have embraced that to co-opt CoC movements #educolor
Exactly! I’ve begun to seen higher ed allow folk to report Black + ethnicity so they can hold themselves accountable for surface level access initiatives that don’t reach American Black students #EduColor
A6 I don't know a lot about communities of color, but I think they are something that people should be aware of and know that they are making a difference in the world. #educolor
I'll ask, though- is there a difference between equality and equity for public schooling? I always ask that of myself as a special education teacher. #educolor
A6: I want every community to know that every other community is made of precious people that deserve equal opportunities and a chance to make their mark on the world. #educolor
Glad you brought that point (& references) into our discussion. Gloria Ladson-Billings has also taught us much on this so-called achievement gap. #EduColor
The achievement gap puts the onus on individuals and fails to address the disparity and lack of resources. The focus needs to be on policies and resources rather than individuals.
@DrIbram speaks much on this in #StampedFromTheBeginning#EduColor
We moved from a predominantly black neighborhood to a predominantly white one when I was ready to start school. I was only 5, but I got the message. #EduColor
A3: White supremacy creates an environment where proximity to whiteness can subvert coalition building by developing model minorities, colorism, and tokenism. And white folks have embraced that to co-opt CoC movements #educolor
A6: That when the combine the strength of our cultural “lights” we will shine an unfathomable beacon in the heart of darkness and divisiveness! #educolor
Q6: What would you like your community to understand about other communities of color? What would you like other communities to know about yours? #EduColor
Race and ethnicity, too, are really important to consider when considering coalitions of color. I know I've been guilty of lumping together Latinx people... Intersectionality, folks! #educolor
A4 Just mentioned El Salvadorans vs Mexicans in my community. There have been all out brawls in the parking lot involving students from these two groups. It's horrible. #Educolor
That we are all fighting the EXACT same system of oppression. It's time to stop comparing wounds, get on the front lines, and start fighting. Our kids depend on it. #educolor
Q6: What would you like your community to understand about other communities of color? What would you like other communities to know about yours? #EduColor
A6: I want every community to know that every other community is made of precious people that deserve equal opportunities and a chance to make their mark on the world. #educolor
A6: as a teacher educator, this is where culturally sustaining and place-conscious pedagogies come in with the work I attempt to do with my Student Ts. this type of learning reveals & reimagines education for my student Ts. #educolor
A4: For me, it diminishes the work we could do together. It goes back to me being younger, always feeling like I was always in competition with other African American students. Fighting so hard to be better than and move past folks, when we could've worked together. #educolor
Q7: Sometimes it seems like communities of color are competing for limited resources. What would it look like to work from abundance and connection rather than scarcity and division? #EduColor
A5: nbpoc need to understand their privilege over Black&indigenous peoples. We have a global history of oppressing Black people (and currently still do), so unless we achieve liberation for black and indigenous people, we will still be oppressors. #educolor
A6: That when we combine the strength of our cultural “lights” we will shine an unfathomable beacon in the heart of darkness and divisiveness! #educolor
YES. Very important to understand, too, trying to "pass" or "achieve" whiteness in our culture. This assimilation and acculturation piece that we're taught in public schools. Toward white middle class values! #educolor
A3: White supremacy creates an environment where proximity to whiteness can subvert coalition building by developing model minorities, colorism, and tokenism. And white folks have embraced that to co-opt CoC movements #educolor
A6 Great question! I would love to personally expand relationships in the AANAPISI communities. I feel I’ve missed so much. A new friend @MarkKeam is doing work to bring Black & Korean communities together in VA. I plan to keep a close eye. #EduColor
Q6: What would you like your community to understand about other communities of color? What would you like other communities to know about yours? #EduColor
Our oppressions might look different, but we are all struggling under the same systems of white supremacy and privilege. #educolorhttps://t.co/3xqLJD5g33
Q6: What would you like your community to understand about other communities of color? What would you like other communities to know about yours? #EduColor
A2 There are questions around whether we really CAN fix this system that was not built for us. It's going to take radically different thinking and actions. Do we repair or build anew? I haven't found an answer to that yet... #EduColor
RT awakenlibrarian: A6: That when we combine the strength of our cultural “lights” we will shine an unfathomable beacon in the heart of darkness and divisiveness! #educolor
Widespread is an understatement. It goes as far as low-key celebrating or suggesting improving the race by marrying white people in some families… :( #EduColor
That we are all fighting the EXACT same system of oppression. It's time to stop comparing wounds, get on the front lines, and start fighting. Our kids depend on it. #educolor
Q6: What would you like your community to understand about other communities of color? What would you like other communities to know about yours? #EduColor
Q7: Sometimes it seems like communities of color are competing for limited resources. What would it look like to work from abundance and connection rather than scarcity and division? #EduColor
A5: If no one speaks out about racism and indigenous people's struggles it is easily swept under the carpet. It's easier to not do anything, but actively working to ease struggles is the only way changes will be made. #educolor
A6: I’d like my community to know that we shouldn’t aspire to whiteness bc 1. It will never be achievable and 2. It perpetuates the oppression of Black people. #educolor
Q6: What would you like your community to understand about other communities of color? What would you like other communities to know about yours? #EduColor
1. There is enough for everybody, and if we work together, we can redistribute it equitably.
2. We have everything we need in our networks. Just need to collaborate and support. #educolorhttps://t.co/hSwZUhad7Z
Q7: Sometimes it seems like communities of color are competing for limited resources. What would it look like to work from abundance and connection rather than scarcity and division? #EduColor
The greatest weapon of any oppressor is getting the oppressed to be complicit in their own oppression. Once the mind is colonized, the work is done for them. #DecolonizeTheMind#educolor
Our oppressions might look different, but we are all struggling under the same systems of white supremacy and privilege. #educolorhttps://t.co/3xqLJD5g33
Q6: What would you like your community to understand about other communities of color? What would you like other communities to know about yours? #EduColor
A7: I believe the answer to this question lies in our ability to reimagine and create what is possibly. It will be about liberation, equity, sustainable community, and belovedness. #educolor
Q7: Sometimes it seems like communities of color are competing for limited resources. What would it look like to work from abundance and connection rather than scarcity and division? #EduColor
A7: It would look like the milk and honey finally began to flow equally to all. Scholarships would #payitforward and words like the first Latina or 1st AA would be a distant memory! #educolor
Q7: Sometimes it seems like communities of color are competing for limited resources. What would it look like to work from abundance and connection rather than scarcity and division? #EduColor
A7: What we see in certain schools that remain in the box and not the “borderlands.” All children need access to those resources.
We’d all be working our way to #liberation!
#EduColor
Q7: Sometimes it seems like communities of color are competing for limited resources. What would it look like to work from abundance and connection rather than scarcity and division? #EduColor
Great concept to unpack. I’ve been moving more and more to pushing folk with power to get comfortable with different types of expression instead of molding other people into their image before acknowledging them as “professional” or competent #EduColor
A7: It would look like the milk and honey finally began to flow equally to all. Scholarships would #payitforward and words like the first Latina or 1st AA would be a distant memory! #educolor
Q7: Sometimes it seems like communities of color are competing for limited resources. What would it look like to work from abundance and connection rather than scarcity and division? #EduColor
We are all equal as human beings. God created us all equally therefore, we are equal. No, we may not all be TREATED equally,but that was not the way it was intended to be. #educolor
To even address this one has to acknowledge that there is no scarcity of resources, only lack of access. We will know what it looks like when we tear down the walls of privilege that block access to the rest of us. #educolor
Q7: Sometimes it seems like communities of color are competing for limited resources. What would it look like to work from abundance and connection rather than scarcity and division? #EduColor
A7: we would be working from a place of love and healing. True solidarity where we would be struggling together so everyone can be free, not just our own personal communities. #educolor
Q7: Sometimes it seems like communities of color are competing for limited resources. What would it look like to work from abundance and connection rather than scarcity and division? #EduColor
A6: What an insidious waste it is to argue over who's been oppressed the most/worst. I'd like for other communities to know the truth about American Black people's pursuit of & contributions to educ.#EduColor
Q6: What would you like your community to understand about other communities of color? What would you like other communities to know about yours? #EduColor
We often equate "professional" with whiteness in all regards: speaking, dress, behavior, etc. Choosing not to code-switch as a way to reframe "professional" then becomes an act of resistance. #educolorhttps://t.co/5P9oaRloUw
Great concept to unpack. I’ve been moving more and more to pushing folk with power to get comfortable with different types of expression instead of molding other people into their image before acknowledging them as “professional” or competent #EduColor
When I moved back to NYC summer of 2016 I decided to work in a school with many peoples- integrated- so now I get to use my limited Spanish, Cantonese, and Mandarin alongside English :) My students are flabbergasted but appreciative. #educolor
Q7: Sometimes it seems like communities of color are competing for limited resources. What would it look like to work from abundance and connection rather than scarcity and division? #EduColor
A8: I wish there was some kind of #CulturalComplimentCommittee that did just that: support & connect cultures with respect & alliance! Who’s ready to get knee deep with me to get it started? #educolor
A8 Putting good teachers in the schools that want to build a safe environment for their students and want to make their students feel equal. Having a valuable role model in the classroom that shapes the way the students see each other will change the class dynamic. #educolor
Word up! I’ve definitely found myself speaking in slang or simple colloquialism in order to normalize it in places where I’ve been a/the leader. It has most times made everyone a little less stuffy :) #EduColor
A8: First and foremost, by treating all students and families of color in a just way. School staff/structures are very complicit in the differential treatment of CoC we see by society. #educolor
A7: we would be working from a place of love and healing. True solidarity where we would be struggling together so everyone can be free, not just our own personal communities. #educolor
Q7: Sometimes it seems like communities of color are competing for limited resources. What would it look like to work from abundance and connection rather than scarcity and division? #EduColor
A8: Teachers should treat all students and all families with love and respect, and encourage an environment of love and respect in the classroom as well as out of it, serving as an example to the community. #educolor
A8 - "Holler if You Can Hear Me" by Gregory Michie is a GREAT book on this topic. We need to allow students to embrace their own distinct cultures, and not make them feel less than because their culture is different than their peers #educolor
People need space to be brought together and to do things on their own terms. Open it up. Every one of my students is a first-gen immigrant from one of a dozen different countries and it is a beautiful thing to watch every day.
#EduColor A8
I understand there is yet work to do, but have definitely been seeing really great work out of Canada on supporting First Nations reclaiming their language in the mainstream and schools. #EduColor
And reminding ourselves that we teachers ain't saviors. I try to be a human being among my students, too :) and they're appreciative of that. #educolor
YES. Very important to understand, too, trying to "pass" or "achieve" whiteness in our culture. This assimilation and acculturation piece that we're taught in public schools. Toward white middle class values! #educolor
A3: White supremacy creates an environment where proximity to whiteness can subvert coalition building by developing model minorities, colorism, and tokenism. And white folks have embraced that to co-opt CoC movements #educolor
A8: Building community is hard work. When it's disingenuous and a facade it's doomed to fail. Ss and Ps see thru the fake crap. More introspection by educators needed. #educolor
YES! So much to unpack around the ways our school institutions are organized. The class and race of teachers, for one... and the ways in which we teach...#pedagogy#educolor
A8: First and foremost, by treating all students and families of color in a just way. School staff/structures are very complicit in the differential treatment of CoC we see by society. #educolor
A8: it's important to remember that white supremacy & systemic racism has worked to prevent Ts and CoC from working together. We must dismantle the structures that keep us from truly working toward liberation together. #educolor
A8: By working with and for us- not against us. By listening and valuing us. By putting #antiracism in the mission and working towards eradicating that smog.
#EduColor
Same! I dress & speak the way i do, draw examples from hip hop, & am unapologetic about my me-ness. I find that, mostly, people respond to that authenticity. #EduColor
Having agency and choice in your life is something not overtly taught to our students. How do we give them that access, freedom, in these stuffy structured institutions of learning? #educolor
People need space to be brought together and to do things on their own terms. Open it up. Every one of my students is a first-gen immigrant from one of a dozen different countries and it is a beautiful thing to watch every day.
#EduColor A8
By acknowledging them, celebrating them and encouraging them. No more black history only in February, womens history month, Latino Heritage week nonsense. Build these communities into everything, the way Eurocentricism is. #NoExcuses#educolor
More staff means smaller person-student ratios which means more individualized learning, because all of us human beings deserve a chance to be known, heard, loved, and actually taught #educolor
A8: going to lift up my teacher friend @matt_marv here who does this work exceptionally well with his middle school students & their families in SW Detroit! :) #educolor
A8 At foundation, culturally relevant curriculum makes space for people to bring their full selves to school - students, families AND CRITICALLY teachers. So many have to unlearn wedges placed between us. If curriculum starts by valuing everyone imagine possibilities #EduColor
Like, can we be taught about ourselves EVERY DAY OF THE YEAR? How many times did I see any Asian face or experience in my curriculum? Maybe like six times in all K-12. #educolor
By acknowledging them, celebrating them and encouraging them. No more black history only in February, womens history month, Latino Heritage week nonsense. Build these communities into everything, the way Eurocentricism is. #NoExcuses#educolor
A8 We need to realize that parents want what's best for their kids. And many of those parents have had bad experiences in school buildings. We have to change that. #educolor
My school structurally pitted immigrant kids (Black and Latinx) over Black and Latinx DC born kids in grossly obvious ways. Teacher bias was absolutely one factor.
To tell the truth, I feel like us educators/administrators/leaders need to stop hoarding all the power in the schools. Find opportunities to hand over the reigns to the students. Let's see what these kids can do. #EduColor
Having agency and choice in your life is something not overtly taught to our students. How do we give them that access, freedom, in these stuffy structured institutions of learning? #educolor
People need space to be brought together and to do things on their own terms. Open it up. Every one of my students is a first-gen immigrant from one of a dozen different countries and it is a beautiful thing to watch every day.
#EduColor A8
A9: Why are all the Black Kids Sitting Together in the Cafeteria by Beverly Tatum is a great book that talks about identity development and active anti-racism. #educolor
A9: @TheWrightMuseum & the @ArabAmericanMus in Detroit are awesome examples of public museums using their space to raise community coalition building for equity and justice. #educolor
I see/hear a lot of conversation about creating separate courses/electives to meet the need for diversity. I think we need to ask why our current courses aren't already inclusive. #EduColor
A9 A wonderful book that relates to this topic as "Educating All God's Children." It is about educating all students equally, and really understanding and being able to help students in poverty stricken environments.#educolor
A9 - Again, "Holler if You Can Hear Me" by Gregory Michie is PHENOMENAL, as well as "Educating All God's Children" by @nicolebfulgham which addresses what teachers should do to improve the education of students in poverty #educolor
A9: Why are all the Black Kids Sitting Together in the Cafeteria by Beverly Tatum is a great book that talks about identity development and active anti-racism. #educolor
A8: How does using qualifying terms, language hinder community building?
(i.e 'those kids' 'my schools is 90% free/reduced lunch, 'large ELL population')
#EduColor
A3: We are often caught up dealing with our own issues. It's hard to find time to step back, learn, and take the broad view needed for collaboration. #EduColor
Next time!
I’m a #Montessori teacher and...whew! There’s a whole curriculum component called Grace and Courtesy that is often used by white educators to silence PoC...
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A6 It is beneficial for all to call ourselves and others to a higher humanity by taking people as they come. Resist the human temptation to seek safety in what you think you know about folks based on skin color. #EduColor
Q6: What would you like your community to understand about other communities of color? What would you like other communities to know about yours? #EduColor
It starts with power-sharing. Those with power and access have to start demanding that others be included. When we receive resources, we have to ask, "Thanks, but how can XYZ get this, too?" as though its the norm. #educolor
