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It is crucial that teachers teach critical thinking skills and take an active and critical posture in their own lives. Teachers must have a critical lens in order to teach this to their students. Teachers can engage students in subjects and combine ideas for topics that can address concerns of power and equality. This is a method of thinking about the state of humanity. This isn't a topic that can be covered in a single session; it's an issue that needs to be discussed in the entire classroom on a regular basis. Introducing students to critical literature can aid in their development of consciousness as well as their understanding of the perspectives of other students. Because we teach to liberate others, teachers have always been responsive. We preach that we must preserve the world, especially when it rejects us. We learn the value of teaching and learning if we study language that includes all preambles. Students are encouraged to question any type of document, including media, in order to better understand how racism and other forms of oppression have developed over time and how we may address them.
Jazilyn Nieves

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Introduction to Understanding Criticality 

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Introduction to Understanding Criticality 

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In this chapter, we will learn about the critical theory being applied to educational settings. We also learn that applying criticality is about humanizing practices to highlight social justice within the classroom with our youth of color. Teaching strategies that speak on anti-racist, anti-sexist, and oppressive behaviors are often seen in school settings and beyond and need to be actively taught with passion and diligence. There are many scenarios that are heard of mistreatment and marginalization of the youth of color. We fail to realize that our actions may be offensive to certain students, and we need to be more considerate with our words and temperament. Students often fail to be heard, and when they do express themselves they are labeled with behavioral issues. Teachers, administrators, and school board members need to implement plans for responding to mistreatment and harm to students in order to support students' identities, culture, and civil rights. Criticality gives students the tools to respond to injustices in and around the school.
Dawn Adams

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Chapter 6- Toward the Pursuit of Criticality

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Chapter 6- Toward the Pursuit of Criticality

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this chapter discussed a variety of topics in order to tackle the concept of critical theory and the various aspects to it since it is pretty complex. To start off, thinking critically is vital since it is the start to being able to teach students how to view difficult subject matters such as historic racism and connecting it to the modern world. Students cannot be drilled as to what they should believe in, rather it is something they must come up with on their own since this pertains to their voice and their individuality. sara elghandour

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Criticality has a connection to critical literacy, racial literacy, and agitation literacy.
Critical literacy is reading, writing, and thinking in active and reflective ways. Part of critical literacy and criticality for students is to understand the topic and critique it and offer their own perspectives and opinions.
Racial literacy is a complex phenomenon and involves an intricate analysis of history, hegemony, and power as a starting point for understanding. Also, is the understanding and enactments of reading, writing, speaking, and thinking of race in regard to its impact on "social, economic, political, and educational experiences of individuals and groups. The most experienced group is the color community, in which race and racism are typically embedded and layered with other oppressions like sexism, homophobia, ageism, classism, and religious discrimination. Researchers around the country are creating spaces for teachers and community members to have conversations about race and racial violence and this includes districts with high achievement and strong academics.
Agitation literacies are ways of reading, writing, thinking, and speaking that are connected to the intention and action to upset, disturb, disquiet, and unhinge systemic oppression. Frederick Douglass in 1857 addresses the urgency of freedom for enslaved people and calls attention to the philosophy undergirding reform. He asserts that freedom through reform is only reached when our thoughts are explicitly linked to action. Another example is Ida B. Wells-Barnett who wrote a letter to the Anti-Lynching Bureau outlining the urgency to respond to the terrorist acts of violence projected on the lives of Black women and men. Douglas and Ida enacted literacies and practiced criticality to define their identities, resist oppression, to promote social change for a better humanity. Even to this day the need to agitate for criticality historically spoke to the social unrest is still necessary and pressing in our classrooms.  Eglantina Marko

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What is criticality? Criticality helps teachers to understand and explain inequities in education and is a step toward teaching anti- oppression. This may not be what teachers are typically used to implementing  into their teaching strategies, however teaching criticality humanizes instruction and can make it more of a personal learning experience. This interpretation of critical theory is an approach to teach students of color in a more humanistic, compassionate, and thoughtful manner.
Criticality enables us to question both the world and texts within it to better understand  the truth in history, power and equity.
Dawn Adams

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Ways to learn, understand and teach criticality

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Ways to learn, understand and teach criticality

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Introduce self through critical texts is students introduce themselves through a piece of text that speaks to their ideologies, sociopolitical beliefs, and values. This text can be an image, social media text, print, or video.
Preamble writing is an introductory statement. If we study the language across all preambles, we learn the importance
of teaching and learning.  Instead, if we
examine the language closely, these preambles purposefully concentrated
on identity, skills, intellect, and criticality. By way of these goals, the writers of these statements are able to achieve other successes.
Interrogation of media is introduced to students with examples of current or historical media and encouraged to inquire about these documents to understand how racism and other oppressions have existed throughout history.
Fifteen demands of education is the history of writing and publishing 15 educational demands in the Black News can be read by students today to see how far we have come and how much work still needs to be done. As a collective, students can continue to write down their needs and demands and make them public for others to read and take action upon.
Critical open letters are a part of a rich literary tradition of Black people. Calls for Improving educational conditions and modalities to give young people access to learning spaces where they can spend time reading and developing their own ideas.
Kexin Zou