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Abolitionist teaching is not policing the choices students make in regards to their bodies (clothing, hair, accesories)

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Evelina- To me, it means validating students' experiences and treating them with love and respect in order for them to reach their fullest potential. It also means approaching our practices and systems with a lens on social justice, racial equity, and secure attachments. 

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Evelina- To me, it means validating students' experiences and treating them with love and respect in order for them to reach their fullest potential. It also means approaching our practices and systems with a lens on social justice, racial equity, and secure attachments. 

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Ending the segregation and racism that continues the time line of oppression that started with slavery and  includes the current day school to prison pipeline  

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Ending the segregation and racism that continues the time line of oppression that started with slavery and  includes the current day school to prison pipeline  

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It is about changing the system from punitive to restorative. It is about listening to the perspectives of our BIPOC students who have been unfair targets of oppression and discipline in schools

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Abolitionist teaching to me means that the information, the methods, and the connections being made are all authentic and help to dismantle the oppressive systems that we are forced to operate under today. It means being open to new ideas and understanding that we can't lock ourselves into any one way of thinking.

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Teach/counsel affirms the student's humanity and holds space for their goals/dreams/desires for now/future while healing past experiences.

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ending the harm done to Black and Brown students in schools in Providence (pushed out of school, missing teachers, white centered curriculm,  no support for ESL Students

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ending the harm done to Black and Brown students in schools in Providence (pushed out of school, missing teachers, white centered curriculm,  no support for ESL Students

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To me it means teaching to liberate. Is what we're teaching liberating our students or is it continuing to hold them back, maintain current systems that oppress them? Are we creating a community of co-conspirators who will go out into the world to liberate others?

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To me it means teaching to liberate. Is what we're teaching liberating our students or is it continuing to hold them back, maintain current systems that oppress them? Are we creating a community of co-conspirators who will go out into the world to liberate others?

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Just like the methods I was taught and used for years in special schools/classrooms for emotionally disturbed children

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Just like the methods I was taught and used for years in special schools/classrooms for emotionally disturbed children

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Laying bare the systems of white supremacy at work in the world today, and empowering students to challenge those systems by giving them the tools (resources, writing practice, etc) to do that.

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To me, it means not replicating problematic things that do exist in the real world just to prepare kids for them. For example, the world is sexist/homophobic/racist, but I think it's better to try and lift our school community away from those things rather than tell kids experiecing bullying/homophobia that "that's just how it is, you need to toughen up" etc.

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What was said yesterday in the trauma informed teaching workshop stuck with me.  "My humanity is interdependent on students' humanity".  I think just being present and holding space for student thoughts and emotions is abolitionist teaching.  Giving space and opportunities to share.

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Being able to get through a tough conversation with a student. Handing out advice in situations but still allowing them to make the decision.

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Means being a co-conspirator, means listening and amplifying student voice, means giving students the space to freedom dream what their world/community/society should look like. I like the term because of the link to the original abolitionists.

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Abolitionist teaching is about freedom, and not the kind of freedom where we tell kids that they can and should get whatever they want, but a freedom and set of abilities that empower them to be of service to others.

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I think too often in schools, the only time BIPOC people are in the curriculum is in moments of trauma and oppression (ex slavery, colonization, etc). Abolitionist teaching doesn't hide the truths and pains of history, but it is purposeful in its inclusion of joy, celebration, and reverence for the amazingness of historically oppressed groups.

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Not teaching a white-washed curriculum designed to uplift white voices and put down others

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This is a teacher who provides tough love. They hold high expectations for success, but understands where their students are at and provides the love and support needed to help them reach their own version of success.

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Ex: Abolitionist teaching looks like a teacher listening to a student voice their frustrations