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I believe being a teacher-activist is being one hundred percet behind your student even if you do not agree with what they are saying. If there is a topic that a student feels strongly about or it hits home for them, the teacher needs to be an activist and allow the students to find their voice and stand up for them with the condition that it's safe for the student to do so. Teacher-activist are people who need to make sure we support our students because we do not know if they have that support at home. Teacher activist sand behind their students and are their motivators. Just as in the rethinking schools article "How one elementary schools sparked city wide movement to make black students lives matter" the teachers helped the students make t-shirts and I quote "event for that September morning, and in solidarity, school staff decided to wear T-shirts that read “Black Lives Matter/We Stand Together/John Muir Elementary,” designed by the school’s art teacher." This is the little things that matter because it shows the students the support the teacher has for them.

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I believe collaboration is being able to put everything you have on the table as the saying goes. This goes for students an teachers. This is important for teaches and students because of the current climate in schools and the education system. Collaboration in order to make change in what is ACTUALLY going on in schools. As the article on White Fragility states, ". However, al- though all individuals play a role in keeping the system active, the responsibility for change is not equally shared " everyone needs to be apart of the change and it starts in classrooms. Collaboration agt the classroom level means that the teachers are being transparents and working with their students to feel welcomed, but also the students are working with their teacher to allow the teacher to meet the needs of students. The teacher can only do this by having an anit-racist, and anti-bias classroom. Teachers need to begin at the micro level in order to accomodate. You might ask me how this is collaboration? It's collaboration because students and teachers can better work together when they know above and beneath the iceberg of students.

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I believe family/community is going out of your way to show you care. These students in your classroom are people who you show how much you care, this means you may have to go the extra mile to show how much you care. I think it goes both ways though, I think that as much as teachers take the extra mile so should students. A chapter we read in For White Folks Who Teach in the Hood, there was a student who did not go on their Disney World Trip because she was the classroom equipment distributor for labs every Friday and felt like she was a part of her peers learning. “This student had felt responsible for the learning of the other students in the classroom. Somehow, over the course of that academic year, we had created a family in that classroom…” (Emdin, pg. 105). I think of the way I treat my family, and that’s the exact way I would treat my students. Whatever issues may arise within my students I want to be the person they come to.

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I believe my students will learn best if I don't focus on disrespecting my students instead focus on things that really matter. Over the course of the semester I have become very emotional and interested in the topic of school to prison pipeline. I believe my students will learn best if I focus on their success and make sure they end up going to college and not in a jail cell. I would never want to believe and I don't think that any teacher comes into this profession wants to set their student up for failure. You may be asking me, what can I do? One of the things I notice that discourages students from having good behavior in school is the material taught in school. A lot of times throughout the year teachers are focused on standardized test which do not benefit the students at all. W e need to step in and be that fighter for our students so that they don't have to worry about failing. You may ask what the correlation to the school to prison pipeline this has and it's simple. When students are disinterested, they begin to act up, they get in trouble, get sent to the secuirty, get in more trouble and eventually get kicked out of school and cause more trouble on the street leading them to jail (rethinking schools, school to prison pipeline). I believe my students will learn best if I am their activist.

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I believe students learn best when they teachers are inclusive toward all students. As repetitive as this sounds, students are not going to give any attention toward their classes if they feel like the information is irrelevant toward their life. I can attest to this because personally, I remember when I first moved to a school in Indiana I felt like a lot of the things I learned were related to those students of the White community, I don't even remember teachers including the Latino culture. I do remember once the teacher acknowledged Cinco de Mayo, and to me I was very offended because as a teacher you should know that not every hispanic student is Mexican, and on top of that Cinco de Mayo should never be seen as a happy holiday as many people died and it was a day of sadness. Back to my original point, being inclusive toward students and their culture, economic status, language, and religion is important. This all goes back to Heidi Tolentino article and how even if that means being in an uncomfortable situation of topics with culture we need to have them. Its a part of schooling and the education like it or not.

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I believe all my future students are inspirational and capable of being successful. In the education system we fail to remember that our students came to school for one thing, and that is to learn and succeed. Our system has failed to meet the needs of our students over and over again and in result, our students end up repeating a grade, or dropping out. I believe any future student that will walk across my path is going to be inspirational to myself because I will always push students to exceed and succeed. I also believe all my future students will be successful.The way their success will be done is through empowerment, or in other words raising consciousness (pg. 189) within all parts of education. This is not limited to only classwork, but real life scenarios. Lastly, I believe my future students WILL NOT end up in the school to prison pipeline. I don't ever want to feel that I can not handle my students enough to instead of making the situation a teachable moment to call the school police/ security. We know what we are getting ourselves into with the education system, and the thing that is so messed up is that teachers prefer to send the student to the police instead of trying to handle or resolve the problem themselves. How does that help the student? I believe my students are capable of learning from their mistakes.

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I believe the purpose of schooling is to educate students and provide an anti-bias belief for students to follow the lead of. As teachers we need to remember to main reason parents are sending their kids to school for, and that is an education. The thing that we also need to remember is with the climate that our society has now a days with segregation, bias, and racism which is a big issue here in America, we as teachers need to make sure we are enforcing a anti-bias and multicultural education to out students. Apart from teaching this we also need to remember that our White students should no way or form feel left out of guilty for being white. I think sometimes as teachers we are so caught up on making sure we teach a curricum that includes minority students but we also have to remember that our white students are humans too. "White students often struggle with strong feelings of guilt when they become aware of the pervasiveness of racism.." meaning that yes the purpose is to educate our students in schooling but to also ensure EVERYONE feels included even the white counterparts.

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I believe teaching is about equality, equity, and equal opportunity. When going to school, everyone should get the same opportunity. As we have read in several articles and readings in the book we know that segregation is still a thing today. Even though many people and the education system does not acknowledge it, we know that many schools are still segregated today. We have the schools in an urban setting that are segregated with the Latino and Black students, then we have the white and asian students in an area, typically suburban. The real question is who gets a better opportunity for education? The students in a suburban setting, whom are equipped with teachers who have more qualifications. Even in the American Education book it states and I quote "Education would provide everyone with an equal chance to pursuer wealth" (pg. 70). This means that if everyone was provided with the opportunity everyone would be set pup for success. As teachers it is our job to ensure this regardless of statistics of the corporation you teach in. We need to TEACH our students and make sure they are retaining information that is relevant to their life while also providing an equal opportunity for all our students. I say this because teaching is not teaching unless the student is learning. Teaching is bridging the gap of equality in all school systems, and instead of contributing to it, helping it. Showing students a right way to success.

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I believe that learning is opening up ones mind to grasping new information they never knew before.
Learning is such a broad word to me. When I think of learning I think of someone or something teaching me information I never knew before. For me the importance of learning is very high. In order to keep the cycle of evolving you mind, learning is something everyone needs to be open to. This can be as simple as learning in a topic or subject you are very much interested in or it can be learning in school. When it comes to school I think we as teachers need to encourage learning as soon as students step into the classroom and that is because if we don't enforce and encourage right away, students will eventually feel like learning is a process that is forced instead of wanted. I want to relate that to young students entering school because I rarely ever meet a preschooler who DOESN'T want to go to school. This is because they find school a place where they can learn and have FUN. I also want to relate learning as a teacher. We as educators are always learning as we go, and I think by learning we are learning about our students as well. Chapter 3 in the book American Education discuss all the different topics which are a big controversy Win the education world, and I think that as teachers we need to keep that in mind. We are going to come across so many different students who come from a wide range of backgrounds/cultural/ identifications, and we need to be the person who instead of judging them, learns about them. I say this because these students are in our classroom o learn, but we as teachers need to take the time to learn about them because we want them to feel important. This also goes back to last semester when cultural relevancy was a huge part of our theme, and the only way to know more about the student is to learn about them and ask them questions. We need to encourage learning not only in the classroom for students but motivate ourselves as teachers to learn as well.

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I believe my responsibilities as a teacher are to make sure every student feels important as well as assuring success amongst all students. When it comes to the classroom, in the education world we talk about the inclusion of all students and how including culturally relevant teaching in the classroom is important. As a teacher I want my students to feel as though no matter where they come from they are important and their lives will be included in all classroom activities whether thats worksheets, word problems, games, celebrations etc.  I want my students to be able to bring in their own stories from home and share their stories with the class which create critical conversation. I think back to the Rethinking Schools article, Decolonixing the Classroom: Lessons in Multicultural Education when the boy just wanted to share his story about Lychee and his teacher was not having it. " Never mind my memories of lychee, never mind my father's stories, and never mind that my Chinese grandmother, aunts, uncles, and cousins all pronounced it LIE-chee." This is an example of being pushed away and the teacher is risking this students motivation to be lost in the classroom.

Apart from being a culturally relevant teacher, I also feel like my responsibilities rely on assuring success for my students. My job is to provide opportunity to all my students so that they can learn and be successful in whatever they do in their lives. A lot of this comes from opportunity of learning. Although not all schools provide the same opportunity, my responsibility relies on trying my hardest to find the opportunity if not, something close to it. All students deserve opportunity because without it, there would be no success.