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We're beautifully positioned to walk with our youth--to encourage, challenge, and spur them-- in their journey of growing into all that they can become.
This world is theirs. With all its ups, downs, and sideways. How are we preparing them for that?

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Teaching should be diverse because our students are diverse 

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Teaching should be diverse because our students are diverse 

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I am still digesting the idea that we should shift our thinking from empowerment to celebrating what already exists.

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I'm excited to have a district wide text to help ground our work, collaborate with collogues, and push me to better meet the needs of our students.

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I feel like I have permission --- or maybe even an obligation --- to teach in a way that fully includes those 5 elements.  Identity, Skills, Intellect, Criticality, Joy.    NOT just skills for the state tests. 

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I feel like I have permission --- or maybe even an obligation --- to teach in a way that fully includes those 5 elements.  Identity, Skills, Intellect, Criticality, Joy.    NOT just skills for the state tests. 

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Joy cannot start unless we address the needs of identity, criticality, and skills first. Our students need to feel safe, seen, heard, and capable. 

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Joy cannot start unless we address the needs of identity, criticality, and skills first. Our students need to feel safe, seen, heard, and capable. 

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What stays with me is the quote from Dr. King. "Whatever affects one directly, affects all in directly." Another thing that stuck out to me was when the speaker said, " If we have history repeating itself, our pedagogy must look different." 

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What stays with me is the quote from Dr. King. "Whatever affects one directly, affects all in directly." Another thing that stuck out to me was when the speaker said, " If we have history repeating itself, our pedagogy must look different." 

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-Ebbony D Brannon

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Year of joy, y'all! I am aim to bring the love and intellectual feasts. 

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Year of joy, y'all! I am aim to bring the love and intellectual feasts. 

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The power of planning with the five pursuits in mind!

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The power of planning with the five pursuits in mind!

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What stays with me is- we need to give students want they need to be successful- socially and academically

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What stays with me is- we need to give students want they need to be successful- socially and academically

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What stayed with me? What connected to my morning learning? 

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What stayed with me? What connected to my morning learning? 

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Something that stayed with me is need to provide intellectual feasts that include skills, criticality and JOY. Feasts are diverse in nature-so my teaching should be too.
One thing that connects to this morning learning is that SEL alone cannot solve systems of racism-but we can still plant the trees of anti-racist learning and teaching in all that we do; which includes centering joy; identity and the intellectual and emotional needs of our community.

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Ethnic Studies dovetails smoothly with ideas promoted by John Dewey advocating for progressive, experiential education.

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Finding ways to connect the educational skills to authentic aspects of our students' lives. But also that it can be a pretty involved process to really do so

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I heard that an SPS colleague has died from Covid and was reflecting on what was said about it hitting our BiPOC community the hardest, and I am having a difficult time concentrating and focusing due to grief, even as we get ready for in person school that puts more of us at risk.

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I heard that an SPS colleague has died from Covid and was reflecting on what was said about it hitting our BiPOC community the hardest, and I am having a difficult time concentrating and focusing due to grief, even as we get ready for in person school that puts more of us at risk.

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Last year I was a part of an affinity group that focused a session on cultivating Black joy in our classrooms--so the connection to
that prior discussion is on my mind.

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Criticality, we need to encourage the disruption.

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Criticality, we need to encourage the disruption.

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The need to intentionally plan for including joy within our teaching and extend opportunities to families to connect with that joy 

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The need to intentionally plan for including joy within our teaching and extend opportunities to families to connect with that joy 

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That history is a great teacher and to uncover and discover untold stories for the benefits of our teaching and our students. That JOY is an act of resistance.

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That history is a great teacher and to uncover and discover untold stories for the benefits of our teaching and our students. That JOY is an act of resistance.

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Returning to our genius, joys, and passions make our work with it ("REturn" and "REmember")

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Returning to our genius, joys, and passions make our work with it ("REturn" and "REmember")

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what stayed with me is the fact that we all have a story to tell and the infinite need to continuesly connect with one another

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what stayed with me is the fact that we all have a story to tell and the infinite need to continuesly connect with one another

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While the work for us might be hard, the resources and tools are there for us to make every lesson meaningful. 

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While the work for us might be hard, the resources and tools are there for us to make every lesson meaningful. 

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Obviously, centering joy as an element of our work lets us carry ourselves in a heavy world

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Obviously, centering joy as an element of our work lets us carry ourselves in a heavy world

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Differentiation can happen in any subject in so many ways. Our students are our best teachers.

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Differentiation can happen in any subject in so many ways. Our students are our best teachers.

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What stays with me is the need to really love our students and believe in their right to intellectual feasts!

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What stays with me is the need to really love our students and believe in their right to intellectual feasts!