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Wine gets its taste after decades. Educators might teach a students something and the result of it might not notice until years after. This picture is a weird comparison of how a wine with age gets its stronger taste, while students with age show the things they learned in school even after years.

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The conclusion in this chapter says, "The effectiveness of a teacher can be traced back to what the teacher thinks of the student". The image below has the same student in two scenarios one with good grades and one with bad ones. The teacher has the power to influence the students outcome in the classroom by either believe in his learning abilities, or make the child believe he is only set up for failure.

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Christopher states how he once had a conversation with his principal. The conversation was regarding the use of social media in the classroom. Having the students and teachers communicating outside the classroom through the network. The principal stated that she went and got her great education without the need for technology. While although the principal might be well-educated today's world is different. Students are internet savvy, and having social media to help them with assignments and having a calendar and checklist will help better the students understanding of the material. With this said the image below says New mindset = New results. We will see a change if we change our mindset.

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In Chapter 10 it talks about "code switching", which is changing some aspects of how you normally act, to better fit in with a certain group of people. The chameleon it talks about in the book is a great representation of code-switching. Students and even adults do this everyday sometimes without noticing. When we talk to our friends and then talk to our boss, our communication, and body language switches from one form to the next.

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"Planning for your lesson is valuable, but being willing to let go of that plan is even more so. It is only on the path away from where you started that you can get to where you want to go". This quote from the chapters is so deep. It reminded me instantly of the image below. It states that if you want something in your life that you've never had you have to do something you've never done. If teachers want to achieve something they've never been able to achieve they have to try a new teaching method. Sometimes by leaving your old ways, you find new ways of getting to the students.

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Christopher talks about how schools buildings do not promote comfortably.  Students that come from neoindegenous step into the average classroom and feel out of place. Sometimes even worth, they compare the classroom to a prison. Which is crazy to think of, we have our students in classroom settings that make them feel as if they were in prison. The video below has a dog which in a small space is filled with lots of tennis balls. Imagine how excited the dog feels, how engaged he is with the balls. That is what we should be trying to do with our classrooms for our students. Making it a place of excitement, where the students are engaged in their classroom. Teachers can reach this level by doing simple things around the classroom. Like doing posters where the students create the art and have the artwork displayed around the classroom.

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This image has a little person in some big shoes. If this person tried to walk in these shoes, it would be difficult for the person to walk. Unless they have practice. Christopher talks about how teachers need to walk in their student's shoes, although it may seem hard and might seem useless. Doing so metaphorically or if the teacher wants literally buying the shoes the student wears can be a step towards building bondage. This sends a message that helps create a community. He states how dressing like the students will not be the gateway to a better classroom, but how you experience it and appreciate and truly try to understand where they are coming from. This will create a network with the students that will better the classroom as a whole.

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In these chapters, The author talks about giving different types of assignments. These assignments will end up having the same lesson points as a "test", but they will be meaningful for the students. The classroom itself will also benefit from diverse form of assignments since we are all different, which implies that we must all be different learners which should come with different ways of testing. He did rap or poem about the assignment they were learning. This picture demonstrates how America know the diversity and knows how cultural factors and economic factors vary within just one classroom but yet we still fail to make our teaching inclusive of diverse forms of teaching.

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This image is a network. Christopher talks about networks and the ties students have within their community. How these ties matter and influence the behavior and the engagement students have in a classroom. In order to be successful, having perfected lesson plans will not suffice. Teachers need to make a classroom a network, a strong tie for the students. Work will not only fall on the teacher but on the students, from the connections they have built within the classroom. Which he states resulted in having students naturally engaged in the classroom, without the teacher having to put in the effort for the students to be engaged.

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In the image below, a man is clearly exhausted, laying his head on top of a pile of books. This image reflects what Christopher talks about in these chapters. How he and a coworker worked their sanity out, to achieve perfect lesson plan which they hoped would result in engaged students. The results ended up not being as they had wished, and Christopher states how he began to notice that his coworker's humor began to fade. This is deep when it is a result of the exhaustion of her trying to put her best effort and not receiving the results.

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In this scene in the Movie Freedom Writers Ms.G gave her class a final project. The students had to create a book of their diaries. Ms.G begins with a speech of showing the student how they are accountable for their accomplishments, how they have a choice in what their future holds, to not use the teacher as an excuse on why they might "fail". This relates to what Christopher Emdin talks about in his book, how you need to not only make the students accountable for their actions, not only for themselves but for their classroom environment. She made her classroom believe in themselves, their voice, that they matter, even if they mattered only to themselves (as a classroom). As part of their final project Ms. G also asked her students to come up with something to call themselves, a title for their book. I related this to Emidin's (2013) last page on chapter 6, how he explains that having a classroom name is important and can impact the relationship with the student and teacher and the class and the content. (p. 123). This Title united and tied this group of students with the classroom, content, themselves and the teacher. It defines what they were doing, how they felt and how they were learning.

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Freedom Writers (9/9) Movie CLIP - We Mattered (2007) HD

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René Perez is the singer and composer in the band, Calle 13. Essentially René is a Puerto Rican singer, that composes songs for his "town", his town not only being Puerto Rico but all Latin American countries. René is also, atheist, which for the culture in a Hispanic household, most people in my ethnicity are religious, rené knows this. Not only is he aware of the connection between Latinos and religious lifestyle but he includes religious aspects in his videos and lyrics. He knows and is aware that the community he is singing to, religious attributions are valued and are essential in their way of living. For rené to be able to deliver the message he tries to send in his videos, he has to assimilate and accommodate to the community he is singing to. This is what Christopher writes in these chapters, that teachers need to use the community of the students of the classroom, use the culture and make that fundament of a positive learning environment. By using students interest, language, and trying to incorporating customs into the classroom, would greatly impact the classroom and lead to a positive classroom environment.

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In the beginning of chapter 4, Christopher Emdin writes about "lessons from the Rap Cypher", which summarized his experience on how he noticed all these different students that seem like they would have nothing in common, unified through rapping. This video gives the exact evidence of culturally different people bringing in their parts and pieces; which can be seen as two types of music that would never be able to be mixed. This unification created something beautiful when combined. The mariachi band typically plays and sings traditional Mexican songs, which are more commonly sang in Spanish. While post-Malone is a rapper, whose lyrics apart from being in English do not give the vibe of being able to be the lyrics of a Mexican Mariachi Band. This shows how when someone tries to have an open mind, and introduces this unification or helps maintain one, classrooms can be transformed, and communities can be build.  

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In the beginning of chapter 4, Christopher Emdin writes about "lessons from the Rap Cypher", which summarized his experience on how he noticed all these different students that seem like they would have nothing in common, unified through rapping. This video gives the exact evidence of culturally different people bringing in their parts and pieces; which can be seen as two types of music that would never be able to be mixed. This unification created something beautiful when combined. The mariachi band typically plays and sings traditional Mexican songs, which are more commonly sang in Spanish. While post-Malone is a rapper, whose lyrics apart from being in English do not give the vibe of being able to be the lyrics of a Mexican Mariachi Band. This shows how when someone tries to have an open mind, and introduces this unification or helps maintain one, classrooms can be transformed, and communities can be build.  

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How I surprised Post Malone with a mariachi band

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In this part of the movie, Moana begins handling the problems of the island. After receiving a compliment from a lady, the father tells Moana that helping lead the island suited Moana. This scene is followed, by some bad news about the island, Moana acts on her feelings and true self and decides to input her opinion on going out into the see to search for the food. Her father is not pleased with this side of Moana which puts him in a defensive mode, terrible attitude, which attack all of Moana's plans. I connect this part of the movie, with chapter 4-6. I believe that Moana's father is just like the teachers in a "bad location" schools, where when the students act how in ways that the teacher approves they reward or "compliment" the student. Moana's behavior was not disrespectful, nor aggressive when she spoke about going be on the reef, she was just using her knowledge to create a solution to a problem.  Moana is like the "neoindegenous" students in a classroom, who do not mean disrespect just grew up in a different culture.

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Christopher Emdin writes about cosmopolitan classrooms in his book. how in order to have a community in a classroom, that will enable great learning, and foster a classroom in which students will feel part of and promote a sense of importance, the teacher needs to induce it. The video below shows pieces, that although alone are nothing and serve a purpose only for themselves when put together they form something. In this case, the pieces put together, form a ball. In relation to a classroom, I think of the pieces as students and the ball as the community. The person building the ball is the teacher since the teacher is responsible for making the connections and the system work depending on his/her students.

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6-Piece Put Together Ball Puzzle - Fast and Easy