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Add a photo that illustrates your identity. 

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Add a photo that illustrates your identity. 

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Reflection: What is my identity? What factors shape my identity? Who am I? How do I show up in the world? How does my identity inform my values, ideas, and actions?

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Reflection: What is my identity? What factors shape my identity? Who am I? How do I show up in the world? How does my identity inform my values, ideas, and actions?

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What is my identity?

My identity consists of pivotal moments of enlightenment and change as the photo reflects a person through small dots and broken pieces. Just like the photograph I took of someone else’s street art, my identity hinges on the things people see and believe about me. Meanwhile, the rest of it is hidden, kept close to me, away from the main population of our world. The photo is in black and white because the world likes clean lines and boxes to label ourselves, but I believe that people are far more complex and interesting than the lines we draw around ourselves.

What factors shape my identity?

The crucial factors that help to shape my identity are my family, friends, job, and interests. My family and friends provide the basis of the type of person I am and the person I wish to be moving forward. My job as a baker is a part of my identity because it the profession I am labeled under and it aids in developing my work ethic.. My interests, like cooking, watercolor, sewing, and playing music, also shape my identity because they are the points of commonality that link people to one another.

Who am I?

I am a human being who strives to do the best I can for myself and others every day. I am devoted to a life of service, kindness, and learning. I choose to see people for all the good they can bring to the world, and I try to give that same kindness to myself by learning from my mistakes and always giving my all.

How do I show up in the world?

If I were checking the boxes society provided, I am a white, English-speaking, heterosexual American woman born in the last three months of the 80s. I attended schools in the suburbs and came from a supportive family with parents who worked themselves to the bones to give me the necessities they did not have.

As to personality, I am seen as a team player. Perhaps as a middle child, I am a natural negotiator. Still, throughout growing up years to my career now, people have been happy to work with me because I can see beyond my personal desires to view the bigger picture. I have always felt that if some people are struggling, then we are all struggling, and we all have a responsibility to help one another succeed.

How does my identity inform my values, ideas, and actions?

My identity forms my values, ideas, and actions because it is the foundational lens through which I view and navigate the world. I behave and think along the lines of those identities, and personally, through music, art, food, and language, I have been able to begin to understand what the world looks like through the lens of others.

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Add a photo that illustrates your racial identity. 

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Add a photo that illustrates your racial identity. 

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Reflection: Use the video feature to respond to the reflection questions. What is your race? How did you come to an understanding of your race? Identify the pivotal moment in your life when you realized your race. Describe your emotions and your actions during this moment. Be as descriptives as possible. 

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Reflection: Use the video feature to respond to the reflection questions. What is your race? How did you come to an understanding of your race? Identify the pivotal moment in your life when you realized your race. Describe your emotions and your actions during this moment. Be as descriptives as possible. 

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Add a photo that illustrates you serving or your understanding of service.  

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Add a photo that illustrates you serving or your understanding of service.  

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Reflection: What service have you engaged in? Why did you serve? What did you gain by serving? 

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Reflection: What service have you engaged in? Why did you serve? What did you gain by serving? 

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Add a photo that illustrates your perspective of your students and their communities from your clinical placement.  

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Add a photo that illustrates your perspective of your students and their communities from your clinical placement.  

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Use the voice thread feature to respond to the reflection questions. How do I perceive the students and communities of my clinical placement? How do I perceive the school and district of my clinical placement? Why do I perceive the students and communities this way? Why do I perceive the school and district this way? 

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Use the voice thread feature to respond to the reflection questions. How do I perceive the students and communities of my clinical placement? How do I perceive the school and district of my clinical placement? Why do I perceive the students and communities this way? Why do I perceive the school and district this way? 

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Add a photo that illustrates your identity. 

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Add a photo that illustrates your identity. 

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Use the video feature to respond to the reflection questions. What is my identity? What factors shape my identity? Who am I? How do I show up in the world? How does my identity inform my values, ideas, and actions? What text have we read that have challenged and/or affirmed your perceptions of your identity? Explain. 

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Use the video feature to respond to the reflection questions. What is my identity? What factors shape my identity? Who am I? How do I show up in the world? How does my identity inform my values, ideas, and actions? What text have we read that have challenged and/or affirmed your perceptions of your identity? Explain. 

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Add a photo that illustrates your racial identity. 

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Add a photo that illustrates your racial identity. 

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Reflection: What is your race? How did you come to your understanding of your race? What benefits do you have because of your racial identity? In what ways can you utilize or minimize your racial identity to support the most vulnerable populations? What text have we read that have challenged and/or affirmed your perceptions of your racial identity? Explain.

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Reflection: What is your race? How did you come to your understanding of your race? What benefits do you have because of your racial identity? In what ways can you utilize or minimize your racial identity to support the most vulnerable populations? What text have we read that have challenged and/or affirmed your perceptions of your racial identity? Explain.

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My race is white/Caucasian. I believe I understood the color of my race from a young age. However, I began to understand what implications my race holds in our society around my teenage years, and I am still learning about all the ways my race benefits from this system. Thinking about Bettina Love, and her suggestion about changing the language from ally to co-conspirator resonated with me. An ally sounds like it offers silent support while a co-conspirator evokes the idea of a partnership. That change in language adjusted how I see allyship and how I would much rather be a partner. Also, our class discussion about disrupting, questioning, educating, and echoing spoke to me in layman's terms about how to transition from ally to co-conspirator. It was one of the first times I felt I could actually be productive in being a co-conspirator so I hold it close to me and think of how to apply it often. Specifically, in what settings I would disrupt or question and in which settings I would echo. I have been critically thinking about in which instances I would need my voice to be the dominant one and in which settings it would be more useful in being the echo or support and how differentiating that is vital to being a co-conspirator.

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Add a photo that illustrates your perspective of your students and their communities in New Brunswick.  

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Add a photo that illustrates your perspective of your students and their communities in New Brunswick.  

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Reflection: How do I perceive the New Brunswick community and students? In what ways have your perceptions of the students and communities of your clinical placement changed based on your interactions with the New Brunswick community? What do you wish you could do differently in your clinical placement based on your experiences this semester? How will you use the information from the course in your future classroom? What text have we read that have challenged and/or affirmed your perceptions of diverse students and communities?

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Reflection: How do I perceive the New Brunswick community and students? In what ways have your perceptions of the students and communities of your clinical placement changed based on your interactions with the New Brunswick community? What do you wish you could do differently in your clinical placement based on your experiences this semester? How will you use the information from the course in your future classroom? What text have we read that have challenged and/or affirmed your perceptions of diverse students and communities?

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My perception of the New Brunswick community was limited as a commuter student. I would go to my classes on Rutgers campuses and then I would leave. I would say during my time there overall I never thought about it much. I think during this class, I examined more of the community than I have most places I have been. It has definitely become apparent to me that wherever I end up teaching, knowing the city or town will be an integral part of my job. Seeing the place my student’s live in through their eyes, knowing the resources they have access to, or even walking the commute the students take to get to school everyday plays a direct role in who they are and what they experience. I recognize that to be their biggest supporter, I need to have first-hand knowledge of those instances. I think the incorporation of community in my classroom will depend on which grade I end up teaching, but I know for sure I want my students to understand and explore the sense of  community in the classroom, the school, and the city, and what role they play in impacting it. One of the articles that helped shape my perspective was the “A Traffic Jam in Atlanta” piece. Now, when I drive through almost any town, I look at where certain stores are placed, main roads, housing, etc. and consider the reasoning and ramifications of why it was developed that way. I think about who it hinders and who it supports and how my students should also be able to recognize those deliberate decisions.

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Add a photo that illustrates critical service learning during your service-learning project.  

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Add a photo that illustrates critical service learning during your service-learning project.  

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Use the voice thread feature to respond to the reflection questions. In what ways did you critically serve during your service-learning project? In what ways was service reciprocal for you and the organization? What readings have challenged and/or affirmed your perceptions of “service”? In what ways has your perspective of service evolved throughout the semester? 

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Use the voice thread feature to respond to the reflection questions. In what ways did you critically serve during your service-learning project? In what ways was service reciprocal for you and the organization? What readings have challenged and/or affirmed your perceptions of “service”? In what ways has your perspective of service evolved throughout the semester? 