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".... “racing,” “rising,” “moving.” These words imply accomplishment, success and action."

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".

“they work to keep up, while others are zooming up”

.. the original author, actually gives agency to the people my students described as “struggling,” “attempting,” and “trying.” Not only did she give them agency but by saying “they work,” she implies that they have skill, purpose and goals. And by describing others as “zooming” she implies privilege. "

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Maybe sometimes I'm too soft. I don't want to be that a**hole white teacher telling black and brown kids what to do. It's also my strength, in keeping a safe place for students to express themselves. Culturally I was raised pretty differently then the students, so I am deeply respectful of their home cultures, the ways that the system is affecting them differently from me. I am working on my own healing, unraveling the threads of white supremacy inside of me so that I show up ready to create empowering spaces for the children. I know I need to be careful, and examine the bias that I hold. This is a life time of work.

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I think it brings a lot of unconscious bias that I have to work extra at becoming aware of and undo. 

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I think it brings a lot of unconscious bias that I have to work extra at becoming aware of and undo. 

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These words imply evolution and adaptations because human beings change as we learn and grow.

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These words imply that there is possibly a perception among educators in Oakland that our students aren't capable of performing better academically due to factors that are within their control, rather than due to systemic issues that impede their success.

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I was raised in a conservative, middle class, predominately white area...my curriculum during school was extremely white euro-centric male....it was up to me to undo bias that I learned...and is work that I still need to continue...never ends, always growing and learning. I have mostly worked with Newcomers/international students during my teaching career and that is where I feel most comfortable, so I feel inadequate and nervous about teaching other students of color.

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Struggling, productive, proficient. These words imply that students need to produce work in order to show mastery of a skill or that they are learning something. Very capitalistic language. It really speaks on how I am trained to look at students as producers and not as individual people with different ways of learning.

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Racism is an equity issue, we must be antiracist educators. 

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Racism is an equity issue, we must be antiracist educators. 

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struggling, fewer than, literate, numerate (pp.1)

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struggling, fewer than, literate, numerate (pp.1)

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these words imply... i'm not really sure what they imply other than most students are not meeting standards. but they also speak to a "common sense" understanding of can these students read and think quantitatively (doing math and other quantitative thinking).

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That 'disadvantaged students' have been marginalized based on their background.

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That 'disadvantaged students' have been marginalized based on their background.

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I struggled in school so I bring  patience and understanding to struggling students with a narrow lens of how to support them. My education was very Anglo centric so i definitely have bias associated with that. My experience with my family moving from living in poverty to being upper middle class shaped the way I see class dynamics and how they affect educational outcomes.

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Making assumptions about subjects of article... 

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Making assumptions about subjects of article... 

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Rather than thinking about what's wrong with the students, we should be asking what's wrong with the system that serves them?

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I'm not sure what the words I chose imply. I think I just chose the words that made the most sense in the context and given reports I've been hearing about this. I'm appalled at the content of it though and how sad it is for our kids to be falling behind in such huge ways. We have been fighitng achievement and resource gaps pre-pandemic and it makes me feel deeply sad that this is happening right now.

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there is obviously some amount of privilege involved

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there is obviously some amount of privilege involved

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Racism is masked as schooling and often
white normalized professional culture, silencing, microagresssions...are we replicating this or interrupting it?

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They imply that I have had the same experience or I relate

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They imply that I have had the same experience or I relate

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That perspective is everything. As educators we must always keep the lens of perspective very clean and open wide so as not to miss something important.

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The words describes the people doing the action as a problem or as exemplary students. No in-between. It places people doing the action in a meritocracy mindset

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We understand that all students of all colors are the same and money/resources can help students achieve successfully (average to high performing)

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We understand that all students of all colors are the same and money/resources can help students achieve successfully (average to high performing)

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There is an unbalanced

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I have definitely been guilty of thinking that everyone has had the same or a similar upbringing/experiences and thus opportunities

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I have definitely been guilty of thinking that everyone has had the same or a similar upbringing/experiences and thus opportunities

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I recently heard a succinct explanation of "white saviorism" from a white friend of mine who is an anti-racism consultant. They said white folks who are "doing good" want to "save, fix, and help" people of color. I entered into education with much more of that mindset than i carry now but I am sure I still carry it to some degree.

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I recently heard a succinct explanation of "white saviorism" from a white friend of mine who is an anti-racism consultant. They said white folks who are "doing good" want to "save, fix, and help" people of color. I entered into education with much more of that mindset than i carry now but I am sure I still carry it to some degree.

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I am a gay African-American male, who has been raised by alcoholic parents. 

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I am a gay African-American male, who has been raised by alcoholic parents. 

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Although everyone has inherent bias, all of these help me to be open minded and do respect others experiences and perspectives and I model this for students while teaching

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Although everyone has inherent bias, all of these help me to be open minded and do respect others experiences and perspectives and I model this for students while teaching

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My identity and upbringing influence bias because I have a special eye for building relationships. It also makes me proud of my culture and I show that every chance that I get.

I also find it very easy to cut through the BS. I filter bad energy and racism and identify it quick.

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Being a person of color colors my world and my language. I'm more attuned to micro-agressions

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Being a person of color colors my world and my language. I'm more attuned to micro-agressions

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I am always coming from the only lens that I can, as a Black woman. Not really sure how to fully answer this

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I need to be tenacious in my own reflection, listen and act in alignment with anti-racist practice in collective and collaborative work. 

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I need to be tenacious in my own reflection, listen and act in alignment with anti-racist practice in collective and collaborative work. 

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Even though I was not a straight A student in school, I was encouraged to get involved in hands on science experiences. This fueled my motivation, I hope to pass this on to students who also feel like they are "not good at school"

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I was raised in tradicional schooling where you have to know the right answer. Very punitive too. This influences my teaching practice. During the first years, I just wanted students to comply in order to make me feel secure.

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I feel like as a political Black woman and Haitian woman,  I feel like I'm always trying to make that come up in my classes.

I'm also obsessed with wellness and self-care and my kids know that I force them to do it daily lol.

I try to work on patience and listening, and teaching kids to hear each other and really listen.

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They imply that i'm not good at parts of speech :(

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That student's aren't understanding but this has improved in the last week. They are starting to communicate more in the chat and even unmuting themselves for CFU's

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That student's aren't understanding but this has improved in the last week. They are starting to communicate more in the chat and even unmuting themselves for CFU's