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"When practitioners move with an ethic of love they touch their students' spirits. moving with an ethic of love means having a willingness to share ourselves, our stories, our lives, our experiences to humanize and make real the classroom."

Quonnection: How does this particular quote relate to your "stop, start, continue" list?

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"At a Negro summer school two years ago, a white constructor gave a course on the Negro, using for his text a work which teaches that whites are superior to the Blacks" (pg 6).

Question: What does this have to do with more deeply Umoja-fying English? Is this idea quonnected to the ways we've been "fed"/stuffed with misinformation?

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"We offer no argument here against earning advanced degrees, but these should come as honors conferred for training crowned with scholastic distinction, not to enable a man to increase his salary or find a better paying position. the schools which are now directing attention exclusively to these external marks of learning will not contribute much to the uplift of the Negro (pg.20)

Eli's notes: Its all textbook related read this out the book, teachers have this robot mechanical way of running the class the same everyday and eventually after so many years you get this piece of paper that has more accreditation so you can get a better job so you can live a stable life.

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"The  difficulty is that the 'educated Negro' is compelled to live and move among his own people whom he has been taught to despise."

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How's this quonneced to UMOJA practices and vision? How's what Break's message related to your "stop, start, continue" list? What ideas here might you use in your final essay?

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Suli Breaks - Why I Hate School But Love Education (Spoken Word)

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"Preparing the gift of learning by collectively identifying what is most meaningful..."

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"Umoja is a community of educators and learners committed to the academic success, personal growth and self-actualization of African American and other students.

"African American students are inextricably connected to global struggles for liberation throughout the African Diaspora."

Quonnection: I see that these are definitely linked to several items on our "stop, start, continue" activity. And is self-actualization connected to success, in terms of personal development and identity? To "self knowledge"?

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"As another has well said, to handicap  a student by teaching him that his black face is a curse and that his struggle to change his condition is hopeless is the worst sort of lynching." (pg.6)

Eli's notes: That would as Woodson says "kill ones aspirations and dooms him to criminal intentions because everyone sees you as criminal anyways

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"The Umoja Community will practice and foster civic engagement so that all its participants integrate learning and service. Likewise, the Umoja Community will instill in our students the knowledge and skills necessary to enable them to make positive differences in their lives and the lives of others."

Quonnection: Does this have to do the connecting what we are learning (the stop, start, continue item) with our real world? About applying lessons?  About being woke?

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" . . . for the Negro's mind has been all but perfectly enslaved in that he has been trained to think what is desired of him. " (Page 15)

Possible Quonnection: Is this related to being "stuffed" with information that misinforms people about AFrican/African American folks? And is "stuffing" or filling someone's head a "banking mode" move?

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UMOJA Practice: Awareness of Connectedness To African Diaspora

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UMOJA Practice: Awareness of Connectedness To African Diaspora

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''Encourages a global African consciousness in an effort to foster collective, responsibility, empathy and self-awareness."

NOTE: What on the "start, stop, continue" list does this practice support? And does this connect to anything that Woodson says about being miseducated?

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"The Umoja Community seeks to educate the whole student–body, mind and spirit. Informed by an ethic of love and its vital power, the Umoja Community will deliberately engage students as full participants in the construction of knowledge and critical thought."

NOTE: Does "body" speak to the bonding through food idea? Is the "whole-student" idea about learning about what people-in-the-word need to learn?  "Construction of knowledge: refers to how we build knowledge together rather than "stuff information" into our head. Is that something Freire talked about?  Critical thinking - is that more "banking mode" or "problem posting?

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"The Umoja community serves as an umbrella organization ,which provides programming curriculum, training, assessment , and knowledge sharing to colleges across the state in order to close the achievement gap, especially for African American students . Umoja actively promotes student success for all students with an emphasis on African American success"

Notes; This sounds like an important quote for explaining to your readers what UMOJA is.

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The ideas and examples in this video - how are they quonnected to real, lived experiences? To "banking mode"? To Problem posing mode? To "sawabonu" or other UMOJA concepts and practices? TL;DR: How can you use Ea's words in your essay?

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BEFORE YOU GO TO SCHOOL, WATCH THIS || WHAT IS SCHOOL FOR? (2026)

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"' A wise an trusted counselor or teacher.' Mentoring is a practice that allows students to make a more personal connection with someone who can offer support, guidance, and encouragement while dealing with challenges...."

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"The difficulty is that the "educated negro" is compelled to live and move among his own people whom he has been taught to despise". (page 5)

Eli's note: He says that as we become more educated we are taught to hate the people that look like us. The people that educate us teach us about the short history of people like us when the history was not short.

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"The 'educated Negroes' have the attitude of contempt toward their own people because in their own as well as in their mixed schools Negroes are taught to admire the Hebrew, the Greek, the Latin and the Teuton and to despise the African" (pg. 5)

Note: The above quote seems to speak to the purpose/vision of UMOJA, right? And perhaps about the kind of "banking mode" that fills our heads with mis-information. Should our English class be about accepting ideas we've been given, or being critical thinkers, challenging what we've been taught?

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"The difficulty is that the "educated negro" is compelled to live and move among his own people whom he had been taught to despise" (Page 5)

Quonnection: Is this quonnected to not loving ourselves for ourselves? For not learning to value Black people and Black brilliance?

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"Umoja practitioners intentionally call out and support students' talents in an effort to building community and self-esteem."

Quonnection: Can you find where in the Stop, start, continue activity that this particular quote address.

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"When you control a man's thinking you do not have to worry about his action " (Page 4).

Aronson's Note: This quote is important because it tells us how "bad system" oppresses people. Which Friere quote (and/or personal story) quonnects to this? What about Prince E'a or Suli Breaks?