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We look forward to our curriculum updates each year to help to expose our students to new literature that expands to many different ideas and cultures that represent each student.

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We hope that through our 3K/PreK curriculum which exposes the students to various cultures and literature will set the stage for open mindedness of all friends and families.

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1. The article is about how knowing your students is vital to a successful implementation of more choice in your classroom. In order for their learning to be authentic, it needs to be personalized. Learning becomes more authentic when students are given a choice. Our Curriculum is based on independence and choice. For example, the children choose where to sit at the tables and rugs, there is no assigned seating. They choose what center to play in, etc…

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Criticality humanizes instruction and makes it more compassionate. Through our instruction we encourage our students to learn to respect each other and to be kind. 3K and PreK for All enables children from all backgrounds and communities to gain a solid foundation for future success. The All About Us unit supports that objective by providing opportunities for children to explore, learn about, and embrace what makes them important and unique.

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The literatures have helped us to see how the curriculum is not equitable which leads to students not being invested in their learning. We have realized that we need to make connections throughout lessons to allow students to see the world with a critical lens. We are making connections through class discussions and modifying the lessons in each unit to better serve our students.

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We would like to continue to refine and adapt our curriculum to support criticality thinking work.

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Our big takeaways from Chapter 6 was to provide students with the opportunities to question the inequities in society and our world, as well as engage in meaningful conversations to continue to insight change.

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We appreciate the support and would like the continued support next year in order to continue to do this work meaningfully.

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As a department we would like to invest our time to plan a curriculum to implement criticality through literature.

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We continue to modify and adapt our curriculum to embed criticality thinking throughout our units. We have also become mindful of text selection to ensure student representation within each content area.

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We need to continue to provide opportunities for student voice and allow students to engage in meaningful conversations with objectivity and criticality. Our goal is to ensure every unit will reflect the 5 pursuits mentioned in this book.

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Criticality is understanding the inequities that exist in the world and challenging the injustices they notice. Within the arts and technology, educators will enable students to apply their knowledge of power and social injustices to work toward social transformation.

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We have been adjusting, modifying and supplementing the current curriculum (especially the mentor texts) to be more equitable, representative and reflective of our students' multilayered identities. We have been reflective on how to engage our students so they can become responsible for their learning and not just be passive consumers of information.

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Our big takeaway from this chapter is critically teaching students the difference between facts and truths. The truths teaches our students the reality and the mindset of the people. However facts are leading events that are spoken of. Our goal is to bring discussions into the classroom for our students to have their own opportunities to share their opinions.

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Criticality within literacy refers to how the instruction and information can influence students' mindset. We agree with the books definition "Criticality is the capacity to read, write and think in ways of understanding power, privilege, social justice, and oppression, particularly for populations who have been historically marginalized in the World (Muhammad, 2018)."

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The book provides us the insight to recognize how literature will benefit our students in thinking critically while solving math problems. The book teaches us how to value the history of our students and make connections with the real world.

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In the math department, criticality in math is connecting math to oppression and inequities. We plan to focus on facing the issues of the world and bringing awareness to the in balance of society.

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Some questions our department has are:
1. How can you create opportunities for students to build criticality as a learning goal? (Especially with younger grades?)
2. What opportunities are there for educators to develop a mindset of criticality within themselves?
3. How can criticality be embedded in science, which is a subject based on fact? (It is a challenge to create opportunities for criticality when science depends on the factual evidence in the world around us).

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Our big takeaway from this reading is that criticality is an ongoing process that has to be cultivated throughout the educational experience. It is not something that will happen overnight. Criticality begins with educators. Educators need to understand criticality themselves in order to be able to embed it within their curriculum. The first step would be for educators to inform themselves about the meaning of criticality, and truly reflect on its' importance. Then they would need to find opportunities to spark meaningful conversations connected to criticality within their instruction.

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Our department defines criticality as learning through a lens which enables students to understand the role of social injustice in society and promote social change. It is a mindset that challenges norms and seeks to question the structure of our world, so that we may become more aware of what equality should look like and strive to achieve it. In social studies, bringing in perspectives of other cultures and focusing on the impact that people in history have faced, connect to the work of criticality. This work allows us to engage in compassion and humanization for different cultures, which is part of the criticality mindset.