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The Power of Their Ideas talks about how a group of schools Central Park East elementary public schools in Harlem, New York came together to take back public education.  There was a big importance put on cultural identity from the communities these children came from. They wanted to mimic a "real world" environment where students had to work with others that may look and think differently than they do. Furthermore, creating an environment where students are not just taught but that a love for learning is nurtured. So they may continue on to higher education and be well prepared. Not just be a nameless face in a mass of students. But that their cultural identify is really valued and their own interests are not just pushed aside but a part of the learning process.

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"A good school for anyone is a little like kindergarten and a little like a good post-graduate program- the two ends of the educational spectrum, at which we understand that we cannot treat any two human beings identically, but must take into account their special interest and styles even as we hold all to high and rigorous standards."

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Faye's Thoughts -Teachers As Cultural Workers 

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Faye's Thoughts -Teachers As Cultural Workers 

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Letters to those who dare teach

This book written by Paolo Freire discusses many topics related to teaching.

However, as it relates to our theme for this project, Mr. Freire discusses that although it is important to teach students to use the mainstream or dominant discourse, if for no other reason then that they will have an opportunity to be successful in society, that it is important to acknowledge and respect who they are and how they speak.  Their culture and their background are a part of who they are and determines how they will learn.

Below I have included some quotes from the book that tie into our theme.

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Know What I Mean is about how people believe that hip hop is a stereotype of identities of those who contribute or listen to this genre (if you live in the ghetto, you must do drugs ). Dyson wants to focus on the stereotypes based on identity and explain how they are false and why hip hop is a type of art that brings cultures together by discussing what issues they must face and how to succeed. This relates to our theme because if communities and educators focus on the importance of culture and race, then some of the misguided ideas of hip hop would not exist and instead we can focus on the art form itself and how this cultural group can succeed from the issues being presented in songs.

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The book I chose to read related to our group's general theme in that it emphasizes the importance in "staying connected" to students through ways that won't bore them or make them feel singled out as at-risk youth. Instead of saying "You are at risk for x, y, z reasons", it can be beneficial to say "Here's what the media you immerse yourself in indicates, and here's how we can address the problem".

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"Based on participant-generated data, many current teacher training programs are inadequate in preparing new teachers for the realities they face in working with at-risk urban youth."

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"Teachers in the public K-12 school system should be adequately prepared to meet the instructional needs of all students, including those from culturally and economically diverse backgrounds"

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"Here we are, a generation of adults and children who listen to the same music and play video games! What a great opportunity to sit with out children and discuss themes that arise in those mediums"

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"Too many songs portray women as strippers or otherwise promiscuous, money-hungry gold diggers, and men as gangsters, drug dealers and misogynistic brutes, and both as mindlessly and materialistic and easily influenced... If one identifies a problem and does nothing to fix it, they are simply complaining"

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"One of the main obstacles we have to transverse in our attempt to align our students with their academic success is the influence of the media and specifically the music that is played on radio stations marketed towards marginalized citizens, pigeon-holed many, the disadvantaged or whatever we are calling us now"

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"I now focus on an analysis of the relationship between educator and learners, a relationship that involves the questions  of teaching, of learning, of the knowing-teaching-learning  process, of authority, of freedom, of reading, of writing, of  the virtues of the educator, and of the cultural identity of  the learners and the respect that must be paid to it."

Freire, Paulo. Teachers As Cultural Workers (Edge. Critical Studies in Educational Theory) (p. 97). Taylor and Francis. Kindle Edition.

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"Let’s think a little about the learners’ cultural identity  and about the respect that we owe it in our educational  practice. "

Freire, Paulo. Teachers As Cultural Workers (Edge. Critical Studies in Educational Theory) (p. 127). Taylor and Francis. Kindle Edition.

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"One of the challenges to progressive educators, in  keeping with their choice, is not to feel or to proceed as if  they were inferior to dominant-class learners in the private schools who arrogantly mistreat and belittle middleclass teachers. But on the other hand, nor should they feel  superior, in the public school system, to the learners from  the slums, to the lower-class children, to the children  with no comforts, who do not eat well, who do not “dress  nicely,” who do not “speak correctly,” who speak with  their own syntax, semantics, and accent. "

Freire, Paulo. Teachers As Cultural Workers (Edge. Critical Studies in Educational Theory) (p. 128). Taylor and Francis. Kindle Edition.

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The Power of Their Ideas by Deborah Meier

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The Power of Their Ideas by Deborah Meier

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"Hip hop is fundamentally an art form that traffics in hyperbole, parody , dramatic license, signification and other literary and artistic conventions to get the point across" (pg. 4)

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"Hip hop is a source of controversy for race, class and generational lines".

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"Hip Hop is enlivened by its edifying fusions with other cultures, traditions, other people who began to take it up and who began to seen in its expression and identification with some of the gloom and the glory of their indigenous cultures" (49)

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"Roots are meant to nourish, not strangle. But you can maintain your integrity, even your authenticity, though it's a much more complicated matter than living in the hood or speaking a certain way- and still be successful" (pg. 55)

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"We (black people) are both the producers and consumers of identities that originated within, or were inspired by our own culture" (38).

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"Democracy Implied that people should have a voice not only in their own individual work, but in the work of others as well."

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"Good early childhood education requires authentic forms of collaboration between the school and their families."

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"We listen with a more critical ear to what we say to parents."