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I️ relate most to Adam Heena. His economics lesson about the homeless population was super special to me. I️ also like the way the he was elated to be at a "School of need" which is the only type of school that really interests me. I was a student who grew up with mostly caucasian educators who growing up who didn't really go out of their way to make their students of colors feel seen, Mr. Heena would have been a great educator to have had and to know in life.

also he enjoys comic books and motorcycle's but not at the same time. LOL

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When Amber said it was okay to admit I grew up in a relatively privileged life, I related to her. I am comfortable with having those difficult & controversial conversations in my classroom. Although I may not be able to relate to my students, I do believe I would be able to empathize with my students on that level. I would love for my students to share out their personal experiences in a safe learning environment.

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I feel that I connect with Carmen Tisdale because she is passionate about embracing student culture, language and teaching her students to be well rounded and good individuals. This aligns with how I view education should be in not only teaching students about facts or information but also creating an environment that promotes ethical standards and values and doing so through educators modeling through valuing students in their cultures and their languages.

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The reason why I have chosen this teacher that I relate with, is because I want my students to become good ethical people. Many students come from all different types of backgrounds, and I want my students to love and be kind to one another. Especially for lower grades, they learn the most while they are young.

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I feel like I relate to Carmen as she wants to guide her students to be good people while also validating their experiences. I want to be able to validate where each student comes from, the languages that they speak and more while teaching them to be a good person. I want my students to know that although there is a time to be serious when it comes to learning, they should also feel comfortable and validated enough to be themselves.

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Carmen becasue she belives in her students and looks at who they are as she teaches-Kas

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As a Black woman in a culturally diverse classroom, I try my best to get to know the students. Some are from Mexico, Thailand, India, Iraq, and now Brazil. Being able to listen to them talk about their culture and get excited about it when they read or hear it makes me happy. Even when it comes to religion I may not have the same religion as some of my students, but I want to learn about theirs. Especially right now because of Ramadan and I have kids who are fasting. Now for my new students, I am trying to learn some things in Portuguese, use the Spanish I already know, and incorporate Google Translate to help her feel seen and heard.

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I felt like I related the most to Adam. I try my best to be inclusive of my students and work hard to make sure that the diversity is valued. I liked that he learned another language, and I sometimes try to polish up my Spanish so that I can talk to students that do not know very much English. He wants to teach his students very useful skills and is very involved in the success of them, which is what I aspire to do as well.

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I am comfortable with diversity and having conversations. I have the experience and because of that I think I can also help others to become good people for society.

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I felt like I connected Adam Hernani, I feel very similar to his own theology. It is so important for a teacher to make their students feel comfortable and inclusive. Including integration of their cultures into the classroom. I specifically enjoyed how he learned Spanish for them. This is a teacher I strive to be, especially as I develop more of a relationship with my students.

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I relate most to Adam because he find the discussions and conversations about race and socio-cultural backgrounds to be needed rather than uncomfortable. Especially having grown as a minority myself. I am able to relate to certain topics and life challenges that my students' may be facing. My favorite part is where he says "They tell me I am real" because he is willing having the conversations most teachers dread bringing in.

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I connected with the teacher Carmen Tisdale. As a teacher, I feel that I am not as formal when speaking with my students. I want them to feel comfortable when we talk. I want them to be embraced in their causal dialect and academic. Often, I hear teachers constantly correcting students when they are just speaking in casual conversation outside, after school (etc..) Because of this though have developed a very strong relationship with my classroom student that has been named the “attitude” student. She knows she can come to me with personal concerns, but she also knows what my expectations are of her when it is time to be focused. I am not a serious person. Maybe as serious, and I wouldn’t expect my students to be for 8 hours a day.

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I connect the most to Adam Heenan because I have always been fascinated by culture. I like to of course learn about my own culture but I also like to widen my horizon to other cultures as well. This is the big reason why I love to travel. Adam is passionate when it comes to race and culture, especially in the classroom. I hope to bring that into my own classroom.

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Carmen Tisdale is the teacher I relate to the most because my students are like my own children. A lot of them remind me of my son who is a year older than them. I see them and assist them as if I was there mother. I take pictures of them on field trips for their parents. I help them when they are sick. I do their hair for the ones who don’t get it done at home sometimes. I also relate to her because I like to be in the language of the students. A lot of my students use today's language, and it is sometimes confusing for me, but I like to let them express themselves in their own ways.

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I consider myself to be very privileged in the education I've had and opportunities granted to me because of that, but also consider myself privileged with the environment I had grown up with, and people I associated myself with. As I've gone through my college education, it has led me to understand how much I need to learn about other cultures and more importantly why it is important to represent students of different cultures. I am become more passionate in the last years about how I can continue to learn about cultural efficacy in the classroom

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I want to be like Carman Tisdale as a teacher. I want to guide my students into becoming good people who do good things for their community and the society we live in, even if it is something small.

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I feel that I have had many opportunities provided to me and can say I have had privileges that others may not have had, but that doesn't mean that I cannot relate to people. I am able to see many perspectives and try to remain open minded at all times.

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"Knowing that she would be teaching a much more diverse student body, she took a class in multicultural curriculum."

I feel that even when you may not have the most knowledge of something, anything is achievable. Stepping outside the box to help all of your kids is something I would strive for myself as a future educator. I need to personally work on going beyond the minimum for my students. I can seek things on my own to best aide them.

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Like Adam, I know the feeling of being a minority, whether because of my gender, my ethnicity, or my language. Also like Adam, I have learned to allow my students to be teachers to me which resulted in gaining their trust. This trust created a safe classroom to confront issues related to power, privilege, identity and equity.

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I relate most to Carmen because she aims to teach her students to be good people and I want my students to be caring people. I care about creating caring human beings.

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I feel like I relate more to Adam Heenan becuase I am a type of person that always want to involve everyone. Embrace who they are and be proud and not forget their culture. I see know in today society that we are forgetting part of our culture and might be even forgotten.

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Amber was a White-American who didn't have much knowledge teaching to and about diverse backgrounds. And I feel that way as I too grew up in a community with a majority of White-Americans, that I was not immersed with much diversity, and do not have personal experiences either that can relate to cultures and backgrounds other than mine. So, like Amber, I am intimidated by having to teach about/on things that I do not know. I want to follow Amber's footsteps and research and grow my knowledge on multicultural perspectives. I also love that she changed her mindset from being intimidated to finding it fascinating to learn new information. Example from reading, "Amber Bechard had been teaching kindergarten in a very privileged private school in Massachusetts when her husband was told he was being transferred to Chicago. Knowing that she would be teach- ing a much more diverse student body, she took a class in multicultural curriculum" (Nieto, p. 51).