KM Courageous Conversation 6.10.20 by Marissa Winmill https://padlet.com/marissa_winmill/25eu8g8r5s9d Made with peace en-us 2018-09-16 23:19:47 UTC 2025-09-29 02:15:40 UTC hello@padlet.com Check-In Questions marissa_winmill https://padlet.com/marissa_winmill/25eu8g8r5s9d/wish/619663255 How are you feeling today?]]> 2020-06-09 22:22:43 UTC https://padlet.com/marissa_winmill/25eu8g8r5s9d/wish/619663255 Resources marissa_winmill https://padlet.com/marissa_winmill/25eu8g8r5s9d/wish/619668959 Anti-Racism Resources (from ELA)
To facilitate growth for white folks to be allies and accomplices - Scaffolded Anti-Racism 
]]> 2020-06-09 22:29:18 UTC https://padlet.com/marissa_winmill/25eu8g8r5s9d/wish/619668959 Reflection Question marissa_winmill https://padlet.com/marissa_winmill/25eu8g8r5s9d/wish/619717077 Knowing where you are in the Becoming Anti-Racist Zones, what action will you take?]]> 2020-06-09 23:29:10 UTC https://padlet.com/marissa_winmill/25eu8g8r5s9d/wish/619717077 Feeling disombobulated! https://padlet.com/marissa_winmill/25eu8g8r5s9d/wish/621216944 things just feel out of sorts with all that is going on with school, Rona, BLM

]]> 2020-06-10 18:05:03 UTC https://padlet.com/marissa_winmill/25eu8g8r5s9d/wish/621216944 Karen is feeling: https://padlet.com/marissa_winmill/25eu8g8r5s9d/wish/621216975 🤷‍♂️ ...
I am feeling all over the place today with headlines - I have puppies, cakes, kids, and other fun stuff to distract me but - 
 Great to be with the colleagues]]> 2020-06-10 18:05:04 UTC https://padlet.com/marissa_winmill/25eu8g8r5s9d/wish/621216975 Frustrated but patient marianne_yahyaoui https://padlet.com/marissa_winmill/25eu8g8r5s9d/wish/621217380 2020-06-10 18:05:21 UTC https://padlet.com/marissa_winmill/25eu8g8r5s9d/wish/621217380 https://padlet.com/marissa_winmill/25eu8g8r5s9d/wish/621218009 Chillin like a villain aNd that’s how I’m livin]]> 2020-06-10 18:05:46 UTC https://padlet.com/marissa_winmill/25eu8g8r5s9d/wish/621218009 Hopeful https://padlet.com/marissa_winmill/25eu8g8r5s9d/wish/621218127 2020-06-10 18:05:51 UTC https://padlet.com/marissa_winmill/25eu8g8r5s9d/wish/621218127 Miss students so much https://padlet.com/marissa_winmill/25eu8g8r5s9d/wish/621218650 2020-06-10 18:06:14 UTC https://padlet.com/marissa_winmill/25eu8g8r5s9d/wish/621218650 Grateful https://padlet.com/marissa_winmill/25eu8g8r5s9d/wish/621219230 I am very lucky.]]> 2020-06-10 18:06:38 UTC https://padlet.com/marissa_winmill/25eu8g8r5s9d/wish/621219230 Feeling like going on a bike ride https://padlet.com/marissa_winmill/25eu8g8r5s9d/wish/621219289 Lots of tension to get out!]]> 2020-06-10 18:06:41 UTC https://padlet.com/marissa_winmill/25eu8g8r5s9d/wish/621219289 All Good! https://padlet.com/marissa_winmill/25eu8g8r5s9d/wish/621219389 2020-06-10 18:06:45 UTC https://padlet.com/marissa_winmill/25eu8g8r5s9d/wish/621219389 ADD and lost https://padlet.com/marissa_winmill/25eu8g8r5s9d/wish/621219487 2020-06-10 18:06:49 UTC https://padlet.com/marissa_winmill/25eu8g8r5s9d/wish/621219487 https://padlet.com/marissa_winmill/25eu8g8r5s9d/wish/621219552 2020-06-10 18:06:52 UTC https://padlet.com/marissa_winmill/25eu8g8r5s9d/wish/621219552 Question #1 https://padlet.com/marissa_winmill/25eu8g8r5s9d/wish/621228416 I feel a great many things. Some of them, I am told by the media are "right," and some of them, I am told by the media are "wrong." I am still processing.]]> 2020-06-10 18:12:46 UTC https://padlet.com/marissa_winmill/25eu8g8r5s9d/wish/621228416 Question 1:What are your feelings about what we are observing around our communities and/or country right now regarding racial injustice? https://padlet.com/marissa_winmill/25eu8g8r5s9d/wish/621228681 2020-06-10 18:12:55 UTC https://padlet.com/marissa_winmill/25eu8g8r5s9d/wish/621228681 Question 1 https://padlet.com/marissa_winmill/25eu8g8r5s9d/wish/621229183 It makes me angry. Power to the protesters. Make a change! Tear down systemic white supremacy! We're focusing on the police now, but we have to reform our schools as well ]]> 2020-06-10 18:13:12 UTC https://padlet.com/marissa_winmill/25eu8g8r5s9d/wish/621229183 Q1 https://padlet.com/marissa_winmill/25eu8g8r5s9d/wish/621229733 General anxiety, sadness, and depression. It has taken too long for this conversation to begin, and I do not maintain hope that it will continue with sincerity. 
Kimberly Jones is amazing. 

]]> 2020-06-10 18:13:35 UTC https://padlet.com/marissa_winmill/25eu8g8r5s9d/wish/621229733 https://padlet.com/marissa_winmill/25eu8g8r5s9d/wish/621229819 I am feeling like there is a whole different world out there that I knew existed, but am now realizing how different it truly is. ]]> 2020-06-10 18:13:38 UTC https://padlet.com/marissa_winmill/25eu8g8r5s9d/wish/621229819 Zack https://padlet.com/marissa_winmill/25eu8g8r5s9d/wish/621229851 I'm hopeful that we'll see some real changes directed towards making our society more equitable. But I am very tired of how the dialogue is being manipulated by politicians. They determine the range of options that are available to discuss. This is a false set of choices that are usually created to placate specific groups while maintaining social control over the larger population. I am tired of seeing politicians conduct theater while what we need is new policy. ]]> 2020-06-10 18:13:40 UTC https://padlet.com/marissa_winmill/25eu8g8r5s9d/wish/621229851 Question 1 https://padlet.com/marissa_winmill/25eu8g8r5s9d/wish/621230011 It's been a very deep for me and my family.  Having two very intelligent, thoughtful kids has made conversations around this so interesting.  I love getting their young adult POV.  I am relieved in many ways because this change needed to happen. 

]]> 2020-06-10 18:13:47 UTC https://padlet.com/marissa_winmill/25eu8g8r5s9d/wish/621230011 feeling frustrated https://padlet.com/marissa_winmill/25eu8g8r5s9d/wish/621230125 2020-06-10 18:13:51 UTC https://padlet.com/marissa_winmill/25eu8g8r5s9d/wish/621230125 I am saddened by the propaganda out there. So much on social media that is appaling so I am trying to stay on the sidelines. Let's go back to the war against poverty but also address systemic racism. "Defund the Police" is misleading - we need to redirect monies to social programs... and re-imagine what the role is for our police. They shouldn't have to be social- workers et al. We are asking the police to fill the gaps in our society. https://padlet.com/marissa_winmill/25eu8g8r5s9d/wish/621230233 2020-06-10 18:13:56 UTC https://padlet.com/marissa_winmill/25eu8g8r5s9d/wish/621230233 ANGRY https://padlet.com/marissa_winmill/25eu8g8r5s9d/wish/621230616 So, so angry.  frustrated.  impotent.  


]]> 2020-06-10 18:14:11 UTC https://padlet.com/marissa_winmill/25eu8g8r5s9d/wish/621230616 Q1: https://padlet.com/marissa_winmill/25eu8g8r5s9d/wish/621230935 I feel frustrated with white friends who are not immersed in diversity and don't see the struggles BIPOC experience regularly. I'm frustrated that they always try to find a way discount and refuse white privileged. ]]> 2020-06-10 18:14:20 UTC https://padlet.com/marissa_winmill/25eu8g8r5s9d/wish/621230935 Question 1 https://padlet.com/marissa_winmill/25eu8g8r5s9d/wish/621231233 It is a disturbing but evidently necessary  catalyst for giant swaths of the US. I am included in that swath. Comes with reckoning with guilt for keeping internal mental support without bold voice and action to support that mental support. It feels like there is a clearer means to push for change now. The concept of inaction as oppression is a helpful thought tweak, leading to a more honest understanding of a brutal situation.]]> 2020-06-10 18:14:29 UTC https://padlet.com/marissa_winmill/25eu8g8r5s9d/wish/621231233 Vutang https://padlet.com/marissa_winmill/25eu8g8r5s9d/wish/621231419 I feel Everyone can participate if the focus was on police brutality than eventually bleed into equity.  ]]> 2020-06-10 18:14:36 UTC https://padlet.com/marissa_winmill/25eu8g8r5s9d/wish/621231419 Q1 https://padlet.com/marissa_winmill/25eu8g8r5s9d/wish/621231817 I am glad the day has finally come to open the gates.]]> 2020-06-10 18:14:52 UTC https://padlet.com/marissa_winmill/25eu8g8r5s9d/wish/621231817 https://padlet.com/marissa_winmill/25eu8g8r5s9d/wish/621232011 conversations and reflecting on my own privilege

]]> 2020-06-10 18:15:00 UTC https://padlet.com/marissa_winmill/25eu8g8r5s9d/wish/621232011 Q1: https://padlet.com/marissa_winmill/25eu8g8r5s9d/wish/621232783 Particularly frustrated that I very much want to go out and join the protests and help register people to vote, but covid is still a threat, especially for the high risk. I don't mind risking my safety, but I have to think of my family as well.]]> 2020-06-10 18:15:34 UTC https://padlet.com/marissa_winmill/25eu8g8r5s9d/wish/621232783 Feelings https://padlet.com/marissa_winmill/25eu8g8r5s9d/wish/621234331 The race issue has been a problem ever since 1619.  Then the Constitution ensured it and it took a Civil War to rip it from the teeth of the nation.  Yet, laws are barely effectual.  Laws do not change culture, culture changes culture.  After the 13th, 14th and 15th amendments we had three waves of the Ku Klux Klan, Jim Crow, segregation, Salma, MLK and Rosa Parks, Malcolm X, the Black Panthers, mass incarceration and now Black Lives Matter.  Culture changes racism with a preeminence over laws.  The implications of that suggest we need black and white people working together as co-equals in various professions, attending the same churches, watching the same basketball games and voting in the same elections.  They need to work towards solving shared problems.  And remember that it was black people who led to their liberation in the Civil War.

]]> 2020-06-10 18:16:41 UTC https://padlet.com/marissa_winmill/25eu8g8r5s9d/wish/621234331 I miss the time when it was against the law to have bias news. https://padlet.com/marissa_winmill/25eu8g8r5s9d/wish/621235794 2020-06-10 18:17:44 UTC https://padlet.com/marissa_winmill/25eu8g8r5s9d/wish/621235794 https://padlet.com/marissa_winmill/25eu8g8r5s9d/wish/621241700 2020-06-10 18:21:05 UTC https://padlet.com/marissa_winmill/25eu8g8r5s9d/wish/621241700 SamSusan https://padlet.com/marissa_winmill/25eu8g8r5s9d/wish/621241894 It is important to continue to reflectively identify and sort out facts and feelings while in-taking so much info about current events.]]> 2020-06-10 18:21:13 UTC https://padlet.com/marissa_winmill/25eu8g8r5s9d/wish/621241894 Question 2-Share a story when you felt welcomed at our KM community? marissa_winmill https://padlet.com/marissa_winmill/25eu8g8r5s9d/wish/621243727 2020-06-10 18:22:29 UTC https://padlet.com/marissa_winmill/25eu8g8r5s9d/wish/621243727 Welcomed.... https://padlet.com/marissa_winmill/25eu8g8r5s9d/wish/621272213 I felt welcomed at KM when I started as a struggling first year teacher and the administration stuck with me.]]> 2020-06-10 18:41:59 UTC https://padlet.com/marissa_winmill/25eu8g8r5s9d/wish/621272213 https://padlet.com/marissa_winmill/25eu8g8r5s9d/wish/621275785 Not much of a story, but the KM Retreats in August were very welcoming and (re)uniting events we had each year.]]> 2020-06-10 18:44:30 UTC https://padlet.com/marissa_winmill/25eu8g8r5s9d/wish/621275785 Our new cohort https://padlet.com/marissa_winmill/25eu8g8r5s9d/wish/621277601 From Karen- I started in an amazing cohort of new teachers who supported each other: Marissa, Juan, Lauren, Ruthie, Jen, Manny, and forgive me if I am missing anyone. Felt the love

]]> 2020-06-10 18:45:40 UTC https://padlet.com/marissa_winmill/25eu8g8r5s9d/wish/621277601 Question 3- Share an experience when you felt unwelcome in our community based on how you look, how you speak, where you’re from, or just being you? marissa_winmill https://padlet.com/marissa_winmill/25eu8g8r5s9d/wish/621295300 2020-06-10 18:58:09 UTC https://padlet.com/marissa_winmill/25eu8g8r5s9d/wish/621295300 Colonizers https://padlet.com/marissa_winmill/25eu8g8r5s9d/wish/621295810 I would like to answer this question from the perspective of the students.  First, we have a very white teaching force.  That mirrors the centuries old practice of white "colonizers" imposing middle class values on students of color and black people particularly.  The first step towards making KM more accepting is for white teachers to step aside and leave aside that privilege.  We need a majority person of color workforce.  Actions speak louder than words to our students of color.  

]]> 2020-06-10 18:58:33 UTC https://padlet.com/marissa_winmill/25eu8g8r5s9d/wish/621295810 https://padlet.com/marissa_winmill/25eu8g8r5s9d/wish/621300377 2020-06-10 19:01:59 UTC https://padlet.com/marissa_winmill/25eu8g8r5s9d/wish/621300377 Questions 4- What advice would you give an adult to help improve students’ experience at school when it comes to race and equity? marissa_winmill https://padlet.com/marissa_winmill/25eu8g8r5s9d/wish/621320279 2020-06-10 19:15:27 UTC https://padlet.com/marissa_winmill/25eu8g8r5s9d/wish/621320279 REFLECTION-Knowing where you are in the Becoming Anti-Racist Zones, what action will you take? marissa_winmill https://padlet.com/marissa_winmill/25eu8g8r5s9d/wish/621343694 2020-06-10 19:32:35 UTC https://padlet.com/marissa_winmill/25eu8g8r5s9d/wish/621343694 https://padlet.com/marissa_winmill/25eu8g8r5s9d/wish/621346164 Still learning, but trying to advocate to friends and family that have difficulty seeing some of the issues. ]]> 2020-06-10 19:34:25 UTC https://padlet.com/marissa_winmill/25eu8g8r5s9d/wish/621346164 https://padlet.com/marissa_winmill/25eu8g8r5s9d/wish/1107043664 2021-01-20 18:12:51 UTC https://padlet.com/marissa_winmill/25eu8g8r5s9d/wish/1107043664