https://padlet.com/kzapata7/4pykx2sf5hkhml8c en-us 2020-12-10 23:38:29 UTC 2025-10-17 17:33:14 UTC hello@padlet.com https://padlet.com/kzapata7/4pykx2sf5hkhml8c/wish/1012758764 I am one of 80% of educators who are white women in a rural school district. I am working to empower students in the classroom by allowing them to direct our content and discourse. Less focus on skills-based assessment and more on developing a critical lens with which to view our community and society at large. Our district and school site prioritizes space for parents/guardians with more access and resources. I have more work to do to speak up in spaces where there is deficit-centered thinking. It's our responsibility to highlight the ways in which our students are geniuses. It has to be a cultural shift within each teacher's practice and within the school and district. (credit to Dr. Gholdy Muhammed's work)

]]> 2020-12-12 21:26:53 UTC https://padlet.com/kzapata7/4pykx2sf5hkhml8c/wish/1012758764 https://padlet.com/kzapata7/4pykx2sf5hkhml8c/wish/1012758931 Cat Brooks said it well - who is included in the 'we'? How do we draw boundaries around community,  balance inclusivity with safety & depth, and enable our selves to grow into the new version? I feel disconnected and incapable in that isolation, but I believe in community in theory and am seeking it in practice, hoping to build in the cracks. ]]> 2020-12-12 21:26:59 UTC https://padlet.com/kzapata7/4pykx2sf5hkhml8c/wish/1012758931 lichikawa https://padlet.com/kzapata7/4pykx2sf5hkhml8c/wish/1012759145 2020-12-12 21:27:03 UTC https://padlet.com/kzapata7/4pykx2sf5hkhml8c/wish/1012759145 silvac12 https://padlet.com/kzapata7/4pykx2sf5hkhml8c/wish/1012759259 I am a Latinx(e) who is struggling for equity in life and in the subject I teach. Physical Education like much of education has not changed and is centered around patriarchy. ]]> 2020-12-12 21:27:05 UTC https://padlet.com/kzapata7/4pykx2sf5hkhml8c/wish/1012759259 https://padlet.com/kzapata7/4pykx2sf5hkhml8c/wish/1012759338 I am the daughter of poor immigrant parents. I am a person of size, a Brown woman. I am a person that takes up space in both the educational and social work field. I am a person with many resiliency factors and resources. I AM LOVED. 

For many of my younger years, I felt voiceless. I internalized many of the struggles of my folks, my community, and the direct trauma I endured. I also internalized the LOVE, CARE, AND support of my folks and community. 

So how do these identities connect? For me, I believe I have a responsibility to utilize the places I do have power and privilege to uplift and center those most oppressed. I believe I have a responsibility to my ancestors to be sustainable and strive for joy in the spaces my students and families occupy. To lead with humility. To demand for reparations of our BIPOC communities. ]]> 2020-12-12 21:27:07 UTC https://padlet.com/kzapata7/4pykx2sf5hkhml8c/wish/1012759338 https://padlet.com/kzapata7/4pykx2sf5hkhml8c/wish/1012759374 I am a white woman that has been working on my anti-racist journey for many years. I am struggling to find like minded people where I live and work. When I speak up at my site and question things that are clearly not equitable or cause harm to some, I feel like I am always shut down. I feel isolated to do what is best for my students within my classroom.]]> 2020-12-12 21:27:08 UTC https://padlet.com/kzapata7/4pykx2sf5hkhml8c/wish/1012759374 https://padlet.com/kzapata7/4pykx2sf5hkhml8c/wish/1012759502 I am struggling for a true representation of equity within my school site and my district. The space I am in is a site of compliance. Mediocrity is promoted. The word equity is thrown around but hasn't ever truly stuck. I am a second year teacher so I am still learning how to navigate a schoolspace in general. WIth the help of another colleague, we have created a virtual space that meets every 3 weeks to discuss books, articles and current events through an educational lens. My identity as a white woman interweaves with the compliance of this struggle. Most educators in general, but also at my site are white women. However, we are transitioning to becoming a dual immersion Spanish school and I am hoping to change our hiring policies to seek out educators who are native speakers of Spanish and people who claim various intersections. 

]]> 2020-12-12 21:27:17 UTC https://padlet.com/kzapata7/4pykx2sf5hkhml8c/wish/1012759502 https://padlet.com/kzapata7/4pykx2sf5hkhml8c/wish/1012759519 What is the role of school to me and the students I teach?  What will they need to know to survive in this time and place?  What information is no longer necessary to reinforce, even if it is embedded in the way school is structured?]]> 2020-12-12 21:27:19 UTC https://padlet.com/kzapata7/4pykx2sf5hkhml8c/wish/1012759519 https://padlet.com/kzapata7/4pykx2sf5hkhml8c/wish/1012759529 Hope to serve people in need]]> 2020-12-12 21:27:20 UTC https://padlet.com/kzapata7/4pykx2sf5hkhml8c/wish/1012759529 cstory17 https://padlet.com/kzapata7/4pykx2sf5hkhml8c/wish/1012759569 2020-12-12 21:27:22 UTC https://padlet.com/kzapata7/4pykx2sf5hkhml8c/wish/1012759569 c_lee4 https://padlet.com/kzapata7/4pykx2sf5hkhml8c/wish/1012759731 Struggling to learn how to support BIPOC in reimagining education, to use my power, position, and privilege to freedom dream - conflicted that I am in a private school setting back on campus while public schools are not - the gap is widening. Constantly asking myself how to contribute to a better way forward]]> 2020-12-12 21:27:34 UTC https://padlet.com/kzapata7/4pykx2sf5hkhml8c/wish/1012759731 https://padlet.com/kzapata7/4pykx2sf5hkhml8c/wish/1012759800 I am currently teaching at a public in school in a very wealthy neighborhood in the very segregated city of Seattle. The cultures of power in my school serve to benefit the white, wealthy, Native English-speaking (etc. etc. etc.) students. The small population of students of color, non-native English speaking, working class or impoverished, houseless students at my school are made to be invisible in their school experience and education. There are long-standing imbalances of power among veteran teachers at this school that ]]> 2020-12-12 21:27:37 UTC https://padlet.com/kzapata7/4pykx2sf5hkhml8c/wish/1012759800 https://padlet.com/kzapata7/4pykx2sf5hkhml8c/wish/1012759834 I am a first generation Mexican college student who is striving to be an educator. I constantly find myself struggling with my identity. I was never properly educated on my background and my roots. I hope to change that cycle and guide my future students to finding who they are, too. ]]> 2020-12-12 21:27:40 UTC https://padlet.com/kzapata7/4pykx2sf5hkhml8c/wish/1012759834 https://padlet.com/kzapata7/4pykx2sf5hkhml8c/wish/1012759949 2020-12-12 21:27:48 UTC https://padlet.com/kzapata7/4pykx2sf5hkhml8c/wish/1012759949 https://padlet.com/kzapata7/4pykx2sf5hkhml8c/wish/1012759966 2020-12-12 21:27:49 UTC https://padlet.com/kzapata7/4pykx2sf5hkhml8c/wish/1012759966 cheesehead18 https://padlet.com/kzapata7/4pykx2sf5hkhml8c/wish/1012759987 I am a Mexican American woman aspiring to be a teacher.  I am struggling with my own disability. of hard of hearing.]]> 2020-12-12 21:27:50 UTC https://padlet.com/kzapata7/4pykx2sf5hkhml8c/wish/1012759987 https://padlet.com/kzapata7/4pykx2sf5hkhml8c/wish/1012760011 2020-12-12 21:27:52 UTC https://padlet.com/kzapata7/4pykx2sf5hkhml8c/wish/1012760011 lgross6 https://padlet.com/kzapata7/4pykx2sf5hkhml8c/wish/1012760090 I am 60+ Jewish person perceived as white but not considered white by many as soon as they know I am a Jew. I am endeavoring to start a social justice committee in my district and to instill in my students (100% BIPOC) a sense of their agency in being advocates for social justice-even at element]]> 2020-12-12 21:27:56 UTC https://padlet.com/kzapata7/4pykx2sf5hkhml8c/wish/1012760090 https://padlet.com/kzapata7/4pykx2sf5hkhml8c/wish/1012760117

]]> 2020-12-12 21:27:58 UTC https://padlet.com/kzapata7/4pykx2sf5hkhml8c/wish/1012760117 banksa8 https://padlet.com/kzapata7/4pykx2sf5hkhml8c/wish/1012760190 I am (another) white woman teacher, though young and queer. Teaching 95% white students; and their families are largely the top .001% in income nationally. The school feels so compliant even while it's perceived as relatively progressive. The bar for "progressive" is so low when every other dad is a multi-millionaire... Personally, feeling both so complicit and also so isolated in dreams/work towards liberation in this particular environment. Work towards liberation ideally is being done on all sorts of sites, but do think that this school will never be a liberatory space without being torn down and completely reevaluated.  ]]> 2020-12-12 21:28:03 UTC https://padlet.com/kzapata7/4pykx2sf5hkhml8c/wish/1012760190 https://padlet.com/kzapata7/4pykx2sf5hkhml8c/wish/1012760250 I’m Mexican from Mexico ]]> 2020-12-12 21:28:08 UTC https://padlet.com/kzapata7/4pykx2sf5hkhml8c/wish/1012760250 https://padlet.com/kzapata7/4pykx2sf5hkhml8c/wish/1012760269 I am struggling to make up for the actions of my ancestors.  I am struggling to prioritize the needs of students who have not been a priority to the educational system since its inception.  I come to my classroom with a ton of privilege. My school attempts to be a place of liberation but depends on the privilege of so many of their community that it is difficult ]]> 2020-12-12 21:28:09 UTC https://padlet.com/kzapata7/4pykx2sf5hkhml8c/wish/1012760269 https://padlet.com/kzapata7/4pykx2sf5hkhml8c/wish/1012760311 I am a student of color, often finding myself in classrooms with teachers who don’t look or think like me.]]> 2020-12-12 21:28:12 UTC https://padlet.com/kzapata7/4pykx2sf5hkhml8c/wish/1012760311 https://padlet.com/kzapata7/4pykx2sf5hkhml8c/wish/1012760326 The site I work in is a charter school, and uses a lot of the language of SJ and wants to so badly eliminate anti-blackness in our community, by hiring more Black.Brown educators that reflect our students, however, we are constantly assessing our students with standardized tests in order to stay in operation (charter renewal) and this tension is superficially addressed but not really. I need to understand my role as a Black woman educator to help sustain this school that I believe in while trying to disrupt oppressive patterns]]> 2020-12-12 21:28:13 UTC https://padlet.com/kzapata7/4pykx2sf5hkhml8c/wish/1012760326 https://padlet.com/kzapata7/4pykx2sf5hkhml8c/wish/1012760380 i am a white trans preschool teacher, struggling for a world where liberation feels like playing/dreaming/creating abundance for all. i'm teaching and organizing with a community of 4 yr olds and the grownups that love them, mostly white, wealthy, and progressive. i feel liberation in this site where we're finding joy in learning about resistance and playing with gender and telling new stories. i feel compliance where our privileged conversations get stuck in talking, how to shift us into action that makes the world safer and more free for Black and brown people, poor people, disabled people, queer people]]> 2020-12-12 21:28:18 UTC https://padlet.com/kzapata7/4pykx2sf5hkhml8c/wish/1012760380 https://padlet.com/kzapata7/4pykx2sf5hkhml8c/wish/1012760383 I am Queer multi-racial women of color who have benefited from generations of white privilege. I'm struggling to live free and loud as I am and fight with and among others to be free to do so as well. I have taught at places that support the white capitalist patriarchy system and have failed to rise up against. I am truly lucky to work education space that tries to fight against the system within it. I hope to continue learning in order play a role in the struggle for liberation.

]]> 2020-12-12 21:28:18 UTC https://padlet.com/kzapata7/4pykx2sf5hkhml8c/wish/1012760383 ehiebert1 https://padlet.com/kzapata7/4pykx2sf5hkhml8c/wish/1012760444 I am a working class white woman whose history has been tied to assimilation. My identities connect to the fight for liberation, but they also deeply complicate it (i.e. gender binary, whiteness.)]]> 2020-12-12 21:28:24 UTC https://padlet.com/kzapata7/4pykx2sf5hkhml8c/wish/1012760444 https://padlet.com/kzapata7/4pykx2sf5hkhml8c/wish/1012760450 2020-12-12 21:28:24 UTC https://padlet.com/kzapata7/4pykx2sf5hkhml8c/wish/1012760450 https://padlet.com/kzapata7/4pykx2sf5hkhml8c/wish/1012760506 2020-12-12 21:28:29 UTC https://padlet.com/kzapata7/4pykx2sf5hkhml8c/wish/1012760506 rachitau https://padlet.com/kzapata7/4pykx2sf5hkhml8c/wish/1012760705 i am a neurodivergent non-binary indian womxn, struggling to become an educator, struggling to create space for black kids, indigenous kids, kids of color, poor kids, trans kids, queer kids, neurodivergent kids. I want to support all my kids not just in healing but in thriving and fighting for what is life-affirming for them.]]> 2020-12-12 21:28:44 UTC https://padlet.com/kzapata7/4pykx2sf5hkhml8c/wish/1012760705 jengland7 https://padlet.com/kzapata7/4pykx2sf5hkhml8c/wish/1012760748 I am a someone who has a lot of privilege. I am a white, cis, and straight woman.]]> 2020-12-12 21:28:48 UTC https://padlet.com/kzapata7/4pykx2sf5hkhml8c/wish/1012760748 elainaramer https://padlet.com/kzapata7/4pykx2sf5hkhml8c/wish/1012761947 I am a white, citizen, cis, not poor, woman & teacher who is trying to figure out how to participate in struggles for liberation. Specifically struggling to support my students in their struggle for liberation. My identity as a white person means that I have had and still have a lot to unlearn. I think I've started to see how one of the most important things I can do as an educator is to affirm, recognize, and make space for my Black and brown students to show what wisdom the and truth they hold.


]]> 2020-12-12 21:29:43 UTC https://padlet.com/kzapata7/4pykx2sf5hkhml8c/wish/1012761947 https://padlet.com/kzapata7/4pykx2sf5hkhml8c/wish/1012761977
First generation American, child of refugees, and trying to be an ally if I cannot be a co-conspirator]]> 2020-12-12 21:29:46 UTC https://padlet.com/kzapata7/4pykx2sf5hkhml8c/wish/1012761977 https://padlet.com/kzapata7/4pykx2sf5hkhml8c/wish/1012762008 White male educator in a diverse community and father of multiracial children looking to raise voices that are subversive and smash the status quo. ]]> 2020-12-12 21:29:49 UTC https://padlet.com/kzapata7/4pykx2sf5hkhml8c/wish/1012762008 https://padlet.com/kzapata7/4pykx2sf5hkhml8c/wish/1012762037 It has the potentiality to be a place of liberation. There are pockets. I think being able to teach Ethnic Studies at Santa Ana HS and having an advanced class is something. We heal, learn and create community. It is providing a glimpse of visioning that is possible. I show up as fully present to create a collective that centers students. I think my role as educator is really as facilitator to create a conduit to deep dreaming and visioning of justice and liberation ]]> 2020-12-12 21:29:51 UTC https://padlet.com/kzapata7/4pykx2sf5hkhml8c/wish/1012762037 https://padlet.com/kzapata7/4pykx2sf5hkhml8c/wish/1012762083 I am the daughter of immigrant parents that moved from low-income to working to middle-class. The influence of US colonization on their mindset and beliefs of the world shaped my views until I unpacked and (un)learned in college. When advising or teaching students, I still work within institutions despite moving towards greater change in reframing the classroom or policy work. I am responsible for cultivating brave space for my students to learn about their identity and ways to bring positive change to their community and the world.]]> 2020-12-12 21:29:54 UTC https://padlet.com/kzapata7/4pykx2sf5hkhml8c/wish/1012762083 jstern18_1 https://padlet.com/kzapata7/4pykx2sf5hkhml8c/wish/1012762127 I am always thinking about the complexities of being part some historically marginalized groups, while at the same time acknowledging all the ways that I must see my privileges in the world. Thinking of how to focus my work on how I can be solidarity with so many different marginalized groups whose experiences and are impacting them in many different ways today. 


]]> 2020-12-12 21:29:58 UTC https://padlet.com/kzapata7/4pykx2sf5hkhml8c/wish/1012762127 https://padlet.com/kzapata7/4pykx2sf5hkhml8c/wish/1012762273 2020-12-12 21:30:09 UTC https://padlet.com/kzapata7/4pykx2sf5hkhml8c/wish/1012762273 https://padlet.com/kzapata7/4pykx2sf5hkhml8c/wish/1012762292 A foreigner constantly trying to fit in]]> 2020-12-12 21:30:10 UTC https://padlet.com/kzapata7/4pykx2sf5hkhml8c/wish/1012762292 mrsandrews20 https://padlet.com/kzapata7/4pykx2sf5hkhml8c/wish/1012762689 I am the daughter of Filipino immigrants that voted for Trump. I am an educator that is fighting the white cis narrative in my classroom. I am unpacking my own biases. I am helping to lead my school to be a place that focuses on teacher, student, staff and community wellness. I am my students and they are me. ]]> 2020-12-12 21:30:32 UTC https://padlet.com/kzapata7/4pykx2sf5hkhml8c/wish/1012762689 ehiebert1 https://padlet.com/kzapata7/4pykx2sf5hkhml8c/wish/1012762715 The site I work at is a space that is deeply concerned about compliance. My school uses grades as a punishment, and many other factors play into "controlling" instead of liberating students. I resist this by working to build a gradeless class. My role serves to help students find their spaces, their groups of people so that they may easily understand themselves, their liberation and empowerment. 

]]> 2020-12-12 21:30:34 UTC https://padlet.com/kzapata7/4pykx2sf5hkhml8c/wish/1012762715 https://padlet.com/kzapata7/4pykx2sf5hkhml8c/wish/1012762731 2020-12-12 21:30:35 UTC https://padlet.com/kzapata7/4pykx2sf5hkhml8c/wish/1012762731 https://padlet.com/kzapata7/4pykx2sf5hkhml8c/wish/1012762775 I am a Chinese American educator who has been through the entire public school system. I am the voice of minorities in my very white elementary school and am part of a team of teachers who put our principal/staff/parents in check when we sense/hear racial biases. ]]> 2020-12-12 21:30:39 UTC https://padlet.com/kzapata7/4pykx2sf5hkhml8c/wish/1012762775 https://padlet.com/kzapata7/4pykx2sf5hkhml8c/wish/1012762777 I am a cis white female MS teacher, raised in the country. I teach at the same school I went to. I play a role in critically addressing my silence, complacency and duplication of white supremacy. The school space can be a site for liberation and transformation as we build coalition, act and amplify. ]]> 2020-12-12 21:30:39 UTC https://padlet.com/kzapata7/4pykx2sf5hkhml8c/wish/1012762777 https://padlet.com/kzapata7/4pykx2sf5hkhml8c/wish/1012762778 I am white women raised in a community of artists and activists trying to live in a way that would foster more justness. I am trying to live my life inspired by this model and informed by the experiences I had being a minority in my community and welcomed into the homes and folkways of my Black neighbors. ]]> 2020-12-12 21:30:39 UTC https://padlet.com/kzapata7/4pykx2sf5hkhml8c/wish/1012762778 silvac12 https://padlet.com/kzapata7/4pykx2sf5hkhml8c/wish/1012762933 The site at which i teach is a site of liberation in the sense I am able to re-imagine curriculum.  It is a site of compliance in every other way. 

]]> 2020-12-12 21:30:50 UTC https://padlet.com/kzapata7/4pykx2sf5hkhml8c/wish/1012762933 https://padlet.com/kzapata7/4pykx2sf5hkhml8c/wish/1012763571 As a Filipina in leadership I strive to highlight the voices of our teachers that are working towards liberation. How do I ensure that I uplift our students. I need to intentionally hold space. It is a skill that I am still trying to build. ]]> 2020-12-12 21:31:34 UTC https://padlet.com/kzapata7/4pykx2sf5hkhml8c/wish/1012763571 https://padlet.com/kzapata7/4pykx2sf5hkhml8c/wish/1012763608 I am a Filipina-American woman, a child of immigrant parents, grew up in low economic status. I am struggling for disrupting whiteness that has been ingrained in my lifestyle. Wanting to belong in an America where I was not "American" enough, nor Filipino enough. Now learning that I can define what my Filipino-American identity can be and find pride in both cultures and traditions, centering my roots. My identity interweaves with my journey in education by disrupting the white standards and whiteness that seeps into my planning or teaching, unintentionally.]]> 2020-12-12 21:31:36 UTC https://padlet.com/kzapata7/4pykx2sf5hkhml8c/wish/1012763608 https://padlet.com/kzapata7/4pykx2sf5hkhml8c/wish/1012763698 I am struggling on how to de center myself since I benefit from privilege. I came from an upper class family and I am serving ]]> 2020-12-12 21:31:42 UTC https://padlet.com/kzapata7/4pykx2sf5hkhml8c/wish/1012763698 https://padlet.com/kzapata7/4pykx2sf5hkhml8c/wish/1012763783 2020-12-12 21:31:46 UTC https://padlet.com/kzapata7/4pykx2sf5hkhml8c/wish/1012763783 https://padlet.com/kzapata7/4pykx2sf5hkhml8c/wish/1012763817 I am a white woman who understands what that means. I’ve fought against white supremacy all my life. I’ve taken hits from my own people because I have refused to invest in it or believe what they co-opted me to be. I’m a socialist who believes in the collective. I am a community member who walks the streets of the city where I teach and live. ]]> 2020-12-12 21:31:48 UTC https://padlet.com/kzapata7/4pykx2sf5hkhml8c/wish/1012763817 apilhoefer https://padlet.com/kzapata7/4pykx2sf5hkhml8c/wish/1012763837 trying to serve as a source of strength to redefine what it means to be a teacher in the classroom]]> 2020-12-12 21:31:50 UTC https://padlet.com/kzapata7/4pykx2sf5hkhml8c/wish/1012763837 https://padlet.com/kzapata7/4pykx2sf5hkhml8c/wish/1012764129 I am struggling for a more just world where we all have enough. Where we are all cared fir and caring for and are connected to each other, our shared history, and the natural world. ]]> 2020-12-12 21:32:07 UTC https://padlet.com/kzapata7/4pykx2sf5hkhml8c/wish/1012764129 https://padlet.com/kzapata7/4pykx2sf5hkhml8c/wish/1012764366 I am a multiracial educator teaching at a school with all white teachers. I teach in a District that doesn’t support or use the voices of it’s teachers of color. I am trying to bring our voices together to make change that is so desperately needed where even our local teacher’s association doesn’t represent us. I’m tired of having to educate those whose fragility hinders their ability for real change. I am tired.]]> 2020-12-12 21:32:26 UTC https://padlet.com/kzapata7/4pykx2sf5hkhml8c/wish/1012764366 silvac12 https://padlet.com/kzapata7/4pykx2sf5hkhml8c/wish/1012764521 I show up as an LGBTQ+ Latinx human and my role is to bring my lense into the curriculum and give voice to my students.]]> 2020-12-12 21:32:37 UTC https://padlet.com/kzapata7/4pykx2sf5hkhml8c/wish/1012764521 https://padlet.com/kzapata7/4pykx2sf5hkhml8c/wish/1012764723 2020-12-12 21:32:45 UTC https://padlet.com/kzapata7/4pykx2sf5hkhml8c/wish/1012764723 https://padlet.com/kzapata7/4pykx2sf5hkhml8c/wish/1012764820 I am a Chinese American woman educating in the ethnic enclave in which I also grew up. I am working with colleagues and students within affinity and across difference to build a space of liberation for our community of color. In the skin I'm in, I can easily become complicit in the system, but am intentionally and actively working to have hard conversations about race, equity, and power at my site.]]> 2020-12-12 21:32:45 UTC https://padlet.com/kzapata7/4pykx2sf5hkhml8c/wish/1012764820 https://padlet.com/kzapata7/4pykx2sf5hkhml8c/wish/1012764895

]]> 2020-12-12 21:32:46 UTC https://padlet.com/kzapata7/4pykx2sf5hkhml8c/wish/1012764895 https://padlet.com/kzapata7/4pykx2sf5hkhml8c/wish/1012765253 my identities complicate my struggle bc I know I oppressed, but definitely not as much as other BIPOC... so although I want to use my space & voice, I don’t want to take space from others ]]> 2020-12-12 21:32:56 UTC https://padlet.com/kzapata7/4pykx2sf5hkhml8c/wish/1012765253 https://padlet.com/kzapata7/4pykx2sf5hkhml8c/wish/1012765354 2020-12-12 21:33:02 UTC https://padlet.com/kzapata7/4pykx2sf5hkhml8c/wish/1012765354 https://padlet.com/kzapata7/4pykx2sf5hkhml8c/wish/1012765952 I am a beneficiary of a lot of familial privilege.  I am struggling for growth... I support my siblings of color in navigating and chipping away the notion of value and prestige.  The struggle is that I am also challenged by the pressure of prestige.  I challenge more than I accept... but I still accept a helluva lot.  My students push me as much as I push them.  Maybe more.  Am I putting them in safe situations, am I preparing them to be resilient and bold? ]]> 2020-12-12 21:33:44 UTC https://padlet.com/kzapata7/4pykx2sf5hkhml8c/wish/1012765952 https://padlet.com/kzapata7/4pykx2sf5hkhml8c/wish/1012766162 I am a brown woman. A daughter of an immigrant from El Salvador and a first generation Chinese-American. I am a speech-language pathologist working with children that are preschool age and their families. I am struggling for their liberation and for my profession to meaningfully diversify. Currently my field is 92% white and only 8% people of color. Speech pathologists work in the educational system as well as healthcare. My identities interweave in this struggle because I see my own liberation could be possible if meaningful change happens in my field and for my students. ]]> 2020-12-12 21:34:02 UTC https://padlet.com/kzapata7/4pykx2sf5hkhml8c/wish/1012766162 https://padlet.com/kzapata7/4pykx2sf5hkhml8c/wish/1012766185 This is a site where we share who we are and express our thoughts on social justice in education]]> 2020-12-12 21:34:03 UTC https://padlet.com/kzapata7/4pykx2sf5hkhml8c/wish/1012766185 https://padlet.com/kzapata7/4pykx2sf5hkhml8c/wish/1012766273 2020-12-12 21:34:11 UTC https://padlet.com/kzapata7/4pykx2sf5hkhml8c/wish/1012766273 https://padlet.com/kzapata7/4pykx2sf5hkhml8c/wish/1012766296 In my adult life I have moved into more elite spaces that are white dominated. I try and use my access and increased privilege to raise questions of equity and racial justice. While my closest relationships are with my colleagues of color, our relationships largely extend from experiences in white dominant spaces. ]]> 2020-12-12 21:34:12 UTC https://padlet.com/kzapata7/4pykx2sf5hkhml8c/wish/1012766296 https://padlet.com/kzapata7/4pykx2sf5hkhml8c/wish/1012766376 2020-12-12 21:34:18 UTC https://padlet.com/kzapata7/4pykx2sf5hkhml8c/wish/1012766376 https://padlet.com/kzapata7/4pykx2sf5hkhml8c/wish/1012766619 I am struggling with channeling my own oppression and frustration into holding productive and liberating spaces for the teachers that are holding space for our students and their families. I feel too tired to hold more. ]]> 2020-12-12 21:34:33 UTC https://padlet.com/kzapata7/4pykx2sf5hkhml8c/wish/1012766619 https://padlet.com/kzapata7/4pykx2sf5hkhml8c/wish/1012766766 I always reflect on how my identity as a successful student operates in my pedagogy. I have to work to insure that my caring is not conditional on a student’s degree of acceptance of the system of schooling, what Angela Valenzuela calls aesthetic caring, or a kind of technocratic caring. My school is a site of deep compliance within the education industrial-complex. I get told all of the time that I’m “grading with my feelings” or giving “participation trophies” to students, like in my no-F-no-D grading policy for the entirety of this farce called distance learning. But is this liberation? I don’t think it is. I think it’s still a teacher of privilege making do within the system. I yearn to know what liberation looks like, and I yearn to have the love to take the risks it entails. I feel like I’m too good at working within the system and haven’t even gotten close to liberation.]]> 2020-12-12 21:34:43 UTC https://padlet.com/kzapata7/4pykx2sf5hkhml8c/wish/1012766766 irguerrero1 https://padlet.com/kzapata7/4pykx2sf5hkhml8c/wish/1012766907 2020-12-12 21:34:52 UTC https://padlet.com/kzapata7/4pykx2sf5hkhml8c/wish/1012766907 https://padlet.com/kzapata7/4pykx2sf5hkhml8c/wish/1012767153 2020-12-12 21:35:10 UTC https://padlet.com/kzapata7/4pykx2sf5hkhml8c/wish/1012767153 https://padlet.com/kzapata7/4pykx2sf5hkhml8c/wish/1012767493 I am struggling for my local urban rez. ]]> 2020-12-12 21:35:39 UTC https://padlet.com/kzapata7/4pykx2sf5hkhml8c/wish/1012767493 bschlaeguada https://padlet.com/kzapata7/4pykx2sf5hkhml8c/wish/1012767535 I am a white queer woman and I am struggling for liberation and abolition in my classroom and school site. My school site is a place of compliance with white supremacy and racism and I show up as an agitator and dissenter in this space.]]> 2020-12-12 21:35:43 UTC https://padlet.com/kzapata7/4pykx2sf5hkhml8c/wish/1012767535 silvac12 https://padlet.com/kzapata7/4pykx2sf5hkhml8c/wish/1012767574 still figuring out how to show up]]> 2020-12-12 21:35:46 UTC https://padlet.com/kzapata7/4pykx2sf5hkhml8c/wish/1012767574 https://padlet.com/kzapata7/4pykx2sf5hkhml8c/wish/1012767736 I am a Daughter of a Carribean woman. An immigrant who came to the US and worked feverishly to speak American. To act American. To assimilate into a culture not her own. I am  a black woman struggling to find ways of dismantling systematic oppressions I’ve experienced, that my community have experienced. Some of which were in my own home. I am unlearning self-hatred that my parents have instilled within me. I have learned to love myself the colors of my home island... the cuisine... the culture. I am also trying to help my community and find my place within to lift every life and voice within upward. As an educator I teach my youth to look to their heritage, to ask questions. To know where they came from.  That will inspire pride, that will breed love and that is the first step (of many)  to overcome struggle]]> 2020-12-12 21:35:59 UTC https://padlet.com/kzapata7/4pykx2sf5hkhml8c/wish/1012767736 https://padlet.com/kzapata7/4pykx2sf5hkhml8c/wish/1012767803 I am a white woman navigating my bisexuality. I own my whiteness, meaning I work to check my white privilege daily and invite racial justice dialogues in all contexts, both personal and professional.]]> 2020-12-12 21:36:05 UTC https://padlet.com/kzapata7/4pykx2sf5hkhml8c/wish/1012767803 https://padlet.com/kzapata7/4pykx2sf5hkhml8c/wish/1012767934 My org receives our funding from the state and have to by for contracts with schools and districts. This can serve as a conservative making dynamic, reliant on the market and the state. I have tried to find spaces in this structure but have failed a systematic response. I raise questions and make discrete changes. ]]> 2020-12-12 21:36:15 UTC https://padlet.com/kzapata7/4pykx2sf5hkhml8c/wish/1012767934 https://padlet.com/kzapata7/4pykx2sf5hkhml8c/wish/1012767998 A site where liberation is in the conversation at all times ]]> 2020-12-12 21:36:20 UTC https://padlet.com/kzapata7/4pykx2sf5hkhml8c/wish/1012767998 withravenswings https://padlet.com/kzapata7/4pykx2sf5hkhml8c/wish/1012768044 I am a multiracial, multiethnic, queer, fat, disabled, (I prefer this term) neuroatypical, working class, Indigenous, leftist, daughter of immigrants. 

I am a restorative, transformative, anti fascist, anti racist, anti capitalist, liberators, decolonizing educator who believes in critical pedagogy. 

My white skin complicates my participation in the struggle because how I look to others here in the Bay Area doesn’t match my ethnic, cultural, values and experience. I have made a big transition from living somewhere that saw me as Latina and other and a target for violence to a place that sees me as part of a group that perpetrates that violence. I walk between worlds in the liminal space, not belonging anywhere or with anyone while recognizing I am given privileges I don’t even see and using privileges I do see to fight oppression in all its forms.

I stay here in this world so that I can continue to honor my ancestors and all of my relations. ]]> 2020-12-12 21:36:23 UTC https://padlet.com/kzapata7/4pykx2sf5hkhml8c/wish/1012768044 https://padlet.com/kzapata7/4pykx2sf5hkhml8c/wish/1012778024 The site I teach at is returning to anti-racist work after a few years on pause because of such pushback from white faculty. I am a part of the leadership team for this work now. The pushback is still there but as a new, white team member I am trying to do my part to address the white fragility and white guilt and be a resource.]]> 2020-12-12 21:48:03 UTC https://padlet.com/kzapata7/4pykx2sf5hkhml8c/wish/1012778024 https://padlet.com/kzapata7/4pykx2sf5hkhml8c/wish/1022814621 I am a daughter of white supremacy, trying to be a mother of the revolution.]]> 2020-12-16 04:30:13 UTC https://padlet.com/kzapata7/4pykx2sf5hkhml8c/wish/1022814621