We Want to Do More Than Survive by Ben Nakamura https://padlet.com/bnakamura1/b5zjd07f23bw7q4n Respond to as many of the questions listed below as you see fit. Hit the + button to submit your response. en-us 2020-10-13 23:55:49 UTC 2020-10-16 00:13:42 UTC hello@padlet.com https://padlet.net/icons/png/2764.png Respectability Politics vjenkins88 https://padlet.com/bnakamura1/b5zjd07f23bw7q4n/wish/834275208 I had to have a lot of conversations with older folks in my family about the uprisings that were complex because of the generational divide. Many of them ere born during the Civil Rights movement and see abolish police and other demands made during the uprisings as idealistic, they also got in the trap of discussing looting and pushing for peaceful protests as the only valid type of protest.I pushed on them frequently about unpacking where their beliefs came from and learned that they are afraid of where our country is and afraid of where it's headed during this election year. ]]> 2020-10-16 00:04:20 UTC https://padlet.com/bnakamura1/b5zjd07f23bw7q4n/wish/834275208 So many things!! I think about everything from the structure of schools, to the curriculum taught, to who occupies places of power in education. https://padlet.com/bnakamura1/b5zjd07f23bw7q4n/wish/834275436 2020-10-16 00:04:30 UTC https://padlet.com/bnakamura1/b5zjd07f23bw7q4n/wish/834275436 We would need to first recognize that we have 'sinned' against our students and communities. Step one is that humility to recognize our wrongs bnakamura1 https://padlet.com/bnakamura1/b5zjd07f23bw7q4n/wish/834275532 2020-10-16 00:04:33 UTC https://padlet.com/bnakamura1/b5zjd07f23bw7q4n/wish/834275532 Affirming and celebration of differences. I love the idea of homeplace and a nest for our students. Be open to going against the "norm" when the "norm" isn't right latiffeamado1 https://padlet.com/bnakamura1/b5zjd07f23bw7q4n/wish/834275897 2020-10-16 00:04:47 UTC https://padlet.com/bnakamura1/b5zjd07f23bw7q4n/wish/834275897 nuschoolleader https://padlet.com/bnakamura1/b5zjd07f23bw7q4n/wish/834275964 Clear acknowledgement of the sins of our past followed by equitable policies and funding with a focus on listening to the community that has been harmed. 

]]> 2020-10-16 00:04:49 UTC https://padlet.com/bnakamura1/b5zjd07f23bw7q4n/wish/834275964 Acknowledge that those sins exist and that in order for our nation to move past them and to create change , we must face the past and present reality for BIPOC head on. -CW https://padlet.com/bnakamura1/b5zjd07f23bw7q4n/wish/834276478 2020-10-16 00:05:08 UTC https://padlet.com/bnakamura1/b5zjd07f23bw7q4n/wish/834276478 Schools and prisons are two sides to the same coin--the system, the system that has been intentionally designed to ensure the permanence of white supremacy by suppressing and oppressing Black people in this country. bnakamura1 https://padlet.com/bnakamura1/b5zjd07f23bw7q4n/wish/834277870 2020-10-16 00:05:59 UTC https://padlet.com/bnakamura1/b5zjd07f23bw7q4n/wish/834277870 More than recognition and acknowledge, giving something up. Those with power giving up that power. https://padlet.com/bnakamura1/b5zjd07f23bw7q4n/wish/834278508 2020-10-16 00:06:22 UTC https://padlet.com/bnakamura1/b5zjd07f23bw7q4n/wish/834278508 I have thought about this A LOT. I was a 23 year old white womxn who was teaching black and brown students in Watts. I was the definition of a reformer taking up space. While I continue to do work on myself, my own racial identity, power and resource sharing, the space that I take up is still a thing that never leaves my mind... speaking vulnerably, it IS the thing that I return to when I ask "should I be here?" https://padlet.com/bnakamura1/b5zjd07f23bw7q4n/wish/834278516 2020-10-16 00:06:22 UTC https://padlet.com/bnakamura1/b5zjd07f23bw7q4n/wish/834278516 I have been in schools that use character traits, I always loved the ide and never thought about them as survival tactics - this was a powerful thing for me to consider. https://padlet.com/bnakamura1/b5zjd07f23bw7q4n/wish/834278807 2020-10-16 00:06:32 UTC https://padlet.com/bnakamura1/b5zjd07f23bw7q4n/wish/834278807 nuschoolleader https://padlet.com/bnakamura1/b5zjd07f23bw7q4n/wish/834279335 Dress code policies that police student appearance, specifically the hair and clothes of young black and brown
 women. ]]> 2020-10-16 00:06:54 UTC https://padlet.com/bnakamura1/b5zjd07f23bw7q4n/wish/834279335 https://padlet.com/bnakamura1/b5zjd07f23bw7q4n/wish/834279389 Broadening the purpose and potential for  education to be a means to bring about change and integrate how different  people and perspectives talk about or try to frame 
 events.]]> 2020-10-16 00:06:56 UTC https://padlet.com/bnakamura1/b5zjd07f23bw7q4n/wish/834279389 RESIST latiffeamado1 https://padlet.com/bnakamura1/b5zjd07f23bw7q4n/wish/834280259 schools would have to be places of resistance and ensure folxs that are leading are on board with doing the difficult work. 
 ]]> 2020-10-16 00:07:30 UTC https://padlet.com/bnakamura1/b5zjd07f23bw7q4n/wish/834280259 As love writes, the work is personal, emotional, spiritual and communal. This space could start there. https://padlet.com/bnakamura1/b5zjd07f23bw7q4n/wish/834280707 2020-10-16 00:07:46 UTC https://padlet.com/bnakamura1/b5zjd07f23bw7q4n/wish/834280707 F https://padlet.com/bnakamura1/b5zjd07f23bw7q4n/wish/834281398 2020-10-16 00:08:09 UTC https://padlet.com/bnakamura1/b5zjd07f23bw7q4n/wish/834281398 Zero tolerance policies for suspension and expulsion. https://padlet.com/bnakamura1/b5zjd07f23bw7q4n/wish/834282760 2020-10-16 00:08:55 UTC https://padlet.com/bnakamura1/b5zjd07f23bw7q4n/wish/834282760 Programs such as gifted and talent. https://padlet.com/bnakamura1/b5zjd07f23bw7q4n/wish/834283540 2020-10-16 00:09:18 UTC https://padlet.com/bnakamura1/b5zjd07f23bw7q4n/wish/834283540 I think a lot about how as a teacher I used to expect learning and group work to happen quietly and orderly - when that's not how all folx learn. https://padlet.com/bnakamura1/b5zjd07f23bw7q4n/wish/834287352 2020-10-16 00:11:28 UTC https://padlet.com/bnakamura1/b5zjd07f23bw7q4n/wish/834287352