https://padlet.com/shansimps95/Mass The journey of a thousand miles... Lao Tzu en-us 2022-06-01 14:23:22 UTC 2025-05-29 00:50:03 UTC hello@padlet.com shansimps95 https://padlet.com/shansimps95/Mass/wish/2208081357 Individual and institutional truths: the role of race, power, and oppression]]> 2022-06-01 22:34:09 UTC https://padlet.com/shansimps95/Mass/wish/2208081357 shansimps95 https://padlet.com/shansimps95/Mass/wish/2208082802 From oppressive practices: components of dominant culture]]> 2022-06-01 22:36:59 UTC https://padlet.com/shansimps95/Mass/wish/2208082802 shansimps95 https://padlet.com/shansimps95/Mass/wish/2208084553 From discomfort: Engage in difficult conversations on race]]> 2022-06-01 22:40:19 UTC https://padlet.com/shansimps95/Mass/wish/2208084553 shansimps95 https://padlet.com/shansimps95/Mass/wish/2208088773 Hope, joy, healing and celebration]]> 2022-06-01 22:48:01 UTC https://padlet.com/shansimps95/Mass/wish/2208088773 shansimps95 https://padlet.com/shansimps95/Mass/wish/2208092368 As a community building towards liberation]]> 2022-06-01 22:55:04 UTC https://padlet.com/shansimps95/Mass/wish/2208092368 shansimps95 https://padlet.com/shansimps95/Mass/wish/2208118623 "All deserve an educational experience that helps them to grow and offers hope and opportunity." ACLS Participant]]> 2022-06-01 23:41:11 UTC https://padlet.com/shansimps95/Mass/wish/2208118623 shansimps95 https://padlet.com/shansimps95/Mass/wish/2208121664 "...we want to talk about having your life and your culture and your existence overwritten" -Dart Adams]]> 2022-06-01 23:44:26 UTC https://padlet.com/shansimps95/Mass/wish/2208121664 shansimps95 https://padlet.com/shansimps95/Mass/wish/2208124884 "What we DO is far more important than what we say or what we say we believe." bell hooks]]> 2022-06-01 23:48:54 UTC https://padlet.com/shansimps95/Mass/wish/2208124884 shansimps95 https://padlet.com/shansimps95/Mass/wish/2208128205
“Vulnerability sounds like truth and feels like courage. Truth and courage aren't always comfortable, but they're never weakness.” -Brene Brown]]> 2022-06-01 23:53:20 UTC https://padlet.com/shansimps95/Mass/wish/2208128205 shansimps95 https://padlet.com/shansimps95/Mass/wish/2208132741 "Race is the child of racism, not the father." Ta-Nehesi Coates]]> 2022-06-01 23:59:21 UTC https://padlet.com/shansimps95/Mass/wish/2208132741 shansimps95 https://padlet.com/shansimps95/Mass/wish/2208136696 shifting our mindsets from focusing on the individual (fish) to the system (groundwater) ]]> 2022-06-02 00:04:07 UTC https://padlet.com/shansimps95/Mass/wish/2208136696 shansimps95 https://padlet.com/shansimps95/Mass/wish/2208141118 “Things are not getting worse. They are getting uncovered. We must hold each other tight and continue to pull back the veil.” -adrienne marie brown

]]> 2022-06-02 00:09:52 UTC https://padlet.com/shansimps95/Mass/wish/2208141118 shansimps95 https://padlet.com/shansimps95/Mass/wish/2208145352 "...actions and approaches organizations often adopt that create the illusion of equity progress." -Gorski]]> 2022-06-02 00:14:56 UTC https://padlet.com/shansimps95/Mass/wish/2208145352 shansimps95 https://padlet.com/shansimps95/Mass/wish/2208149021
“Without inner change there can be no outer change.
Without collective change, no change matters.” -Rev Angel Kyodo Williams]]> 2022-06-02 00:19:01 UTC https://padlet.com/shansimps95/Mass/wish/2208149021 shansimps95 https://padlet.com/shansimps95/Mass/wish/2208152855 “You have to act as if it were possible to radically transform the world. And you have to do it all the time.” - Angela Davis]]> 2022-06-02 00:22:45 UTC https://padlet.com/shansimps95/Mass/wish/2208152855 shansimps95 https://padlet.com/shansimps95/Mass/wish/2208159636 2022-06-02 00:29:24 UTC https://padlet.com/shansimps95/Mass/wish/2208159636 shansimps95 https://padlet.com/shansimps95/Mass/wish/2208173402 2022-06-02 00:41:52 UTC https://padlet.com/shansimps95/Mass/wish/2208173402 shansimps95 https://padlet.com/shansimps95/Mass/wish/2208178350 “It is not your responsibility to finish the work of perfecting the world, but neither are you free to desist from it.” -Rabbi Tarfon]]> 2022-06-02 00:46:27 UTC https://padlet.com/shansimps95/Mass/wish/2208178350 shansimps95 https://padlet.com/shansimps95/Mass/wish/2208182820 2022-06-02 00:50:37 UTC https://padlet.com/shansimps95/Mass/wish/2208182820 shansimps95 https://padlet.com/shansimps95/Mass/wish/2208186676 “You are either perpetuating or interrupting. There is no middle ground." -Humanity over comfort]]> 2022-06-02 00:54:11 UTC https://padlet.com/shansimps95/Mass/wish/2208186676 shansimps95 https://padlet.com/shansimps95/Mass/wish/2208203613 “One of the most vital ways we sustain ourselves is by building communities of resistance, places where we know we are not alone.”  — bell hooks]]> 2022-06-02 01:07:33 UTC https://padlet.com/shansimps95/Mass/wish/2208203613 shansimps95 https://padlet.com/shansimps95/Mass/wish/2208209337 “...[A]ll life is inter-related. A network of mutuality. Whatever affects one directly, affects all indirectly.” — Dr. Martin Luther King, Jr]]> 2022-06-02 01:12:04 UTC https://padlet.com/shansimps95/Mass/wish/2208209337 shansimps95 https://padlet.com/shansimps95/Mass/wish/2208217888 2022-06-02 01:18:46 UTC https://padlet.com/shansimps95/Mass/wish/2208217888 shansimps95 https://padlet.com/shansimps95/Mass/wish/2208219603 “The most common way people give up their power 
is to believe that they don’t have any.” — Alice Walker]]> 2022-06-02 01:20:09 UTC https://padlet.com/shansimps95/Mass/wish/2208219603 shansimps95 https://padlet.com/shansimps95/Mass/wish/2208222128 “If you are free, you need to free somebody else. If you have some power, then your job is to empower somebody else.” 

— Toni Morrison

]]> 2022-06-02 01:22:05 UTC https://padlet.com/shansimps95/Mass/wish/2208222128 shansimps95 https://padlet.com/shansimps95/Mass/wish/2208224169 “Everything a village needs, is already in the village.” -African Proverb]]> 2022-06-02 01:23:41 UTC https://padlet.com/shansimps95/Mass/wish/2208224169 shansimps95 https://padlet.com/shansimps95/Mass/wish/2208231760 “Liberated relationships are one of the ways we actually create abundant justice, we understand that there is enough attention, care, resource, and connection for all of us to access belonging, to be in our dignity, and to be safe in community.” -- - Adrienne Maree Brown]]> 2022-06-02 01:29:49 UTC https://padlet.com/shansimps95/Mass/wish/2208231760 shansimps95 https://padlet.com/shansimps95/Mass/wish/2208249615 “Hard times require furious dancing!” - Alice Walker]]> 2022-06-02 01:42:55 UTC https://padlet.com/shansimps95/Mass/wish/2208249615 shansimps95 https://padlet.com/shansimps95/Mass/wish/2209244121 2022-06-02 17:21:06 UTC https://padlet.com/shansimps95/Mass/wish/2209244121 shansimps95 https://padlet.com/shansimps95/Mass/wish/2209301557 quotes from participants]]> 2022-06-02 18:17:14 UTC https://padlet.com/shansimps95/Mass/wish/2209301557 shansimps95 https://padlet.com/shansimps95/Mass/wish/2212106117 I am capable of change and abandoning perfectionism is freeing ]]> 2022-06-06 11:39:01 UTC https://padlet.com/shansimps95/Mass/wish/2212106117 shansimps95 https://padlet.com/shansimps95/Mass/wish/2212108591 Include students in decision making and not over simplify situations]]> 2022-06-06 11:42:36 UTC https://padlet.com/shansimps95/Mass/wish/2212108591 shansimps95 https://padlet.com/shansimps95/Mass/wish/2212109475 good enough" has gotten an undeserving bad rap, and that one can choose not to focus on "perfect" without sacrificing quality.]]> 2022-06-06 11:44:01 UTC https://padlet.com/shansimps95/Mass/wish/2212109475 shansimps95 https://padlet.com/shansimps95/Mass/wish/2212110410 when I avoid paternalism, I feel more engaged and connected with my students.]]> 2022-06-06 11:44:55 UTC https://padlet.com/shansimps95/Mass/wish/2212110410 shansimps95 https://padlet.com/shansimps95/Mass/wish/2212111884 Even small steps toward change can have large positive outcomes.]]> 2022-06-06 11:47:06 UTC https://padlet.com/shansimps95/Mass/wish/2212111884 shansimps95 https://padlet.com/shansimps95/Mass/wish/2212114464 I am more aware of inequities beyond what I thought I had seen. There is much work to be done.]]> 2022-06-06 11:50:54 UTC https://padlet.com/shansimps95/Mass/wish/2212114464 shansimps95 https://padlet.com/shansimps95/Mass/wish/2212115438 dominant culture's toxic ways of thinking is so deeply rooted in how many people see the world and the work of undoing the damage is not easy. ]]> 2022-06-06 11:52:11 UTC https://padlet.com/shansimps95/Mass/wish/2212115438 shansimps95 https://padlet.com/shansimps95/Mass/wish/2212116971 Plotting together is confirming as well as enlightening.]]> 2022-06-06 11:53:51 UTC https://padlet.com/shansimps95/Mass/wish/2212116971 shansimps95 https://padlet.com/shansimps95/Mass/wish/2212119330 Meaningful modifications are possible even if major changes take more time. It's important to "institutionalize" practices in a way that assures they will be used sustainably as part of "business as usual."]]> 2022-06-06 11:56:58 UTC https://padlet.com/shansimps95/Mass/wish/2212119330 shansimps95 https://padlet.com/shansimps95/Mass/wish/2212120659 We want to make sure that our students see themselves more in our curriculum.]]> 2022-06-06 11:58:34 UTC https://padlet.com/shansimps95/Mass/wish/2212120659 shansimps95 https://padlet.com/shansimps95/Mass/wish/2212127010 What we're doing is not new - we are part of a continuum of change. ]]> 2022-06-06 12:06:52 UTC https://padlet.com/shansimps95/Mass/wish/2212127010 shansimps95 https://padlet.com/shansimps95/Mass/wish/2212129780 Creating and building liberatory spaces/environments is something that I feel I can actively create; it's tangible. ]]> 2022-06-06 12:10:34 UTC https://padlet.com/shansimps95/Mass/wish/2212129780 shansimps95 https://padlet.com/shansimps95/Mass/wish/2212130809 I think of empathy as something warm. Radical empathy sounds like an inferno.]]> 2022-06-06 12:11:40 UTC https://padlet.com/shansimps95/Mass/wish/2212130809 laura809 https://padlet.com/shansimps95/Mass/wish/2215159416 2022-06-08 15:47:20 UTC https://padlet.com/shansimps95/Mass/wish/2215159416 https://padlet.com/shansimps95/Mass/wish/2215159512 "Y'all come into my office, we need to dance!"]]> 2022-06-08 15:47:27 UTC https://padlet.com/shansimps95/Mass/wish/2215159512 laura809 https://padlet.com/shansimps95/Mass/wish/2215160834 2022-06-08 15:48:39 UTC https://padlet.com/shansimps95/Mass/wish/2215160834 ebudish https://padlet.com/shansimps95/Mass/wish/2216586305 2022-06-09 17:42:36 UTC https://padlet.com/shansimps95/Mass/wish/2216586305