https://padlet.com/joseph_rubin/YourImpactStep2 Add a response to any or all of the following questions, and/or add a response to your peers' posts: 1) What is the benefit and challenge of being part of a collective that's confronting the educational inequity? 2) What does it mean to you to be part of a movement toward educational change 2) What inspires you about joining something ongoing, and what opportunities does this provide for your personal impact journey? 3) What is one thing you bring to this landscape from your personal experience that you don't see reflected in resources provided? en-us 2017-09-08 20:48:38 UTC 2020-10-16 16:12:17 UTC hello@padlet.com https://padlet-uploads.storage.googleapis.com/144241762/9f67c22d1944fa503b9eee3775ece510/tfa_logo.png https://padlet.com/joseph_rubin/YourImpactStep2/wish/823243419 2020-10-13 00:54:04 UTC https://padlet.com/joseph_rubin/YourImpactStep2/wish/823243419 https://padlet.com/joseph_rubin/YourImpactStep2/wish/823243561 2020-10-13 00:54:09 UTC https://padlet.com/joseph_rubin/YourImpactStep2/wish/823243561 https://padlet.com/joseph_rubin/YourImpactStep2/wish/836051751 One benefit is that in the community everyone has something unique to contribute and you get to build off of the group and individual experience to confront the issue. One challenge is that educational inequity is a large-scale societal issue that presents itself differently in every individual community. It might make it difficult to find a balance between focusing energy on long-term systems-level changes and changes that will benefit your students in the classroom in the moment. 
Joining this program gives you access to a network of people who have had similar experiences, who have studied the issues you're facing, and who are ready to support you during your time in the corps. This means that even if you are in a classroom alone, your impact doesn't have to come from you alone, and I like the idea of being able to combine what I'm passionate about with the knowledge and experience of the organization's other members. 
One thing I might bring that's semi-unique is my own educational experience that, because I've lived a lot of different places, has allowed me to look at classrooms and teacher-student relationships from the outsider perspective. Seeing teachers in certain regions bring bias into classrooms, and how classroom dynamics can be improved might be helpful to me as a corps member. ]]> 2020-10-16 15:56:27 UTC https://padlet.com/joseph_rubin/YourImpactStep2/wish/836051751