https://padlet.com/chitchings/f76t2vujwct Share your thoughts and ideas with confidence that RINI is a Professional Learning Community where we are all learners and all learning is valued. en-us 2019-03-02 16:45:42 UTC 2025-12-21 00:22:37 UTC hello@padlet.com https://padlet-assets.s3.amazonaws.com/icons/Lightdecrease.png chitchings https://padlet.com/chitchings/f76t2vujwct/wish/337134565 2019-03-02 16:48:17 UTC https://padlet.com/chitchings/f76t2vujwct/wish/337134565 chitchings https://padlet.com/chitchings/f76t2vujwct/wish/337135059 "All children deserve to see themselves and their experiences reflected in books, but too many students, especially students of color, are denied such opportunities."]]> 2019-03-02 16:53:03 UTC https://padlet.com/chitchings/f76t2vujwct/wish/337135059 nsamihrotondo https://padlet.com/chitchings/f76t2vujwct/wish/337168512 This is super relevant to me having been one of only a small handful of people of color/refugees/working class students in a mostly white middle class suburb and it was awful coming of age feeling alone, otherized, ostracized ( and then after 9/11, forget it!) and not having any windows or mirrors representing my experience in the media and literature just added insult to injury. It wasnt till college when I FINALLY got to read and learn about Black, immigrant, indigenous and non-western voices in the literary world and it was life affirming. 

I found it interesting when the author stated that "Educators are really good at having conversations and sometimes not as good about pushing back" because I got into education for precisely that purpose...To push back...to bridge the gaps of inequities... to shape and build new realities for young people.. as a side note, it might be worth reading out to SURJ ( showing up for racial justice) because they offer free trainings to schools and organizations around these issues]]> 2019-03-03 00:14:36 UTC https://padlet.com/chitchings/f76t2vujwct/wish/337168512 mdibona https://padlet.com/chitchings/f76t2vujwct/wish/337274332 "If the only books we're sharing are about basketball and brutality, then it's no better, because those aren't the only stories out there," Ripp said. "Look at the small details: What kind of experiences are you creating for students?"  
Sometimes I ask myself if I create my lessons through the lens of creating "student experiences" that reflect a variety of experiences and cultures, my student's cultures in particular, not just my own. I ask students to share their experiences, and I think I default to what I believe to be common experiences in order to make problems relevant to the whole class. Is that ignoring the the differences? or is it building on the commonality?]]> 2019-03-03 20:54:03 UTC https://padlet.com/chitchings/f76t2vujwct/wish/337274332 mgoodman21 https://padlet.com/chitchings/f76t2vujwct/wish/337946444 The first lesson I gave on geometry talked about how Geometry originated in Africa in the Egyptian Empire, gerrymandering and the female mathematician fighting it, and how fifth-grade students in a school that was predominantly African-American and Dominican used math to keep their overcrowded school from getting even more overcrowded.  Next:  20 minute weekly lessons on other ways people use math to advocate for change such as: how many people died in PR due to Hurricane Maria, Nigerian doctor who discovered CTE in football players, the Iraqi female doctor who discovered the water crisis in Flint, and more.   ]]> 2019-03-05 15:19:31 UTC https://padlet.com/chitchings/f76t2vujwct/wish/337946444