https://padlet.com/amogilevsky/g0gd25g5ezr3 Answer the following questions: 1) How might we invest ourselves into a quote like this when thinking about our roles as social studies teachers? 2) Why might it be important to our students in their own development as student leaders? 3) What does it mean to change a system in radical sense through social studies? en-us 2017-09-14 18:59:21 UTC 2017-09-16 14:50:01 UTC hello@padlet.com amogilevsky https://padlet.com/amogilevsky/g0gd25g5ezr3/wish/187727657 EX: 
1) I believe...
2) It is important to our students because....
3) To radically change a system through social studies means.....

]]> 2017-09-14 19:03:00 UTC https://padlet.com/amogilevsky/g0gd25g5ezr3/wish/187727657 https://padlet.com/amogilevsky/g0gd25g5ezr3/wish/188153362 1.) we must be honest with students
2.) we must allow students to find their own truth regardless of what it may be
3.) being as open and honest about history as possible ]]> 2017-09-16 14:41:58 UTC https://padlet.com/amogilevsky/g0gd25g5ezr3/wish/188153362 https://padlet.com/amogilevsky/g0gd25g5ezr3/wish/188153377 1)It is important to promote advocacy in our classroom to become the change we want to see, promote a voice of change, and let it be known that out of the box thinking is the way to solve out of the box challenges.

2)Students need to know they have a voice, and that complex problems can have a simple solution, but we need to break down the constructs to hit that solution.

3)It means promoting a system and culture of advocacy, leading by example, and promoting a framework in which advocacy can be targeted by finding a problem, looking at those affected by the problem, addressing the stake holders who can solve the problem, and start from a micro-perspective. Rome wasn't built in a day.]]> 2017-09-16 14:42:13 UTC https://padlet.com/amogilevsky/g0gd25g5ezr3/wish/188153377 https://padlet.com/amogilevsky/g0gd25g5ezr3/wish/188153404 1. As social studies teachers, we have the unique power to teach the students the actual systems by which they are oppressed and, if using the opportunity properly, you can also teach them their weaknesses and where they can be challenged by the minds in the classroom.
2.  Because they're literally our future (cliche, whatever tho) and because they are not told often enough the power they have to affect change in their world.
3. To me, it means reminding them that "curriculum" history does not mean it is their history.  Show your students of color and different backgrounds that their history matters, and it has contributed to the world they live in today.  Empower them with the knowledge that they ARE a part of history, despite what any textbook may tell them otherwise, and use that power to remind them that they also can reshape their futures in the same way their ancestors did.]]> 2017-09-16 14:42:33 UTC https://padlet.com/amogilevsky/g0gd25g5ezr3/wish/188153404 https://padlet.com/amogilevsky/g0gd25g5ezr3/wish/188153442 1) As educators, it is so important that we are working to change a system and not simply teaching students to adhere to it. At the same time, I think students need to be given the skills to pass certain checkpoints that they will reach within dominant culture.
2) We are outsiders and our duty is to empower ALL students with skills, character, and knowledge to succeed in the colleges of their choice, strengthen their community, and fight for social justice. We are not their saviors they are.
3) Teach students how to be civically engaged and advocate for themselves.

]]> 2017-09-16 14:43:07 UTC https://padlet.com/amogilevsky/g0gd25g5ezr3/wish/188153442 https://padlet.com/amogilevsky/g0gd25g5ezr3/wish/188153477 1. As a Social Studies teacher, I can provide historical models of individuals and groups who fought and changed systems. I then can allow and help students connect those models to their own lives and problem-solve to see how they can make that same radical transformation.
2. It is important because it empowers students to shape their own future and the future that they want to see.
3. This means providing students with information and providing prompting questions to allow students to assign their own meaning and value to that information.]]> 2017-09-16 14:43:40 UTC https://padlet.com/amogilevsky/g0gd25g5ezr3/wish/188153477 https://padlet.com/amogilevsky/g0gd25g5ezr3/wish/188153501 1).  Use it as a charge for students to think about how what we do can matter, even in the moments that we tend to see as mundane (worksheet days, etc.)

2.) This empowers them to find fruit in their work and grow their environment to their needs, rather than passively expecting and usually complaining about the lack of intersection with this work.

3) Allowing the history of the students and their context to override the dominant narratives in our curricula, and acknowledging the difficulty in these fault lines as we go through. ]]> 2017-09-16 14:44:06 UTC https://padlet.com/amogilevsky/g0gd25g5ezr3/wish/188153501 https://padlet.com/amogilevsky/g0gd25g5ezr3/wish/188153525 It is important we work as social studies teachers to provide background and insight into the systems oppressing our students. 

It is important to our students because they need to find their own purpose for learning. 

To radically change a system through social studies means empowering the learners of today and leaders of tomorrow. It means helping creating a new world where every citizen
 thrives rather survives.]]> 2017-09-16 14:44:34 UTC https://padlet.com/amogilevsky/g0gd25g5ezr3/wish/188153525 https://padlet.com/amogilevsky/g0gd25g5ezr3/wish/188153536 1) As teachers we need to promote  empowerment among our students in order to advocate for themselves and others.
2) Teaching students to be leaders is important in order for them to control their own destiny 
3) Changing a system from with in much more effective than scraping and starting over.....you might repeat the same mistakes.]]> 2017-09-16 14:44:40 UTC https://padlet.com/amogilevsky/g0gd25g5ezr3/wish/188153536