Teaching for Black Lives by Tricia Gonzalez https://padlet.com/teachingforblacklives/g9jsfalj2ay34t2s Teaching for Black Lives directly pushes back on the dominant and harmful narratives that dehumanize Black people by providing educators with critical perspectives on the role of schools in perpetuating anti-Blackness, but also offers examples of what it looks like to celebrate, affirm, and humanize Black people in curriculum, teaching, and policy. The book presents a certain method for pedagogy — a problem-posing pedagogy — that treats students as intellectuals and centers their experiences in classrooms and communities. While reading the text, reflect on what you observe about what this book shares not only for its content, but also for the pedagogical strategies that are rooted in humility, critical inquiry, and intentional love. The need to teach for Black lives is imperative. As educators, we have a duty and responsibility to stand with and beside our students to learn together, to organize, to resist, and dream the world we deserve into being. en-us 2022-10-12 14:40:55 UTC 2024-07-08 13:41:09 UTC hello@padlet.com https://padlet.net/icons/png/1f30d.png https://padlet.com/teachingforblacklives/g9jsfalj2ay34t2s/wish/2337680428 Minds: Not inclusive and inaccurate curriculum that disengages/ pushes out students.

Bodies: Extrajudicial killings of Black people.

Both: Districts that employ more security than councilors. ]]> 2022-10-12 20:58:36 UTC https://padlet.com/teachingforblacklives/g9jsfalj2ay34t2s/wish/2337680428 https://padlet.com/teachingforblacklives/g9jsfalj2ay34t2s/wish/2337680789 They are seeing their history manipulated to fit a narrative that is not for them. They are seeing examples and being told that their real history is not important. An example would be using the word workers instead of enslaved people, or “brought here” versus kidnapped. These words affect how our black students are seen, talked about, and how they feel as individuals ]]> 2022-10-12 20:59:00 UTC https://padlet.com/teachingforblacklives/g9jsfalj2ay34t2s/wish/2337680789 Pittsford student 2008019 https://padlet.com/teachingforblacklives/g9jsfalj2ay34t2s/wish/2337681012 gets nine weeks suspension for hitting a girl, resulting in a fight, who had been bullying her all year. Bully gets sent back to class]]> 2022-10-12 20:59:15 UTC https://padlet.com/teachingforblacklives/g9jsfalj2ay34t2s/wish/2337681012 If students don’t see and learn worth in their own history and excellence then they will not see themselves to be that way. If their history can be erased and rewritten they feel as if they can be treated the same way. https://padlet.com/teachingforblacklives/g9jsfalj2ay34t2s/wish/2337682119 2022-10-12 21:00:38 UTC https://padlet.com/teachingforblacklives/g9jsfalj2ay34t2s/wish/2337682119 I think this quote means that the way (curriculum and type of teaching) students of color are taught, really does a disservice to kids. In many instances, its a blurred, or white-washed history that students learn. https://padlet.com/teachingforblacklives/g9jsfalj2ay34t2s/wish/2337682256 2022-10-12 21:00:48 UTC https://padlet.com/teachingforblacklives/g9jsfalj2ay34t2s/wish/2337682256 1431610 https://padlet.com/teachingforblacklives/g9jsfalj2ay34t2s/wish/2337682437 Their minds are under attack because the history being taught is not accurate. it can cause a cognitive dissonance becuase it doesn't connect with what they know from their families. The one example given about the textbook listing Africans coming over as workers under the immigration section.]]> 2022-10-12 21:01:03 UTC https://padlet.com/teachingforblacklives/g9jsfalj2ay34t2s/wish/2337682437 https://padlet.com/teachingforblacklives/g9jsfalj2ay34t2s/wish/2337683325 It perpetuates the abhorrent notion that Black lives do not matter. If the only time we are seeing people of African decent is through the lens of enslavement and the Civil Rights movement we are missing an opportunity to push back on that narrative as an accurate and complete history would center us all around the idea that Black lives do indeed matter. How often do our students decide they do not matter in school and find somewhere else that they do?]]> 2022-10-12 21:01:44 UTC https://padlet.com/teachingforblacklives/g9jsfalj2ay34t2s/wish/2337683325 We need to be teaching to students as a whole. Their culture, their successes in all topics. We need to teach history accurately even if that makes the content emotionally harder for some students. https://padlet.com/teachingforblacklives/g9jsfalj2ay34t2s/wish/2337683443 2022-10-12 21:01:55 UTC https://padlet.com/teachingforblacklives/g9jsfalj2ay34t2s/wish/2337683443 Example from the text https://padlet.com/teachingforblacklives/g9jsfalj2ay34t2s/wish/2337684995 "...curriculum lies to our students, conceals pain and injustice, masks racism, and demeans our Black students."]]> 2022-10-12 21:03:57 UTC https://padlet.com/teachingforblacklives/g9jsfalj2ay34t2s/wish/2337684995 https://padlet.com/teachingforblacklives/g9jsfalj2ay34t2s/wish/2337685327 The introduction spells this out fairly explicitly. " Indeed, teaching for Black lives means just the opposite: engaging students in critical self-reflection, grounding our curriculum and teaching in their lives and communities, and orienting them towards community activism and social transformation."]]> 2022-10-12 21:04:29 UTC https://padlet.com/teachingforblacklives/g9jsfalj2ay34t2s/wish/2337685327 Restorative practices, hiring more black teachers (which would mean making the career more appealing and not just hiring the one “token” teacher) and mandated curriculum https://padlet.com/teachingforblacklives/g9jsfalj2ay34t2s/wish/2337685409 2022-10-12 21:04:37 UTC https://padlet.com/teachingforblacklives/g9jsfalj2ay34t2s/wish/2337685409 Students who become disinterested in a class because of the historical erasure of Black history, are often labeled as defiant and pushed out of the classroom. https://padlet.com/teachingforblacklives/g9jsfalj2ay34t2s/wish/2337685589 2022-10-12 21:04:52 UTC https://padlet.com/teachingforblacklives/g9jsfalj2ay34t2s/wish/2337685589 https://padlet.com/teachingforblacklives/g9jsfalj2ay34t2s/wish/2337686184 "The ferocity of racism in the United States against black minds and black bodies demands that teachers fight back. We must organize against anti-blackness amongst our colleagues and in our communities; we must march against police brutality in the streets; and we must teach for Black lives in our classrooms. We call on others to join us in this fight."]]> 2022-10-12 21:05:40 UTC https://padlet.com/teachingforblacklives/g9jsfalj2ay34t2s/wish/2337686184 https://padlet.com/teachingforblacklives/g9jsfalj2ay34t2s/wish/2337686956 The connections are too many to articulate. However, I will say that intellectual apartheid and the deficit based mindset of Black people have multiple ripple affects including criminality.]]> 2022-10-12 21:06:42 UTC https://padlet.com/teachingforblacklives/g9jsfalj2ay34t2s/wish/2337686956 https://padlet.com/teachingforblacklives/g9jsfalj2ay34t2s/wish/2337688151 One thing that resonates is that we do have teachers that frame their instruction in such a way that they have an impact on changing the "school to prison" paradigm. However, from my vantage point, we do not yet have a systemic approach, used by all teachers in the system, to shift to a "school to justice" pipeline.]]> 2022-10-12 21:08:25 UTC https://padlet.com/teachingforblacklives/g9jsfalj2ay34t2s/wish/2337688151 1431610 https://padlet.com/teachingforblacklives/g9jsfalj2ay34t2s/wish/2337689437 When the students feel disconnected from the history and the curriculum, it can make them feel they have less opportunities then others. It causes disengagement, which can then lead to perseved defiance. When students are looked down upon because of this, it can leave them with a sense of no future career.]]> 2022-10-12 21:10:10 UTC https://padlet.com/teachingforblacklives/g9jsfalj2ay34t2s/wish/2337689437 Film/TV, Toys 2008019 https://padlet.com/teachingforblacklives/g9jsfalj2ay34t2s/wish/2337690244 For so long the images people are surrounded with tell a story, and that story becomes a reality for many. ]]> 2022-10-12 21:11:15 UTC https://padlet.com/teachingforblacklives/g9jsfalj2ay34t2s/wish/2337690244 Cognition https://padlet.com/teachingforblacklives/g9jsfalj2ay34t2s/wish/2337691758 We need to teach for cognition, and ensure that our scholars brains are being built for independent thinking.]]> 2022-10-12 21:13:18 UTC https://padlet.com/teachingforblacklives/g9jsfalj2ay34t2s/wish/2337691758 1431610 https://padlet.com/teachingforblacklives/g9jsfalj2ay34t2s/wish/2337692133 Teaching for Black lives means having understanding of the history, the culture, the communities the students live in.   It begins with the teacher and their pedagogy.   If their mindset is not changed, the curriculum wouldn't be as effective.

]]> 2022-10-12 21:13:47 UTC https://padlet.com/teachingforblacklives/g9jsfalj2ay34t2s/wish/2337692133 Yes! It is our job as educators to make this a reality and challenge the school-to-prison pipeline mentality. Black Students' Lives Matter! https://padlet.com/teachingforblacklives/g9jsfalj2ay34t2s/wish/2337693687 2022-10-12 21:15:54 UTC https://padlet.com/teachingforblacklives/g9jsfalj2ay34t2s/wish/2337693687 “Black males, age 15 to 19, were killed at a rate of 31.17 per million, while just 1.47 per million white males in that age range died at the hands of police.” 2008019 https://padlet.com/teachingforblacklives/g9jsfalj2ay34t2s/wish/2337707809 2022-10-12 21:35:38 UTC https://padlet.com/teachingforblacklives/g9jsfalj2ay34t2s/wish/2337707809 Stop closing schools in Black neighborhoods. Fund schools equitably. Support African American studies programs and substantive multicultural curriculum. 2008019 https://padlet.com/teachingforblacklives/g9jsfalj2ay34t2s/wish/2337708488 2022-10-12 21:36:38 UTC https://padlet.com/teachingforblacklives/g9jsfalj2ay34t2s/wish/2337708488 1431610 https://padlet.com/teachingforblacklives/g9jsfalj2ay34t2s/wish/2337713347 What resonates is the comparison of numbers of blacks and whites killed by authorities and also the miscalculation of ages. I have witnessed this with intermediate teachers, 6th grade in particulalr, treating their students more adult like than as children/youth. ]]> 2022-10-12 21:42:41 UTC https://padlet.com/teachingforblacklives/g9jsfalj2ay34t2s/wish/2337713347 language shifts are needed 2008019 https://padlet.com/teachingforblacklives/g9jsfalj2ay34t2s/wish/2337713619 Students struggle to... change to The broken system struggles to lift up and educate the students]]> 2022-10-12 21:43:02 UTC https://padlet.com/teachingforblacklives/g9jsfalj2ay34t2s/wish/2337713619 Teachers need to have a better understanding of what this truly is and how they can be agents of change for their students. Until the teachers are aware of and understand where their bias are the systems cannot change. https://padlet.com/teachingforblacklives/g9jsfalj2ay34t2s/wish/2337714375 2022-10-12 21:44:04 UTC https://padlet.com/teachingforblacklives/g9jsfalj2ay34t2s/wish/2337714375 Resonate/Takeaway https://padlet.com/teachingforblacklives/g9jsfalj2ay34t2s/wish/2337715226 how teachers apply this understanding (What understanding?: violence against Black people and systemic racism/historical and current realities behind Black Lives Matter)  will obviously vary from classroom to classroom, depending on how old the children are, the teachers experience and knowledge about the issues involved, and the level of community that has been built in the classroom. ]]> 2022-10-12 21:45:11 UTC https://padlet.com/teachingforblacklives/g9jsfalj2ay34t2s/wish/2337715226 https://padlet.com/teachingforblacklives/g9jsfalj2ay34t2s/wish/2337715957 A recent ProPublica report found that “Blacks, age 15 to 19, were killed at a rate of 31.17 per million, while just 1.47 per million white males in that age range died at the hands of police.”

reading this reminds me of the white kid who gunned down people at Buffalo tops and was able to walk away. 
If he was a black person he would have been dead]]> 2022-10-12 21:46:06 UTC https://padlet.com/teachingforblacklives/g9jsfalj2ay34t2s/wish/2337715957 Black Students' Lives Matter 2008019 https://padlet.com/teachingforblacklives/g9jsfalj2ay34t2s/wish/3047950324 2024-07-08 13:39:38 UTC https://padlet.com/teachingforblacklives/g9jsfalj2ay34t2s/wish/3047950324 Black Students' Lives Matter: Building the School to Justice Pipeline 2008019 https://padlet.com/teachingforblacklives/g9jsfalj2ay34t2s/wish/3047951223 2024-07-08 13:41:09 UTC https://padlet.com/teachingforblacklives/g9jsfalj2ay34t2s/wish/3047951223