https://padlet.com/bushta/k0z6niuep136 11/10 -- Week #11 en-us 2017-11-01 22:11:15 UTC 2023-06-21 06:07:19 UTC hello@padlet.com bushta https://padlet.com/bushta/k0z6niuep136/wish/205093303 I've been walking a "justice" journey for personal reasons for the last couple of years. When you're faced with the reality of crushed dreams and redefined hopes, you tend to re-evaluate everything you ever believed in. With power and influence comes privilege. And that privilege can alter our perceptions.

]]> 2017-11-08 23:32:25 UTC https://padlet.com/bushta/k0z6niuep136/wish/205093303 bushta https://padlet.com/bushta/k0z6niuep136/wish/205094825 For our kids needing intervention, the testing and standardization has created a hardship. I see a real need for giving the teachers the freedom to address the particular gaps with students without the cumbersome red tape.  

]]> 2017-11-08 23:44:22 UTC https://padlet.com/bushta/k0z6niuep136/wish/205094825 bushta https://padlet.com/bushta/k0z6niuep136/wish/205095219 If we can allow our teachers and school administrators to teach creatively and practically, I think we would have more opportunity to find those organic moments to make connections for real life understanding and responsiveness that our reading talked about.]]> 2017-11-08 23:47:36 UTC https://padlet.com/bushta/k0z6niuep136/wish/205095219 bushta https://padlet.com/bushta/k0z6niuep136/wish/205096710 "BLACK EXCELLENCE"  I really appreciated this article. It balanced the equilibrium in my self-searching. I would love to sit down with this wonderful lady and discuss the next step for all of us. For me, I have trouble singling out a "white-privilege" or a "male-privilege." I think we need to drop the leading tag and just say PRIVILEGE. I personally don't believe there are many races...just one...the human race. We all were born from the original pair. But there is dominance, and there is oppression. We could explore the historic cruelty of the Aztecs, Mayans or Incas, or the harsh rampages of the earliest Arab nations. We could argue about the blood thirst of the Vikings or the Mongols. We could contemplate the motives of the native North American peoples or African tribes that turned on each other to gain possession of land or resources. I recently saw a documentary about early Asian and Australian people groups that were completely annihilated (whole people groups!) by what they think were new dominate cultures that moved into their areas. And we all know the current history on European colonization. But we haven't learned from our human history.  Whether we are talking about national suppression, regional injustice or domestic violence, it comes down to power. The skin color and the traditions don't guarantee a peaceful world. Those that have the power have the privilege. Those that have the privilege have a choice to live responsibly and charitably or oppressively and carelessly. When you remove one dominant force, you leave a vacuum for another to assume power...and privilege. As Lord Acton said, "absolute power corrupts absolutely."  This dominance factor is a human condition and a character flaw. If we could sit down and have a real conversation about the injustices and the abuses that we all identify with, we would be able to draw on our individual and collective strengths. We need each other.

]]> 2017-11-09 00:00:09 UTC https://padlet.com/bushta/k0z6niuep136/wish/205096710 bushta https://padlet.com/bushta/k0z6niuep136/wish/205101189 2017-11-09 00:33:10 UTC https://padlet.com/bushta/k0z6niuep136/wish/205101189 bushta https://padlet.com/bushta/k0z6niuep136/wish/205101256 2017-11-09 00:33:46 UTC https://padlet.com/bushta/k0z6niuep136/wish/205101256 bushta https://padlet.com/bushta/k0z6niuep136/wish/205102164 As I was thinking about the human potential for good or evil that rests with us all and how we need to share culturally relevant material with our students, I thought of this book. It is a great segue into historical indictments of inhumanity.  Are we missing these gems with the CCS emphasis?

]]> 2017-11-09 00:41:07 UTC https://padlet.com/bushta/k0z6niuep136/wish/205102164 bushta https://padlet.com/bushta/k0z6niuep136/wish/205105309 More to navigate and negotiate... Like the measuring systems and monetary systems, I think it is expedient to have a standardized language. Our country is geographically larger than most of the world's political jurisdictions, so that means we encompass more cultural and regional differences. Having a uniform language is not only pragmatic but economically conducive. Nevertheless, this article mentions some insensitivity that should be addressed. Our reading last week in EDP565 talked about code-switching for academics as well as accommodating the different language accents and dialects as meaningful. Again, the privilege must be identified and used with discernment.]]> 2017-11-09 01:04:58 UTC https://padlet.com/bushta/k0z6niuep136/wish/205105309 bushta https://padlet.com/bushta/k0z6niuep136/wish/205107688 'Nuf said!]]> 2017-11-09 01:19:49 UTC https://padlet.com/bushta/k0z6niuep136/wish/205107688 bushta https://padlet.com/bushta/k0z6niuep136/wish/205108093 This is an interesting spotlight on how even our "normal" is different from others around us. I know I often pause at how well-meaning friends and family presume things should be easy for me and don't realize how having special needs in my house impacts every decision I make.]]> 2017-11-09 01:22:07 UTC https://padlet.com/bushta/k0z6niuep136/wish/205108093 bushta https://padlet.com/bushta/k0z6niuep136/wish/205109006 A picture is worth a thousand words...]]> 2017-11-09 01:27:30 UTC https://padlet.com/bushta/k0z6niuep136/wish/205109006 bushta https://padlet.com/bushta/k0z6niuep136/wish/205111037 I thought this was an excellent visual!]]> 2017-11-09 01:40:39 UTC https://padlet.com/bushta/k0z6niuep136/wish/205111037 batcheke https://padlet.com/bushta/k0z6niuep136/wish/205313868 2017-11-09 15:18:38 UTC https://padlet.com/bushta/k0z6niuep136/wish/205313868 mclean_jimmy https://padlet.com/bushta/k0z6niuep136/wish/205546420 I imagine that in some cases, strict adherence to pacing guides in a scripted curriculum results in the use of this pacing guide as an authority to oppress.........students may be really excited about a topic, so excited that they are taking longer than the guide says they should....the teacher responds "Guys, we have to stop because we have to do the other lesson tomorrow." As if the teacher is not in control, but this piece of paper (and what it represents) is. That sounds so helpless! ]]> 2017-11-10 00:19:58 UTC https://padlet.com/bushta/k0z6niuep136/wish/205546420 mclean_jimmy https://padlet.com/bushta/k0z6niuep136/wish/205546826 ]]> 2017-11-10 00:22:44 UTC https://padlet.com/bushta/k0z6niuep136/wish/205546826 mclean_jimmy https://padlet.com/bushta/k0z6niuep136/wish/205547498 Today I filled in for a colleague who "teaches" an after-school skills program called FOCUS. At our school, students are "invited" to go to FOCUS after school if they are perceived to need help with skills in reading or math (these students also receive intervention during at least 3 other parts of the day). On top of the derogatory name for the program (which I think presumes that these "deficits" are a result of lack of focus),  the "curriculum" is a thick test prep workbook that they work through. FOR AN HOUR. AFTER A FULL DAY OF SCHOOL. FOUR DAYS A WEEK.

Naturally, the students I worked with today were NOT INTERESTED. I absolutely could not blame them. I had no prep, just the instructions about which story and questions we were supposed to get through. I did my best to humor them, but I was so ashamed at how we were masking the real injustices.]]> 2017-11-10 00:27:16 UTC https://padlet.com/bushta/k0z6niuep136/wish/205547498 mclean_jimmy https://padlet.com/bushta/k0z6niuep136/wish/205547976 ]]> 2017-11-10 00:31:08 UTC https://padlet.com/bushta/k0z6niuep136/wish/205547976 mclean_jimmy https://padlet.com/bushta/k0z6niuep136/wish/205548515 ]]> 2017-11-10 00:35:15 UTC https://padlet.com/bushta/k0z6niuep136/wish/205548515 mclean_jimmy https://padlet.com/bushta/k0z6niuep136/wish/205550942 I've come in contact with this text many times over the past 5 years. Reading it--especially the representative, but not exhaustive, list of 50 privileges--helps me check my privilege.

"I have come to see white privilege as an invisible package of
unearned assets that I can count on cashing in each day, but about which I was "meant" tovremain oblivious. White privilege is like an invisible weightless knapsack of special
provisions, maps, passports, codebooks, visas, clothes, tools , and blank checks. "]]> 2017-11-10 00:55:05 UTC https://padlet.com/bushta/k0z6niuep136/wish/205550942 mclean_jimmy https://padlet.com/bushta/k0z6niuep136/wish/205551659 ]]> 2017-11-10 01:00:46 UTC https://padlet.com/bushta/k0z6niuep136/wish/205551659 mclean_jimmy https://padlet.com/bushta/k0z6niuep136/wish/205551745 ]]> 2017-11-10 01:01:29 UTC https://padlet.com/bushta/k0z6niuep136/wish/205551745 jenkink2 https://padlet.com/bushta/k0z6niuep136/wish/205762707 Check out Websters definition of standard look at # 3-5

]]> 2017-11-10 17:11:42 UTC https://padlet.com/bushta/k0z6niuep136/wish/205762707 jenkink2 https://padlet.com/bushta/k0z6niuep136/wish/205781697 The power of code switching]]> 2017-11-10 18:08:03 UTC https://padlet.com/bushta/k0z6niuep136/wish/205781697 jenkink2 https://padlet.com/bushta/k0z6niuep136/wish/205786121 Standard influences of non Websterian dialect but American? much "standard" English pronunciation was influenced by "Slave English".  Privilege takes and codify's and keeps what it wants from the margins. ]]> 2017-11-10 18:20:37 UTC https://padlet.com/bushta/k0z6niuep136/wish/205786121 jenkink2 https://padlet.com/bushta/k0z6niuep136/wish/205788053 HAAA! that last one is HILARIOUS!]]> 2017-11-10 18:27:00 UTC https://padlet.com/bushta/k0z6niuep136/wish/205788053 jenkink2 https://padlet.com/bushta/k0z6niuep136/wish/205806090 This is image for an add for an article titled "5 Actions White Educators Can Take to Help Make Schools Anti-Racist" - Everyday Feminism 
There too many problems with this image and its messaging related to the issue to cover so I will just only name a few. 1. is the connection to Feminism and anti racism; not only is there no representation of a Black female child, but its Feminist Heroin representation is white. 2. The issue of anti Blackness is communal and stems from the 300 years of separation of families and the 300 years of the illegality of marriage in "Standard" anti-bellum American slave life. Still, issues of Black Boys and Black Girls are not only separated, pluralized and polarized, they are set in competition of each other. So where you see one Black male you do not see a Black female represented as his counterpart. And usually if you do, they are on opposite sides of a white heroin. ]]> 2017-11-10 19:24:49 UTC https://padlet.com/bushta/k0z6niuep136/wish/205806090 jenkink2 https://padlet.com/bushta/k0z6niuep136/wish/205814769 When my students are uncomfortable with the content we are discussing in class , generally regarding inequity through racial marginalization and standards as whiteness, they use their privilege to silence me by redirecting their discomfort to generalizations about the quality of my teaching style or the organisation of the content or they just lie. They complain to the powers that be, I am ultimately silenced and the curriculum is adjusted. I get no white tears, they show me who's boss with great White pride. The amazing part is - This is their Urban Cohort. These students see Blackness as something they can help. Something that needs to be overcome. ]]> 2017-11-10 19:53:15 UTC https://padlet.com/bushta/k0z6niuep136/wish/205814769 jenkink2 https://padlet.com/bushta/k0z6niuep136/wish/205826269 Anti-bellum Africans sought to emancipate themselves through literacy using the scriptures as an illegal hermeneutic model to understand their conditions, interrogate their environment and psychoanalyze their slavers; a form of pre-critical race theory so to speak.  ]]> 2017-11-10 20:39:59 UTC https://padlet.com/bushta/k0z6niuep136/wish/205826269 jenkink2 https://padlet.com/bushta/k0z6niuep136/wish/205828292 2017-11-10 20:51:13 UTC https://padlet.com/bushta/k0z6niuep136/wish/205828292 jenkink2 https://padlet.com/bushta/k0z6niuep136/wish/205828448 2017-11-10 20:52:08 UTC https://padlet.com/bushta/k0z6niuep136/wish/205828448 jenkink2 https://padlet.com/bushta/k0z6niuep136/wish/205830907 We talk a lot about cultural aptitude, whiteness and anti Blackness in Higher Ed and Teacher Education, but what about the lower grades? ]]> 2017-11-10 21:07:23 UTC https://padlet.com/bushta/k0z6niuep136/wish/205830907 jenkink2 https://padlet.com/bushta/k0z6niuep136/wish/205834399 Black educational issues have transnational twins as does whiteness in education. Its a Global issue. ]]> 2017-11-10 21:36:42 UTC https://padlet.com/bushta/k0z6niuep136/wish/205834399