T4SJ Padlet: What are you thinking now? What are your next steps for centering Black lives in your work and life? by Karen Zapata

To Do.....

2020-10-22 01:49:07 UTC

Join a book club that focuses on reading children's books! <#

Thoughts+ Next Steps

2020-10-22 01:49:31 UTC

-Manifesting a mentor
-How great it is to be in a space of dialogue and reflection with other educators!
-Need to continue getting to know my students in this digital world, especially encouraging students who are learning from home in potentially challenging situations.
-Thinking about what kind of texts and/or visitors I might be able to bring into the virtual classroom space, keeping intersectionality and Black Lives at the center
-remembering wholeness, being fully human, modeling this to students, encouraging their whole humanness in these times as well

Be a Present Human Being...

jevon_calisette — 2020-10-22 01:49:34 UTC

Consider what expectations I want for myself, for my brother, and for my sister, as human. Have the same expectations & allow the same space for my students.

2020-10-22 01:49:42 UTC

I need to do a lot more work of centering black lives especially in the context we are living in and especially because I am teaching in Koreatown, LA! The history and purpose it's all there.

collaborate

2020-10-22 01:49:43 UTC

keep talking to other teachers, keep learning, keep putting ideas into practice

meaningful reflections

2020-10-22 01:50:03 UTC

co-creating a space to engage in meaningful reflections - giving young people the space to process difficult moments, and giving myself the space to receive their reflections as well

Billboard Representation--Great activity to talk about representation.

2020-10-22 01:50:07 UTC

What next?

2020-10-22 01:50:09 UTC

Keep inviting the teachers @ my daughter's school to T4SJ events! :-) And ask them to invite the people they think might not come

Advocate for spaces for parents to engage with talking about race, so there can be a parallel education and healing around the parents - and to protect the teachers who are standing up for Black lives to not be side-swiped by some All Lives Matter mess!!!!

Embodiment

2020-10-22 01:50:10 UTC

I want to continue to grow and learn... how can I both be PRESENT and embody my emotions during this dehumanizing Zoom teaching expereince?

be present

2020-10-22 01:50:32 UTC

keep breathing, keep meditating, being present in class to center Black and student experience

Thoughts

2020-10-22 01:50:33 UTC

I'm taking on the role of educating others around any and all racists ideas and thoughts they perpetuate but don't see as racist.

2020-10-22 01:50:33 UTC

Freedom Dream as a practice

2020-10-22 01:50:39 UTC

Staying authentic, in integrity, admit when I make a mistake, be present.

Black Folks doing Math talks!

2020-10-22 01:51:15 UTC

Black Brown connections and solidarity

cheladelgado — 2020-10-22 01:51:16 UTC

I teach at a majority Latinx school and will continue to think about how to teach meaningfully (and humbly) about anti-Blackness in Latinx communities.

2020-10-22 01:51:19 UTC

Talking to social justice minded educators in community was healing for me tonight

The R's

2020-10-22 01:51:30 UTC

Resist, recalibrate, rest, renaissance, recognize, and rejoice. Thank you to my group members for helping me draw so many connections and process where I'm at in my journey to become a better educator and hopefully a better human.

Set more boundaries and be more intentional with time to be present for my students

marialapointe — 2020-10-22 01:51:36 UTC

marialapointe — 2020-10-22 01:51:57 UTC

Remind myself why I became an educator- don't let admin box me into a certain role

R

2020-10-22 01:52:09 UTC

invite diverse collaboration

2020-10-22 01:52:23 UTC

from kiddos in other classrooms/district and guest speakers in the virtual space

kmast54 — 2020-10-22 01:52:25 UTC

I need to do more research on centering black lives. Today I realized how important it is to show black and brown people to students through videos and speakers.

Boldly Take Space

jevon_calisette — 2020-10-22 01:52:30 UTC

Reminder that the act of existing in a space that wasn't designed for you is an act of resistance.

Read!

2020-10-22 01:53:58 UTC

I want to make time to learn from others and become more educated in our history