https://padlet.com/damatoc/yi6bafwoeasgd0lj We Want To Do More Than Survive: Abolitionist Teaching en-us 2020-11-15 16:42:10 UTC 2020-11-16 20:54:04 UTC hello@padlet.com damatoc https://padlet.com/damatoc/yi6bafwoeasgd0lj/wish/924948421 Ta-Nehisi Coates said, "If the streets shackled my right leg, the schools shackled my left. Fail to comprehend the streets and you gave up your body now. But fail to comprehend the schools and you gave up your body later. I suffered at the hands of both, but I resent the schools more." Respond any feelings, thoughts or emotions you feel. ]]> 2020-11-15 18:52:23 UTC https://padlet.com/damatoc/yi6bafwoeasgd0lj/wish/924948421 damatoc https://padlet.com/damatoc/yi6bafwoeasgd0lj/wish/924953842 The state or fact of continuing to live or exist typically in spite of difficult circumstances. 

Comment on any of the following facts according to the text: 

Schools in higher wealth communities have greater initiatives than schools in dark communities. 

In 2014, the wealth gap widened to highest levels since 1989. 

Black college graduates are twice as likely to experience unemployment than white counterparts. ]]> 2020-11-15 18:56:01 UTC https://padlet.com/damatoc/yi6bafwoeasgd0lj/wish/924953842 damatoc https://padlet.com/damatoc/yi6bafwoeasgd0lj/wish/924964554 According to the text, there are barriers of race, language, class that predetermine our place in this world. As educators how can we address "dark suffering?"]]> 2020-11-15 19:02:57 UTC https://padlet.com/damatoc/yi6bafwoeasgd0lj/wish/924964554 damatoc https://padlet.com/damatoc/yi6bafwoeasgd0lj/wish/924979509 Education was built on white supremacy, anti-blackness, and sexism. A trigger of white rage is black advancement. As educators, how can we support our students of color and challenge systematic suppression?]]> 2020-11-15 19:12:21 UTC https://padlet.com/damatoc/yi6bafwoeasgd0lj/wish/924979509 https://padlet.com/damatoc/yi6bafwoeasgd0lj/wish/928186870 On pages 34-38, Love recounts a variety of ways in which dark students experience "spirit murdering." In what ways do ETHS students encounter spirit murdering and what can we do to uplift the students? What can we do to challenge our peers or the systems in place? ]]> 2020-11-16 17:13:13 UTC https://padlet.com/damatoc/yi6bafwoeasgd0lj/wish/928186870 https://padlet.com/damatoc/yi6bafwoeasgd0lj/wish/928209023 Love writes, "Schools are mirrors of our society; educational justice cannot and will not happen in a vacuum or with pedagogies that undergird the educational survival complex." Do you feel that ETHS is a mirror of our society? Why or why not? Consider your content area - in what ways have changed (or do you want to change) your curriculum to be more focused on social justice? ]]> 2020-11-16 17:17:17 UTC https://padlet.com/damatoc/yi6bafwoeasgd0lj/wish/928209023 https://padlet.com/damatoc/yi6bafwoeasgd0lj/wish/928227059 Love ends chapter 2 by arguing that "Racism is; racism that is built on centuries of ideas that seek to confuse and manipulate we who are dark into never mattering to one another or to this country." In what ways can we help our students to know that they matter to each other and to us as educators? (This is particularly challenging during the pandemic)]]> 2020-11-16 17:20:29 UTC https://padlet.com/damatoc/yi6bafwoeasgd0lj/wish/928227059