What are we teaching for? replication or activation?
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10 Dec 2021
For folks to learn, classrooms must be alive... Learning requires motivation and the absence of rigor(mortis)... because we’re talking about the lives of human beings... The pandemic revealed a generation of brilliant, talented people who are unapologetically wearing who they are
9 Dec 2021
Listen to @chrisemdin. It is time for education to catch up to the world of brilliant, talented people who are unapologetically wearing who they are in the classroom. #Ratchetdemic #HipHopEd @NSBAPublicEd buff.ly/33gsekr
7 Jul 2022
Live to be heard, seen, and valued, and reciprocate the blessings instagram.com/p/CfuZhUcPUGD/…
9 May 2022
abundant love & virtuous energy to all: mothers, mother figures, those struggling to become mothers, those who have lost their mothers, those who are distanced from their mothers, or have difficult or fractured relationships with their mothers - Ryan Parker w. @TheRealHipHopEd
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16 Feb 2022
Pedagogy is a philosophy of education informed by positionalities, ideologies, and standpoints (of both teacher and learner). It takes into account the critical relationships between the PURPOSE of education, the CONTEXT of education, the CONTENT of what is being taught, and...
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16 Feb 2022
the METHODS of how it is taught. It also includes (the IDENTITY of) who is being taught, who
is teaching, their relationship to each other, and their relationship to structure and power (as cited in Tintiangco-Cubales et al. 2010, p. viii).
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5 Feb 2022
"Americans have long been trained to see the deficiencies of people, rather than changes to policy" - @DrIbram
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24 Dec 2021
How we feel about our kids isn't as important as how they experience those feelings and how they regard the way we treat them.
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24 Dec 2021
Punishment and reward proceed from basically the same psychological model, one that conceives of motivation as nothing more than the manipulation of behavior.
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16 Dec 2021
"The moment we choose to love we begin to move against domination, against oppression. The moment we choose to love we begin to move towards freedom, to act in ways that liberate ourselves and others." - bell hooks, a pathbreaking black feminist. Rest in Power Peace & Love
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11 Dec 2021
please give teachers the freedom & support to believe each student is a genius, scientist, and author, by virtue of their existence. you believe in essential oils and no one is ruining it for you.
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7 Dec 2021
been on hiring committees for a tutoring center, where colleagues didn't wanna hire someone due to them not smiling. In my mind, that's exactly why it might be worth investing in that candidate to co-gen joy w them. we are only as educated as ___ as the least cared-for student...
19 Nov 2021
the least intricate part of the learning process is... listening to a talk that has minimal relevance & being forced to comply for the sake of the curriculum.
At this point, we might as well see what it takes to cogen joy in teaching & learning spaces...