Lorena Germán
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I talk education, bias, race(ism), books, and more. Co-Founder of #DisruptTexts and Multicultural Classroom.
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Thanks to everyone who has supported this book. There’s now a course available to supplement the reading. Ask me about it!
#antiracistteacher
Implementing an anti racist approach can be a struggle. We might know what that term means, but I have found that not many of us know what that looks like in practice. So, I got to work and created a workbook for all of us. Yep, a whole book.
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She’s such a teacher. This is her bulletin board 😂😂💜
First Lady Jill Biden put a massive Valentine's display on the North Lawn.
"I just wanted some joy. With the pandemic, just everybody's feeling a little down. So, it's just a little joy. A little hope. That's all."
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Got this through one of the teachers at my daughter’s school. Originally from NESCA (Neuropsychology & Education Services for Children & Adolescents).
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Teaching about racism is one thing.
Teaching culturally relevant content is something else.
Teaching with an anti racist lens is yet another thing.
All of that is different from teaching critical race theory.
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I rarely share fam pics on here bc too many ppl or whatever, but school pics are in and I cannot anymore. I have died. I am dead. This is actually my ghost typing.
CAN ANYONE THOUGH????
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My Abuelo is resting in peace now. He lost the battle against COVID today. He died on my grandma’s bday. He fought till the very end. He was a science teacher and activist against Trujillo in DR.
Please take this virus seriously.
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It's funny how as adults we act the same way our students do when we are frustrated or need to disconnect. It's the very behaviors we condemn in our classrooms that we display during PD or staff meetings. It was wild to watch.
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I’ve now joined some of my fellow educators as yet another teacher that has resigned. COVID is
#1
, but it’s not alone on the list of reasons why.
The saddest part is not being able to say goodbye to my students. This is the worst. I’m okay. I’ll be okay. But this sucks.
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Hey teachers entering summer break: take it in. you made it. you literally survived a pandemic. you deserve.
enjoy
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It cannot be that teachers are worth nothing and simultaneously are the answers to everything. Stop demanding schools solve all of society's problems.
What a misogynist mess.
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I know it's funny to make jokes about what's going on in Texas. I get it. I'm from Massachusetts. Here's the thing: it's not simply that it's cold. It's not simply that there's some snow. You're talking about a region that is usually concerned about desert heat.
#texaswinterstorm
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I’m joining the educators who have now had to sit through active shooter training drills as part of their pd.
I have to learn how to protect myself and children from a mass shooter as PART OF MY PROFESSIONAL DEVELOPMENT.
Let that sink in. No. I’m not okay.
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I NEED THAT POEM BY AMANDA GORMAN STAT YES IM SCREAMING
Is she on twitter???
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As we've said before: we teach young people, NOT books. If you're more concerned about the books you teach and not meeting the needs of the young people before you, you're off. The books are tools. Ask: what is the best tool I can use to meet the need they have?
#DisrupTexts
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Y’all: Just here to say hi and that Baby Sol and I are home and doing well. She’s big. She has huge cheeks. She has rolls on her arms and a head full of hair. She came with force & purpose. ☀️💕
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Every child has the right, just like White kids, to see themselves in the curriculum reflected meaningfully and accurately. They have the right to learn about truth. Otherwise, it's a "learning loss."
Go fight against that.
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My book cover is ready for its reveal & I cannot even. Thank you forever 2 my baby cousin
@sofahood
for the artwork &
@HeinemannPub
that made this happen. This book is really coming out soon.
It will help us design teaching & learning for positive social transformation. 🧡📚🎉
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If you didn't care about learning loss when students were experiencing it due to standardized testing which can take up *many* instructional weeks, don't talk about it now. But some of y'all ain't ready for that conversation- you just want to be hip on this new buzz phrase.
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"How much diversity is enough diversity?" Wrong question.
"Who's voice is still missing? Who are we excluding? How do we welcome them?" The right questions.
#DisruptTexts
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When teachers say they don’t want to “add” trauma informed approaches or ABAR strategies, bc they want to “just teach” their content area, with all due respect: they’re wrong.
This is not an add on. IT IS THE HOW. And it’s how teaching should have always been.
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Do not start the year off with heavy convos that require rapport. Those are not community-builders. That is what you do *after* you've built the community.
This is when you do the activities that build relationship.
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There is power in pausing when you're teaching. Pause when you are stuck. Pause when a student says something wrong. Pause when you're upset.
That sense of urgency we feel is by design- racist & capitalist design. Resist it.
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A lot of us are leaving the classroom. Many are leaving the field & others are consulting and other educational roles. Understand this: there is room for all of us. We don't have to compete. That is a scarcity mentality. Share, communicate, and support. It pays back. Trust.
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Some big 2020 news. It’s gonna be a writing year for me. I’ve been working w
@HeinemannPub
for a while & IM WRITING A BOOK! It’s about how to bring social justice into our curriculum and classrooms. Thanks
@LouisaIrele
for this opportunity 😬💕
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We cannot forget our purpose in the classroom/education. Content does not come before life and justice. It is a means for justice and should sustain life.
Plan well. Think deeply. Teach justly.
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Implementing an anti racist approach can be a struggle. We might know what that term means, but I have found that not many of us know what that looks like in practice. So, I got to work and created a workbook for all of us. Yep, a whole book.
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IT IS OKAY TO TEACH A COURSE WHERE YOU HAVE ZERO CANONICAL TEXTS.
It is okay to not pair them with YA and just remove them. IT WILL BE OKAY.
#DisruptTExts
goodness gracious.
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FRIENDLY REMINDER:
Don't wait until Sept to talk about Latinx topics. Don't wait until Nov. to talk about Indigenous people. Don't wait until Feb. to talk about Black history. Don't wait until June to talk about queer folx.
We exist all year round.
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I remember the brilliant Muslim boy who created a clock from scratch and was suspended for it bc bomb & terrorists. This dude? Researches ammunition, draws what he’s gonna do, has the weapon to do it, does it, media shows us his church pic, and lives to the tell the story.
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Schools are expected to be a full stop shop for all things kids & their communities, but not for the people who serve them. This is gendered bc the majority of those people are women & we know how society treats women, especially mothers. We’re supposed to be happy martyrs.
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Did y'all know that many of the "classics" were written before the 50s? Think of US society before then & the values that shaped this nation afterwards. THAT is what is in those books. That is why we gotta switch it up. It ain't just about 'being old.'
#DisruptTexts
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This is it. Go read and share widely. Thank you
@ChristieNold
and
@LadyOfSardines
for this thoughtful well-written piece.
#DisruptTexts
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We had the chance to rethink schooling. We had the chance to make systemic changes. We had the chance to really be about the equity we try to preach.
It's up to teachers and individual admin, yet again.
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New teachers in this current polarized and racist context: STAND FOR TRUTH.
I'm not asking you to get fired. I'm not asking you to be a martyr. I'm asking you to be principled and wise. Stand on the right side of history AND keep your job. You're not alone.
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Parents- protest this. Protest the standardized testing. You really concerned about equity and the “most vulnerable”?
PROTEST TESTING W THE SAME ENERGY.
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Educators: what are you burning? Your White-centered curriculum? The Amy Cooper next door? Your anti-Black behavior policies? The school's racist policies? Your racist ass principal? The funding for the police in schools vs counselors?
WHAT ARE YOU BURNING???!!?!?!?!?
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A friend had to remind me that the anxiety I’m experiencing is not disconnected from what’s happening in the country. The shootings, the political violence, the oppressive rhetoric, the looming war… all of it makes things worse.
And now I’m reminding you.
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I don't care what anyone says: current ELA curriculum is not diverse enough. It's just not. There are still TOO MANY schools that don't feature all of us. That means students are still not well-read and we're still engaging in exclusive practices. Stop it &
#DisruptTexts
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The curriculum we teach cannot be decontextualized from the world around us. It should equip students to address that world and make our society better.
This is why skills and justice topics are not mutually exclusive.
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DOES EVERYONE KNOW THAT
@acevedowrites
CLAP WHEN YOU LAND IS GONNA BE FILMED AND SHE WILL BE EXEC. PRODUCER?!?!?
🙌🏽 🇩🇴 🙌🏽 🇩🇴 🙌🏽 🇩🇴 🙌🏽
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Want me to not talk about racism in the workplace? Cool. Stop racism from showing up in the first place.
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Our current education system is straight up rigged. The customers (students) and the workers (educators) are being left in the dust. We have to ask ourselves: who is it benefitting and why?
I hate this.
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Teachers:
Time is moving, I promise. Summer inches toward us. Do what you need to today Sunday to make this week as sustainable as possible. Rest. Eat. Dance. Write. Read. Whatever.
Bring joy with you this week, as much as you can. In the face of all this pain, be joy.
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Some of y'all: you are not listening to 'their side' so how can you say you're open minded or that you listen to others?
Me: We've heard it since Columbus came. It's old, tired, wrong, and racist.
NOT EVERYTHING HAS A WORTHY OTHER SIDE.
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This winter break instead of planning, I think it's a good opp to focus on your why. Ask: how have my values & purpose changed since I started teaching? Why am I still here? How does my spring need to look so it's sustainable?
Let's recalibrate together.
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Making sure kids can read, decode, understand syntax and compound words is necessary. Yup. AND you know what else is necessary? That they come to a school that doesn't vilify them, where they are affirmed, and one where their T knows how to teach them. Both. BOTH!!!!!
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Here’s the thing about the current national teacher shortage: we told y’all about it last year and it could have been prevented.
And now you want to use a band aid to solve a problem that needs surgery. But y’all don’t listen to us, so here we are.
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Hey teachers,
After a biased comment is made and you missed it (for whatever reason). Don't ever be afraid to go back. Bring the convo back to the moment. Model for Ss what it's like to make time to stand up to bias. It's never too late.
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FOR THE LOVE OF EVERYTHING HOLY:
#DisruptTexts
is not about “cancelling” the canon or not teaching it at all. We want inclusivity. We want strategic pairing. We want diversity. We want robust and meaningful text selection.
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Wait. A. Minute.
So we can celebrate Juneteenth nationally, but we can’t teach the history of it in schools??????????
MAKE IT MAKE SENSE! 😭😭😭
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WHY DIDN'T ANYONE TELL ME
@TheAmandaGorman
RETWEETED THE DT ACCOUNT?!?!!?!?!?
Dassit. I just.
EDUCATORS: check out this amazing teaching guide for The Hill We Climb, written by the awesome
@DisruptTexts
!
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Maybe if we thought about our classroom as the local community vs the 4 walls which we teach in, we might re envision what and how teach?
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#DisruptTexts
received the Hero Award last night at
#NCTE23
.
@triciaebarvia
and I accepted it on behalf of the crew.
#DisruptTexts
is not just the 4 of us. It is all of you who continue to disrupt the narrative that our lives don’t matter in ELA. 💕
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So please, hold the jokes. Read the room. Wait till people are over the fear of burning their houses down in search of warmth or the anxiety of how to keep their babies warm. Then, maybe, we can all laugh together.
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I’m frustrated this evening bc White PD educators continue in colonizer activity. So all of a sudden ur an equity, diversity, and inclusivity trainer?! So u steal material, woefully package it, and charge HUNDREDS an hour PER PERSON?!
Please drop your problematic faves ASAP.
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I’m co-leading a writing program for educators and this prompt wrecked me (and a couple more) yesterday.
Join me in this writing exercise, if you want. All you have to do is finish the sentence:
I know what it is to…
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There is a difference between critiquing teachers & critiquing the profession.
One says: Teachers don't know what they're doing.
The other: I see a problem in the field that must change.
The latter is helpful. The first is often misogynist.
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The issue w the open schools position is that y’all don’t have that stance about schools that have been shut down from gentrification or racism in communities of color. Because that *actually* affects our kids, u don’t care. It’s not your problem, huh? Your advocacy rings hollow.
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I’m sick to my stomach with the state of US education right now. This is exhausting, infuriating, saddening, and depressing.
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Immediately close the camps on the border. Immediately figure out how to reunite babies with families. IMMEDIATELY.
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Did y'all know that children as early as PreK and K are already absorbing the bias in their environments? They're already learning racial bias from the society around them.
ABAR work is for all teachers, at all levels.
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Y’all. Baby Sol is coming in December aka in 4 months. I can’t even.
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Do The Work.
The Work= straining yourself to be anti-racist; growing in understanding anti-bias; seek out PD; suggest PD; question, question, question; learn and read and listen and grow; act locally and strive for change.
There will always be backlash. Each time. Don’t stop.
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Y'all. I'm 37 weeks. We made it to "legal" full term status.
This pregnancy has been a journey. And now I'm getting ready to bring this baby home because I'm pretty sure she's coming sooner than later. Send blessings!
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It’s a family of 5 now and the newest member is basically cheeks with a bow. 😂💜 Thank you everyone for your check ins and well wishes. We’re working on surviving the first week.
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Implementing an anti racist approach can be a struggle. This resource continues to be helpful for teachers and I'm honored it's a tool for change. To purchase, please use this updated link:
We've made improvements :)
#CARBTE
Implementing an anti racist approach can be a struggle. We might know what that term means, but I have found that not many of us know what that looks like in practice. So, I got to work and created a workbook for all of us. Yep, a whole book.
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Let me tell y’all something: my young children know vagina, penis, and the other names of genitalia because what we’re NOT gonna do is not be able to 1) know our bodies and 2) identify the body parts others shouldn’t be touching.
Miss me with that “innocence” nonsense.
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At the end of the week, after all the applications and all the people, and the emails, and the coordinating, and the chats, and the planning, and the spreadsheets,
@juliaerin80
and I helped to get 21 local (and nearby) educators of color to attend
#NCTE19
through sponsorships.
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Fellow White folks and non African American people of color:
DO NOT MAKE MONEY OFF OF JUNETEENTH TODAY. And don’t let anyone that is not African American profit off this day. You make some money somehow? Donate it.
Can we get a list of orgs going in this thread? Thnx.
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Let me just say that
#DisruptTexts
isn't centered on being 'anti'. We are FOR an equitable curriculum. We are FOR inclusion. We are FOR students and the future of our nation.
Our work stands on the shoulders of our academic ancestors. We are part of a legacy.
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I really feel all of the love. All of it.
Have now received info that I’m prob getting induced later. Feeling nervous, but this love will help me. I’m signing off for now. THANK YOU.
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New teachers 🧡
What a tough year to come into. There’s so much in the air at your school. Here are some tips for making it:
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It's not that English teachers are responsible for all of racism. Of course not. It's that we definitely have to pause & see how we're implicated this project. How has English/literature supported the project of Whiteness?
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White people: THIS is your moment to put your allyship into action. Don’t complain in 15 years saying “this isn’t us” or “how did we get here.”
Critical race theory battles are driving frustrated, exhausted educators out of their jobs
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This sets an important and terrible precedent. Also, this is why embedding all of this content into classes vs making them one-off units or “celebrations” is necessary.
Utah school allowing parents to opt students out of Black History Month curriculum
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Big news. Such big and fun news. I can't wait for y'all to see all of these. We worked hard on making sure these
#DisruptTexts
guides were thoughtful and full of useful ideas for teachers. It's our very own DT series! *claps excitedly*
#DisruptTexts
in your class with
@tracisorell
and
@weshoyot
's AT THE MOUNTAIN'S BASE! Download the FREE learning guide written by
@DisruptTexts
at !
#VeteransDay
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Allow me to cleanse your tl…
It’s Baby Sol. She’s one 💕
(Please don’t retweet)
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WE JUST CAME HOME!! We have power and water. Let’s hope it stays that way. 💜
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It's a *thing* to be a woman teacher of color where your colleagues are predominantly White, but the the students are predominantly of color. Whew. That teacher's lounge is a dumpster fire.
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One of the reasons why insulting founders of
#DisruptTexts
by questioning our intelligence is racist is because it's an age-old racist trope. We all have graduate degrees IN OUR FIELD, decades+ classroom experience, & more. Disagree w our position, but don't question our brains.
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There is no infrastructure for this. For ex- up north, the homes are insulated and prepared to keep heat in. The opposite is true here. Homes are designed to let heat out, to be breezy, to be airy. There was snow and ice INSIDE my bedroom window.
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Wow. So many of y’all really are genuinely surprised that Black & Brown kids are reading books. Like, what did u think would happen when they were given literature that featured them and their voices? Did y’all really think we didn’t read? Or want to? Or valued education? Ugh.
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Let me clarify something: it’s not simply that Texans are not prepared.
Our govt intentionally did things that put us in harm’s way. We are in this predicament because they preferred profit over humans.
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I understand that there's room in education for us to do ALL the work. I don't insist that my concern is the most important one. I don't knock others down who are working for liberation from other angles. There are many ways to get free. Dream, friends.
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You may have gotten rid of the police in schools, but did you get rid of the people who called those cops in the first place? (My paraphrase)
Thank you,
@BLoveSoulPower
for *that* word.
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I know many have returned to school and others are still in summer mode. And, I also know some of y'all are planning and thinking... here are 4 questions that you can consider as you think about this upcoming school year and your work as an
#antiracistteacher
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I AM SITTING IN A ZOOM WITH THE ONE AND ONLY DR. LISA DELPIT AND I CANNOT EVEN BUT ALSO DONT MESSAGE ME BECAUSE IM BUSY DYING OKAY BYE
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We can't say we value student voice and say it leads us, but then not include it in the texts we choose in our curriculum. Food for thought...
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If we do get Ukranian refugees, the children will be in our classrooms. Teachers will fill their own cups being gentle, understanding, and kind. They'll see it as patriotic. There will be 'kindness' tattoos.
Let em be some Brown kids from across the border, though...
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I’m getting more and more tired of “can’t” from districts when the truth is “won’t” is the right word. You won’t defend, you won’t stand up, and you choose not to fight. It’s not that you can’t. It’s that you won’t.
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#DisruptTexts
fight is not new, and more importantly, we are not going anywhere. We will fight for a better educational system for all of our kids. Our futures depend on it.
THEY CAN COME AND QUOTE THAT.
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If you missed the NPR affiliate show
@AirTalk
I was on earlier talking
#DisruptTexts
here is the recording! A very short 18 min segment. Listen in and find out what we’re *actually* about.
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If you’re ordering my book, please consider NOT using Amazon. They actually charge you more 🤦🏽♀️ Just go straight to the publisher or you can visit my website 👍🏽
Wishing everyone a good week. 💐
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Today on my bday a student who attended a high school I taught said I was the best English teacher she had ever had. Guess what? I didn’t teach her. But this just how’s how 1) representation matters and 2) we teach with what we say and do, too. It ain’t just content. Never was.
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Being “anti anti-racism” is being for racism. It’s a double negative.
I don’t make the rules.
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In Juliet Takes a Breath there’s this line in the end: “You said reading would make me brilliant, but writing would make me infinite.”
Take that as your call to action for today. Become infinite. Use your words. Make it beautiful. Be like a star. 💫
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You see this? This is why
#DisruptTexts
and
#WeNeedDiverseBooks
matter. This is why we have this convo. When you welcome our voices, you welcome the topics that matter to us, from our pov. It makes everyone & everything better.
STOP BANNING US.
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