People choose to overlook the learning happening in schools during this pandemic, but for many of us doing the teaching, we've been VERY BUSY finding new opportunities to make learning more inclusive and empowering for all of our students. 1/
When our entire school was fully remote, we realized that we could finally organize school-wide events. Pre-pandemic, we had +1600, making events such as our Juneteenth, BLM at School, & Lunar New Year events near impossible. Now? We have zoom + almost all Ss w/devices! 2/
We had to combine the two events due to major reprogramming in late Feb-March, which didn't sit well initially.
But intersectionality emerged, and the outcome is even more powerful and beautiful.
I cannot wait for the school community to see.
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A very special thank you to @maimizunooo who has been an amazing leader in organizing this event, despite all of the ongoing COVID cases in our building, and most recently, 10 day shutdown. So grateful for my #AAPIWomenStrong !
Ok, that is all! 4/4
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I still struggle with the shame of knowing the harm and violence #AAPI communities have caused on Black communities, even as I recognize my shame as a product of white supremacy.
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Even as I resist being used as a wedge, a forever foreigner, a "kung flu", I'm still fighting the racism I've internalized about myself, about Asian Americans, esp. East Asian Americans who settle into Black communities and open small businesses. 2/
My own family happened to be one of these families. Even as I teach others about segregation, the systemic deprivation of resources in low-income BIPOC communities, the "myth of meritocracy; I struggle with that toxic shame that grows from those very systems I teach of. 3/
Beware when "resilience" is used to replace "grit".
I believe resilience is a powerful trait that a school community can embody.
But asking individual Ss to "be resilient" can be just as harmful & racist as "have grit". 1/
Resilience is one of my school's core values, and I've been thinking about how this value has been used to celebrate, and to motivate, individual students.
Although this is all being done in good faith, it is unfair, misleading, and harmful. 2/
Resilience is a COMMUNITY trait that is fully dependent on ppl deeply caring for one another, & the collective work being done to remove structural barriers that disengage and divide students in the first place. The barriers need to be addressed, not the children. 3/
I had a really challenging conversation with my students on Monday after a few students argued that the origin of the virus was "those people who eat bats" with a tone of disgust. 2/
The conversation led me to tears (I complete broke down in front of students... which has happened 3 times in my 10 year career), but I'm grateful to have facilitated it. I found #coronavirus to be a powerful connection to our science curricula (we're in a cell biology unit), 3/