Believer in the power of young children and their teachers. Imagining classrooms as places to teach love and learn freedom. she/her
Aug 7, 2022 • 9 tweets • 3 min read
This is a time of year when educators are busy writing and revising rules and policies for the new year. Offering 8 questions here that we might use as filters for our decisions. How we “manage” a space can be a chance to practice freedom instead of modeling control.
The first question comes from this artwork by Molly Costello, recently reprinted in Lessons in Liberation: An Abolitionist Toolkit for Educators (AK Press, 2021). “Are my actions grounded in cultivating safety or control?”
Aug 25, 2018 • 14 tweets • 4 min read
One way educators can support the #NationalPrisonStrike is to recognize how we model and teach a carceral philosophy of throwaway people when we rely on punishment, exclusion, removal, control, and policing as our strategies of "classroom management." 1/
Too often, teachers think classroom management is something to do in order to get to the real teaching. In fact, classroom management is teaching itself. It's a curriculum, a set of lessons that young people are learning from us.
