Co-teaching middle-school ELA/ELD. (Former) Spanish Teacher. Mom to 3. Working to cultivate anti-racist Safe Spaces for LGBTQIA youth. She/Her. Opinions my own.
Sep 5, 2021 • 12 tweets • 2 min read
“There is a growing body of empirical evidence pointing to the connections btwn educators’ well-meaning dispositions & their role in sustaining inequitable educational outcomes. Silence, passivity, denial, and avoidance are all tied to these patterns.”
“Niceness is one mechanism for reifying structural arrangements & ideologies of dominance across lines of race, gender, & social class.”
Jul 14, 2020 • 46 tweets • 19 min read
I missed this facebook live conversation between powerhouses @PRHSspanish & @BobPatrick earlier today--I just caught the tail-end as you all were finishing up.
So I'll use this space to live-comment as I would have if I had been there? Does that work? Let's try! #langchat
around 9:25 Bob mentions a problematic representation in a Latin textbook, but won't name the textbook bc he "doesn't want to bash any books" and I'm wondering about his choice to characterize the naming of sources w/problematic themes or stereotypes as "bashing" them. #langchat
Jun 7, 2020 • 13 tweets • 8 min read
While diversifying our #FVR#CI readers let’s remember-white people writing “diverse” characters isn’t the answer.
In “Tears We Cannot Stop” Dr. Dyson details how white writers appropriate the culture and stories of POC.
I think his comments apply to us. #langchat #WLbookaudit
White writers often “fail to see how other cultures—their people, their ideas, their identities—have always been treated as only fiction, have always been looted of their inherent value and forced to fit in to the schemes, worldviews, or novels of folk” #langchat #WLbookaudit
