Multilingual Education as a Radical Venture
Working in the elementary school at which I am currently stationed has caused me to think a great deal about the politics of language in education. In the sixth grade […]
Working in the elementary school at which I am currently stationed has caused me to think a great deal about the politics of language in education. In the sixth grade […]
As an oppressed student, it was ingrained in me from early on in my educational career that attending college was not only the key to justice, but a revolutionary act. […]
I held lots of romantic ideas about what a classroom community could and should look like before I actually started working with kids. I imagined a learning space organized, run […]
“Being flexible with your curriculum is not about sending the message to students that the curriculum is unimportant. It is about sending the message that it is important in a […]
A few months ago I was teaching a somewhat uninspiring writing curriculum to a group of sixth graders as part of teacher training program. As young educators, participants in the […]
The remarkable film Precious Knowledge recounts the stories of the students and teachers who comprise the Raza Studies Program, a series of courses which focus on Mexican and Chicano history, […]
Having become more interested in pursuing education as a career while I was in college, I applied to work for an urban summer teaching initiative. This particular program recruited high […]
A friend of mine and I recently co-led a poetry workshop with a group of 7th, 8th and 9th graders, all of whom qualified for the workshop because of coming […]
Last semester I student-taught in a third grade classroom at a small, public elementary school near my university in CT. Though the reinforcement of racial redistricting codes had recently shaken […]