区、大学比弗顿学区
工作任务/位置: 早期学习TOSA/教练
当地协会: 东亚银行
教育经验: 15
What are three ways you have actively elevated equity?
- Elevate and Celebrate Identity Through Child Centered Inquiry -我与早期教育工作者合作, predominantly Kinder and 1 grade teachers, and administrators to shift and develop practices in child centered playful inquiry. Our partnership begins by playing and learning alongside children while simultaneously reflecting on 5 key questions.
- 我对孩子们了解多少?
- 他们对什么感到好奇?
- 他们擅长什么?
- What are their families' funds of knowledge?
- 他们的学习曲线是什么?
Children’s learning curves inform teaching points. 的 other questions inform what materials will motivate them to engage in developing their learning curves. With the information gathered we design playful environments for children to research the self, one another and the natural world with curiosity, 创造性和协作性.
- Build Bridges and Relationships in the Community with Family Play Workshops - I design and facilitate play workshops for families and educators to build community and learn from one another. We co-construct meaning together about the Habits of Mind through family storytelling. We highlight the Habits of Mind that exist and that are developing through play at home and school. We enjoy play 经历 together with accessible materials that can be replicated in classrooms and at home. We culminate our time together by reflecting about the experience, celebrating the collaboration that took place and the Habits of Mind observed.
- 股权火花推动者 - I am an Equity Sparks Retreat Facilitator. 的 OEA Sparks Retreat is intended for OEA成员s of Color. During the retreats we bond with one another by engaging in equity affinity groups, exploring equity hot topics strengthening racial equity understanding and 技能s to speak up. 菠菜导航网也有社交和乐趣!
你的股权立场是什么?
As I think of my own experience and the 经历 of my children, I know that when we walk out of our house, 进入社区, 商店和学校, 在菠菜导航网的皮肤里, 菠菜导航网被认为不那么聪明, 缺乏能力, 需要“帮助”. When brown children enter into the school system, it is rare that they are given the benefit of the doubt, that the families’ funds of knowledge are honored, that adults are humbled by the genius children bring, 比如双语, the ability to navigate multiple cultures, their embodiment of curiosity and resourcefulness and their tenacity to exist in a system working against them.
Listening to and observing our students to discover more about their identity is our greatest gift to them and ourselves. 随着知识的积累, educators can take intentional and sophisticated steps in deepening learning, 的关系, 和社区.
Our current educational system views children as second-class citizens - mandating their behavior, 扼杀他们的利益, and suppressing their identity to realize compliance. When children (and their families) are truly valued and respected, they thrive as leaders. Every child in our classrooms holds an abundance of knowledge, 技能, 经历, and stories that can be elevated and heard. It is through the sharing of stories that we become our best selves. School should be about researching, realizing, and expanding our collective gifts. When we create the space to authentically follow children’s interests and nurture connections, we raise advocates for community and social justice.
What is your favorite social justice quote?
Education either functions as an instrument which is used to facilitate integration of the younger generation into the logic of the present system and bring about conformity or it becomes the practice of freedom, the means by which men and women deal critically and creatively with reality and discover how to participate in the transformation of the world.
paulo Freire
Can you share one equity focused resource or student read that you recommend?
