Teach4Liberation

Kickin' Truth to the Youth.

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NOLA Our Way (N.O.W. 2014) 

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Poppin' Student Symposium Sat., May 10th @ Langston Hughes Academy. Be. There!

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Jeremy Guyton

“Throw the ball to me,” she screams.

“No, girls can’t play football,” he retorts.

Confused and frustrated, she turns to me.

“I teach to trouble this notion of identity: that there are certain givens about our bodies dictated by race, gender, sexual orientation, able-bodiness, and the list goes on.

Yet unbeknownst to my kindergarteners, these societal doctrines prescribe life outcomes that they will have to grapple with as adults. Or they may accept them as truths and act accordingly.

“Why can’t girls play football?” I interject.

They pause in a moment of bewilderment. A moment in which they find their claim falls on unstable conditions.

They throw her the ball and she runs past every “you can’t play football” muttered to her only moments before.

The playground becomes leveled and their concept of the world, even if only for the duration of this game, has been shifted.

Our identities as Black people have been written for us through statistics and stories, lies and legislation. But, in our Kindergarten classroom, we learn that Black is beautiful and powerful and resilient.

I teach to build an army of Black identities ready and equipped to trouble the water and write truth into history”

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"To educate as the practice of freedom is a way of teaching that anyone can learn. That learning process comes easiest to those of us who teach who also believe that there is an aspect of our vocation that is sacred; who believe that our work is not merely to share information but to share in the intellectual and spiritual growth of our students." -- bell hooks, Teaching to Transgress: Education as the Practice of Freedom

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Radical Math. > 

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Critical Education. >

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Students' hands go up & they stay there! >

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As another has well said, to handicap a student by teaching him that his black face is a curse and that his struggle to change his condition is hopeless is the worst sort of lynching.

I. The Seat of the Problem, The Mis-Education of the Negro (via tabulasar)

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American Promise w/ T4L @ Zeitgeiest >

http://www.zeitgeistinc.net/

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A good teacher, like a good entertainer first must hold his audience’s attention, then he can teach his lesson.

John Henrik Clarke (via infamoussayings)

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Teaching Ourstory. > 

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Dr. Asa Hilliard III >

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Talkin' about the importance of Black educators in the lives of Black children w/ phenomenal Urban Ed. scholar Dr. Adrienne Dixson. 

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Gloria Ladson-Billings. >

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I Won't Say 'Don't Join Teach For America' (Yet) | Change Education on GOOD

Earlier this year, an undergraduate emailed me a great question: If I knew then what I know now, would I still join Teach For America? And, last summer, after Chicago educator Katie Osgood asked new TFA corps members to quit, a corps member asked me the same question. Indeed, Fordham Professor...

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