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Precious Knowledge

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A film Directed by Ari Luis Palos                                                                           The film presents a series of Raza studies controversy that led to the bill’s introduction that would ban these ethnic studies programs. Raza studies were gaining popularity in 1997 in Tucson, Arizona. The Tucson Unified School District data reported a forty-eight percent dropout rate in graduation among the Latino student population.   In response, the district created a study group that identified different variables that caused the diminishing graduation rate among Latinos. Eventually, a social justice pedagogy gained traction. Raza’s studies made it through the school district governing board recommendation. The goal is to lower the Latino dropout rate. In 2002, the Tucson Unified School District conveyed a substantial ninety-three percent progress on graduation rate among Latino students. The film illustrates the classes taught in the Raza studies program. In addition,
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Abolitionist Teaching and the Future of Our Schools

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"Abolitionist Teaching and the Future of Our Schools" Schomburg Center for Research in Black Culture, The New York Public Library The film conveyed a topic on Abolitionist Teaching: " This teaching method, according to Bettina Love, comes from a critical race lens and applies methods like protest, boycotting, and calling out other teachers who are racist homophobic, or Islamophobic. She added that this method teaches about Black joy and always putting love at the center of the strategy. Abolitionist teachers encourage educators to talk about racism and homophobia in their classrooms; they organize marches and boycott," she added. https://abolitionistteachingnetwork.org/ The Speakers Tina L. Love, Goldie Mohammed, and Tina Simmons expressed concerns that the current US curriculum is not responsive to the black histories and identities and their desired future selves. "The hiring practice does not reflect explicit, black-oriented questions to teach black stu
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I Am Not Your Negro By James Baldwin

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  The author James Baldwin's documentary film "I AM NOT YOUR NEGRO," aims to reckon with the lives and deaths of Martin, Medgar, and Malcolm. He wanted to share the dreadful journeys of these leaders to expose the racism that is ravaging the country, the United States of America. As a speaker in one of the debates, Mr. Baldwin reiterates what Mr. Robert Kennedy mentioned, "It was conceivable that in 40 years in America we might have a Nigger president." Mr. Baldwin answers , "That sounded like a very emancipated statement, I suppose. To white people, we are not in Harlem when this statement was first heard. Not here and possibly will never hear the laughter and the bitterness in the school which is taken was greeted on the point of view of Harlem barbershop. Bobby Kennedy only got here yesterday, and he is already on his way to the presidency. We have been here before 100 years, and now he tells us that maybe in 40 years if you are good, you might become
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Film: In Sickness and in Wealth

  “In Louisville, Kentucky a data Maps gives a clearer picture of what conditions correlate to illness and death across the city. Death rates from lung cancer has better outcome in the East. The lighter shades mean lower rates of death and illness and the darker shades and being higher rates. The highest rates of death from diseases of the heart are in the West End. The data is an indicator of population health excess death. The notion of excess death says that you should be able to predict in any one-time frame how many people in a population will die and the number that die is higher than that. That differential is excess death. Premature death should not have happened it is not as if we will not die. We all will die but the question is at what age, with what degree of suffering, with what degree of preventable illness. These are death rates from all types of cancer, and you see the same pattern in some areas. People die three to five or even ten years sooner than in others. Cancer a
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Note to Educators: Hope Required When Growing Roses in Concrete by Jeffrey M.R. Duncan-Andrade

  Jeff Duncan explained the idea of HOPE. According to him, in the past thirty years, there has been an assault on hope. The forms of assaults in hope, according to Duncan, are disinvestment in school and overinvestment in a prison industrial complex, Duncan explained. As a result, there is an erotion of true hope that leads to false hope (a reactionary distortion of the radical premise of hope). There are three types of false hope he added. They are hokey hope, mythical hope, and hope deferred. As educators, we need to rebuild critical hope by teaching in ways that connect young people to radical action to relieve the suffering of the underserved communities. Duncan added that the enemies of hope are Hokey Hope, Mythical Hope, and Hope Deferred. HOKEY HOPE, as an example, is manifested in urban schools for the most part. He exemplified Angela Valenzuela's study as manifested in Sequin High School, a predominantly Latino school in Texas. Valenzuela stated that relationship betwee
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Introduction

  My name is Gemma. I hold a Rhode Island Early Childhood teacher certification and a master's in early childhood education from Rhode Island College. I am currently studying the Rhode Island College's TESL (Teaching English as a Second Language) program. M.Ed. in TESOL would enhance my skills and knowledge to best support the emergent bilingual learners. My position at the Henry Barnard School for sixteen years allowed me to deliver lessons such as creative curriculum and Reggio Emelia inspired-approach curriculum. I am a Reggio Emelia-inspired early childhood educator. I provide young students with exciting materials that encourage explorations and curiosity in the different learning centers. In the classroom and the playground, I listened to and observed the children's topics of interest. Then I create a lesson plan that reflects on what they understand and builds on that knowledge by further investigation, reading related literature, inviting expert speakers, and go
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