Shor Quotes

"To help myself and the students develop participatory bias I begin teaching from the students situation and from their understanding of the subject matter..."(27)
~ This quote suggests that to help students start by teaching them from what they know and work into things that they don't know.

"They reported being bored and silenced didactic lectures in classes where teachers raced to cover the material and ignored their questions." (27)
~I agree with this I find very structured lectures to be boring and often not helpful. I personally don't retain information this way.

"The class hour in itself is structured so that the students reflect on meaningful questions and influence the direction of the syllabus." (27)
~ The quote basically states what teachers should aim for as a reaction of their students.

Final slideshow

https://docs.google.com/presentation/d/e/2PACX-1vTy71j38fU1zKP39PWT029rX_Wbx0izdfC5rh9Hho-SdW4T3CZVwCWcpNMoQQBu1Hc_V2lesi4LSfrp/pub?start=true&loop=false&delayms=20000

Finn and Oakes Quotes

"For example, in John Goodlad's national study of schools, reported in the book called A Place Called School students in high-ability English classes were more likely to be taught classic and modern literature provided instruction in expository writing and library research and expected to learn vocabulary that would eventually boost their scores on college entrance exams."  

~This quote from Oakes explains that the students in the the higher ability schools will do better on exams because they are able to be provided with more resources. Overall this simply proves that not everyone has access to the same education because of the amount of income their parents make and weather or not they are privileged in any way.

"To be successful heterogeneous classrooms probably need to lean toward placing students more in charge of their own evaluation- checking their own understanding and asking for and providing feedback." 

~This quote from Oakes suggests that in schools students should not be defined as numbers or letters in comparison to other classmates. Rather that they be compared to how the student once was say at like the beginning of the year. I personally really agree with this simply because everyone is a little different and people learn at their own pace and sometimes the grade that they receive may be the best that they can do even if it is not the highest number.

"The status quo is the status quo because people who have the power to make changes are comfortable with the way things are"

~This quote from Finn shows the reader that the ways things are run are by the people who have power over others and don't see anything wrong with the way things are because they are the people in power and my not know what it feels like to have that power stripped from them.

Map Of The Authors

The three Authors that I see the most in my site are Garcia, Rodriguez and Macintosh. A lot of times I am put to work with a student who is working on a college essay or an essay for their internship presentations that they do at the end of each trimester. I often am correcting a rough draft of whatever they are working on and have noticed that more than once the English grammar is not used correctly because the English words are put into the same format and structure as a Spanish sentence would. For example in English we would say something like "the blue shoes" where as in Spanish they would say " Los zapatos azules" which directly translates too "the shoes blue" while the meaning behind what the student is trying to say is there the structure grammatically is off.  This pertains to both Garcia and Rodriguez. Often times when I am working there as well with students they communicate with one another in Spanish and I however, cannot speak it fluently do know a little and can usually pick up on key words to better understand a students question or problem that they may not know how to say correctly in English so I usually can help them. However, the students do become surprised that I do know the amount of Spanish that I do because I am white. This relates ti Macintosh's article about the way that people are read in the world around them.

Link to Map of Authors 

Children with Down Syndrome and Culture "As" A disability Quotes

"Vygotsky found that the culture of segregation surrounding people with disabilities actually teaches under development of thinking through the isolation of children from socially valued  opportunities" (Kliewer 83) 

~ This means that because we are making children with disabilities more limited because they are not exposed to the same resources as kids who don't have a disability because we are separating these students into their own classrooms thinking that they are less intelligent than other students. 

"America will have it's disabilities" (McDermott 344)

~ This quote summaries the article in which it is saying that America won't be working for the fairness of everyone if they continue to segregate against people with special needs in their society.

"As mentioned earlier, people with Down Syndrome are joined in their struggle for citizenship by other oppressed groups" (Kliewer 96)

~ This explains that people who are discriminated against for having down syndrome look to other oppressed groups for support and comfort because they are being discriminated against in many places. 

Podcast, Herbert and Brown Vs. Board of Education Summary

All three of these informative pieces discuss the issues of race found among classrooms and ways to solve them. The overall concise resolution tho this problem is to integrate the lower income (usually students of color) in with the upper class (usually white students) in order to have students who may be falling behind in the lower income communities have access and resources to the same ones that the upper class school systems have. This however poses the problem of bullying as talked about in the podcast. By students of the upper class schools picking on the students of lower class families or who are students of color. Herbert's article also discusses like in the podcast that the students of lower income and students of color would be exposed to the same teachers that have the same type and amount of credentials as other teachers in order to ensure an equal education. The Brown Vs. Board of Education uses the phrase "separate is not equal" which again touches upon the idea that the students in the lower income societies don't have equal opportunities when it comes to education when being compared to an upper class white school. Personally, I think that furthering the integration of schools overall would be a good thing and would lead to a more equal community that we all live in.

Politics of Service Learning in relation to my Service Learning Project

       "Service learning makes students active participants in service projects that aim to respond to the needs of the community wile furthering the academic goals of the students" I agree with this personally through my own experiences working at my service learning project it has helped me connect to the high school students I have worked with and also give me ideas for ways to operate my own high school classroom one day."They stress the importance of compassion for those in need and they encourage children an young adults to find ways to help."This statement also to me was important because I went to a high school where people of color were probably less than 10% of the school. It wasn't until I started to volunteer at the Met School that I realized such a huge difference in ways of teaching and ways of life. The students at The Met School also work on their own service learning project or internship. This week I helped a student who was planning on building small shelters for the homeless people in the community. This project really made me think about the issue of homelessness and how it has an impact on so many lives. Being on my service learning project has helped me grow as a person and look at the world in a completely different life and has brought to my attention certain problems being worse than I ever could have imagined. This is what Kahne and Westheimer discuss the goal of a service learning project is.

Link to the Met School's Website -->  http://www.themethighschool.org/

Safe Spaces Discussion and hyperlinks

In the article Safe Spaces by August it discusses the topic of creating a safe space in a classroom. She mentions the issue that LGTBQIA (official website) members often face. Like being bullied for being different. This according to August leads to a lot of these peoples suicide because they feel that that is the only way to escape the harassment that they face. She brings up a few examples of this which are Seth Walsh (life story) , Asher Brown  (story), and Tyler Clementi (life story)along with some others. Then goes on to explaining what dealing with this topic in a classroom setting would be like. Saying that the students need to be able to envision themselves in what they are currently being taught. However there are some states that still are against gay marriage making it harder to discuss and eliminate that type of bullying  from happening. However, August says that when words in relation to the LGBT community are used in a positive way in classroom discussion the stigma behind them diminishes allowing for the students to be more aware and possibly more accepting.

Student Centered Learning Social Justice Event

On October tenth I attended the Student Centered Learning Research Collaborative at the Baltimore Hotel in Providence. I personally attended three workshops throughout my time there. The first workshop I went to was called Digging Into a Student-Centered Learning Self Reflection Tool for Practitioners. This was mainly about using a tool to help organize the way that an educator teaches in order to have the best interest of the students. In a way this has to do with Rodriguez's writing because it says that speaking different languages keeps us an individual and we need to adapt our teaching for the individual student. The next session I attended was about a study done on schools in Maine that had proficiency based student centered practices applied to them. This study was done in 2016 and the research was conducted among 11 different schools in Maine. The last session I attended was titled Fireside Chat. To which two veteran educators informed everyone at the conference about what they had observed as educators over the years.Two things that they had observed was how much race and household income had an impact on the education world. Thus relating to the Article "All lives matter" and Kozol's Article. Which discuss the issue of race and level of family income. Overall, I took away what it is like to be in the field of education and enjoyed getting to discuss things with people who had years of experience in the field of education.

https://studentsatthecenterhub.org/ --- Web page to Student Center Conference
https://studentsatthecenterhub.org/resource/student-centered-learning-self-reflection-tool/?type=tool ----Link to tool used in first workshop
https://drive.google.com/file/d/0B-JcBFAuLc-0Ml9vUkdMdFdoNDg/view --- Link to Kozol
https://splinternews.com/the-next-time-someone-says-all-lives-matter-show-them-1793849332 --- Link to All Lives Matter
https://drive.google.com/file/d/0B-JcBFAuLc-0MW5DdnZyVnpGSHc/view --- Link to Rodriguez

Christensen Quote's

"Children's Cartoons, movies and literature are perhaps the most influential genre "read"" (127)

~ This quote personally I love for the fact of how true it is. Children become influenced by everything in their surrounding environment. This includes like Christensen mentioned cartoons, movies and literature.

"I start by showing the students old cartoons because the stereotypes are so blatant" (129)

~Old cartoons do have a certain way of stereotyping anything that they possibly can from race to gender to class. These are more prominent then than today but old cartoons and shows are still around for our youth to see and absorb from.

"But more importantly, students saw themselves as actors in the world. They were fueled by the opportunity to convince some parents of the long lasting affects cartoons oppose on their children." (137)

~ Cartoons weather we try or not do have a lasting impact on our youth. The more diverse and accpting options a child is exposed to the more accepting they will be further along the road. However, when a child isn't exposed to that then when they say they want to grow up just like thier favorite character they are less likely to understand the other side of things.

Rodriguez's Quotes

"Supporters of bilingual education today imply that students like me miss a great deal by not being taught in their family's language." (1)

~This quote helps Rodriguez's case by explaining that she is credible due to the fact that she includes herself in the specific group of students she is talking about.

"I'd refer to my parents or my mother and father" (2)

~This quote is there to help the article explain even the cultural differences in the society between English speakers and not.

"...there are two ways a person is individualized" (3) 

~This is to show the fact that there are ways people can be individualized and speaking different languages is one of them.

https://drive.google.com/file/d/0B-JcBFAuLc-0MW5DdnZyVnpGSHc/view   --Link to article

"All Lives Matter" Quotes

"The real issue is that, while strictly true, "All Lives Matter" is a tone-deaf slogan that distracts from the real problems black people in America face."

~This quote I feel personally summarizes the entire argument that the writer is trying to make. This quote shows that using All Lives Matter is taking away from the fact that the issue primarily is about the violence towards African Americans in today's society.

"That's the situation of the "black lives matter" movement. Culture, laws, the arts, religion, and everyone else repeatedly suggest that all lives should matter. Clearly, that message already abounds in our society."

~This quote shows its relevance to the article by saying basically that in our culture that everyone matters but the sad fact is is that the idea is not acted upon and that African Americans don't get treated the same way others do regardless of what it legally says.

" It's a way of dismissing the statement by falsely suggesting that it means "only black lives matter," when that is obviously not the case. "

~This quote holds its relevance to the article by showing why people may be inclined to say that All Lives Matter. The quote explains that people say All Lives Matter simply because they assume Black Lives Matter means only the lives of African Americans.

http://www.blacklifematters.org/   ~Link to Black Lives Matter Website

How Kozol's Article Related to My Own Experiences

In the beginning of Kozol's article he discusses a church where children often can be found due to it being a low income society. He discusses a story that he shared about a little boy named Cliffie about him going to get slices of pizza for his parents. He comes across a homeless man whom he decides to share his pizza with. Cliffie goes onto saying "God told us- Share" (8). This quote made me think of the time I had gone on a mission trip with my youth group to Pennsylvania to work with a group called Blessings of Hope. It is a food distribution warehouse that me and about ten other kids from my church went to work at for a week. This was our way of filling the gift of sharing with those who cannot afford things. The experience had me meet some amazing people. I also, learned that there are a lot more people struggling in this world than I thought. I met and stayed with a family for a week who were Mennonites. They were the ones who ran Blessings of Hope. I also, got to interact with the people who were coming in to receive boxes of food and also, some of the harder to find toiletry items that we had brought down with us. We had collected over the whole year toiletry items as those are things that are needed by the families but don't always get donated like food does. It made me personally appreciate the little things in my life that we don't always think about. Another quote that I also, found I could make a connection to this trip was on page 22 when David is talking about his mother protecting him even though she cannot protect him. It made me think of the parents I would watch come in on the Thursday that we distributed food and them telling me that they have kids but didn't want to bring them because they were embarrassed that they even needed the help. Personally, this broke my heart to see so many people in need but felt so rewarding when we would tell them that we had toiletry items for them and they would start crying and thanking us for taking the time out of our lives to collect these items for them. I overall, related to Kozol's experience of learning about all the hardships though a real life experience.

http://www.lightofhopeministries.com/blessings-of-hope/   ---Link to Blessings of Hope Website

Kristof's Reasoning

In Kristof's article "U.S.A Land of Limitations" he uses a lot of good points to get across his argument that the United States may no longer be the land of opportunity everyone claims it to be. He uses the statistic that "that in the United States, there is now less economic mobility than in Canada or much of Europe" (2)meaning that we are born into a certain class and that usually means that is the class that we stay in for life. This is relevant to his text because America promises that there is wealth to be found for everyone. He also, uses the quote "in the United States, parents’ incomes correlate to their adult children’s incomes"(2) which means that children often make about the same money as what their parents make. This relates to the text by saying that there really isn't an equal opportunity for everyone in today's society because they usually only make about the same as their parents did. A final quote that really helps to support Kristof's claims in this article is when he is talking about the man Rick that he knew. Kristof says "Rick had given her $600 and skipped the medicine."(3) This basically is explaining that sometimes people in the United States cannot afford to buy medicine they need in order to stay alive. Where as, as a country we stand for the fact that people have the right to and the opportunity to have the medicine that they need making Kristof's claim become even more real.

A little about me

My name is Ariel Millette. Yes I know what your thinking I was named after the disney princess. I am the kind of girl who
enjoys animals. This post features me with my second favorite animal which is a goat. My first favorite animal is a turtle.My favorite colors are blue, purple and green. I was on my high school track team (also pictured) and made varsity each year. I was Junior Varsity captain my Junior year of high school. I am from a small town in Massachusetts known as Oxford. I love nature and love going on nature walks (also pictured) when the weather wants to cooperate. I was a former cashier but quit my job the beginning of summer 2018 and decided to not be tied down to anything and be able to enjoy my summer. I have a younger brother and sister. My sister Lexi (not short for Alexis or anything else) is 17 and my brother Trever (yes his name is spelled with the er) is 12. I live on campus here at RIC. I am currently in a relationship for about a year and a half now and it has been absolutely perfect. Well anyways that's basically all there is to know about me. Hope you enjoy. 😻😸😺