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.