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8 thoughts on “TOWARDS A REVOLUTION – 1”
Damn right! And, this is exactly the kind of SEL action and anti-racism action that our school districts are pushing for us to implement these days. They say we’ll need to have some uncomfortable conversations. Well, get ready yourselves, big-wig bosses, for some uncomfortable conversations!
Here’s a sample of the kind of conversation we don’t want to hear anymore:
Teacher 1:
“Do you have Tanisha Jones in French 2 this year?”
Teacher 2:
“Yes. My God, she is such a pain, always talking in class. Last year she barely passed.”
Teacher 1:
“Why did you pass her?”
Teacher 2:
“Honestly I didn’t want the hassle of talking to her mom, always making waves just because she’s black and has an IEP. I figured I’d just deal with her one more year and be done with it.”
Teacher 1:
“Good luck with that.”
Teacher 2:
“I’ll need it!”
Maybe in the future, once we have pulled our heads out of the sand, we will hear something more along these lines:
Teacher 1:
“Do you have Tanisha Jones in French 2 this year?”
Teacher 2:
“Yes. My God, once I stopped teaching the old way, now this year it was amazing how she – as if a light switch had been turned on – calmed down in class and started to pay attention.”
Teacher 1:
“So you did pass her from last year?”
Teacher 2:
“Well, she came up to me after the final last year and told me how she liked French and wanted to take it next year. That shocked me.”
Teacher 1:
“Well, I heard that she really has changed from last year in all her classes.”
Teacher 2:
“It’s because of all those Zoom meetings the administration made us do this summer about teaching and equity and all that. Remember when the admin team sat us down last spring and laid out all that stuff about anti-racism action that we need to implement now? Remember when they said we we needed to have some uncomfortable conversations and we had them and all those teachers quit about mid-summer? Man, getting rid of that dead wood and the textbook had results. I really am happy to be teaching the “new” Tanisha.”
Teacher 1:
“You know, she really hasn’t changed. I was talking to her the other day and she’s the same kid. Maybe we just changed as a result of trying to teach according to the research.”
Teacher 2:
“Maybe…”.
I betcha we’re going to have more Tanishas calling out the bullshit they see in the classroom and from the teacher. They won’t even hesitate. Some teachers will say they’re being even more loud and disruptive this year. Well, teachers simply can’t suppress their voices anymore.
Granted, many of these situations with Tanisha may be too much to handle in the classroom. And justifiably inappropriate to handle in the classroom. But we, as teachers, need to know how and where to direct Tanisha so that her voice is given value.
…we, as teachers, need to know how and where to direct Tanisha so that her voice is given value….
This is the task, indeed! First, we have to know how to teach the class so that Tanisha is included and not excluded bc of interstitial racism. I know the term is institutional, but I call it interstitial bc it hides between spaces and can’t be seen, and crowds kids of color into little invisible spaces in our classrooms, clobbering kids like Tanisha. So interstitial racism in our classes is the enemy.
Once we find a way to teach that is not racist, we can then ACTUALLY SEE our Tanishas and it will all change. So let me restate – we must find a way to teach that is not racist before we can address interstitial racism in our language classrooms. The old way we taught is inherently racist bc it favors kids who have already been trained to be little memorizer/soldiers.
You may not think that the way we teach is not racist. I will prove it, just not this morning. It will take awhile. But I will keep writing about it and maybe make some TicTocs. It’s time for us to learn how to first SEE and then REACH our little Tanishas. They need our help. Kid of color in our classrooms can’t overcome the racism they encounter in our classroom unless they have our help and so we we have to give them our help.
Hi Ben and Sean! It’s been a minute as they say. I’m packing up my room and moving my things to another class on campus. We are teaching online via Microsoft Teams. Anyway, i was packing up and seeing the memories my students and I made under the guise of “teaching” during my first 4 years. We had made some incredible stories, art and memories and my in the moment communication was spot on. The last 2 years, I’ve been singled out since admin changed and wanted me to align to the high school. They wanted targeted explicit instruction with “vertical articulation.” I was basically belittled for my CI hippiness.
However, I’m still the department chair and the time is very ripe for a revolution. I’m fine doing the pony show and the explicit teaching, i just don’t want to do it ALL the damn time. Its my 6th year and I haven’t taught with CI in a while and its dreadful. I am patient and hopeful for a brighter future sneaking in the CI.
Hi Steven! I’ve been missing you! It looks like you haven’t been up here because you haven’t been able to sneak in the CI. So sorry. I don’t know, have you thought about taking a job at the high school? Then you wouldn’t have to worry about aligning with someone above you. Then again, maybe it’s even worse in the high school. Boy. What a conundrum. I hope you get paid alright or get lots of time outside of school to live your life.
It comes down to the students, though, doesn’t it? If you teach with CI and your students are engaged and get that good feeling of actually learning something, then you admin can’t touch you, right? Get your students and their parents on your side.
And the union? Are you tenured? I guess union-backed schools don’t do tenure anymore. But your example is a good one for why tenure should be in place.
I’d love to hear how your CI instruction unfolds throughout the year, if you can swing it. I’d love to try to help.
Sean said:
…if you teach with CI and your students are engaged and get that good feeling of actually learning something, then you admin can’t touch you, right?…
This is the way to think each time you feel pressure to not do CI. What Sean says is a fact. They will NEVER come after you because they would lose. Exercise your right to teach how you think is best.
That said, throw the dog a bone. Take part of class to teach that other shit.