I don’t know much about the Muslim faith, or any faith, to be honest. As someone who was raised agnostic, I struggle to fully comprehend how folk are able to have unwavering belief in a divine, all-powerful God. Since I was originally from a small, white, farm town, my first experience interacting with a Muslim… Read more »
RENEW Protocol
I have found Anne Sibley O’Brien and Dr. Andrea Breau’s protocol to be highly effective in deepening our classroom conversations around race. My school’s literacy curriculum, Mossflower, teaches into great interactive read aloud practices that promote students noticing, wondering, and thinking deeply about the picture books we read. That being said, but I hadn’t facilitated… Read more »
Cohort Post: Aligning learning opportunities with community partnerships
Q1: I participated in two implicit bias subtests: one regarding gay folks, and the other transgender folks. I chose these subtests feeling particularly confident in them – I’m a big advocate for the LGBTQ community, have several nonbinary friends/students, and identify as bisexual myself. Despite my confidence, the results surprised me. I did show a… Read more »

