Many of you mentioned that hearing Munir Mohammed read and discuss the book was powerful. Feel free to share the video with your students! Additionally, here is the Wherever-I-Go-Arts Reader Engagement Guide I created with members on Maine’s vibrant African community.
Cohort Post: Finding a New Home
There has been a steadily growing population of ELL students in our district within the last couple of years, many of them having moved from Central and South America with little resources. Most parents do not speak any English and we are currently modifying and changing our district website to be more accommodating. It can… Read more »
Cohort Post: Implicit Bias and Wherever I Go
Help us understand implicit bias. Reflect on the results of your participation in the survey. Name a time when you used your own implicit bias to navigate a situation. Implicit bias is in many ways, the elephant in the room for our society. We have come a long way in this country, towards embracing the diversity… Read more »
Cohort Post: Finding a Forever Home…
The need and stressors of finding a forever home were echoed by all of my students after reading “Wherever I Go”. All of my students’ families have been in the position of needing to leave their home for a new one for various reasons. Fortunately, this year, all of my students’ families have had help… 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 »
Cohort Post: Wherever I Go
In Wherever I Go, Abia is nervous about finding a forever home. How does this idea differ or match up with your own ideas about refugees and asylum seekers? What do the students in your classroom think about Abia’s nervousness about finding a forever home? Can they relate it to any of their own experiences?… Read more »
Cohort Post: Finding a Forever Home
In our second question for this blog post, we were asked to ponder our impressions, thoughts, or deeper understandings about forever homes in relation to refugees and asylum seekers. In the mentor text, “Wherever I Go”, by Mary Wagley Copp, the main character, Abia, is powerfully written as one whose anxiety about the search for… Read more »
Cohort Post: February Blog Post
My understanding of implicit bias is having negative thoughts, feelings, or prejudices against something, such as a group of people, without being consciously aware of doing so. The survey was quite surprising to me. I decided to take the one on Native Americans thinking that I would “ace” it. The survey was really interesting to… Read more »
The PINE Project
