“When we say ‘I don’t see color,’ what we’re saying is ‘I see you as white.’ White becomes the default,” Annamma said. “We also see a lot of scholarship in education that doesn’t want to talk about race but does want to talk about racial outcomes. People want to talk about racial disparities in education and unequal outcomes but often don’t want to talk about the racial experiences that led to those outcomes.”
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The New PE Curriculum: An Innovative Approach to Teaching Physical Fitness
By Roberta Furger
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By Becky Little
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By Sherell A. McArthur
“According to hooks (1984), ideas about race have placed African American females in a complex dual relationship to both Black culture and the dominant culture. That means that Black women have to negotiate their racialized gender in their daily interactions. Therefore, for Black girls specifically and learners of color generally, to be forced to entertain curriculum and instruction divorced from the reality of their social, political, and cultural contexts is the antithesis of engaging learners and alienates learners from schooling. Using critical media literacy is a necessary means to aid us in reimagining our society in ways that are authentic to folks living on the margins of the dominant society.” (McArthur, 2019, p. 687).
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By Donnie McClurkin
Hear our earnest prayer O Lord
Hear our humble cry
Precious loving caring lord
On whom we rely
Ever loving, ever living God
Of whom no one can compare
All we ask is that you hear our prayers
Give us strength most Holy Lord
Strength to meet this day
Lead us by your Holy Word
Guide us in your way
For life is filled with winding turns
We have often lost our way
For life is filled with winding turns
We have often lost our way, all we ask is that you lead today
Give us love that’s true O Lord
Trusting as a child
Love for all we see O Lord
Trusting as a child
Love for all we see O Lord
Pure and undefiled
But to heal the heart and not turn away anyone who is in need
All we ask is teach us love indeed
Take me home with you my Lord
When my life is through
Take me home with peace my Lord
Let me rest with you
When I’ve fought the fight and I’ve kept the faith
And my race on earth is won
All I ask is that you say well done
Lord please let me hear you say well done
Listen here.
As I journey through the land, singing as I go,
Pointing souls to Calvary—to the crimson flow,
Many arrows pierce my soul from without, within;
But my Lord leads me on, through Him I must win.
When in service for my Lord dark may be the night,
But I’ll cling more close to Him, He will give me light;
Satan’s snares may vex my soul, turn my thoughts aside;
But my Lord goes ahead, leads whate’er betide.
When in valleys low I look toward the mountain height,
And behold my Savior there, leading in the fight,
With a tender hand outstretched toward the valley low,
Guiding me, I can see, as I onward go.
When before me billows rise from the mighty deep,
Then my Lord directs my bark; He doth safely keep,
And He leads me gently on through this world below;
He’s a real Friend to me, oh, I love Him so.
Oh, I want to see Him, look upon His face,
There to sing forever of His saving grace;
On the streets of glory let me lift my voice,
Cares all past, home at last, ever to rejoice!
By Mr. Charles
The importance of being an effective literacy teacher cannot be understated. Indeed, literacy has much to do with how we communicate with and understand others. Without effective literacy skills, we are left limited in our ability to understand the world around us and to contribute to it. Literacy by definition is the ability to read and write. Further, it is the competence or knowledge in a specified area.
In her book Literacy for the 21stCentury: A Balanced Approach (2005), Gail Tompkins discusses how the practice of becoming an effective literacy teacher contributes to the overall effectiveness of said teacher. She explains that the goal of literacy instruction is to ensure that all students achieve their full literacy potential, and in the first chapter of her book, she introduces nine principles of balanced literacy instruction. These principles are stated in terms of what effective teachers do.
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By Roland Sintos Coloma
African Americans held “an affinity of complexion with the Filipinos” and saw the “similarity between the predicament of the black man in the United States and the brown man in the Philippines: both were subjects of oppression.”
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By Gloria Ladson-Billings
“…our focus on the achievement gap is akin to a focus on the budget deficit, but what is actually happening to African American and Latina/o students is really more like the national debt. We do not have an achievement gap; we have an education debt.”
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