*How do you experience privilege and marginalization? I am a fairly privileged individual. By default, as a woman in a patriarchal society, I experience certain marginalizations as a result of my gender. I do not believe that I have ever been marginalized due to my race, though I likely have experienced privilege - and given my privilege, I don’t recognize it.
*Who sees themselves and their own lives reflected in our curriculum and our classroom materials? Students of Latinx or Spanish heritage can see themselves and their lives reflected in my classroom’s curriculum. (There’s an awesome presentation on Cultural Diversity in Latin America that was added to the curriculum this year! I’ll share it with you… unless I forget! Remind me?)
*Consider how your own practices could be perpetuating systemic privilege. How might you use your own privilege to make your classroom and school more equitable? I don’t believe that my practices do perpetuate systemic privilege… I use my classroom as a place to introduce new cultures, people, and language to my students – and the people from Spanish-speaking countries cover the whole spectrum of (color). Also, as a mother of bi-racial Latina daughters, I feel that I am more aware of what I say and do knowing how others experience life… but perhaps everyone else behaves the same way that I do?!
*Who sees themselves and their own lives reflected in our curriculum and our classroom materials? Students of Latinx or Spanish heritage can see themselves and their lives reflected in my classroom’s curriculum. (There’s an awesome presentation on Cultural Diversity in Latin America that was added to the curriculum this year! I’ll share it with you… unless I forget! Remind me?)
*Consider how your own practices could be perpetuating systemic privilege. How might you use your own privilege to make your classroom and school more equitable? I don’t believe that my practices do perpetuate systemic privilege… I use my classroom as a place to introduce new cultures, people, and language to my students – and the people from Spanish-speaking countries cover the whole spectrum of (color). Also, as a mother of bi-racial Latina daughters, I feel that I am more aware of what I say and do knowing how others experience life… but perhaps everyone else behaves the same way that I do?!