“How do you experience privilege and marginalization?” I experience privileges every day. I am white, heterosexual, and belong to no fringe groups. I pretty much blend in with groups and no one pays me any attention. I am invisible. I do feel that women of all races are still a marginalized group. We still have men thinking we are not capable of doing everything they can, and we are typically not paid as much as men. “Who sees themselves and their own lives reflected in our curriculum and our classroom materials?” Our curriculum mostly reflects a white male perspective. This is getting better though. I see more and more of the reading selections in English classes are from different perspectives, and the students are learning other points of view in our History classes as well. We do need to get better at incorporating other perspectives, races, and genders into our curriculum though.“How might you use your own privilege to make your classroom and school more equitable?” I can make my classroom a more welcoming place for everyone by including more perspectives from other cultures, races, and genders into the classroom.
