How do you experience privilege and marginalization?I am privileged as a white woman who lives and works in a primarily white suburban area. I don't feel threatened or have any fears as I come and go through my community. I may see the marginalization as a woman working in a man's world. Things have changed but there is still a ways to go. I know of local companies that have just recently hired a man and woman for the same positions but the man was offered more money. This was brought up in a community meeting that I attended.
Who sees themselves and their own lives reflected in our curriculum and our classroom materials? I look at the reading material and social studies textbooks and can see privileged individuals throughout. Until I started taking workshops that really forced us to look deeper and become more focused I never really noticed it, since everyone looked like me.How might you use your own privilege to make your classroom and school more equitable? I have been trying to find materials that work for the whole group. I want to make sure every group is being represented. We need to make all individuals are represented when we are teaching.