AVReading Newsletter March: Honesty
As part of our yearlong study on being reflective practitioners, our emphasis this month is on honesty. A regular downside to self reflection is that we tend to be less than honest with our assessments. It is just really hard to acknowledge some truths or realities that might exist in our worlds because they can totally shake the foundations of what we might believe or think. This is especially true when we begin to consider constructs like race and how schools have maintained systems of power that disproportionately target students of color. Being honest, in this sense, means that white teachers (like myself) have to perpetually acknowledge the way our whiteness has not only benefited us, but the way it has influenced the way we see race. And the same can be said for our understanding of class, gender, and ableness as well. It is not as though ...