AVReading May: What We Do Not Know
I am often caught off guard by what I do not know. For as much as I try to humbly enter each day with the understanding that I am still learning, there is that part of me that just assumes I already know what there is to know about the world around me. And yet, I regularly learn that I simply do not have a clue -- in some cases it probably is a willful cluelessness. About a year ago, I was in a meeting with a group of educators when I used the phrase, “Well, let’s just call a spade a spade and tell them what we truly think.” It was a phrase I had grown up with and had read and used through the years. And as soon as I said it, my colleague who is a person of color called me out on it. “Actually, Scott. You need to check that phrase. It has a pretty oppressive history.” It was a humbling moment. It took me by absolute surprise, but after...