I want to elevate a really good thread by Dr. Chanequa on Twitter today. You will want to click through and read it all. It’s good. https://twitter.com/drchanequa/status/1278775116059598848 I have seen a lot of pushback against White Fragility on Twitter quite a bit recently. I read the book some time back and found it helpful. At…
One really interesting activity I did in my Curriculum Theory course last year was to analyze a curriculum artifact. My department doesn’t use textbooks, but I really wanted to analyze a textbook after reading Michael Apple’s 1985 article “The Culture and Commerce of the Textbook.” I highly recommend this article, by the way. I found…
Last quarter I took a wonderful Early Childhood Education course with Dr. Wendy Crocker as part of my graduate school program at Northeastern. My favorite assignment was creating an anti-bias toolkit for educators working with young children. I selected a target age of kindergarten through first grade for mine, but I think these tools could…
I am not sure if the Boston Globe will publish this video elsewhere, but if you missed their discussion with Dr. Ibram X. Kendi, they have posted it on Facebook. I tweeted observations as I watched, so I will embed those tweets below rather than attempt a recap. https://twitter.com/danamhuff/status/1274045306703880193 https://twitter.com/danamhuff/status/1274046404160303104 https://twitter.com/danamhuff/status/1274048689812787200 https://twitter.com/danamhuff/status/1274050065724817413 https://twitter.com/danamhuff/status/1274051845011447809 As a…
