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Shor and Kilewer

Kilewer explains about how students with special needs can feel left out, because they may be smarter than people take them to be, and should be given the chance to take other classes to improve there education. I agree with Kilewer, because I was held back from doing this very thing. I was in resource classes taking the same thing over and over again. It was repetitive and I lost interest and started to get depressed because I was denied for many years the classes I wanted until my 11th grade year when I changed high schools. Through out my life I was made fun of because students, they would say I am stupid and that I am not worthy of there friendship because I was in resource classes. I was never stupid I was just never given the chance to expand my education and my skills. I did not like being held back from what I knew I could do, and did not like the labeling, because I was a person to not a thing to be labeled. "Now we know that people with disabilities can learn and have a full, rich

life. The challenge is to erase negative attitudes about people with develop-
mental disabilities, get rid of the stereotypes and break the barriers for people

with disabilities."
This sort of thing happens a lot and to often. We as a whole need to realize that these students are smart they can do more then you think. Give students the education they deserve, not just what you think they can do or what you think they deserve. It is not right to judge a book by it's cover. The pages of the book could be rich with knowledge waiting for someone to read it. You can learn a lot from any one and everyone, no one should limit one's education just because you assume they are not smart enough to do a class or not. Some of these students go onto college and get degrees and master skills they could not before. They get jobs and help communities and start their own stores and maybe even there own line of clothing, they are smart and capable people, so I feel that labeling these students and limiting them is horrible.   
https://www.cec.sped.org/Policy-and-Advocacy/CEC-Professional-Policies/Special-Education-in-the-Schools





What stood out to me in shor's story is that students need to learn about the school system they are in and the government and how this affects there learning in school and why they go to school. I found out it is a good topic to use at the beginning of the school year. I agree with Shor, because students need to know what is going on with there education and how it works. It makes the students more involved in what they are doing and gain a better understanding of why they are there. This is a great idea and should be done more in classrooms. "Knowledge is derived from action .... To know an object is
to act upon it and to transform it. .. , To know is therefore to assimilate
-reality into structures of transformation and these are the structures
that intelligence constructs as a direct extension or our actions"
Students will have an understanding and be more interested in learning if they know why things are the way they are. I was not interested in school because I always questioned why do I have to do this, why do I have to be here. Different questions flooded my head all the time and it was a distraction to my education.  If my questions were talked about maybe I would of been more interested in learning and expressing myself. A learning method can change a lot a future, a students way of learning and thinking. I think that it is very important to pursue this in our school system.
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At my school there are students that struggle with different languages. This can be hard for them, because there are very few students in this school that do not speak more then one language. It is common in this school for many students to speak two or more languages. Sometimes it can be hard for them to understand other classmates, but get help from other classmates to understand what they were trying to say. It could also be hard on them if they have an internship that not requires a second language but could use one at times. So, students have to figure out ways to communicate in different ways, the great thing about this is that it is a great learning experience and a great skill builder. Rodriguez and Garcia have talked about being bilingual in schools. Garcia, " Translanguaging is a language practice of many bilingual American students in our classrooms." It helps students with ways to "teach both rigorous content and language for academic use."It makes students more confident and willing to work in schools, its positive and reassuring. Rodriguez had a powerful story and made it clear that it could be very hard to fit in somewhere not knowing a language and how hard it is to transition from one language to another. It affects school and family life, it not only affects the student in school but changes everything at home, because families have to change there way of living to help there child.

Also, at my school I learned that they do a lot when it comes to pride. LBGT is supported in the school and is not criticized but expected. Students have written papers on the topic and have done community service project and research projects to help support these people. I loved the positive message these students bring to awareness of struggles people go threw in the LBGT community.  August, "Movements shape attitudes and ideologies, and these attitudes and ideologies have physical and psychological consequences-particularly for LGBT youth".

There are students that come from different classes at this school as well. There are the students of poor families, middle class families and some are well off meaning they have money. Most of the students are in the poor or middle class category and very few wealthy. There are struggles getting supplies, because the families can not afford them, or there is issues getting food for the students to have lunch. The school realizes this hard situation, in return they help to supply the students with what they need to learn. Not many school are willing to do this, and not many schools can afford to do this. They support students so they do not feel left out or depressed about why they can not have something that others do have, just because they can not buy it because of there class. Kristof wants students to be able to this resource and so they can be better educated in our school system. If more schools could do this type of thing, the education systems could be so much better then what they are.




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AUTHOR/ CONCEPT	Overall claims and arguments	Key words	Connection to another author?	Story from my SL project
SCWAAMP	Leslie Grinner argues that there are some categories/identities that are most valued (dominant) in our culture and they are privileged, or given more access and opportunity than other categories/identities that are not valued.  These Most Valued categories are invisible to us unless we “tap the glass” to notice they are there. What kinds of things are valued at your SL site? Any evidence of taps on the glass of dominant ideology?	dominant ideology privilege tap the glass	Johnson talks about same concepts, Delpit’s culture of power	Some students may have issues having an internship because of their race.
Johnson	Allan Johnson argues that it is important to talk explicitly about issues of privilege, power and difference so that we can work towards a more just and respectful world.  Do you see any examples of teachers or students talking explicitly about race, class, gender, sexuality, etc? What kind of outcomes do you witness? Is it productive or confrontational?  Would Johnson celebrate these efforts?	“Say the words” “Luxury of obliviousness”	Delpit (“good intentions are not enough”)	There are group talks about gender , race, and social class and sexuality.
Delpit	Lisa Delpit argues that teachers need to explicitly teach the rules and codes of power to students who might not learn those rules and codes at home.  Have you seen teachers using a direct style? Have you seen teachers working to instruct students about the rules and codes of power? Have you come across “Delpit Moments” where there was a miscommunication that could be related to these issues?	Codes of power	Christensen Codes of power / take power	All students respect the rules and codes.
Kristof	(Ted Nugent) “ That the takers in society are entitlement chumps and gluttonous, souls pigs.”	Opportunity In balance	Christensen opportunity	Real life opportunity Internships
Kozol	“Because they are classified as only poor not destitute	Individuals Vs Institutions	Kristof Class of a person	All come from different backgrounds and different classes of people
McIntosh	McIntosh suggests that white people are taught not to recognize the way their race gets valued in the larger culture.  She says that unless white people actively pay attention to it, whiteness will go unnoticed and unacknowledged. Have you seen whiteness valued at your schools?  Does whiteness show its power in the leadership, curriculum, norms or expectations of the classroom?	Whiteness Norms Leadership Power	Johnson Power privilege	Every person has a place of power No race or sexuallity is favorited
“All Lives Matter”	All people vs. just black people	All lives vs.just black lives	Johnson race	Some are pro black lives matter some are for all lives matter
Rodriguez	Talks about the separation between his “home” language and culture and the language/culture of academia.  He feels he had to leave behind his home language to become fluent and successful in another.	Struggle to fit in trying to understand different lang.	Concern Struggle Johnson / McIntosh	Many people speak two or more lang. Some just one
Garcia	Discusses the benefits of translanguaging, where students can use all available linguistic resources to discuss, learn, and understand concepts.	Lang. practices of bilingual people	Positive Helpful Johnson	Helping others learn Team work
Christensen	Christensen argues that schools need to help students acquire tools to interpret the media and other cultural texts in order to recognize stereotypes and oppression.  Further, she emphasizes that teachers need to help students take action in expression their critiques.  Do you see any of this connection to the “real world” in your SL classroom?  Do students learn to take action and speak out?	Stereotypes Oppression	Johnson Delpit Very opinionated	Voiced their opinions Openly and have group talks everyday
August	August argues that people can’t learn if they don’t feel safe.  Schools need to work to make marginalized students (in her case students who identify as LGBT) feel more “normalized” into the school community.  She suggest we can do this by fighting the tendency to make these students erased, absent and invisible. Do you see these kind of efforts (around gayness or other issues) present in your school?	LGBT erased Normalized	Rodriguez LGBT supported Johnson Sexuality	Students and teachers both talk about ways to  help LGBT community and students
Zelle	one who is one gender but likes or wants to be another	LGBT	Christensen,Johnston, McIntosh	LGBT is largely supported
Kahne and Westheimer	Charity vs. Change “Ask not what your country can do for you: ask what you can do for your country”	Real world learning	Christensen Real world skill	Internships Community service
This American Life	Segregation of students or desegregation of students	Suffering depression	Johnson / SWAAMP	Everyone goes to one school together all races no segregation
Hebert	separate educational facilities are inherently unequal	Separate Unequal	Brown v. Board of Education	Everyone is seen as equal but not by all internship mentors in the community
Brown v Board website	(1954) case to end segregation which affected changes in nation and social policy	Courage Change Peoples rights	Peoples rights Hebert	Teachers educate on this topic and view in as important to understand
Finn	middle class schools and high performing schools	rich vs poor vs middle class	Johnson because of social class and power	everyone has there own way of teaching some soft spoken some are more demanding
Oakes	one persons needs compared to another	deprived and some are not some gain more knowledge than others	Finn class and knowledge	every student gets one on one meetings with there teachers no student left behind
Kliewer	students with special needs can feel left out, because they may be smarter than people take them to be, and should be given the chance to take other classes to improve there education. "Now we know that people with disabilities can learn and have a full, rich life. The challenge is to erase negative attitudes about people with develop- mental disabilities, get rid of the stereotypes and break the barriers for people with disabilities."	education deprived working toward better education	shor	This is not what happens at my school they get equal learning and treatment.
Shor	Give students the education they deserve, not just what you think they can do or what you think they deserve.	education deprived	Kilewer	No one judges students way of learning.
Privilege	able to be above everyone else, to rise above, to be higher in rank, or seen as a better person because of race, class, sex, or family	lower class looked down on as upper class gets everything jobs depending on race or sex - unfair	Johnson, August, Delpit, McIntosh	the only time I have seen this happen is when students are trying to get internships and not treated fairly by the community
Power	whites have power over minority	Whites- seen as a higher power minority- seen as lower power which is all other races	Johnson, Delpit	treated as equals in power in school but in the community they are not
Ideology	policy and ideas for and economic system	the system does little to help the schools in need	Brown v. board of education	this school does not seem to have very many problems that I know of
individuals vs institutions	individual is dealing with oppression and inequality institutions are dealing with oppression as well but to feel forgotten or to feel control within a group which individual is cruel treatment and tossed aside or controls power	inequality and oppression	Johnson, Delpit, Kristof	to change fate and prove that everyone has power in one way or another
social justice	affects schools and way of life	teaching, learning, jobs, life	I would say all the authors because this subject involves something in many of the subjects talked about by everyone	Students bring this subject up in class and teachers would assign projects to help students better understand social justice

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Regardless if it works, I am not for segregation. What I look for in schools is students of different cultures and races. Just because it is said in test results that students of different races besides students that are white test poorly does not mean that students of different races have to be parted from their white peers. Desegregation can cause many horrible things. Fights, death, heartbreak, people live in fear. Suicide is a problem because other student and people teasing family's and students to the point they feel that they do not belong so they decide it is time to end it. The other thing is schools need to be better organized. For example my best friend who a few years past away went through many moves with her sister who was her guardian at the time. She tried very hard to graduate high school but got her GED because the schools she went to gave her a hard time about her school records. Finally, after going to school after school her records were missing and credits gone and senior projects kept changing on her. I tried to help her out but it was useless because the schools did not want to work out anything with her and she was a different race, other then white. I did not give up on her, I helped her through hard times even housed her and shared clothes. I helped her study for her GED. She got her GED and years later got a job in a nursing home. She was happy she got married then tragically died unexpectedly months later followed by her husband, who went through issues in schools as well. He was not rich he couldn't afford much and struggled and lacked interest in school until before he was married. Because he could not afford much and was white he was treated differently and struggled through life debating on if he should live or not. There parents are scared for life now and there family's. They spend day after day what they could of done to help them more. Even I, being so close to them feel upset at times because they could of lived a better life. I always helped them and there family, I was around so much I was considered family. In school I have had problems as well my grades where not the best and failed state testing. I have a disability and I was yelled at by teachers and they did not know how to handle me and I found myself crying a lot, I did not understand why I had to be yelled at or why I had to do certain things. Though I did not realize it but I was picked apart by staff and my peers. Later on I was depressed and struggled more. After years and years and teacher after teacher I finely found that teacher that understood me and how to teach me. I finally felt a part of myself I never felt before. I felt respected and I felt that I could do things I just learned differently then others and had a different view on things. At the end of my senior year of high school I felt confident in myself and because of this teacher and the wonderful high school I went to my last two years of high school I finely felt like I could live my life and not care about people' s harsh sayings about me. I also think that schools should also have more founding so students get a full learning experience. If students have what they need in class, they will learn more and stay interested and learn more. Tests will be better and numbers would change. It's not about race, it is about our school systems.     

      


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While reading this article I was thinking back to both my days in high school and now while I intern a my old high school. It was amazing to read about service learning, because I have been doing things for my community since I was in first grade. In elementary school I helped the needy at senior homes, I put on dinners and did meals on wheels for those who could not travel or afford good meals. I was a girl scout and through scouting I learned the importance of helping out the community either by making someone happy, by signing during the holidays or by just listening and by cleaning up beaches and putting on memorials when I was in middle school for lost loved ones. We cared about our community and the people in it. We learned that we should not take things for granted and respect each other and help out. Responsibilities were a big part in learning through scouting, and each project we engaged in we took something away and did what we had to, to help. In my high school years I was still a scout and had a internship for school. I tough 5th grade students about health. I really enjoyed how the children reacted to the course I and my classmates that interned with me set up. There was work book activities and gym games which we played outside or inside depending on the weather. We created songs, and by the end of the course the children had a party that included fruits and vegetables. These things I have done for the community are only a few out of my very long list, but some of my most rewarding. Now I intern at my old high school and find that it is still the same when it comes to service learning. Each student gets an internship here, and does community service hours. This is helping them learn more about the community they live in and more about their interests as well. I think that service learning has a powerful impact on the world not just the community. Children learn much more by going on into the world then sitting in a classroom being bored. At least at a service learning site they are hands on and active which keeps students interested in what they are learning about. In a classroom setting students get bored and tend to tune out the teacher because they stop caring. President John Kennedy had once said this and I think this great " ask not what your country can do for
you; ask what you can do for your country." This saying it powerful and positive a wonderful message for all and one to live by.  More schools should be doing more for their community and if they did, their students would have more knowledge and respect for the world and for others.

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Drawn Together : Comics, Diversity and Stereotypes

Social Justice Event March 6, 2019 12:30-2 pm




Drawn Together: Comics, Diversity and stereotypes is a documentary that influences the community by drawings and personal statements. People of different races after 9/11 happened were mistreated badly. People were judged on their looks and people assumed they where part of groups that would harm the United States. Through Comics people created a way to educate people of all ages about diversity and stereotyping. One is the K chronological's by Keith Knight. The comic strip has been around since the 1990's, the year I was born in. He creates comics based on personal and world related race topics and current events that happen in the world. Over the years the topics have also been addressed at comic cons around the world. This increases knowledge about the diversity issues and issues surrounding stereotyping. The people creating the comic's hope that what they are doing changes people views about different races and limits stereotyping. I think this is a great way to get a message out in the world, because you get a story and you can visualize what you are reading about through the art work. In the world in general art has lots of power and influences many people and many things. Just by walking out side you can maybe see billboards and signs, maybe art work on a side of a building making a statement about the community. Also, in the documentary there was an all mom band. That wrote songs and performed them, about different issues revolving around diversity and stereotyping. Children love music so this influences them to learn about these subject matters in a positive way and is fun for everyone. This also models behavior for children. Children also learn more about these topics through comics because it is more appealing to them. The pictures hold their interest and they love action. If children learn better this way, I think that maybe schools should do these things in the classrooms to help their students better understand diversity and stereotypes. Another comic is called Super Sikh which is by Eileen Kaur Alden and Supreet Singh Manchanda. this comic is great for kids to learn about diversity and stereotyping. "  In "Super Sikh", secret agent Deep Singh is overworked and exhausted from destroying the Taliban at night and maintaining a cover job by day. He's a big Elvis fan, and he decides to take his dream vacation to visit Graceland (Elvis's home). Unfortunately, a crazy Taliban group decides to follow him to America and get rid of him once and for all. But Deep Singh and his team are not going down without a fight! (less)" https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/25750785-super-sikh
This comic is a non-prophet supporting children's reading programs and to educate them about diversity. It's also good to dress up like your hero and go out into the community or the world and talk about the issues. It could have a greater impact because people are naturally attracted to things they do not see every day and different things. They listen more because they want to know what you are doing. I think these ways of informing people are very positive ways of communication about these topics and are fun and informative.           


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