Listen to the kids
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The Life of a Preschool Teacher: steep learning curves and lessons learned the hard way. Laughter and connection with the students of our future.
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Navigating the relationship between change, progress, and restitution. The experience of being apart of so many families can teach a lot about how different cultures operate and protect their children.
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Acknowledge the vulnerable lifestyles of those who live with disabilities, domestic abuse, and homelessness. These issues overlap in classrooms all across the nation, and educational institutes find themselves on the forefront of protecting their freedoms.
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As teachers engage children in lesson activities, read-alouds, and play, the kids synonymously teach the educators about patience, belief and trust. The classroom shines a whole new light on just how precious humanity really is.
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The family structures of the students can be inspiring and heartbreaking at the same time. Real people going through real situations, doing what they can to best provide for their kin. Ever-changing perspectives on race, class, and human development complicates the narrative and sets a new path for finding truth within our own existence.
Starting with the systemic issues within our educational institutions. Standardized academic curriculum which retroactively filters out students with unlimited potential due to a disregard for students with nonconforming, unorthodox strengths. Our status-quo can shatter confidence and intelligence; promoting dangerous paths where a child may feel more accepted due to not being recognized in their educational environment.
A pipeline straight to prison - the racial component behind school discipline: designed within a paradigm of behavioral constructs introduced by a corrupted society that aims to disrupt and divide communities. The challenges that shape the lifestyles of inner-city children can pollute innocence before the human condition fully forms. Every probability of danger increases: observable violence, lack of sex education, neglecting financial literacy… social and economic outcomes that translate to a criminal justice system that profits from underserved neighborhoods, resulting in the repetitive cycles of oppression.
Revolution starts with education. The standard is to make sure ALL children grow up in world worth living.
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Brownsville, Brooklyn. 2021-2023
M.A Teaching: Early childhood and Special Education