Colonization in education is when we enter the spaces and communities of students and insist that they acclimate to the spaces and communities we either come from or were taught to center in the university. A colonized education centers the cultural norms, experiences, and ethnic background of school leadership as the unspoken norm and the
Your teacher-smile says welcome to my new class To my home away from home But at my house where my parents live There are pictures of me in every room Pictures of my grandparents, too But not just pictures of my people, but of our stories Holidays, recipes, and music Even things and people we’ve
At our nation’s inception, inequity continues to steal our collective wealth and progress, destroy the well-being of our families and communities, and abuse the intellectual and physical bodies of our children. However, it is our focus on policies and structural powers, not race or class polarities, that will ensure the precision and efficacy of our
The academic achievement gap doesn’t just weigh on families. Teachers who are committed to more than just proving the numbers wrong also want to transform the lives and opportunities of students of color. They enter the profession of teaching with energy and enthusiasm but some become disillusioned, jaded, or frustrated often with school administration or
The grass is not greener on the other side even if that side is Western literature, culture, tradition, and education. I will not teach my brothers, sisters, and children of color to travel away from home to drink from foreign wells and deceive my people to believe that the wells of their own homelands did