Dan "I'd try that!" Call
@litocall
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Antiracist Educator, Social Change Strategist, Chileno, Aymara, Yatichiri, Latter-day Saint - Battling impostor syndrome since Sept. 1976 - he/him/his
City of Destiny
Joined November 2013
I really needed to reread this @JamesGoldberg poem today. Might do some coat grabbing and shaking soon.
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I finished my copy last week - can't wait to apply in class. I've already recommended that our district PLC do a group study starting in the fall.
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Too true - and the questions at the end of each minilesson will be idiotic stuff like: At whom should you point your firearm during a school shooting? A) yourself B) the invader C) the students D) all of the above
If they arm teachers, trust me that training will be a website where you click through minilessons & get a little certificate after like 25 minutes, & we will be forced to do it in a staff meeting after school when we’re already tired, & the DOE will say we were all fully trained
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My heart broke for these characters, and the giddily absurd things that happen them somehow revealed more truth about the human condition than any other film I've seen in a long time. 5/
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Over the course of 2hrs 20mins I felt practically every emotion I can name, left the theater crying, laughing, thinking, shaking my head. If someone asked me to summarize the story, I am positive that I would fail and succeed. 4/
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Although I could saying that this film is about family and life, the best way to prepare you for the experience is to just say that the title does it best. 3/
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This film was fantastic - everything I love about cinema: it took huge risks, said something that could only be said in this medium, felt perfect for the big screen. 2/
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Went to see #EverythingEverywhereAllAtOnce last night, drawn in by Michelle Yeoh and Ke Huy Quan. A few thoughts 1/
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We've been watching "Fresh Prince of Bel-Air" as a family (not the reboot). When it first came out in the 90s I was full on pro-will, but now I'm kind of shaken by how much empathy I feel for Unc Phil...
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@threareaderapp unroll
OK, tried out a new unit in my intro to philosophy class, and it is my new favorite unit: "Are Grades Bullshit?" I have never seen intro students more intensely engaged, more edge-of-their-seat, and more mind-blown. Thread:
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Hey @paramountplus, what do I have to do for you to prioritize getting more episodes of You Can't Do That on Television?
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When I saw my first episode of the #BradyBunch around age 4 or 5, the opening credits convinced me that Alice was an experimental genetic combination of all the Bradys. The way they just popped her pic in at the end. I can't have been the only one, right?
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In addition to top notch learning, grace and humanity find their way into our practice when we dethrone grades from the classroom.
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As a class we explore how this project is a form of decolonization, since it undermines the assimilationist agenda that constantly allures us away from our own ethnic roots. Always one of the highlights of my semester. 7/7
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This go around, one of my students made incense sticks using the method of his ancestral village in Vietnam, a practice in danger of disappearing, but which he is going to try and share with our Vietnamese community now. 6/7
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Another student unearthed her family's Norwegian roots and learned about klubb dumplings, creating a plate of them for her family, interviewing someone from a local historical society, and writing about the story behind them. 5/x
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One student developed a daily routine to help her brother practice and develop the home language (Kikuyu), which she noticed was slipping, since they arrive in the US when he was only 3. 4/x
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I usually share with them some exciting examples of the work that others are doing to revitalize their own culture or language, then turn them loose. The results are always interesting and often genuinely thrilling. 3/x
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