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How We Can Honor Indigenous Values in Our Teaching Without Appropriating the Culture

ED Surge

Perhaps it is because I am Mexican American and colonization is a part of my ancestry. However, during the seminar, the facilitators jumped directly into piloting GBL activities with attendees. I have always felt connected to Indigenous peoples.

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TEACHER VOICE: ‘Which police officer will see me not as an educator or a scientist, but as a suspect?’

The Hechinger Report

CASABLANCA, Morocco — I grew up with a Black father of Puerto Rican and Caribbean ancestry and a white mother, in an overwhelmingly white area of Western New York. “Eventually, I gained confidence to sit in the front row of department lectures and seminars, taking notes and publicly asking questions. I am used to standing out.

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