FNED 246 Olivia Tetreault

      The reading and video, RI Laws and Policies and Woke Read Alouds, were advocating and ensuring safety and support while in the classroom regarding sex and gender-based topics.  Both of these sources are working towards creating a safe and inclusive society, including gender diversity.  RI laws have been significantly improved with the stride towards ensuring equality in all categories.  Children's literature have also seen this growth, with more diversity representation and normalizing gender expression from younger age ranges.       RI Laws and Policies are working to guarantee safety and bullying regulations to better protect gender diverse students in the classroom.  Some of the key ways of doing this is to reduce stigmatization that comes with non gender conforming students by maintaining privacy of all students and working to normalize differences among individuals.  Schools are also working to support and uphold hea...

      Thomas Hehir is working to expose the bias and systematic failures that students with disabilities are forced to face in the education system.  Hehir emphasizes that the causes of these barriers are formed by assumptions and practices that in turn, limits these students.  Many of these students are being represented in a stereotypical way, that only works to hinder what they are provided in the classroom.  Throughout his writing, he provides a variety of ways to help improve the opportunities students are provided, while also sharing examples of how these biases directly challenge these ideas.  Hehir often times discusses that schools are working to become more diverse racially and ethnically, but why not include disabilities?      One of Hehirs most impactful ideas was the push to promote high standards, rather than high stakes.  He explains how this assumption is one of the most damaging to these students, making them seem t...

     While reading Aria  written by Richard Rodriguez, there is a significant focal point on the way that assimilation has had an impact on his life, even outside of the classroom.  Those who are bilingual or support bilingual education push that students will miss out on a large portion of information due to language gaps.  These students start to feel that their home language is meant to be used privately, rather than recognizing their language skills as being beneficial to their education.  While language barriers hindered some parts of their education, there is also a lack of awareness on how it can make a child feel in the classroom.  To those who don't have access to their language in school will start to feel a disconnect from the room and feel shameful to speak it themselves.  These students, similarly to Rodriguez, felt that they had a private and public identity that was boxed off based off of what language they felt they could use....

     The purpose of Finns reading was to address the differences in not only teaching styles but also social differences that vary based on financially higher schools. His main focus regarded how those of middle and working level classes don't have enough power and necessary knowledge to change the way the school system prepares students to succeed in different financial brackets. There is emphasis on the fact that students are only being taught to fit into the same system that they are taught in, while those with higher education will not use their power to make changes, due to being comfortable with how it operates already. The energy that is required to make these changes must come from those who will benefit from the efforts, but those who want the changes are lacking the necessary skills. Finn also puts a lot of focus on the need for teachers to understand and educate students on how they can use their education and benefit from it.       Th...

Kohn's chart and Culturally Relevant Prodigy video is arguing for the need to understand a students culture and their individuals needs to have a flourishing classroom. When trying to incorporate culturally relavant prodigy, the culture factor is often forgotten about. There is a need to focus on how to connect students to their education with the use of their beliefs, personal experiences, and ideas. Students come into the classroom with their own experiences and schools need to be able to use these as a way to effectively education. These students are trying to learn through the schools cultural lens and if they are unable to personally connect themselves to it, their ability to learn new information will be restricted.        Race and ethnicity often times is conflated and will misdirect schools and teachers from understanding what a student needs. This will continue to put these students in a system with a one size fits all method that is known to be ...

Troublemakers written by Shalaby was written to put spotlight on the mismarking of 'misbehaving' children in the classroom. Shalaby advocated that children, no matter your background, have the right to freedoms. These freedoms included but weren't limited to the right to safety, the right to be treated as a human being, and the right to language and land. With this belief that many will agree with, she argues that education is one of the primary freedoms that children deserve to have.       Shalaby explains that as well as education being a primary freedom, it also provides kids with a place to learn and exercise the freedoms that they undeniably deserve. However, schools tend to push back on this, creating a system where children are expected to be silent and obey social order rules rather than challenge them. All schools across funding gaps fail to teah their students their freedoms. While some very wealthy schools better establish individuality, students ...