Welcome to Litsy!

Got this list for educators but really for anyone from MindShifts Newsletter. Put together by Shea Martin of Boston, on twitter - sheathescholar. #teachersoflitsy

Working right now with a student who is writing a personal narrative connecting the Murder of George Floyd to himself . The prompt, among many choices, was “something that changed how I look at the world.”

‘Ignorance is not bliss. Ignorance is a luxury of the privileged and a barrier to the unnoticed and underserved.‘ I‘m excited to dig into Ahmed‘s book on teaching social comprehension in the classroom. It‘s time to critically think about what our classrooms are teaching and what they aren‘t.

“If we want our kids to truly respect one another we have to meet them where they are, consider interactions from their perspectives, and find teachable moments along the way.”