Each student deserves an equal opportunity.
Olivia Esposito, Wantagh, NY My experiences and understanding that prompted me to choose my six words was the idea that when I become a classroom...
We’re all the same, but different.
Cynthia Parra, Beaumont, TX. Through my profession, I have been given the opportunity to work with university students from marginalized groups and I have become...
Failed to befriend first black student.
Lynn Scott Cochrane, Washington DC. I grew up in a deeply segregated Charlotte, NC in the 1950s and 60s. When my high school, North Mecklenburg,...
I’m not that A+ Aisan student.
Yia Yang, Saint Paul, MN. I’m a student, just any regular student who listen and do their work. I don’t always get good grade or...
Music teacher listening to student cries
Jamie Coppa, Asbury Park, NJ. As a music teacher with an almost entirely black and hispanic student body, I was met with stories of oppression,...
Just another do-good white woman.
Margaret Davenport, Vienna, VA. This was said to me by a black male student in a high school program for disadvantaged but very bright, high...
Privileged, What exactly does that MEAN?!?
Janet Davis, Huntsville, AL. I live in the South where we have always had a larger black population as long as I can remember &...
Illusion of difference that justifies injustice
Phyllis Gabare, Kansas City, MO. Race and Ethnic teacher gave his students this project. thank you I enjoyed doing it . –
____ Students’ Association! Fill the blank.
KM, Austin, TX. I am current in college at one of the largest public universities. Not a week goes by where I don’t see a...
You’re cute for a black girl
Leah Thomas Florissant, MO I grew up in Saint Louis, MO and I moved to a mainly white private school in the 5th grade. I...
Colorblindness means you can’t see me.
Ashley Diaz Mejias, Richmond, VA. I write this as 34 year seminarian and old mom of two girls; my husband is haitian and puerto rican,...
At least I’m not a whiteboy
Julia Rivers, Milwaukie, OR. As a high school student dependent on scholarships in order to attend college and reach my goals of a much higher...
It is exhausting living this way.
Delfina Bernucca, Kensington, CT. I am first generation born in USA and grew up in a 70s and 80s Midwest farming community where I was...
Martin Luther King Jr. gives hope.
Marsha Leibson: entry of for a 4th grade student Submitted for a fourth grade student – Tatianna. She had learned about King Jr and Mandela.
Teaching History to White Graduate Students
Collette M. Bloom, Houston, TX. It is a wondrous and wonderful experience to see the “AHA” moment appear on White students faces when they finally...
How many tribes are there really?
Madison, Philomath, OR. Heard this question during a fellow Native student’s thesis defense about her work with increasing Native student retention in k-12 programs.
Saddened by such lack of education
Carolyn Spoerl, Hudson, WI. I taught in the Dominican Republic for a year and came back to teach in a rural American classroom. These two...
