Scarlet's Unconventional Teaching Convention

Annette Lareau is an author, lecturer and Sociologists at the University of Pennsylvania. Her field work inspired and informed her lecture and book Unequal Childhoods, Unequal Adulthoods. Her research focused on how income, seperate of race, influences the outcomes of children post high school. You can watch her lecture here. Where do I begin? How…

Culturally Responsive Teaching By now, everyone on the planet has seen the various videos of majority teachers teaching in underprivilged schools to underprivlidged students, rapping, dancing or otherwise engaging in some form “Culturally Responsible” Teaching. As I write this, I think of the movie “Lean on Me”. I understand that an unorthodox method sometimes is…

In one of my classes we discussed classroom power dynamics. Throughout my educational journey, I have always experienced it but never had a name for it. When I began attending Bunker Hill Community College (BHCC) I knew that with my chosen major, I would experience covert, overt, intentional and unintentional events that would perpetuate this…

Today, I am going to take a minute to honor my first teacher on her birthday. My mother, Paulette Kristine Ford. My mother was born on November 20, 1948. She and my dad married in 1967 and my oldest sister soon followed. My mother, like me, had a non traditional path to becoming a teacher…