Know your Vocab
What is Character Education?
A “fix the student” system that pressures students of color to develop specific personal traits to overcome oppression, rather than pushing the school system to take away barriers.
What is the name for the result of institutions not equally providing opportunity for students to engage with government process as developing citizens?
(2 answers are correct)
A. Civic empowerment gap
B. Performative males
C. Achievement gap
D. Student coolness index
Civic empowerment gap
The practice of Freedom dreaming requires imagining worlds that are just, representing people's full humanity, and thriving in solidarity with folx from different identities struggling together. Inauthentic attempts to represent this include __
Kendall Jenner's 2017 Superbowl Pepsi commercial
Who does Love make reference to in talking about how pushing grit on black students is not the solution to inequality?
Trayvon Martin or Mark
What is one thing that Love believes all teachers should have?
Access to free or affordable therapy
What is Toxic Stress?
Children who experience prolonged adversities- poverty, chronic neglect, the US government separating children from their parents, violence, physical or emotional abuse- suffer great impact on their ability to learn.
Angel Duckworth says that grit is dependent on this emotion, which Love argues is out of touch:
Anger, Hope, Fear, or Happiness
Hope
Name an example of a city Love listed as having failing education systems
Atlanta;St. Louis; Baltimore; Detroit; Hartford, Connecticut; Washington, DC; New Orleans; Dayton, Ohio; Kansas City, Kansas; San Bernardino, California.
True or false: trauma can alter one's genetics
True: this is known as epigenetic inheritance.
What is something Darder argues is a hindrance to progressive teaching?
Fear of being fired, isolation, career setbacks, etc.
What term does Love include in her reference to the institutional "Hunger Games"?
Grit - "Measuring dark students' grit while removing no institutional barriers."
The Haydens (famous Black abolitionists who lived on Beacon Hill) provided shelter to whom?
Harriet Tubman and Fredric Douglass, Henry "Box" Brown, Ellen and William Craft, or Robert Smalls
Ellen and William Craft
What is an example of Character Education being put in place according to Love?
Mission statements, weekly blogs, and fundraising materials that are plastered with these racially coded feel-good, work-hard, and take-responsibility-for-my-actions buzzwords.
What is the reason Love argues she “made it out” of highschool when so many in her class did not?
Her potential was protected and she had many many people to rely on that continually pushed her forward, as well as having a talent for basketball (any one of these counts)
Where did Love say she felt most alive? (Bonus points: Why?)
Beacon Hill in Boston/ Congo Square in New Orleans.
Why: