Moving Forward

My hope that I have in relation to diversity is that we can learn to accept everyone's differrence, and not set a standard of what is normal. Diversity is very broad, and thus we have to be open to learning more everyday in regards to children and famiilies. No one person is the same, so my home is we learn to make difference become a normal.

I would like to set a goal of speaking with families on a regular basis about diversity, equity and social justice,  I would like to bring in different families on a regular basis and have them talk about each topic. Hoping to bridge the gaps we have made in relation to bias.

Lastly, I would like to say to my colleagues, lets continue in the vain of looking deeper and moving beyond our bias. I thank each of my colleagues for your dedication to this field of study. It takes persistence, commitment, and a willing to change. So thank  you for dedicating your life to helping children develop and grow. Our job is truly inmportant and its the professional that help to develop our children of  today. Again thank you for being so committed. 

Creating Art

From A Different view

I see the world through the eyes of my culture

I was taught we are all different.

I never knew what made us different, 

It is color, size, sex, language.

Know one ever told me, what the difference was.

I soon begin to find out  we are different. 

Our difference come from the view we choose.

Some choose the view of race, culture, age, identity.

I soon learn to choose the view of people, places, and things.

I gain a different view, as I began to expand my thinking. 

Only our view makes us different, either we are people, places or a things. 

Thus I often wonder how can we get others to see from this view. 

Then I realized, it all comes from changing the view of what others have made us view.

It times to look from a different view, then we can become less bias, and experience the greatness of difference.

We Dont Say Those Words In Class

I witness a child say to a woman that she was fat and started laughing. The parent heard what the child said, and quickly grabbed the child and talked to the child. I heard parent say to the child that what he said was not nice and he needed to apologize to the lady. The parent used words to reprimand the child, letting the child know that he could not say things like that to an adult and talking about people could make them sad. She reminded the child of a time, when it felt said because somone talked about him. The child, felt sad and went to apologize to the lady. He stated he was sorry and would not say thing like that again. The child was then made to sit down until it was time for him to go home. 

The message communicated to the child, would be becoming aware that saying things such as "someone being fat can hurt someone's feeling". It can also make a child feel that they can not express themselves in the way they see the world. The child may see things differently and not fully understand when to say something and when not to say something.  A child may also feel punished for speaking what they believe.

An educator may have responsws and said to the child. What can you see about the lady that is similar to you. We all have similarities and we all have differences. Everyone is made in a different way, yet we people. Let choose ways to see how difference make us diverse and not something thats bad.