What is "anti-bias education"? 
(The main argument of the chapter)- 
Every child deserves to develop his/her fullest potential, examine & transfers their understanding of children's lives & also do self-reflective work to more deeply understand their own lives.
What ideas confirmed my beliefs? The system we teach will, unfortunately, have beliefs set already, so we would try and work our way around it.
What ideas challenged my beliefs? Students are not really aware of their surroundings, they should be more informed because other cultures, beliefs are around us. I believe that most parents and children would not be able to be open up because of their fear of rejection. What are some questions that raise me towards this reading? Why do people have to be worrying about children's outside world? As a teacher, there should always be boundaries and know what to be involved and when to take action; What do people benefit after going towards certain beliefs? What I mean is if there are students who prefer a different gender rather then their own, so why not support them and guide throughout the way. Not trying to persuade them to change back to how they were born nor give them the cold shoulder.

I believe...
We live in a world full of blessings that the only way to move forward is to respect each other belief's and be open-minded about everything and everyone. I do not agree on letting anyone change your own beliefs and it would all be better to just give positive feedback. Gender-neutral language! Train your brain to be able to make accommodations & guide the children to feel more comfortable in their classroom/school environment.

Cross out the ones that you care about or would not mind: 

Gender, Sexual orientation, Race, Socioeconomic class, National origin/immigration status
Home language, religion/spiritual practice, ability 

What process did I use to eliminate identity categories?
I just went with what we live for and what revolves around our every day lives

How did you determine which one was lost?
I just choose what people perceive me as and I looked at what I struggle with

What impact does the last factor have in your life?
Mine was home language and I believe that because my native language is Spanish and I did struggle a lot to comprehend and master English. Here I am now trying to teach my daughter both languages but it is hard when I know my family will not help me to acknowledge that.

We basically can't fix the system we live in but we can just demonstrate our student's different views of the world. Support is a must at all times so the children can become successful. I believe that is better to inform the children facts and show them what kind of world this is.

When you judge a book by its cover...What we miss is:

• interests
• beliefs
• what they like 
• feelings/emotion
• personality

What we see : 

• Culture
• race
• hair color
• socioeconomic status
• gender
• height

What is a stereotype? a generalization about a group of people (often inaccurate, negative, based on assumptions of false information)

Stereotypes of teachers

• apples
• female
• knows it all
• mean
• ugly 
• grumpy
• strict
• boring

We basically were shown various pictures of examples where we all tend to do assumptions especially stereotyping children and labeling what each boy and girl should do based on their parent's belief and it is sad because then as they get older they have this wall around where they are only supposed to wear all one kind of style depending on their gender. 

Teaching history so students will care

• Should slavery be abolished?
• Who should have the right to vote?

Working in groups we were able to skim through a passage where we asked ourselves questions and then share with our groups as we move around the room to see who will match with our responses...
With six different groups-
White Woman: they said yes, right to vote. Because did a lot in war and take care of their kids. Yes, to abolish slavery. My group was white workers/indentured servants we agreed to become an alliance.
Free African Americans chose the right to vote and are against slavery so we formed an alliance with them too. As for the Male property owners they love slavery because they own slaves that run their business. Also, they do not agree on everyone being able to vote. Northerns believe the wealthy should vote, they love slavery for their cotton markets. Native Americans care for the right to vote and they do not care about slavery. Enslaved African Americans are against slavery and they believe everyone should have the right to vote.

Identify one text to text connection from the reading. Podcast teaching hand history colony; black ants and Buddhists, back then a lot of people couldn't vote. Identify one text to self-connection- it can be that I am not able to vote because of my legal status and I always had so many friends around me that had the opportunity to vote. One text to world connection was that history is all around us and is very important. We as a class used Hong Kong the NBA Basketball player that had the report about their way of doing things. One question the reading raised for me is- How comfortable are we to teach this? How can we address this to our readings in the classroom?
*They own slavery-
Washington(1), Jefferson(3), Madison(4), Monroe(5), Jackson(6), Tyler, Polk

Service Learning: 

• a form of experiential education
• Community service-
• An equal benefit to provider & recipient
• Who do we contact?
• Can we go back to plastic/recyclable trays?
• Contact the principal

Structured reflection-

• Students reflect on this experience 
• Role plays with him; she wanted him to not go home & tell the parent 
• Learn to communicate with students that it won't affect you

What is an activist?

Someone who fights for what they believe in, passionate, has a cause. Wants & change something, might get arrested for the work. 

What is activism?

Protesting, spreading awareness, organizing action, petitioning

Strong leader? 

Charismatic, persuasive, dedicated, advocate, brave, practice what they preach, and a good communicator

Who in my community are they examples of activists?

• The mayor
• teachers
• police
• firefighters
• Greta Thunberg
• Emma Gonzalez
• Naomi Wadler

Economix & Chapter 2

• What are the assumptions or agreements of the text? It kind of bothered me how in the article people who did find work had it tough, and people who didn’t find work had it tough, too.
• What would you argue with the text? The way they might have made fun of the topic by the way the text was set, like for example when it said Wool has always been cleaned with urine and bleached with sour milk but now the factories demanded mountains of wool. We need wool and it’s sad to see the author interpret this topic in a comedian way when someone reads it can be hard to take seriously.

This was sharing how economic can be set in many ways it all depends because capitalism is a complicated topic to discuss and understand.

We also were able to distinguish wants and needs:
for example, some wants are like luxuries, celebrations, junk food, etc.
some examples of needs- water, shelter, food, sleep, family

Supply & demand: 
We were able to participate and work in groups to have our own assembly line where each group member will do a part that helps to make the most cars that needed to come out productive to sell for our company. In the end, we observed that it was not an easy task as it might seem and bring that to real-world experience connections.

Junior detectives & Kindergarten students analyze primary sources

S-ummarize

• This is a primary source because it is a picture of that time period.
• Children with the same clothes; dirty clothing
• Taller children in the back; some are wearing gloves
• Kids are not smiling; they look like 9/10 years old.

C-ontextualize

• The location is west Virginia; in 1908
• It's not a colored pictured
• The children do not dress the same way now
• Author unknown

I-nference

• The children do not like they are doing it seems like
• Their uniforms seem to be work-related
• A lot of children in the image, seemed like they were all working
• In 1908 children were used in dirty work

M-onitor

• Why Make the children work?
• Are they getting paid? If so, how much?
• Who put them in this situation?
• How young were they when they started?
• Do they go to school also?
• Where are there parents?
• Do they have rights? 
• Are they able to spend their money? 

What step in the industry process was the easiest? Why?

Monitor-because I like to ask questions and hope to get some responses, maybe not always what I want to hear but it would be better than to stay with a doubt. I overthink things so I would prefer to know what is going on, then just jump to assumptions and be wrong. 

What step in the inquiry process was most challenging and why?

I believe it was the Summarize section. The reason for that it can be sometimes hard to elaborate on your ideas or everyone's because we all have different perspectives and opinions, mixed emotions; We could all interpret things differently, especially when observing an image like we did in class. 

Critical Literacy for young children:

Dr. Seuss and his book series !!

1. Can we still use his books?
2. How can we be able to use them?
3. Should we go back & censor what needs to be blocked? -Children will still have access to the internet outside of school and these types of things can pop up. 

Have all kinds of books for your classroom

Be open/close minded?

It really depends on yourself if you wish to teach certain topics to the children because in the end they will always hear what you try and prevent them from. 

When would it be age appropriate for the students to learn about race? 

Circular Inquiry 3-5 Process-

Building background knowledge & Curiosity

Choosing book & forming groups  [Building their literature books]

First group meeting [students discuss books & generate questions]

Reflecting on collaborating

Looking for BIG questions [teacher helps develop questions]

Onward to investigation

Planning to share their learning

Rehearsal/Presentations

*To maximize students' content area learning 

-asking questions of the other students

Circles allow the students to come up with their own topics and questions to explore....this happens because of reading non-fiction.

Evaluate the validity, reliability & usefulness of the information 
Work with others to leverage your thinking
Apply the knowledge to your own life
Share your new learning with others 

A big impact was brought to my attention about Dr. Seuss's article about racial biases that research shows at the age of 3 children being to form, and by age 7 those biases become fixed.