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okay. When the everybody just wanted to um discuss my

reflections about this program, which has truly been a learning

experience life changing.

Uh without a doubt, this has been the best learning

experience that I have had as an educator.

Uh no PDO class is no trainings for the past

20 years that I've been in M.

CPS educator teaching spanish and different high schools, no professional

development, no graduate courses can compare to the impact this

program has had on me first.

And most most importantly, it has renewed my love for

teaching and learning has compelled me to rethink everything I

thought I knew about teaching for equity, which was pretty

much nothing.

And it has led me to want to seek leadership

positions, which is something I always said.

I would never and E.

V. E.

R. Capital Letters wanted to do the most important learnings

of this program for me or take aways have been

that equality and Equity is not the same thing that

not being a racist teacher is not quite enough that

I must do more.

That being an anti racist is so so different from

just not being racist.

Yeah. Yeah.

That being an ally for social justice implies examining my

own biases and working with my black students, students of

color, um disabled students, LGBTQ students working with them and

not for them is a big difference.

And most importantly that engaging in self reflection is important,

but eating but leading others two in self reflection is

something that I'm also able to do.

It's not the job of admin, it's not the job

of the leaders, There are other people, but I also

too, I also can be a leader.

I also can be a coach.

Um I also could do this.

I can also lead others in self reflection.

That has been really life changing for me because as

an international student, I never ever thought that I could

do this work of leading others.

And the last thing is that as a person of

color, rethinking the role of culture and educational equity has

also truly been life changing from revamping oh my lessons

and this is a quote that I love from Chorske.

Um if we are teaching cultural proficiency, are we also

teaching equity proficiency?

The knowledge and skills required to create and sustain actively

anti racist, anti sexist, anti other oppressions, classroom school and

society. If we embrace culturally relevant or culturally responsive pedagogy,

do we practice it in its intended form?

So we are responsive to both to students, unique individual

cultures and two students rights to equitable and just educational

opportunity. Do we have the equity literacy to know the

difference, the implication of making culture the center of the

conversation comforting privilege rather than discomforting inequity though, is that

by doing so we mask racism, xenophobia and other oppressions,

undermining the goal of equity.

I have been transformed by this quote about rethinking culture

and putting equity at the center of the conversation and

not just diversity.

And this has really, really, truly been like, really made

the difference for me.

So overall, I would say this program has made me

a better human being overall, it has made me rethink

everything I knew about teaching and learning has made me

revise every single lesson that I teach with an equity

lens and made me want to keep on learning.

Thank you and congrats to all the grass.

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