Most recent public comments by Joe Bellacero https://nowcomment.com/users/36793 https://nowcomment.com/documents/160683?scroll_to=1544162 https://nowcomment.com/documents/160683?scroll_to=1544162 NYC has an inexhaustible collection of places that highlight the strengths of all it's varied peoples. Writing Marathons allow for an easy way to access these riches without feeling that you are being proselytized. Thu, 12 Dec 2019 23:25:57 -0500 https://nowcomment.com/documents/160683?scroll_to=1544158 https://nowcomment.com/documents/160683?scroll_to=1544158 Thu, 12 Dec 2019 23:21:51 -0500 https://nowcomment.com/documents/160683?scroll_to=1544156 https://nowcomment.com/documents/160683?scroll_to=1544156 Recognizing your biases, even when they are explicit is difficult, sussing out implicit ones takes an openhearted willingness to question your actions constantly. How can teachers find the time for this? How can we be taught to recognize implicit bias in ourselves? Much easier said than done. Thu, 12 Dec 2019 23:18:56 -0500 https://nowcomment.com/documents/160683?scroll_to=1544145 https://nowcomment.com/documents/160683?scroll_to=1544145 I like the idea of working towards understanding and restoration, but I have seen this structure poorly applied and thereby causing just as much harm as the old-fashioned suspension route. One child says something hurtful, another child responds with a statement that falls under a zero-tolerance rule, and the full weight of the restorative-justice circle only falls on one. The structures are no silver bullet. They require real understanding in order to be effective. Thu, 12 Dec 2019 23:08:26 -0500 https://nowcomment.com/documents/158316?scroll_to=1528026 https://nowcomment.com/documents/158316?scroll_to=1528026 What would America have been without slavery? Once Justin makes his controversial statement, it opens a door for some real digging. Were there other colonialized countries that did not engage in wholesale slavery? How did they build? What are they like today? What about countries that never were colonies? How have they grown? Fri, 22 Nov 2019 12:16:39 -0500 https://nowcomment.com/documents/158316?scroll_to=1528025 https://nowcomment.com/documents/158316?scroll_to=1528025 In my experience, the knee-jerk response to students who are not engaged in learning, is to make the learning simpler, less complex, less interesting. What this makes clear is that the way to engage students is to give them access to understandings and insights that are more complex and more interesting. Fri, 22 Nov 2019 12:16:39 -0500 https://nowcomment.com/documents/158316?scroll_to=1528024 https://nowcomment.com/documents/158316?scroll_to=1528024 I'm not sure what people have in mind when they say we should be teaching students to read, but they should realize that students have to read about something. Why not read about slavery. Math also should be about something. Why not the economics of slavery? Science is about something, there are infinite aspects of 1619 that science can explore. Fri, 22 Nov 2019 12:16:39 -0500 https://nowcomment.com/documents/104072?scroll_to=1129154 https://nowcomment.com/documents/104072?scroll_to=1129154 Interesting that you believe in this group? Are you or anyone you know a member? How would one come to be a member? Isn't is more likely that, as with all of the best poetry, he is layering meaning and using ambiguity to allow us to place our own experience onto what we are seeing? Sat, 26 Sep 2020 08:45:34 -0400 https://nowcomment.com/documents/104072?scroll_to=1129149 https://nowcomment.com/documents/104072?scroll_to=1129149 The title of the video is "This is America" not just black America. Isn't Adelphe right about everyone? Sat, 26 Sep 2020 08:45:34 -0400 https://nowcomment.com/documents/104072?scroll_to=1129147 https://nowcomment.com/documents/104072?scroll_to=1129147 Why do we accept this, Adelphe? Is there any way we can stop it? Do other countries have the same worry? Can America back away from this or does our Constitution guarantee that this will go on forever? Sat, 26 Sep 2020 08:45:34 -0400 https://nowcomment.com/documents/104072?scroll_to=1129129 https://nowcomment.com/documents/104072?scroll_to=1129129 No matter where, no matter how, get your money. Guns are good business and blood is a small price to pay for good business, or so it seems. Sat, 26 Sep 2020 08:45:34 -0400 https://nowcomment.com/documents/104072?scroll_to=1129125 https://nowcomment.com/documents/104072?scroll_to=1129125 This cheerful murderer gathers kids behind him, smiling and happy to be part of the dance. I watch how charismatic people draw fans to them no matter how awful they may be. Make America Great Again, follow me! Sat, 26 Sep 2020 08:45:34 -0400 https://nowcomment.com/documents/104072?scroll_to=1129122 https://nowcomment.com/documents/104072?scroll_to=1129122 As he shoots the hooded man (hooded so we don't know his age, his race, his face) it is clear that the human life he takes has no value to him. But the gun is another matter, to be placed carefully in a red cloth and put away for when next it is wanted. Sat, 26 Sep 2020 08:45:34 -0400 https://nowcomment.com/documents/104072?scroll_to=1129117 https://nowcomment.com/documents/104072?scroll_to=1129117 Where could you better set a video called "This is America" than in a parking lot? We define ourselves by our cars. We are willing to pay rent for them. Our day is cheerful if we find the perfect parking spot. And an empty parking lot is the equivalent of an automobile candy store. Sat, 26 Sep 2020 08:45:34 -0400