Group 1

Picower very succinctly addressed ways in which white teachers use "tools of whiteness to maintain their prior hegemonic understandings," and therefore deny how their whiteness plays out in classroom pedagogy and maintains white supremacy. She was not specific about the way that teachers privilege whiteness in the classroom.  What tools of whiteness have you seen or used?  What are specific ways (other than a Eurocentric curriculum..too easy :)  )...that you have seen whiteness privileged in the classroom?

"Jaclyn is gaining an awareness of her choices as a political actor but is still uncertain what action she might want to take. Like the teachers in Flores’s (2007) study, she is encountering a disconnect between how she imagined schools to function and the reality of work in urban schools."  Do you notice a similar problem as Jaclyn in your practicum/ work sites?  Where do we go from here?  McDonough suggests that teachers engage in critical inquiry groups.  What work do you think should be done in these groups?  After awareness, what is a next step for white educators who seek to lessen white supremacy?