Ashley Valles' Blog

I thought that the Blackout assignment itself reflects the basic curriculum types we learned about this week. Some aspects are highlighted, some have an underlying meaning, and some are omitted completely. I truly enjoyed the last blackout poem assignment we did, so I was excited to see that one of our assignments this week was to create another one. I felt that the excerpt from Doing Right by Our Students encompassed the topic of this week’s unit, so creating a shorter but just as meaningful poem from the words was a bit of a challenge. My final poem turned out like this:  In order to reclaim our schools as sites of real learning and safety rather than suffering and racial trauma , it is necessary to help prepare teachers to critically examine what curriculum viole nce looks like within their discipline. Both prospective and current practitioners should cont inue to frame teaching as a reflective and reflexive practice by asking important questions of t hemselves and t heir cu...