The Mastery Collaborative community grounds our understand of Dr. Gloria Ladson-Billings three pillars of Cultural Responsive-Sustaining Education, which she called Culturally Relevant Pedagogy. Dr. GLB tells us that students must develop the socio-political consciousness to challenge the status quo.
What does critical consciousness look like in Elementary School? One example is this now-famous journal entry from King, a Chicago 8-year-old—and his reaction to his teacher's commentary. Listen as Master Teacher and MC CRSE Mentor Lonice Eversley talks us through the missed (by his teacher) and realized (by King) opportunities in this exchange.
Want more of Lonice’s wisdom? Check out her other blog posts:
How do I even do this? Surviving the Transition to Online Teaching
Talking about Race & Mastery with Lonice.
Lonice Eversley is a master teacher at Careers in Sports High School in the South Bronx, NYC. She’s an MC mentor in CRSE.