Description "That\'s the problem with you, Minor" a student huffed.
Cornelius Minor on the Heinemann Podcast .poditems [ width:33%; height:220px; display: inline-block; padding:4px; ].
You can connect with him on his website, Kass and Corn, or on Twitter at @MisterMinor.
As a staff developer with the Teachers College Reading and Writing Project, Cornelius draws not only on his years teaching middle school in the Bronx and Brooklyn, but also on time spent skateboarding, shooting hoops, and working with young people.
Whether working with educators and kids in Los Angeles, Seattle, or New York City, Cornelius uses his love for technology, hip-hop, and social media to bring communities together.
He works with teachers, school leaders, and leaders of community-based organizations to support equitable literacy reform in cities (and sometimes villages) across the globe.
We got this." About the author Cornelius Minor is a Brooklyn-based educator.
Consider this book a manual for how to begin that brilliantly messy work.
Together.
In this book we get to do that. "We can ensure that everyone gets a shot.
A lone teacher can\'t eliminate inequity, but Cornelius demonstrates that a lone teacher can confront the scholastic manifestations of racism, sexism, ableism and classism by showing: exactly how he plans and revises lessons to ensure Access and Equity ways to look anew at explicit and tacit rules that consistently affect groups of Students unequally suggestions for leaning into classroom community when it feels like the kids are against you ideas for using universal design that make curriculum relevant and accessible advocacy strategies for making classroom and schoolwide changes that expand Access to opportunity to your Students "We cannot guarantee outcomes, but we can guarantee access" Cornelius writes.
What we hear can spark action that allows us to make powerful moves toward Equity by broadening Access to learning for all children.
That "my lessons were not, at all, linked to that student\'s reality." While challenging the teacher as hero trope, We Got This shows how authentically listening to kids is the closest thing to a superpower that we have.
By listening carefully, Cornelius discovered something that kids find themselves having to communicate far too often. " In We Got This Cornelius Minor describes how this conversation moved him toward realizing that listening to children is one of the most powerful things a teacher can do.
Y\'all want to use your essays and vocabulary words to save my future , but none of y\'all know anything about saving my now .
At school, you guys do everything except listen to me.
It\'s not always about that. "You want to make everything about reading or math.
Description "That\'s the problem with you, Minor" a student huffed
