If the curriculum we use to teach our children does not connect in positive ways to the culture young people bring to school, it is doomed to failure.

In order to teach you, I must know you.

If the curriculum we use to teach our children does not connect in positive ways to the culture young people bring to school, it is doomed to failure.

We do not really see through our eyes or hear through our ears, but through our beliefs. To put our beliefs on hold is to cease to exist as ourselves for a moment -- and that is not easy ... but it is the only way to learn what it might feel like to be someone else and the only way to start the dialogue.

Those with power are frequently least aware of -- or least willing to acknowledge -- its existence [and] those with less power are often most aware of its existence.

When one 'we' gets to determine standards for all 'we's' then some 'we's' are in trouble.

We do not really see through our eyes or hear through our ears, but through our beliefs.