Leading From The Heart

by Tracy Rosen, teaching & consulting since 1996, blogging about it here since 2007. All views are my own and you should take them with a grain of salt, I do.

Category: ShoutOuts

  • Tagline Props

    My tagline:

    metamorphosis, no better metaphor for this…

    comes from No Compromises, performed by Invincible, a Detroit MC.

    I love how the words string together, and I love the idea of positive change for the future it invokes.

    mp3 No Compromises originally downloaded from: FREE THE P! Palestine Takes NYC’s East Village by Storm, article by Remi Kanazi, The Electronic Intifada, 17 October 2005 is from www.freethep.com compilation which is a fundraiser for the film Slingshot Hiphop ! Many thanks to Invincible for allowing its use here.

  • Shout Out – Glenn Moses

    You must learn…just like I told you…You must learn. KRS One

    Here’s what’s appalling, to me. Every year we get 180 days to work with young people and every year we waste most of their time getting students ready for our past instead of getting them ready for their future. We focus on curriculum instead of kids. We focus on the way we wish things were instead of the way things are and we expect kids to relate to that.
    Glenn Moses    , in comment to Pete Reilly’s LeaderTalk blog post Appalling

    mp3 originally downloaded from www.hiphopassociation.org

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  • Seeing me, Seeing we: Amen of the day, Feb. 24/08

    And I fear for her, since when I look into her downtrodden and detached eyes, I …

    … I see me … Jose Vilson

    At first read, and with Jose’s apparent intent, this is about fear, life, and overwhelming sadness.

    On a larger level, this is about our connections as people, and points me toward hope for the future.

    I inspire to do as Jose, to see myself in the eyes of my students, my colleagues, my friends, my not so friends, my supervisors, my elders.

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  • Amen of the day on this US Martin Luther King jr Day

    Jonathan Becker boldly reflects on LeaderTalk:

    However, what troubles me more is the mounting evidence that even where we have managed to create diverse/integrated schools, there is extensive  within-school segregation by race. For example, students of colour are disproportionately:

    • overrepresented in special education;
    • underrepresented in gifted and talented programs;
    • underrepresented in the highest level academic tracks (including AP courses);
    • overrepresented in the population of students subject to serious discipline (suspension, expulsion, etc.);
    • under-served by highly qualified and/or highly experienced teachers.

    Collectively, at the very least, I believe that these empirical facts amount to a violation of the Equal Protection Clause of the 14th Amendment of the U.S. Constitution.

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  • Amen of the day for 01/13

    You must learn…just like I told you…You must learn. KRS One

    Here’s what’s appalling, to me. Every year we get 180 days to work with young people and every year we waste most of their time getting students ready for our past instead of getting them ready for their future. We focus on curriculum instead of kids. We focus on the way we wish things were instead of the way things are and we expect kids to relate to that.
    Glenn Moses    , in comment to Pete Reilly’s LeaderTalk blog post Appalling

    mp3 originally downloaded from www.hiphopassociation.org

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