Identity
This week learning about Identity I felt as though I was really able to connect with. Before joining the Youth Development program at RIC I never pay much attention to my identity it was more along the lines of I identify as a girl and not much more than that. But after joining the YDEV program my identity became everything and part of who I am and who I am becoming as a person in my every day life. After watching Jamila Lyiscott's ted talk "Why English Class is Silencing Students of Color" she made me think of a lot of things in a whole new perspective. Jamila makes a great point that schools and institutions don't value linguistics (Which Christa also mentions in her blog) which in my opinion is true. For as long as I can remember if a student's first language was/is not English teachers and schools tend to make those students speak English. Which isn't benefiting the child instead of working together with them. She also talks about...