by Cristell Ramirez

For this blog post, I went on the website, www.we.org to learn about some practices I am able to adapt into my future classroom. WE charity is an internationally known charity/educational partner in which it allows students to have the tools in order to create transformative social changes. This organization works with communities in Africa, Asia, and Latin America to implement WE villages where the 5 pillar international development model in order to achieve sustainable change. If we are going by numbers, one million people have been empowered to lift themselves out of poverty, two hundred thousand children have access to education, over forty million hours of volunteer has been logged in WE schools and so much more. A little more about the WE movement from the creators themselves.

Information from www.we.org

I decided to look at the WE teachers diversity and inclusion module to use in the future for my classroom. I learned different ways of making kids feel included in my classroom. Making sure I follow the different practices for the kids to feel safe and in a place where they can express themselves whether it be gender, race, ethnicity, or sexuality. School should be a safe place for kids to express themselves freely without judgement.

Being able to include every single one of students no matter what they identify as is a big deal to me. I am excited to be a teacher where I can talk about different cultures and their practices. Growing up, I never really had these things and I would feel left out and I don’t want one of my students to feel like that.

I want to know and be in the know of everything going on in my classroom. I want to make the kids feel like they can trust me enough to have conversations about these different topics. And with this I have to understand my own background to understand theirs.

There are so many more modules to look at but this is the one I found the most interesting. There is so much more to learn in this specific module and it even comes with different resources and activities to be incorporated into lesson plans. I will be trying my best to follow through with what I have learned in these modules.