This blog started out with a focus on my journey with starting a makerspace, but as a school librarian a lot of my job also involves library programming/thinking and integrating educational technology, so those became a natural part of what I was writing about. As you may have noticed from Twitter, my thinking, tweeting, reading, etc. have also been having some important shifts with equity work over this past year especially. I'd been involved in equity work for a while, but I wasn't nearly vocal enough. I knew that. I called myself on that. I've been working to speak out more, amplify the voices/works of others more, and be noisier. So naturally I wanted to add this Equity section to my blog. I want to share some of my learning and unlearning with others. It will keep me accountable, push me to reflect honestly, share my vulnerability and mistakes along the way (They happen, and I'm learning that there's power in sharing or seeing that.), and hopefully encourage others (I'm looking at you, my fellow white educators, especially. Although of course all are welcome!) to get started in this work, keep going, or go deeper. Equity fighter in training - While I've been diving deeper and deeper with intention into equity work, I wanted to include something about equity in my bios and things. To me, that is where I list the things that are the biggest parts of my educator identity. It was important to me that equity had a place in that. But I'm not an expert, and frankly, I don't think I ever should feel like an expert. There's so much learning and un-learning and re-learning for all of us to perpetually do, but if we're being honest, especially for us white folks. So I didn't want to put something in my bio I didn't feel deserving of, so I put in "Equity fighter in training." And it's started to stick. Honestly, I hope that's how I always see it - as being "in training" forever. I will never "arrive" or earn a seal of approval in equity work. I plan to keep going, learning, discussing, advocating, and so forth forever. I know there will always be more to learn.
If you see something problematic on here or on my Twitter, I hope you will let me know. I will try my best to have my impact match my intent, and when my impact does not equal my intent I will strive to always listen, reflect, revise, learn, apologize, and do better. What type of things might I write about in this section? Some current ideas:
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