Reflection on Delpit

"The Silence Dialogue" By Lisa Delpit explores the struggles of black educator's voices being heard when it comes to educating the children of color in the classrooms. With being an educator there is no doubt that you will be in front of a group of children that come from different cultural backgrounds and as a teacher is important to use your knowledge and power that is going to benefit everyone in the classroom. As a teacher you need to be open and willing to learning new ideas and allow yourself to grow in different aspects that might be different than what your use to. As a society we need to stary away from what some people call "the norm" we need to break the cycle of these social issues and use it into our classrooms. As Delpit explains the importance of "Culture of Power" she makes "Issues of power are enacted in classrooms" as number one. I feel like this is one of the most important ones and needs to be talked about more. In our school systems it has always been to follow the curriculum and textbooks that the schools provide, but what they have failed to notice is that we are learning from historically white males and enforcing us believe that is normal. We are so comfortable with what we have been taught in our past that we don't seem to see the other side of history, the parts that weren't brought up in our history class. Educators have the power to change the way we teach our children, and we have to acknowledge there is an issue and come up with solutions. 

The picture I chose is illustrating a young black girl who looks angry with all these books in front of her, but it isn't the books that are particularly making her mad but it's what the books are about. All of the books in front of her are about white history of specifically males. This is a great representation of what our school system looks like in terms of giving students of color the appropriate education.