Angela YDEV501

Angela C. Stanley Week 12 videos: The school-to-prison pipeline, explained (3:15-minute video), Restorative Circles (3:44-minute video), Restorative Justice (9:31-minute video), Restorative Welcome and Re-entry Circle (14-minute video). Quote/Point in video Question/Reflection What can you control? “I don’t want to change your behavior.   I want you to think about it before you do it.” Restorative Circles I love the emphasis on “what can you control” because it is something that I not only use daily with the youth I work with but also to my own self.   Many times, we get angry and we don’t know the appropriate way to channel those emotions.   Sometimes, we end up creating misdirected aggression through our frustration and create a new problem that needs to be fixed.   I know I am guilty of this.   If we get ourselves into the habit of thinking before we act about what we can control, how we c...

Angela C. Stanley Week 11 Readings: Urban Youth Building Community and Making Space, Making Change: Models for Youth-Led Social Change Organizations             The readings for this week caused me to reflect on one of the classes I attend for my job.   Currently, in the ninth grade English class that I assist my kiddos in at Bellingham High School, the teacher is focusing on teaching “isms.”   For example: racism, sexism, ableism, ageism, etc.   While these topics made my eyes light up, barely any student felt like these issues are still relevant in today’s society.   This made me question what the is between those who are fervently passionate about activism and social change versus those who are ignorant to its very existence?             When reading these articles about the youth not only participating but taking on managerial roles, I wond...

Angela C. Stanley Week 10 Readings/Videos: Rethinking Ethnic Studies Intro, Precious Knowledge Trailer (2-minute video), (Some) History of the Struggle (8-minute video), Providence Student Union's Campaign for Ethnic Studies in Schools website, Patrick's Testimony (2-minute video), and Latifat's Testimony (3-minute video).             This week, I was assigned the Ethnic Studies column, which consisted of an article discussing what Ethnic Studies are and a brief history of it within the US, a Providence, RI website pushing for ethnic studies, rights, and equalities, and various videos surrounding the idea of ethnic diversity.   The idea of Ethnic Studies in these contexts were defined as historic education of the oppressed, people of color, and revealing the truth behind the history written by the victors of war.   Historically, this form of education was seen as a threat to society, and to this day, many are still...

Angela C. Stanley Week 9 Readings/Video: Children at Play: An American History, Shall We Play? Part I, Forum Theatre: A Tool for Social Change, Theatre of the Oppressed NYC: Sneak Peak video             Half of the assignments for this week were centered around the concept of children’s play and the other half were centered around the idea of forum theatre.   At first glance, I didn’t understand how these two concepts related.   I looked at the articles about play as a mere definition of what play really is and how important it is for children to have the freedom to play they want to.   I looked at the forum theatre article as a mere definition of what forum theatre is and how it is carried out.             It wasn’t until I watched the video Theatre of the Oppressed NYC that I started to realize how they could all connect.   The beginning of the vi...

Angela C. Stanley Week 7 Readings: Restorying “Caring” in Education: Students’ Narratives of Caring for and about , Nice Is Not Enough: Defining Caring for Students of Color, and ‘Caution, we have power’: resisting the school-to-sweatshop pipeline through participatory artistic praxes and critical care.             The article Restorying “Caring” in Education: Students’ Narratives of Caring for and about was a powerful map to describe the different avenues in which people take to express caring and what they find important.   The article looked at caring in two ways: caring for and caring about.             Caring for was described on an individual level.   It was defined as day-to-day, interpersonal reactions, specifically regarding a person’s needs at a specific time.   For example, a teaching asking about a student’s current mental health...

Angela C. Stanley Week 6 Readings/Videos: Locating Yourself for Your Students, Becoming a Youth Worker in a University-Based Community of Practice, Why English Class is Silencing Students of Color, and  Three Ways to Speak English. I found the dynamic between the videos and the readings interesting because I felt as if they all promoted the idea of diversity, the importance of altering traditional pedagogy, and bringing forth identity before presenting curriculum. However, I found the tones to be very different. The tone that I received from the assigned readings/videos was self acceptance versus societal shame . I felt that the readings were empowering, by promoting self reflection and applying personal identity to the workplace, in order to create the most effective way to be an ally to the youth. Whereas the videos gave me a sense of oppression and shaming of self by what is deemed societally appropriate. For example, in Becoming a Youth Worker in a University-Based Community...