<div dir="ltr"><blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="margin:0px 0px 0px 0.8ex;border-left:1px solid rgb(204,204,204);padding-left:1ex"><span style="color:rgb(51,51,51);font-family:Arial,Tahoma,Helvetica,FreeSans,sans-serif;font-size:13px;background-color:rgb(254,253,250)">A whole generation of BIPOC children in the US are being negatively impacted by the climate of fear that is being perpetrated upon them by the unrestrained white-supremacist movement and the government that supports this abomination.  Their mental health, their educations and their lives are all being stunted and slowed down by these racist attacks by settler colonists.</span><br style="color:rgb(51,51,51);font-family:Arial,Tahoma,Helvetica,FreeSans,sans-serif;font-size:13px;background-color:rgb(254,253,250)"><span style="color:rgb(51,51,51);font-family:Arial,Tahoma,Helvetica,FreeSans,sans-serif;font-size:13px;background-color:rgb(254,253,250)">According to </span><a href="https://crtandthebrain.com/about/" target="_blank" style="text-decoration-line:none;color:rgb(125,24,30);font-family:Arial,Tahoma,Helvetica,FreeSans,sans-serif;font-size:13px;background-color:rgb(254,253,250)">Zaretta Hammond</a><span style="color:rgb(51,51,51);font-family:Arial,Tahoma,Helvetica,FreeSans,sans-serif;font-size:13px;background-color:rgb(254,253,250)"> in her astounding work, "Culturally Responsive Teaching & The Brain,"  students should be able to feel safe and confident to be able to become a self-sufficient learner.  Becoming a self-sufficient learner means the student become involved in their own educational and personal development by reflection and by being warmly challenged by an instructor who has earned their trust.  A dependent learner is always dependent on someone outside themselves to take charge of their education and are thereby passive learners who often give up because they have come to depend upon help.  They have a fixed mindset and not a growth mindset.</span></blockquote><br style="color:rgb(51,51,51);font-family:Arial,Tahoma,Helvetica,FreeSans,sans-serif;font-size:13px;background-color:rgb(254,253,250)"><div>You can read the rest here if you so desire: <a href="https://lowriderlibrarian.blogspot.com/2019/08/living-under-racist-terrorism-impacts.html">https://lowriderlibrarian.blogspot.com/2019/08/living-under-racist-terrorism-impacts.html</a> </div><div><br></div><div>Respectfully, </div><div><br></div><div>Max Macias </div>-- <br><div dir="ltr" class="gmail_signature" data-smartmail="gmail_signature"><div dir="ltr"><div><br></div>The ideas expressed in these emails in no way represent any organization's viewpoints, or opinions.  The opinions, ideas and reflections are my own personal intellectual property.<br><div><br><br><br><br><a href="http://lowriderlibrarian.blogspot.com/" target="_blank">http://lowriderlibrarian.blogspot.com/</a><br><br><br>Twitter feed:<br><a href="http://twitter.com/REFORMAnet" target="_blank"></a><br><a href="http://twitter.com/maxmacias" target="_blank">http://twitter.com/maxmacias</a><br></div></div></div><input name="virtru-metadata" type="hidden" value="{"email-policy":{"state":"closed","expirationUnit":"days","disableCopyPaste":false,"disablePrint":false,"disableForwarding":false,"enableNoauth":false,"persistentProtection":false,"expandedWatermarking":false,"expires":false,"isManaged":false},"attachments":{},"compose-id":"1","compose-window":{"secure":false}}"></div>