A social studies elective course, not to be confused with social studies career suicide!!

I am reading Bell Hooks. Teaching To Transgress as a morning coffee read, not assigned. 

Bell hooks says the classroom can be a place of freedom. Not something handed over, but something built. 

I keep picturing my Weird Art History elective, full of the wild, the glorious, and the questionable. Art that makes you ask why and then ohhh. 

My friend Frances inspired me to highlight the women in art history who had to pose as men just to be taken seriously, slipping their work into the world under someone else’s name. 

I’ll use sentence stems as bridges so every student has a way in, and accommodations that make space for ADHD and language differences, movement breaks disguised as scavenger hunts, drawing before speaking, voice notes instead of essays.

Freedom, to me, is learning in the language you have today, not the one someone thinks you should already have. My job is to make the room where that conversation can happen.

I probably shouldn't share this, but my favorite t-shirt has the following image on it with the caption "Girls will be girls". Attributed art to Artemisia Gentileschi - who portrayed in the style of Caravaggio, a baroque painter. No one attempts to talk to me at the gym when I wear this shirt :D Look at your own accord... It is weird in so many ways!

See her Bio here  https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Artemisia_Gentileschi