Project

Delpit:

-Codes and powers of blended learning

Teaching life skills

-Teaching students how to follow codes and laws

-Showing how when you do, you become successful by learning the material, and when you don't listen or follow the codes

- You gain less power and cant be a group leader or don't learn the material like everyone else.

-Feel powerful following codes, feel consequences for not following them.

Rodriguez:

-A young boy in my Mrs. Tirocchi's classroom whose family is from Nigeria has a name that is hard to pronounce for many people.

-He does not correct anyone because he is ashamed no one can say it correctly in the first place.

-Reminds me of when I was younger and I was embarrassed when teachers took attendance because my name was difficult to say. 

-A girl in the classroom on the other hand is anti-Rodriguez because she honors her culture and corrects people when they say her name incorrectly.  -Some teachers cut it short and created a nickname for her, but she loves that my mom (Mrs. Triocchi) says her whole name, and says it right!! 

-The boy on the other hand is like Rodriguez in giving up his private identity for a public identity. 

August:  

-New student in Mrs. Tirocchi's classroom, his first language was Spanish.

-Mrs. Tirocchi said hello and other few words in Spanish and the smile across his face was going from ear to ear.

-In that moment he felt comfortable in the new classroom, this created his safe space. 

-He felt like he was accepted and welcomed