7/14 Reflection

Jonathan asked the same question that I was really engaged in: how do we as teachers create school-wide change? While we are learning strategies to implement critical pedagogy and multicultural education in our classrooms, it seems that we need the entire school to be on the same page as us. What is disheartening is that Gorski himself couldn't really get his administration to grasp the true meaning and function of multicultural education. Here goes a man who has worked with many students, schools, is published, etc and yet, he left us hanging on how his situation in the school at Northern High School worked out. He discusses how the principle, Donald, is genuine but has a "reframed version" of multicultural education, which indeed is what prompts him to write this article. But for the shake of hope, I wonder how Donald changed his framework of multicultural education. Gorski lays out the qualities of multicultural education that a school must implement in order to truly be political, but what he successful at creating change at his school using this model? I would have just really appreciated a more concrete example of how this repoliticizing manifests itself.