First Day

Interesting moment today. While having my students participate in a paired AVID activity entitled, Pet Peeves, one of the portions required the pairs to discuss and write down three areas of commonality and three areas of differences.  A student asked me if race could be used to describe a similarity or a difference, and I said of course, because race and gender are definitely part of our identities.  I'm hoping this sets the tone for allowing race to be part of our conversations.  I didn't realize it would begin on day one, but I'm so glad it did.