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Multicultural Classroom with Roberto German
Roberto is an award-winning Dominican American educator with over 15 years of educational administrative experience. Since teaching 9th grade English, he has worked in and led schools from Prek to 12th grades in the public, private, and charter sectors. He has brought innovative leadership ideas to revamp school cultures in order to meet student needs and help them improve. His work is characterized by a passion for supporting young people, prioritizing social justice, and a dedication to excellence. Currently, he’s Co-Founder and Executive Director of Multicultural Classroom and lives in Tampa, FL.
What You Will Hear:
- Collective immigration
- Conversations cultivated in their home for their children
- State politics and challenges
- Balancing different realities. The 1/3 and 1/3 policy
- The migration patterns of African-Americans
- The importance of conversation and knowledge of your own history
- Diversity and learning in classrooms
- Being present and authentic as a teacher, leader, therapist
- Creating an intentional space to speak honestly, be transparent and grow
- Starting Multicultural Classroom and its mission.
- Change the narrative by not being afraid to have the courage, to build community, to love radically, to stand on our values
Quotes:
“The immigrant stories, not just at the core of who we are, it's really at the core of all of our experiences.”
“We're not afraid to engage in those conversations with our children. And we think that doing so better, equips them as they continue to navigate through their own experience. We're giving them language. We're giving them tools. We're giving them the resources to, to be able to talk about these experiences that are relevant to them and to do so in a way, in which they're knowledgeable, to the extent that they're young minds permits them to be.”
“Let's not start making stuff up just for the sake of trying to protect our comfort as it relates to.
engaging in conversations about race and equity and and anything that it, doesn't reinforce the hierarchical power structures that exist in this country.”
“We all should come into it with an open mind. Now we might not agree on everything at the end of the day, but we can't even start the conversation. If we don't come in with a willingness to remain open to hearing things that challenge us open to experiencing something different. Open to seeing things from a different lens.”
“We all should come into it with an open mind. Now we might not agree on everything at the end of the day, but we can't even start the conversation. If we don't come in with a willingness to remain open to hearing things that challenge us open to experiencing something different. Open to seeing things from a different lens.”
“Even white folks in this country, many white folks are not necessarily fully tapped into their histories,”
“We have a lot of young people who don't feel that they are celebrated. They don't see themselves reflected in the curriculum. And in many cases, they also don't see themselves reflect. In school leadership and school staff.”
“I would love for our school leaders and our teachers to lead with curiosity, especially in those areas, in which they may feel some discomfort. Wrestle with that discomfort.”
“In these uncertain times where there is a constant tension in the air that derives from racial undertones. Let us not be afraid to have the courage, to build community, to love radically to stand on our values. This is a beautiful and ugly country in many ways. I love to see us commit to making it more beautiful than ugly.”
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Roberto is an award-winning Dominican American educator with over 15 years of educational administrative experience. Since teaching 9th grade English, he has worked in and led schools from Prek to 12th grades in the public, private, and charter sectors. He has brought innovative leadership ideas to revamp school cultures in order to meet student needs and help them improve. His work is characterized by a passion for supporting young people, prioritizing social justice, and a dedication to excellence. Currently, he’s Co-Founder and Executive Director of Multicultural Classroom and lives in Tampa, FL.
What You Will Hear:
- Collective immigration
- Conversations cultivated in their home for their children
- State politics and challenges
- Balancing different realities. The 1/3 and 1/3 policy
- The migration patterns of African-Americans
- The importance of conversation and knowledge of your own history
- Diversity and learning in classrooms
- Being present and authentic as a teacher, leader, therapist
- Creating an intentional space to speak honestly, be transparent and grow
- Starting Multicultural Classroom and its mission.
- Change the narrative by not being afraid to have the courage, to build community, to love radically, to stand on our values
Quotes:
“The immigrant stories, not just at the core of who we are, it's really at the core of all of our experiences.”
“We're not afraid to engage in those conversations with our children. And we think that doing so better, equips them as they continue to navigate through their own experience. We're giving them language. We're giving them tools. We're giving them the resources to, to be able to talk about these experiences that are relevant to them and to do so in a way, in which they're knowledgeable, to the extent that they're young minds permits them to be.”
“Let's not start making stuff up just for the sake of trying to protect our comfort as it relates to.
engaging in conversations about race and equity and and anything that it, doesn't reinforce the hierarchical power structures that exist in this country.”
“We all should come into it with an open mind. Now we might not agree on everything at the end of the day, but we can't even start the conversation. If we don't come in with a willingness to remain open to hearing things that challenge us open to experiencing something different. Open to seeing things from a different lens.”
“We all should come into it with an open mind. Now we might not agree on everything at the end of the day, but we can't even start the conversation. If we don't come in with a willingness to remain open to hearing things that challenge us open to experiencing something different. Open to seeing things from a different lens.”
“Even white folks in this country, many white folks are not necessarily fully tapped into their histories,”
“We have a lot of young people who don't feel that they are celebrated. They don't see themselves reflected in the curriculum. And in many cases, they also don't see themselves reflect. In school leadership and school staff.”
“I would love for our school leaders and our teachers to lead with curiosity, especially in those areas, in which they may feel some discomfort. Wrestle with that discomfort.”
“In these uncertain times where there is a constant tension in the air that derives from racial undertones. Let us not be afraid to have the courage, to build community, to love radically to stand on our values. This is a beautiful and ugly country in many ways. I love to see us commit to making it more beautiful than ugly.”
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