How many roads must a man walk down...ok, those are Dylan's words, but let me borrow them and give an answer: as many as he needs to. 

Sometimes our journeys go straight from A to B in a timely, orderly fashion; sometimes we don't even know there is a road and; well, sometimes we traverse in every imaginable way between. The fact is that learning about implicit bias, working on your own perspective, accepting some ugly truths about life experienced through the lens of others and translating that knowledge into educational practices that impact students is a lot. It's a long sentence and even a longer journey--a path that is as unique as each of us. Just because a plate of knowledge has been set out in the kitchen doesn't mean that everyone knows it's there.  There could be walls, closed doors, distractions and any number of reasons why people don't go after the knowledge. There really are learning gaps, but shaming does not open kitchen doors or minds. Shaming people for what they don't know is counter productive. If people don't have a safe space to learn and fail forward, how will they access and utilize the knowledge they need to become better practitioners? 

If you really want better for your students, if you really want your own being "woke" to impact student achievement, don't woke shame their teachers.

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