I checked my cell phone at eleven this morning or so. I spent the afternoon checking my email (I got a message from Sister Souljah! I’ll add it to this post this evening) and facebook on my phone, and texting my sister. So yeah.
But anyway I think the brief power(less) outage did me good and maybe got my mind reset. I can’t be trying to explain myself to this person, because it’s all been said and speaking different languages and don’t agree. That’s a recipe for crazy and pissed all the time. No series of arguments is going to bring about an epiphany here, not on either side.
I suffered a workshop today where a guy basically talked for six hours. We moved around and were supposed to talk for about an hour. That’s so frustrating! Why do they think, just because we are grownups, that we are going to learn and produce quality thinking in response to that monotonous pedagogy? Nobody learns that way! Nobody enjoys it! I like learning and I like working! Surely you can give me something to do besides sit here and try to listen while you talk, move around, and use the laptop clicker. Can’t I do something? Don’t you have any chart paper? Can we play a game? Let’s read something and then make a plan, let’s talk…
Oh, and here’s my email from Sister Souljah. I wrote her last night about the experience I had reading her books.
Peace Desiree Gladieux,
First and foremost, thank you for loving and being dedicated to your students, our youth.
Master teachers, with big hearts, powerful minds and a solid curriculum is what is needed
today. It sounds like that is who you are and that’s really great for you and for them as well.Thank you for purchasing and reading and feeling and enjoying and understanding and also
for utilizing, MIDNIGHT, A GANGSTER LOVE STORY. Thank you for encouraging and “tricking,”
or leading your students into considering and reading my work as well!If it has been useful in moving your youth into a better thinking space and better way of life,
praise GOD, I am so grateful.Please continue to be a reservoir for our people. You are loved and needed. Also, thank you
for your warm and kind acknowledgements of my efforts as well.Respectfully,
Sister Souljah
