Dismantling White Supremacy in Education | Noelle Picara | TEDxYouth@UrsulineAcademy

I'm not a racist! I'm a teacher who believes in equity and justice. But is it possible that I may be unconsciously teaching white supremacy? We must look honestly at segregation and systemic racism in our schools and classrooms by first unpacking our own stories. Only then can we give students the power to imagine and create a more equitable society.

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-- Noelle Picara has over 35 years of training and 15 years experience teaching performing arts internationally to students and community members. Currently she is a teacher and Community Partnership Specialist at Design Thinking Academy, and previously she taught both performing and language arts at the Tatnall School and Ramstein High School. She is a singer-songwriter, dancer, writer, theater director, and producer who specializes in creating spaces that feature the voices of people who have historically been silenced. Noelle has studied circle singing with Bobby McFerrin, creative writing with Anne Waldman, Amiri Baraka, and Sonia Sanchez, and conscious dance through 5 rhythms.

[RodWick]

"I'm a teacher who believes in equity and justice."
In other words she teaches and practices racism. She's part of the new religon.

[luciusseneca]

If you listen carefully, it was all about her all along.

[grimes]

3:16 "I didn't do anything, I didn't say anything, I didn't tell anybody about it until right now."
I'm guessing that's because she made it up the day before.

[kaechan]

Disliked in the first sentence... I believe in justice. Equity is ANTITHETICAL to justice! Justice is blind, not equitable

[natwhite]

Who let these monsters loose on our children?

[strategicliving]

What a story! This teacher was not fired?

[Bigbaz]

This is one of the best comedy channels

[thecelt]

How about dismantling woke idiocy in the classroom?

[furtivedolus]

This feels more like a religious sermon.

[thenicolascage]

Equity is equality of outcome … and no. I‘m not for equity. I‘m against any form of racism and discrimination, but not equity.

[austinballard]

This lady and women like her.. are why this country is falling apart.

[Glitchfaction]

This is what Bill Burr was talking about in his SNL monologue

[Olivia-W]

Start with leading questions, would you?

We need a _Dismantling Karens in education._

[hedylamarr]

Classic ethnomasochism. first 3 minutes soften the audience with the racial guilt trip. then the indoctrination. cold & calculated. she's not really good at it to be honest.

[Cjaycc]

Someone please define grifter. Thank you

[gracebear]

Thanks for the talk. What about Asians?!!! We need our voices to be represented as well!!! As an asian woman, I got assaulted as well. WE NEED TO BE LOVED AND CARED AS WELL!!! THANKS!!!

[lemonlimelukey]

She's light years ahead of the plebs in the comments trying to cope with the cognitive dissonance in their minds.

[jjb]

Wow another teacher preaching Marxism... where do these creatures come from?

[mr.handsomeman]

Damn, I remember when they used to host smart people for these

[KMactheFarmer]

Problem is the politics you want to force via property tax monoploies..

The flat maps of the earth in state run edu buildings are wrong...