6. FUTURE

I would personally like to see curriculum explore and address the issues of race, gender, sexuality, age and disability. I think all sensitive issues could be addressed if a school district aligned their curriculum k-12. The more sensitive topics such as sexuality and race could be taught at a high school level while the less sensitive at an elementary level. Aligning a curriculum k-12 would allow for students to grow and explore viable topics that are mostly missing from a school curriculum.

We need to educate the administration behind the curriculum. This could be during meetings, a presentation, basically whatever it takes to show what has changed. I truly believe those who are involved in the decision processes do not know when the curriculum is not culturally responsive. More in likely they are comparing past cultures, a curriculum that has been seen in the past and one used regularly. As a teacher I believe we need to embrace what is out there. Sure students might on their own but it will be helpful if we could guide them.

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To me, culturally responsive means to connect communities with the arts in tangible ways. The arts are a way to build community, knowledge, interface and aesthetics. Neighborhoods centered around the arts mean that people work together in all capacities to support the arts whether or not they themselves are artists. For example, my hometown is centered around an outdoor theater that brings music, plays, children’s programming and the performing arts to the community in the summer. People work together to facilitate these productions for the artists, such as concessions, building and grounds, lighting, maintenance, box office, ushering, etc. Everyone has a chance to be a part of an artistic production. By way of volunteering, neighbors are exposed to the value and education of the arts as well as learning about the people they see throughout the year. Arts open doors to conversations and familiarity. In the end, a culture of community is built.

As far as in my own personal classroom I find it hard to bring in social issues because of the age and level of my students; I teach 2nd and 3rd graders. However, we do talk about things like kindness, friendship, bullying, history etc., that in a round about way give them some social issues at their own level. I find these social issues are taught through the social interactions among the students, sharing materials, working collaboratively etc., then focusing specifically on showing social issues through artwork. But I feel as though in those moments of social teaching we begin to build character education in which when the students begin to find their voice through their artwork, I hope they remember some of the conversations we have had in the art room back in elementary school that help them to succeed later in life.