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Bad Bunnyâs halftime show gave us culture, joy, and conversation â and yes, important lessons for the classroom, too.
Read through and add what you think is missing (in the comments)
And join us next Monday on Feb 16th at 7:30 for Teaching Global Black History so you can understand the context for his show. Stay tuned in our stories for more. And yes, itâs free!!
#BenitoBowl exceeded our expectations â¨đđž
Itâs been a minute and there are now many of you here, so we wanted to introduce ourselves again!
We are Roberto and Lorena, co-founders of Multicultural Classroom. We post here, make jokes here, and work hard here. Weâve been in the field of education over 40 years combined. Weâve worked from PreK all the way through high school and across public, private, and charter schools.
Weâre both Dominicans and Black. Roberto is the son of immigrants and Lorena was born in DR. Both are from Lawrence, moved to Texas, and after seven years, now live in Florida.
We are truth tellers. Our faith compels us. Love motivates us. Conviction grounds us.
What about you? Tell us about yourself!
A heaviness blankets us all. Educators are exhausted, students anxious, communities polarized. Cynicism and disconnection feel easy. But we can choose hope. Tune into Our Classroom ep 153. #GlobalTension #Education #MentalHealthAwareness #CommunitySupport #Hope #Resilience #Empathy #UnitedWeStand #Inspiration
Hope isn't always certainty. Sometimes it's just presence, community, refusing to disappear. More than just feeling sure. Our Classroom ep 153 available now. #Hope #Community #Presence #Resilience #Inspiration #EmotionalJourney #MentalWellness
The Cultivate Hope event may be over, but the work is not done.
Grateful for the opportunity to connect with so many incredible people through The Flourish Collective this weekend in Oakland. New relationships were formed, meaningful conversations were had, and Iâm looking forward to deepening these partnerships moving forward.
One thing this trip reminded me: hope grows best in community. Through collaboration. Through creativity. Through people committed to building something better together.
Oakland was good to me.
Now back to Tampa. đąâď¸
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Tonightâs Cultivate Hope event at Oakstop in Oakland was powerful.
Grateful to The Flourish Collective for creating this space and inviting me to share some remarks on hope, creativity, community, and resistance.
Shoutout to the other Impact Partners, the donors, organizers and everyone who showed up committed to building something better together.
Working collectively is how we move forward.
Working collectively is how we begin to correct this.
Still reflecting. Still grateful. đą
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What seems possible? What gives you hope? It's the educators showing up, students writing, communities gathering, artists creating. Hope is choosing each other, even in tough times. Your work matters. #Hope #Education #Inspiration #Community #Art #Teaching #Future #SacredWork #MakingADifference #ReelsOfInstagram
Hope requires imagination.
I recently created a lesson called Letters to the Future where students reflected on questions like:
âWhat kind of future are you hoping to help create?â
Honestly, adults need that question too.
Somewhere along the way, many of us became so focused on surviving that we stopped imagining.
But hope asks us to imagine again. Not fantasy. Possibility.
đ§ Our Classroom Ep. 153 â out now.
#CultivateHope #HopeIsAVerb #StudentVoice #OurClassroomPodcast #Education #Creativity
Long day but blessed to build with brother @robert_tres here in Oakland. Happy to back outside in the West Coast. Brother Rob has been a great thought partner as I continue to work on manuscripts for childrenâs books, novel in verse, etc.
We hit the pavement and pulled up to Taqueria El Farolito. The super burrito was indeed supper.
Then I got on the BART and headed to Danville to connect with my people from The Flourish Collective in preparation for the Cultivate Hope event tomorrow.
Hope is active.
Hope teaches. Hope organizes. Hope creates art. Hope builds community. Hope tells the truth anyway.
Thatâs why Iâve been thinking differently about education lately.
Every time a teacher creates space for student voice, thatâs hope. Every time a student writes something honest, thatâs hope too.
đ§ Our Classroom Ep. 153 â out now.
#CultivateHope #HopeIsResistance #StudentVoice #OurClassroomPodcast #Education #Poetry #Creativity #Community
Hope is not pretending everything is okay.
Hope is choosing to create anyway.
In the latest episode of Our Classroom, I reflect on the idea of cultivating real hope â not fake positivity, not denial, but the kind of hope that survives uncertainty and refuses to disappear.
Because cultivation takes work.
It takes intention.
It means planting seeds even when conditions arenât ideal.
đ§ Our Classroom Ep. 152 is out now.
#CultivateHope #HopeIsResistance #OurClassroomPodcast #Creativity #Community #HopeIsAVerb #Education #Poetry
