Elizabeth sat down with Thu Anh Nguyen to discuss how the pandemic has highlighted white supremacy in schools. <a href="https://www.thuanhnguyen.com/" target="_blank">Thu Anh Nguyen</a> (she/her) is an educator and writer whose work centers around equity and justice. Thu Anh has led workshops and writes essays about cultural competence and literacy. She is also a poet. Her writing has been published in Literacy Today, Southern Humanities Review, Cider Press Review, and Crab Orchard Review. Make sure to read <a href="https://www.teachingwhilewhite.org/blog/osedloq3t30yafwf6zde03vbm9i9i2" target="">Thu’s blog </a>as well. Thu can be reached through her website, <a href="https://www.thuanhnguyen.com/" target="_blank">www.thuanhnguyen.com</a> .

Episode 19: Engaging Resistance, CRT, & What’s Best for Kids, Part 1

Over 80% of teachers in the U.S. are white. But most don’t know that their whiteness matters. TWW seeks to move the conversation forward on how to be consciously, intentionally, anti-racist in the classroom. Because &quot;white&quot; does not mean a blank slate. It is a set of assumptions that is the baseline from which everything is judged; it is what passes for normal. This means if you are not white or don’t adhere to those assumptions, you are abnormal or less than. TWW wants to have conversations about those assumptions: what they are, how they impact our students, and how we can confront our assumptions to promote racial literacy.