Make a list of your staff and do a pre-sort based on the definitions. Determine your type, if you have evolved, and how this happened. And I brought that belief into the field of education. I believed that I was capable of more than this racist society said. I have always been a believer in possibility, in change, and in progress. If you are more moderate, that changes everything and everything for our students. They are the biased people that maintain an oppressive system. I am pretty radical, so I see fundamentalist working towards maintaining systemic oppression. Truthfully, since this is about politics and philosophical agenda, this is all relative and depends on your stance. It is important to know where folks are coming from and what they are working towards. They may show up in different ways, but this is about their motivation. But, sometimes we are.īrother Anthony Muhammad, in his book Transforming School Culture, categorizes teachers and staff, not based on their behavior, but based on their agenda and objective. But, it shouldn’t feel like we are fighting against our own staff. Of course, we are fighting against a legacy of white supremacy, classism, and patriarchy. Now as a principal, I find myself in heated arguments, trying to advocate for high-quality education. I have felt like I was in battle, many times as a teacher in meetings, arguing about which discipline system to use, or as a teacher leader trying to get social justice issues in the curriculum. You just have to know who’s in the platoon and which weapons are at your disposal. 
The opposition has been winning since John Dewey had his one-room schoolhouse. The battle is for school culture, and ultimately the future of our students. Bullets are flying, bombs are bursting, and the kids are the casualties.
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