02 Dr Twyla Baker Understanding Each Other as Human Beings

Thank some of the stuff coming up with like the essential understandings it’s so heartening it’s so it’s very it’s a good step in the right direction to help us to understand each other as human beings all of us understand each other as human beings and to recognize and to see that our knowledge systems our way of thinking our way of observing is just as valid and in fact might be more so because of how long we’ve been here we’ve been here for just so long and to wrap that into a student’s educational experience I think it’s critical it’s it’s it’s you’ve got to reach them where they live and giving a student if they can see and hear in school what they’re getting back at home that’s going to help them and it’ll probably because I kind of had to piece it together it wasn’t it wasn’t there necessarily for me when I was coming up as a young person I got my life my learning at home I was lucky because I to parents who understood and knew what it was to be hit Anza to be you know tribal members and to live this way where we don’t necessarily pray the same where we recognize our kin differently even our family structures were all I mean all the way down to the family structures were different but no less valid if we can hand that to kids earlier then I think we’re going to have greater success in rounding out these individuals and helping them to find out who they are in tow to help them find their paths so