Article Link: http://exchangepress.com/article/from-silence-to-leadership-del-silencio-al-liderazgo/5026428/
Over the last few years, I have been privileged to be in conversation with inspiring teachers willing to share their journeys of becoming reflective teachers. Often working in challenging contexts that pull them away from the reasons they sought out work in the early childhood field, these educators agreed to spend hours of their own time, open to the prodding Ann Pelo and I brought to explore their thinking and decision-making process. Steadily, these stories are making their way to publication as part of an expanding Reimagining Our Work book collection, offering a unique approach to professional learning, through the study of educators reshaping their work.
Here, I share a small part of an ongoing conversation with teacher Olga Lacayo.
Margie: Your storytelling is so rich, Olga, weaving in your upbringing in Honduras and your experiences of teaching after immigrating to the United States 30 years ago. Some of this has been joyous, while other parts are extremely unfair and painful.
Olga: I am Garifuna. I was born and raised in my homogenous Garifuna community in Honduras. Garinagu is an Indigenous ethnic group originated in Yurumey (St Vincent) in the Caribbean Islands and exiled to Honduras in 1797. As a child, I did not ...