Today's educators, from kindergarten through higher education, are uniquely positioned to provide their students with real life opportunities that demonstrate and promote equity, change, and social justice ideals amongst their peers, throughout the schoolhouse and into their communities. These opportunities for students, supported by the norms and culture of the classroom, often come in the form of daily interactions with curricula, which affords teachers the window to teach how to disrupt inequity among students and in their lives. For teachers and school leaders to open this window, each must also have the courage to investigate and learn from the mirrors of the experiences of others reflected to them. The work of the Peace and Justice Institute at Valencia College provides educators with the courage to investigate those personal mirrors for the benefit of their students. Their courage is found in the sharing of stories about themselves and by turning off their automatic responses to the stories of others. The following chapter considers how The Principles, the philosophical foundation of PJI, translate into an equitable classroom practice. This qualitative case study of 24 teachers explores the impact of the PJI Teachers Academy in the k-12 classrooms of these teachers.
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