Day 39: Courageous and Uncomfortable Conversations
I am a white teacher who teaches a primarily black student body. My faith does not allow me to remove myself from conversations about racial justice.
Erin Conway teaches senior Theology at Saint Martin de Porres, Cleveland's Cristo Rey High School. Prior to her time at Saint Martin, Erin worked at Xavier College Prep High School in Palm Desert, CA and Saint Ignatius Loyola Academy in Baltimore, MD. She graduated from the University of Notre Dame in 2009 and earned an M.A.T. from Loyola University in Maryland in 2012. Her dream is for all of her students to recognize God at work in their lives and to embrace the very real ways they can work for justice in their own communities.
I am a white teacher who teaches a primarily black student body. My faith does not allow me to remove myself from conversations about racial justice.
On Epiphany, a teacher reflects on the role reversal of wise men recognizing the wisdom of the child—and finds the same in her students.
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