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Response to OLIVIA GUDE

                                     Here are some GREAT articles by Olivia Gude

                                          Also OLIVIA GUDE 2014 NAEA INTERVIEW

I really appreciated her article "Encountering Others". I could relate to her struggle with feeling like she would never be able to relate to her students because she wasn't going through what they are going through. This failure to relate for Olivia was seen in the issue of being a white person teaching in a predominately African American school. This disparity however between teacher vs. student experience can not only include race, but extend further into issues with class, abuse,culture and religion to name just a few.

I found a lot of comfort however in her assertion that we don't need to be the same as our students to relate to them or make an important impact of support in their lives and education.