Journal of a Black Teacher

By Don Allen, M.A. Ed./MAT Response to professor for 2022 Summer - GED 8101-1 - Human Relations in Organizations (Hamline University School of Education - Superintendent Licensure) Now that we know, now that our data is hanging out there for everyone to see and talk about (during and post-pandemic), what will propel our educational systems in the Twin Cities into systemic change? Malcolm X, MLK, Jr., John F. and Robert Kennedy, Gandhi, Desmond Tutu, and the late Ronald A. Edwards (a local civil rights activist that wrote the book, “The Minneapolis Story” parts 1 & 2, and died broke) were all individuals that pushed systems into change for the benefit of the whole. The unfortunate thing is each one of these men (and many women) lost their lives horribly by zealots that didn’t want change. I mean look at Buffalo, NY and Uvalde, TX; it’s not gun control we need, it’s people and society control which has been ineffective for generations. I’m not talking about the big brother piece, it&

Mined by Don Allen, M.A. Ed./MAT   Introduction      When you have been intellectually abused you recognize it by the types of human biological functions that happen; sweaty hands, upset stomach, headaches, and anxiety levels too high it will trigger your reptilian brain into flight or fight mode. The assignment, this paper was to identify a problem at work and insert it into intercultural communication using the early chapters of our class text Communicating Across Cultures at Work (2017), and the later chapters to propose solutions; this is what I interpret to be the assignment. In reflection, to see a problem for what it is and the realness of the effects on team members, systems, and outcomes in efficacy leads me to ask “What can you do when teams inside Educational constructs don’t know what they don’t know?”        The first time I became aware of intercultural communication, which refers to the communication between people from two different cultures was when I was much younger