The Mirror and the Mask: On Whiteness, the Work, and a Moment in the Classroom

On seeing clearly, shifting the burden, and scaling transformation through the Model for Perpetual Growth and Progress.

Author’s Note

Before I begin, a word of care. The reflection that follows arises from a moment in my classroom—an exchange that, while specific, is neither here shared to single out nor condemn an individual student. To do so would compromise the trust and safety that must undergird any space of learning.

Instead, I offer this moment as a mirror of someth…