Shifting to equity
Sarah Tahtinen-Pacheco stood with her Spanish class and watched as a shopper walked up to a native Spanish speaking man in his restaurant at the Midtown Global Market. As her class entered the room, the shopper marveled at the new cultural setting, took a photo, and moved on.
As Tahtinen-Pacheco’s students approached the same scene, they took photos just as the shopper before them, but their main focus was the opportunity to communicate. The students engaged with the man who was running the sho