Not working directly in education this chapter was a little hard for me to swallow. Since I couldn't really relate to some of the messages the biggest thing I picked up was systemic change and how it is so hard and takes so long. This really hit home with my experiences at Western as I have recently attended training through Crossroads, a non-profit Chicago organization dedicated to dismantling systemic racism. The basis of the training is trying to provide a long term anti racism transformation in your designated group. For this class the purpose was transforming WMU. They planned to do that by developing commitment within the institution to dismantle institutional racism and to establish an anti-racist purpose within the institution's mission statements. It was really interesting to see how they have targetted and planned to fight something like racism that has been around for centuries. It makes you realize that eventually change will happen but only over the course of time.
While the chapter was not about such a hot topic such as racism the chapter did include some good case studies on how systemic change has worked in educational settings and how they were transformed.
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