spoke to students at the university of rochester’s warner school of education yesterday. some of them are pre-service and training to become elementary school teachers, others are teaching in city schools already. we talked about the importance of the arts and humanities and their integration into a well-desgined curriculum, about storytelling, visuality, the production and circulation of images in our culture and filmmaking, and about the importance of finding and showcasing diverse voices, perspectives and storytellers in order for us to truly understand ourselves. i spoke about my own work and how it aims to break into the official discourse and ended the presentation with this video about stuart hall’s analysis of mainstream media and its ideology. i told the students how capitalism fails to assign value based on what’s truly important to society and thanked them for becoming teachers.