While reflecting on the Research Lesson Data, the focus is on evaluating the effectiveness of the lesson and addressing any issues related to students' ability to connect emotionally with the theme of Resistance to Oppression.

Observations indicate that students were able to access the lesson, which was a primary goal. The use of a unique class format, hands-on activities, and a 'secret objective' motivated students to engage at higher-than-usual levels. According to student reflections; they reliably made connections between the activity and the real-world situations that inspired the simulation. Students also showed a heightened sense of solidarity with activists and other people engaged in acts of resistance immediately after the lesson.

While students were engaged with the content and seemed to show an increase in critical examinations of systems, several students still displayed signs of disconnection. There seemed to be a stalling point in which some students struggled to connect the content of the lesson to acts of resistance that they deemed "illegitimate". Still, there was an overall increase in student criticality.

Recommended next steps include using similar scaffolds in additional lessons for an extended period to move students to a position of comfort where the scaffolds may begin to be slowly removed. This would look like using the same images and sentence starters for the same activities repeatedly to allow students to begin to pair the verbal instructions with the images in question. That way, students will still be able to add the academic language and instruction words from these lessons to their English-speaking vocabulary passively, and eventually, the visual scaffold should cease to be necessary.

Further recommendations include frequent check-ins with focus students to establish connections with them, and to slowly learn their interests and cultural identities, which can be intentionally incorporated into lessons frequently.