You've read Glenn Singleton, Beverly Daniel Tatum and Robin DiAngelo. You know that race is a predictive factor of a student’s chance of attaining educational success in America. You know that race needs to be talked about in schools if we are going to make progress on closing our nation’s opportunity gap. And you know that in your school you should be talking about race with your staff. Your desire and your theory are sound, but...where do you start? At your next staff meeting, what do you say and how do you say it? And then what?
This is the story of one school's journey - how we started the conversation, what happened and what we learned to do and not to do along the way.