Mini Lessons on Race/Discipline

Mini Lessons on Race and Discipline

Minutes must be submitted online. Schools must have two meetings a month, with one meeting discussing student concerns and recommendations with discipline and climate and the other meeting on a topic of race, discipline, or student selected topic.

Lessons below are NOT limited to Student Discipline Committees. Could be used with homeroom, advisory, or another class setting.

Required topic:

Each month one of the Student Discipline Committee meetings must cover recommendations for school or district practices and policies.

Community Building

Various activities

Additional Ideas from Orange County Department of Education

Physical Activity Breaks (MPS Ropes & Challenges)

Additional activities from MPS Ropes & Challenges

MPS Violence Prevention Program- Community Building Activities

Pear Deck & Canva Templates

Facing History & Ourselves Pear Deck for first days of school

Additional Ideas

Based on feedback from students wanting to have discussions on race and discipline, the following mini lessons have been created to be used during Student Discipline Committees. Additional lessons and resources will be added as we continue to gather student input.

Race/ Social Issues Lessons:

COVID-19 Experiences (Pear Deck lesson)

Staff member Flipgrid reflection
Student Flipgrid reflection select COVID-19 from drop down of prompts

Millwaukee and MPS Segregation (Pear Deck Lesson)

MIlwaukee's History of Redlining (Pear Deck Lesson)

What is equity?

Transportation and Race (Pear Deck Lesson)

Environmental Racism

Milwaukee/WI Incarceration (Pear Deck Lesson)

America's history with protests (Pear Deck Lesson)

Root Causes of Police Violence

Root Cause Analysis Tree

History of racist monuments (Pear Deck lesson)

Honoring the unforgivable monuments (from CNN)

Forgotten Events of History (Pear Deck lesson)

Ten Black history events that should be taught to every pupil

Systemic racism in medical outcomes

Microaggressions (Pear Deck lesson)

Using social media for social justice issues

Voter Suppression (Pear Deck Lesson)

Louisiana Literacy Test which had to be passed in order to vote
America's long history of Black voter suppression
The impact of voter suppression on communities of color

Election 2020

Police Brutality and Protesting Pear Deck Lesson

Black Lives Matter Pear Deck Lesson

Student Voice Comic (Christian Cooper)

Student discussion on violence

Student Equity Graphic

Juneteenth

The dangers of labeling others

Defining stereotype, prejudice, and discrimination

Bystander Effect

Lessons from other sources:

PBS Learning Media Lessons

JayLoni: Hope is in my art (grades 6-12)
Black roller skaters are carrying forward LA's iconic scene (grades 6-12)
How Go-Go music inspires the beat ya feet dance movement (grades 6-12)
Ballroom: the sound of NYC's underground vogue scene (grades 6-12)
Afrofuturism: from books to blockbusters (grades 6-12)
The fiery history of banned books (grades 6-12)
Boogaloo: the dance that defined Oakland's culture (grades 6-12)
Native American hip-hop and freestyle in Albuquerque (grades 6-12)
Puerto Rico's Bomba, a dance of the African diaspora (grades 6-12)
Transformation: Get Lit and the Power of Poetry (various)
PBS Learning: Muhammad Ali's Activism and Moral Courage
PBS Learning- "Tell them we are rising: the story of Black Colleges & Universities (various lessons)
Should professional athletes use their platforms and status to speak out about social and political issues
Today's civil rights activists: Bree Newsome
Civil Rights: Then and Now (various)
Juneteenth/ Blackademics (grades 6-12)
Juneteenth Jamboree History (grades 6-12)
Juneteenth Jamboree Celebrations (grades 3-8)
Why are cookouts so important for Black Joy? (grades 9-12)
The Emancipation Proclamation (grades 9-12)

Discipline/Graduation Lessons

Student Code of Conduct (Pear Deck Lesson)

Suspension Due Process (Pear Deck lesson)

Administrative Policy 8.51 and 8.37 (cell phone and scanning) (Pear Deck Lesson)

Administrative Policy 7.33 and 7.37 (grading and graduation requirements) (Pear Deck lesson)

Defining behaviors (Pear Deck lesson)

Student Bill of Rights and Nondiscrimination Policy (Pear Deck lesson)

College Requirements

Do suspensions work? (Pear Deck Lesson)

Is school discipline reform moving too fast?

How can we promote attendance? (Pear Deck slides)

Pear Deck Slides

These templates are Pear Deck and can be used as Pear Deck interactive slides or traditional Google Slides/Power Points. Here is a video showing the process of downloading and using the Pear Deck versions. Pear Deck also has a variety of videos to help you if interested. You download/copy slides into your Google Drive and then you can edit and use however you would like.