Table tent with Compass, Four Agreements and Six Conditions

Poster with Compass, Four Agreements and Six Conditions (Spanish)

Courageous Conversations Compass Jamboard 

Courageous Conversations Compass Image

Google Slide 4 Agreements and Compass

Find any article on race and while reading find yourself on the Compass. Reflect on what it would be if you were at a different location on the Compass. 

Find any video on race and while watching find yourself on the Compass. Reflect on what it would be if you were at a different location on the Compass. 

1. Identify where I am at on the Compass

2. Center myself and find how I could find myself in all quadrants

3. Recognize where others are 

4. Meet others where they are, help to center them

Read

• Nothing to add: a challenge to White silence in racial discussions

• 'A harsh wake-up' here's how White people can broach difficult conversations about race

• The 10 R's of talking about race: how to have meaningful conversations

Watch

• Get comfortable being uncomfortable

• The danger of silence

• How to let go of being a "good" person

• How to talk about race

Listen

• Brene Brown with Ibram X. Kendi- how to be an antiracist

• Brenew Brown with Austin Channing Brown- I'm still Here: Black dignity in a world made for Whiteness

• Why I'm no longer talking to White people about race

• How white parents can talk to their kids about race

Reflect

• Four Agreements Reflection

• During a conversation about race, have you ever experienced disengagement from the conversation? How did it impact the dialogue? 

• Have you ever felt discomfort during a conversation on race? If so, did you work through the discomfort successfully, or was it left unresolved? 

• Which emotions prevent you from speaking your truth during interracial conversations about race? Which conditions can make it safer for you to deal with your racial fears and speak your truth? 

• Why is it necessary to expect and accept non-closure when dealing with race? 

Connect

• https://caringacross.org/talking-about-race/

• Follow on social meida: Celeste Malone, Austin Channing Brown, EmbracingEquity, Uprooting Inequity, Black Lives Matter, Center for Antiracist Research, Dena Simmons, Abolitionist Teaching Network, Ibram X Kendi, Bettina Love, Emmanuel Acho, Baratunde, Frederick Joseph, Conscious Kid, World Central Kitchen, White People for Black Lives, 

Act

• Find an article or current event and have a 10 minute conversation with someone centering yourself in the four agreements. 

• 28 common racist attitudes and behaviors

• Responding to everyday bigotry: Speak Up!

• Monitor specifically how:

  • • You stay engaged in the conversation

    • How you work to keep them engaged

    • Are you able to speak your truth?

    • Do you encourage them to speak their truth?

    • Are you stepping out of you comfort zone?

    • How do you end the conversation in a manner to keep the conversation going later and accepting nonclosure?

Workbook

Racial timeline video

Isolate race in media video

(additional examples not in session)

The Talk

I am mine, we are our video 

Colin Kaepernick Nike commercial

Read

Articles below provide reflection on engaging your own personal experiences, beliefs and perspectives

• Here are concrete actions White people can take to fight racial injustice

• Anti-racist work in schools: Are you in it for the long haul?

• Advice for the newly woke White teachers on teaching Black children

• 6 ways to be an antiracist educator

• How to be an antiracist educator

• How to be an antiracist

• Stop talking in code- call them Black boys

• Racism, not a lack of assimilation, is the real problem facing Latinos in America

• Fighting systemic racism in K-12 education: helping allies move from the keyboard to the school board

• Were all your teachers white? I've often been the only one who looks like my students

Articles below proivde understanding of historical as well as contemporary, local and immediate raciat context:

• Milwaukee neighborhoods slid after factory jobs vanished

• Milwaukee's staggering black-white economic divide

• Report: Metro Milwaukee's Black students are the most hypersegregated in the nation

• Black homeowners face discrimination in appraisals 

• Claudette Colvin: the woman who refused to give up her bus seat- nine months before Rosa Parks

• Richard Sherman: 'Thug' is accepted way of calling someone N-word

• Black newborns 3 times more likely to die when looked after by White doctors

• We need to talk about slavery's impact on all of us

• 6 myths about the history of Black people in America

• 11 ways race isn't real 

• The forgotten history of segregated swimming pools and amusement parks

• Discussing anti-Asian history and its societal effects today

• Honoring the unforgivable: the horrific acts behind the names on America's infamous monuments

• If we're going to tackle systemic racism, we need to rethink how we teach history

• The rich history of African American activism in Wisconsin

• It's time to dismantle America's residential caste system

• The player who nearly integrated baseball in 1905

• What to do instead of saying 'I don't see race'

• A brief history of how racism shaped interstate highways

• 29 facts about Black history that you might not know

• Jim Crow in the United States: a brief guide to the racial segregation laws

• How Plessy v. Ferguson turned dissent into a badge of honor

• Tracing the African Diaspora in Food

• The historical legacy of Watch Night

• National Women's History Museum: Ruby Bridges

• The myth of colorblindess- Dr. Rosa Isiah

• The racist history of America's interstate highway boom

• Why a colorblind approach to economic policy doesn't work in closing the racial wealth gap

• Black skin was a death warrant- how the East St. Louis race massacre was an omen for racial violence to come

• Racial reckoning turns focus to roadside historical markers

• The historical legacy of Watch Night

• A reminder of what human beings can be capable of: a journey to the sites of America's forgotten race massacres

• How Black Americans used portraits and family photographs to defy stereotypes

• 400 years since slavery: a timeline of American history

• The tragic story behind Billie Holiday's "Strange Fruit"

• Dear America: we have heard your whitewashed version of history. It is time you hear the truth.

• The whole US is southern. How our troubled racial history went national.

• Redlining: the racist history behind racial wealth gap

• 'Land rich, cash poor'- how Black Americans lost some of the most desirable land in the U.S.

• Legacy of Jim Crow still affects funding for public schools

• Every generation of Black Americans has had a Rodney King moment

• Freedom, justice, brotherhood, equality: the lasting lessons of Milwaukee's Freedom School boycotts

• When did slavery really end in the U.S.? The complicated history of Juneteenth 

• The story we've been told about Juneteenth is wrong

• The diversity of the top 50 Fortune 500 CEOs over time

• How school choice left Black children with scraps for their education

• Black woman tired of correcting coworkers who get her name wrong, plans petty revenge

Listen 

• Silence is not an option (CNN- Don Lemon) 

• Why Now, White People?

• Miseducation (NY High School student personal stories about race in school)

• 1619- 6 part podcast observing the 400th anniversary of the beginning of American slavery.

• Tulsa's Buried Truth

• Scene on Radio Season 4- the land that never has been yet

• Who We Are: a chronicle of Racism in America (additional resources)

• Throughline by NPR: the invention of race

• Throughline by NPR: Marcus Garvey

• Racial history of American swimming pools

• Throughline by NPR: The real Black Panthers

• WBUR: Antiracist scholar Ibram X Kendi on race relations in 2022: "In many ways, we're still in 1962."

Watch

• "This is My Story" 6 part series by LaVar Burton

• I am Human

• The first time I knew I was Black (series of short videos)

• The unequal opportunity race

• CNN: United Shades of America- episode #livingwhileblack (available on Hulu, HBO Max or on Google Play)

• How America invented race

• The myth of race (Vox)

• Bill Nye explains race

• The lie that invented racism

• PBS: The African Americans: Many Rivers to Cross

• Ibram X Kendi: America's Racist History Helps Explain What Happened in 2020

• The Atlantic Slave Trade in Two Minutes

• The Daily Show- the racist history of U.S. highways

• Amber Ruffin airs some of the sunken Black history white conservatives are trying to hide

• Housing Discrimination: Last Week Tonight with John Oliver

• Remembering Bell Hooks and her enormous legacy

• Crash Course: Black American History Youtube Channel (multiple videos) 

• Racial Wealth Gap (Netflix- Explained)

• How redlining turned Milwaukee into a segregated city

• Remembering John Lewis (from Explorations seminar)

• We can't recover from this history until we deal with it

• The Black History of Memorial Day

• History of Juneteenth from Iowa PBS

• The Making of Milwaukee

• Proctor & Gamble- the name

Notice

• Notice in your daily life when you feel bias in your interactions 

• When do you notice your race throughout the day? 

• Notice any historical aspects of racism that are still present today in our school system or society as a whole.

• When do you notice your race and your life impacted by your race? 

Reflect

• How do you define race? 

• What were you taught about the history of race in the country? How has what you know changed over time? 

• What can you do to continue to grow in your understanding of the historical and current realities of race in the country, state, and city of Milwaukee?

• What percentage of your life is affected by your race? When do you more notice your race over other times?

Connect

• Find school or district data by race. Have a discussion with a colleague about what you notice.  Focus on the personal, local and immediate. 

• Divided By Design 

• Learning for Justice (formerly Teaching Tolerance)

• hollaback!

Act

• Take Project Implicit from Harvard (select race)

• Personal self-assessment on anti-bias behavior

• How to build an antiracist workplace

• Addressing microaggressions in the classroom (University of Washington module )

• Understanding Microaggressions module (WI DPI/ Dr. Newell)

• Checking yourself for bias in the classroom 

• Cultural competence self-assessment checklist (www.rapworkers.com) 

• Complete "How diverse is my universe?" activity (by yourself or with others)

• Diversify classroom library, bulletin boards, and other racial respresentations to match student diversity

• Twitter video discussing his experience seeing a White woman record an encounter he had with police

• Talk to the white people you know who aren’t clearly upset by white supremacy. Use “I” statements and “I care” messages (“I feel [feeling] when you [behavior]”). They need to know you see a problem. 

• Take time to learn about an aspect of history involving race and racism that you did not know about.

• Find ways to incorporate aspects of our racial histories into your teaching or your conversations with peers. 

Read- articles below are from a variety of perspectives. While reading reflect on your experiences, beliefs and perspectives and how they may differ as a result of reading the article

• Inside the most incarcerated zip code in the country

• Confronting racism is not about the needs and feelings of white people

• Were all your teachers white? I've often been the only one who looks like my students

• How choosing a school made me realise my daughter is not white

• The problem with the equity vs equality graphic

• The problem with that new equity vs. equality cartoon you're sharing

• Why some people live where they do, in segregated metropolitan Milwaukee

• The false narrative of the post-racial America!

• Milwaukee's staggering black-white economic divide

While reading the following articles reflect on sustain conversations with ourselves and others.

• This is a WE Thing

• Message received: all lives don't matter

• How to respond to "riots never solve anything!"

• Banning White Supremacy Isn't Censorship, It's Accountability

• I'm an angry Black woman. This is what I want White people to know

• How social media helps and hurts when it comes to Black exhaustion

• How not to be an ally: a list of rules for anti-racist advocacy

• Why we need more close interracial friendships (and why we're bad at them)

Listen

• Intersectionality matters- looking at intersectionality and critical race theory

• Throughline by NPR: James Baldwin

• Throughline by NPR: America's caste system

• Throughline by NPR: race and the census

• How white parents can talk to their kids about race

• Some of my best friends are............ (podcast)

• Code Switch: What about your friends?

• Country Music's Race Problem

Watch

• The danger of a single story

• Is my skin brown because I drank chocolate milk?

• Red Folder

• White silence on social media: Why not saying anyting is actually saying a lot

• The danger of silence

• How to let go of being a "good" person 

• When they See Us (Netflix mini series)

• Kalief Browder Story (Netflix mini series)

• One Night in Miami (Amazon Prime)

• Soul of a Nation (ABC)- a unique window into the realities of Black life

• From slave patrols to today: what the history of policing teachers us about the present

• Disrupt & Dismantle (BET- exploring the inequalities Black communities face and actions need to be taken)

• The art of finding common ground (various TED Talks)

• 10 ways to have a better conversation

• Why you think you're right- even when you're wrong

• Standing Rock (video from Explorations seminar)

Notice

• How are diverse voices provided space in team meetings at your school?

• How often do you engage in conversations with individuals with different viewpoints from yourself? 

• What strategies, language or actions do you see from individuals to avoid conversations about race?

• How do staff members arrange themselves for meetings and PD? Who sits with whom and where?

Reflect

• What aspects of your students, their families, and the greater community are you aware of? What do you need to learn more about? (what is below the line?)

• What would happen if someone only told one part of the story related to your life experience? How would it impact you? 

• What strategies, language or actions do you see yourself using to avoid conversations about race?

• Have you found yourself apathetic to racism (or "looking the other way")?

• Leadership: How do you find time for conversations about race? Where on the agenda do these conversations occur? 

Connect

• Dismantling Racism Works Web Workbook

• Let's Talk (From Teaching Tolerance)

• Teacher2Teacher

• Implicit Bias and Structural Racialization 

• Sesame Street: coming together- talking to children about race and identity

Act

• Find an article or current event and have a 10 minute conversation with someone centering yourself in the four agreements. 

• Create an activity or opportunity for students and/or families to share about themselves, specifically aspects of themselves that might not  be as well known.

• Step out of your comfort zone and visit other areas of the city that you might not visit as often. Might include shopping at a different grocery store, getting food from a new restaurant, attending religious services somewhere new, or other opportunities across the city otherthan your usual neighborhood. 

• Have all staff, colleagues or family have a conversation utilziing the Courageous Conversation Compass, identifying which quadrant of the compass they find themselves. 

Read

Articles below identify racial privilege and power (or lack of racial privilege and power):

• How choosing a school made me realise my daughter is not white

• How public schools fail to recognize Black prodigies

• Milwaukee's staggering black-white economic divide

• Coded language is part of our racist education system

• Black homeowners face discrimination in appraisals 

• Black newborns 3 times more likely to die when looked after by White doctors

• A pedagogy for Black people: why naming race matters

• Got internalized White superiority? The danger of denial and the promise of another way

• New study finds black teens face racial discrimination 5 times a day on average

• What's lost when black children are socialized into a white world (The Atlantic)

• Intersectionality Wars

• Distinctions in White audience associations of 'Black' and 'African American' labels

• How to talk to White family members and friends who just don't understand their privilege

• What's the difference between race and ethnicity?

• AP: Why we will lowercase white

• No, you really shouldn't capitilze the w in white

• Seeing Black written with a capital b means more than you think it does

• What's wrong with saying you "don't see color"?

• I moved to the US from Kenya. I never fully realized I was Black until I had a son

• BIPOC or POC? Equity or Equality? The debate over language

• Why would you want to call your children that? Emotional caller rails against 'Black' as a racial label, Joy Reid offers compelling counter

• Historical foundations of race 

• Next U.S. census will have new boxes for Middle Eastern or North African, Latino

• Wieden & Kennedy debunks the myth of Asian Americans as the 'model minority'

Articles below deeped the understanding of whiteness:

• The weaponization of Whiteness in schools

• Confronting the weaponization of Whiteness in classrooms

• What happened when my school started to dismantly White supremacy culture

• Why talk about Whiteness

• The Classrical Roots of White Supremacy

• This is what White privilege looks like at your workplace

• Explaining White privilege to a broke White person

• This equity picture is actually White Supremacy at work

• Is healing from racism possible?

• 12 ways to be a White ally to Black people

• People have been saying "ax" instead of "ask" for 1,200 year

• Shielding a culture of racism: why anti-CRT legislation should really be called "White Comfort Bills" instead

• What if being called a "Racist" is the beginning, not the end, of the Conversation? Learning what it really means to be a White teacher

• Ask or aks? How linguistic prejudice perpetuates inequality 

• Breaking up with white supremacy was always the end game

• A campus more colorful than reality: beware the college brochure

• So much modern slang is AAVE. Here's how language appropriation erases the influence of Black culture

• How whiteness was invented and fashioned in Britain's colonial age of expansion

• Calling in our white male colleagues

• White men reimagined

• What white people pretend not to understand about racism

• When it comes to double standards for Black women, Angel Reese is the tip of the iceberg

Listen

• Teaching While White

• Nice White Parents (This American Life)

• Cory Booker on White Supremacist Violence

• Brenew Brown with Austin Channing Brown- I'm still Here: Black dignity in a world made for Whiteness

• Scene on Radio Season 2- seeing white

• Colorblind- Race across generations

• By Every Measure (88Nine Radio Milwaukee Podcast with Reggie Jackson)

• Teaching While White: Racial Identity for White People with Dr. Janet Helms

• Work Life with Adam Grant: building an anti-racist workplace

• Code Switch- what does it mean to inherit whiteness

• "The promise of Whiteness: its past and its future"

Watch

• What to My People is the Fourth of July? 

• How to deconstruct racism, one headline at a time

• New York Times 25 mini-films on race

• The urgency of intersectionality- Kimberle Crenshaw

• The history of Whiteness

• Whiteness WTF: White privilige and the invisible race

• Daily Show- a broad look at how white supremacy shaped America

• A conversation with White people on Whiteness

• Dorothy Brown- "The system is designed for White wealth"

• White Like Me (Time Wise) (or on Vialogues)

• Talking about whiteness (featuring two white psychologists)

• Robin DiAngelo on Tonight Show (from Explorations seminar)

• TED Talk: The little problem I had renting a house

• Robin DiAngelo on Amanpour and Company (PBS)

• A conversation with Native Americans on race

• Identifying and disrupting your Whiteness: addressing power & privilege toward anti-racist spaces

• White people must take action against the racists amongst them

• Our America: Lowballed

Notice

• "The Talk"

• Go through Jamboard of examples of systemic racism/bias and notice the role of race

• As you watch commericals, tv, news, movies, etc how is race portrayed? How do these portrayals influence our biases and uphold systemic racism/ White supremacy?

• Characteristics of White Supremacy Culture (from Dismantling Racism by Jones and Okun)

• How do you see Whiteness centered as "the norm" in school or as you navigate the world around you?

• Some aspects and assumptions of White culture in the United States

• Do you notice any of these characteristics of white supremacy culture in your life?

Reflect 

• How do you define race?

• How do you benefit or suffer from the racial hieracrchy in society? 

• What are ways you specifically wield privilege and work to maintain the racial status quo?

• How have you responded when you've witnessed racist words or actions from individuals in your life?

• How is your world view centered in Whiteness?

• If you identify as White, how have you centered yourself as a White person in non-White conversations?

• What racist beliefs have you internalized?

• How can you work to de-center Whiteness in your work and social life?

• What privileges are you willing to put on the line?

• What percentage of your life is impacted by race? Has your answer changed over time? Why?

Connect

• Whiteness Project

• Building Anti-Racist White Educators

• The Characteristics of White Supremacy Culture

• Becoming an anti-racist White ally: How a White affinity group can help

• Building an effective White caucus

• Teaching While White

• Minnesota Historical Society: White supremacy culture

• National Musuem of African American History & Culture: Whiteness

• Detour-spoting for White antiracists

Act

• Take a virtual privilege walk or find space to take with a diverse group of individuals. (many others available online)

• Learn more about White racial identity development (McClean Group)

• Journal prompts to help engage self-reflection & check your White privilege

• Stage of White Identity Identity Development (identify where you are and areas of growth)

• Take "How to tell if you have White Fragility" assessment

• Take white privilege reflection

Read

• Got internalized White superiority? The danger of denial and the promise of another way

• Moving beyond diversity toward racial equity

• Is healing from racism possible?

• Beyond random acts of equity

• How to be an antiracist educator

• Report: Metro Milwaukee's Black students are the most hypersegregated in the nation

• Nothing to add: a challenge to White silence in racial discussions

• How to make this moment the turning point for real change (By Barack Obama)

• Paying attention to White culture and privilege: a missing link to advancing racial equity

• The third culture kid article I wish I had read

• Five ways to sustain school change through pushback, struggle and fatigue

• Dear educators, it is time to fight for Asian America

• A guide to equity and antiracism for educators

• Companies are speaking out against racism, but here's what it really looks like to lead an anti-racist organization

• Belonging: a conversation about equity, diversity and inclusion

• Companies are speaking out against racism, but here's what it really looks like to lead an anti-racist organization

• Talking about racial inequality at work is difficult- here are tips to do it thoughtfully

• A framework for the Stamford Public Schools to eliminate racism and cultural bias

• Demos' Racial Equity Transformation: key components, process, & lessons

• 4 ways racial inequity harms American schoolchildren

• We need to talk about racial justice issues at work. Here's how.

• 158 resources to understand racism in America

• Beyond random acts of equity- Glenn Singleton

Watch

• Black self/ White world- lessons on internalized racism (TED Talk)

• Internalized racism

• Racism has a cost for everyone (Heather McGhee Ted Talk)

• How to deconstruct racism, one headline at a time (Ted Talk- Baratunde Thurston)

• Unnatural Causes.... is inequality making us sick? (7 part series)

• Moving the race conversation forward

• Internalized racism

• Stereotype threat

• Glenn Singleton: The Path to Racial Equity: Courageous Conversations (webinar)

• Glenn Singleton: Keynote 2018 Annual Confrence

Listen

• Colorblind- Race across generations

• Code Switch

• Show About Race

• The Stoop

• School Colors- a podcast about how race, class, and power shape American cities and schools

• Brene Brown with Ibram X. Kendi- how to be an antiracist

• The Ezra Klein Show- Heather McGhee- what drained pool politics costs America 

• Work Life with Adam Grant: building an anti-racist workplace

Notice

• Review the 4 resources below and notice the hypersegration of Milwaukee and the historical context that has created and maintains this over time. What connections do you see across all four resources?

  • City of Milwaukee Racial Dot Map

  • MPS Schools Black Enrollment Map

  • Milwaukee Redlining Map

  • Racial covenants

• Do you notice stereotype threat manifesting itself at school? In what ways?

Reflect

• Have you ever felt racially invisible or hyper-visible? 

• What motivates you to engage in Courageous Convesations work in your personal and professional spheres of influence?

• What motivates you to rise above any fears in your quest for racial equity in the future?

• How have you been personally affected by stereotype threat?

Connect

• Courageous Conversations about Race

• Race Forward

• Talking about race: National Museum of African American History & Culture

• RaceWorks- racial literacy digital toolkit

• Dismantling Racism Works Web Workbook

• Let's Talk (From Teaching Tolerance)

• DMIS Model, IDR Institute

• Uprooting Inequity

• Opening Doors- strategies for advancing racial diversity in Wisconsin's teacerh workforce

• Teaching race: pedagogy and practice (Vanderbilt University)

• ProPublica: Miseducation (variuos education metrics by race)

Act

Author Frederick Joseph created a 5-day challenge focusing on actionable steps to be a better ally to marginalized or disenfranchised groups with Yahoo! Each day featured a short video with Frederick, personal reflections and actionable next steps. 

• Day 1 focused on our own privileges. 

• Day 2 reflected on bias. 

• Day 3 looked at systems. 

• Day 4 focused on creating space and then getting out of the way. 

• Day 5 focused on how to stay committed.

• Workshop ($39) on How to start a plan and take action against racism

• Personal self-assessment on anti-bias behavior

• Racism: what can I do?

• .....But I'm not racist, right? Self-assessment quiz

• Cultural competence self-assessment checklist (www.rapworkers.com) 

• How to write an anti-racism action plan 

• Learning, reflecting, and taking action to integrate anti-racism into our teaching

• Do Something (.org) Racial Justice & Equity campaigns to join

• Color of Change

• Erase Racism- Take Action