Mindfull Inquiry

Courageous Conversations about Race Protocols "One Pager"

Quadrants explained

Compass & Shadow

Intercession Handout

Intercession Reflections- 

Find time and space to discuss the following with a thought partner(s)

• What is my personal definition for equity/antiracism?

• When I am engaging in equity/antiracism work, what do I feel and what do I see?

• What qualities and characteristics are exhibited by leaders who are engaging in equity/antiracism work?

• In what ways do I personally exhibit these qualities and characteristics of equity/antiracist leadership?

Complete this Courageous Conversations Protocol Developmental Scale: https://forms.gle/X1FUhqmLVtcpjQ6BA

I ask that you complete on Google Form anonymous, the email is used to send you your responses. Please have responses for LEADS 2. I will have cohort-wide results of all participants as well.

Explore “critical race theory”

• What is my personal understanding of and relationship to Critical Race Theory as a body of scholarship?

• Based on my lived racial experience, why do I believe there is a heightened interest in Critical Race Theory surfacing in our current racial context?

• What are the multiple racial perspective I have gathered in addition to my own on this topic?

• As I reflect on the presence and role of Whiteness, what do I see as I reflect on the multiple perspective I have gathered on this topic? And what are the implications for my actions moving forward in my journey?

• Various articles on the national discussions on critical race theory:

  • Opponents of critical race theory don't even know what it is 

  • New national poll: Americans split on whether schools should teach current-day racism

  • Critical race theory hysteria overshadows the importance of teaching kids about racism 

  • Critical Race Theory and the new 'Massive Resistance' 

  • What the critical race theory panic was really about 

  • Critical race theory debate is a distraction from the real issue- making schools places where children can truly be themselves 

  • Critical race theory panic is largely about white parents holding on to mythologies 

  • Why are states banning critical race theory?

Slide Deck

Above & Below the Line (Word version - Jamboard - Google Slide - please make a copy into your Google Drive) 

Decades racial context resources:

• https://www.newsweek.com/timeline-racial-progress-us-lack-it-through-years-1515754

• https://www.thoughtco.com/african-american-history-timeline-1990-1999-45447 

• https://www.history.com/topics/black-history/black-history-milestones 

• https://www.learningforjustice.org/classroom-resources/lessons/latino-civil-rights-timeline-1903-to-2006 

• https://www.pbs.org/latino-americans/en/timeline/#y1900 

• https://www.history.com/topics/hispanic-history/hispanic-latinx-milestones#section_11 

• https://www.thepeoplehistory.com/1990s.html 

Intercession Reflection:

• Read the article "So when it comes out, they aren't surprised that it's there...."

• Continue to research racial events during your birth decade and beyond to develop your racial timeline

  • https://www.newsweek.com/timeline-racial-progress-us-lack-it-through-years-1515754

  • https://www.thoughtco.com/african-american-history-timeline-1970-1979-45445 (can select other time periods on bottom)

  • https://www.history.com/topics/black-history/black-history-milestones 

  • https://www.learningforjustice.org/classroom-resources/lessons/latino-civil-rights-timeline-1903-to-2006 

  • https://www.pbs.org/latino-americans/en/timeline/#y1900 

  • https://www.history.com/topics/hispanic-history/hispanic-latinx-milestones#section_11 

  • https://www.thepeoplehistory.com/1990s.html 

  • https://www.oprah.com/inspiration/timeline-of-race-relations-in-america 

• Given what you have learned and know about Critical Race Theory, reflect on the Four Agreements and think about what agreements are easier and more challenging for you in the conversation

  • Opponents of critical race theory don't even know what it is 

  • New national poll: Americans split on whether schools should teach current-day racism

  • Critical race theory hysteria overshadows the importance of teaching kids about racism 

  • Critical Race Theory and the new 'Massive Resistance' 

  • What the critical race theory panic was really about 

  • Critical race theory debate is a distraction from the real issue- making schools places where children can truly be themselves 

  • Critical race theory panic is largely about white parents holding on to mythologies 

  • Here's what you need to know about Critical Race Theory

  • Why are states banning critical race theory?

  • 13 questions for those who want to ban 'Critical Race Theory'

  • The White students didn't feel guilty. 

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

  • Video: Why Americans are so divided over teaching critical race theory 

  • Video: Amber Ruffin Show- Critical Race Theory 

  • Video: What is critical race theory and why are states banning it? 

  • Video: Creator of term Critical Race Theory Kimberle Crenshaw explains what it really is 

  • Webinar: Critical Race Theory- Understanding the Debate 

  • Video: John Oliver addresses debate over teaching critical race theory in schools "very loud and very, very dumb"

  • Video: Gloria Ladson-Billings: Critical Race Theory

  • Webinar: Parents skeptical of critical race theory talk to experts

Session Materials:

• Article "So when it comes out, they aren't surprised that it's there...."

• CRT Application Matrix

• Slide Deck

• SST Institute Slide Deck

Racial timeline resources:

• https://www.newsweek.com/timeline-racial-progress-us-lack-it-through-years-1515754

• https://www.thoughtco.com/african-american-history-timeline-1990-1999-45447 

• https://www.history.com/topics/black-history/black-history-milestones 

• https://www.learningforjustice.org/classroom-resources/lessons/latino-civil-rights-timeline-1903-to-2006 

• https://www.pbs.org/latino-americans/en/timeline/#y1900 

• https://www.history.com/topics/hispanic-history/hispanic-latinx-milestones#section_11 

• https://www.thepeoplehistory.com/1990s.html 

Intercession Reflections:

• Create your own racial timeline (focus on events during your K-12 life)

  • Events in your life, locally in the city you lived, nationally, and around the world

  • How were you impacted?

  • Who was involved in the events racially?

  • Who was impacted racially?

  • Example

Handout

Ladder of inference video

Intercession Reflection:

• Reflect on ways you will invite multiple perspectives in your leadership.

• What practices can you identify that you will intentionally bring into your racial equity leadership?

• Expand your racial timeline beyond K-12 grade to include higher education, career, commuity, family, friends, travel, global events throughout your life, etc

• Example

Slide Deck

3 C's of Whiteness:

• Color- primary, presence, position

• Culture- being, feeling & acting white

• Consciousness- thinking and reasoning white

Robin DiAngelo- deconstructing white privilege (video)

Mindful inquiry

Judith Katz: aspects of white culture

White culture terms

Intercession Work:

• Four agreements and development scale

• Analysis & Synthesis: reflect on the agreement "experience discomfort" in the analysis and synthesis of the Development Scale.

• Choose one of the Four Agreements to think about your practice as a leader and perspective about leadership

• Prepare a slide to represent your personal racial timeline

  • Please add a slide here for your personal racial timeline

  • Example

Slide Deck

• Faces of Danger

• MPS Racial Timelines

• Development Scale (Full)

• Four Agreements- Interruption

• Synthesis & Interrupt

• Anti-CRT Meeting Video

Cult of Pedagogy (Podcast)- How one district learned to talk about race (with Glenn Singleton)- transcript

Glenn Singleton Webinar "Leadership for Racial Equity in Schools and Beyond" 

A framework for conversations about race in schools (featuring Glenn Singleton)

Article "Beginning Courageous Conversations about Race" by Singleton and Hays

Podcast: From Woke to Work- the antiracist lifestyle with Glenn Singleton & JLove Calderon