Domain 1
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KNOW YOURSELF
To understand one’s culture and why culture matters
To recognize biases and develop ways to overcome them
To consciously work at transforming oneself and one’s professional practice
To understand how issues of race, whiteness, and social dominance interact to create and sustain race-based educational disparities
To understand how the dynamics of dominance impact student outcomes in our schools and classrooms and how issues of privilege and power may get in the way of one’s practice
To understand how one’s race consciousness impacts student’s feelings of inclusion and efficacy
To practice the skills and dispositions to engage in difficult conversations as a means to understand privilege
To act with empathy and courage to ensure equity, access, and an anti-racist culture
Professional Development:
Teaching Through a Culturally Diverse Lens
This is a 6 week online course created to help you become a better educator to ethnically and linguistically diverse students.Learning for Justice (formerly Teaching Tolerance) offers self-paced, online, and in-person professional learning opportunities for educators
Websites & Tools:
Stages of Racial Identity Development, focus of White Racial Identity
by Beverly Daniel TatumWhat is White Privilege, Really?
Learningforjustice.orgProject ImplicitThe Implicit Association Test (IAT) measures attitudes and beliefs that people may be unwilling or unable to report. In our work with educators, schools, students and communities, Learning for Justice seeks to uphold the mission of the Southern Poverty Law Center: to be a catalyst for racial justice in the South and beyond, working in partnership with communities to dismantle white supremacy, strengthen intersectional movements and advance the human rights of all people.
Jay Smooth - How I Learned to Stop Worrying and Love Discussing Race - TEDX
Jay Smooth is host of New York's longest running hip-hop radio show, the Underground Railroad on WBAI 99.5 FM in NY, and is an acclaimed commentator on politics and culture.Other Ways to Be Involved:
Informal Interviews of Family Members
Reflective writing
Journals
Visit Other Communities
Visit or Read About Successful Teachers in Diverse Settings
Participate in School-Wide and District-Wide Efforts to Become an Antiracist and Anti Bias School System
Articles:
11 Things White People Need to Realize About Race - Huffpost
Want to be an ally? Educate yourself.What is White Privilege, Really?
Learningforjustice.org24 Cognitive Biases Stuffing Up Your Thinking
Cognitive biases make our judgments irrational. We have evolved to use shortcuts in our thinking, which are often useful, but a cognitive bias means there’s a kind of misfiring going on causing us to lose objectivity. This website has been designed to help you identify some of the most common biases stuffing up your thinking.Lisa Delpit’s The Silenced Dialogue: Pedagogy and Power in Educating Other People’s Children
Harvard educational reviewPutting Down the Shield of Silence: Facilitating Dialogues with Bravery and Curiosity
Silence is a shield. It is meant to protect, and it is successful in protection. It protects us from difficult dialogues. For those of us not already targeted, it protects us from being targeted. It protects our relationships. It protects the feeling of peace.Books:
Culturally Responsive Teaching and the Brain
Chapter 4: Preparing to Be a Culturally Responsive Practitioner” Zaretta HammondIn Antiracism and Universal Design for Learning: Building Expressways to Success, Andratesha Fritzgerald reveals Universal Design for Learning (UDL) as an effective framework to teach Black and Brown students. Drawing vivid portraits of classroom instruction, Fritzgerald shows how teachers open new roads of communication, engagement, and skill-building for students who feel honored and loved.