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"Microaggressions are the everyday verbal, nonverbal, and environmental slights, snubs, or insults, whether intentional or unintentional, that communicate hostile, derogatory, or negative messages to target persons based solely upon their marginalized group membership (from Diversity in the Classroom, UCLA Diversity & Faculty Development, 2014)."

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Understanding how to support your students is very important. Being able to understand the definitions of power and privilege will not only help your students by exposing them to content but also providing students with the vocabulary on how certain systems work. (Leaven 2003 Doing Our Own Work: A Seminar for Anti-Racist White Women, Visions, Inc. and the MSU Extension Multicultural Awareness Workshop)

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"Low pay and high stress drive black and Latino teachers to leave the profession at higher rates than their white peers." (The Atlantic)

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The debate about the school-to-prison pipeline has largely been centered on boys. Meet the author and academic who has worked to change that. (Erica L. Green, The New York Times)

"Windows and mirrors ... students should be able to see mirror images of themselves leading classrooms. But if they're students of color, they just get windows and are constantly seeing other people."

-High School Principal, East Coast

Learning Power Dynamics in the classroom can be achieved by playing this fun game with your students. Read this article from Highlander Research and Education Center to learn more.