Educational Resources & Tech Tools 02/01/2021

• 7 Steps Toward Building an Equitable School Culture | Edutopia

  • microaggressions, they wrote, are “brief, everyday exchanges that send denigrating messages to individuals because of their group membership.
  • The persons making the comments may be otherwise well-intentioned and unaware of the potential impact of their words.”
  • such comments also position the dominant culture (Euro-American) as normal and the marginalized group as aberrant.
  • You can find additional examples of different forms of microaggressions here.
  • Antiracism is the process of unlearning these biases and observing ourselves to see where and when these biases surface.
  • Anti-racism is the commitment to fight racism wherever you find it, including in yourself.
  • For White people, that means taking time to examine and unlearn internalized dominance of White supremacy.
  • Think of yourself as an agent for a healthy, antiracist culture, not as the sole creator of it.
  • Develop humanizing ways to begin and close meetings. Check-in questions
  • Closing rituals such as process checks, which surface patterns of participation and facilitator moves, bring a reflective and purposeful closing tone.
  • Make sure the adults in the building are employing the same language and concepts when it comes to antiracism work.
  • Terms such as implicit bias, structural racism, White supremacy, and microaggressions should be explicitly taught, discussed, and defined within the context of the local school community and history.
  • “right to comfort,” a symptom of White supremacy culture that aims to smooth over conflict without getting to the root of the issues. Instead, norms should reflect a culture of curiosity, listening, and vulnerability: bravery. In brave spaces, adults can work in their optimal zone of development.

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