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Remember you are NEVER neutral. You are either perpetuating dominant structures or disrupting them.

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Wheel spin of names when doing a group activity where we have to take turns.

https://wheelofnames.com/

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Enter names, spin wheel to pick a random winner. Customize look and feel, save and share wheels.

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Strategies used:

Celebrate diversity throughout the year (Native Americans, Women, Black History, Hispanic history, etc.)

Read books that include different races, cultures, genders, abilities- as read alouds

Around the World Holidays in December

Equity sticks for calling on students

Remember to include cultures, races, etc. that are AND are not represented in your room.

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We use Talking Points. It is generated from information in Aspen.

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Mindfulness strategies to help us stop and think before reacting, for myself, but we also teach and practice these strategies with students daily

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reflect on and challenge your own beliefs!

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hang culturally diverse posters in the classroom

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Culturally Responsive Teaching and the Brain is an awesome resource.

Professional Development.

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We Got This! by Cornelius Minor

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AVOID RUBY PAYNE AT ALL COSTS! Her work is self-published and did not go through peer-review. It is full of offensive and harmful stereotypes about working class people. No economist or sociologist agrees with her.

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I find it’s important to stop and self-reflect. If I am stressed or tired, I tend to overreact. By practicing mindfulness and taking a break from the situation, I am less likely to act on my implicit bias.

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Trouble Makers by Carla Shalaby was a really excellent book!

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Share-outs and presentations to share students' home culture.

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White Fragility

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We do a lot of data-driven decision making. Looking at different identities within academic, discipline, etc. And driving instrution based on multiple groupings.

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ELLevation platform to look at diversifying lessons; good for planning

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Racial Equity Institute

BEST PD I have ever received in 25 years!

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Culturally sustaining pedagogies by Paris

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Culturally Responsive teaching

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Teaching Tolerance / Learning for Justice (free classroom resources and PD)

The Equity Literacy Institute (training and tools for educators)

Facing History and Ourselves (curriculum and equity-focused history resources)

Zaretta Hammond’s “Culturally Responsive Teaching and the Brain” (book)

Glenn Singleton’s “Courageous Conversations About Race” (book and protocols)

The Implicit Association Test (IAT) – https://implicit.harvard.edu

Edutopia Equity Articles & Videos – https://edutopia.org

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strategy I tend to use is a peer accountability partner

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In every classroom in our district (K-12), we start our mornings with something called community circle. This is where we are able to discuss these topics with our students. We also attend DEI huddles every week to help us guide these conversations.

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Consistently changing classroom jobs.

Using Class Dojo's randomizer to help you choose students to share out in order to prevent you from calling on the same students repeatedly.

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Iowa Equity Challenge Day 4 | United Ways of Iowa

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Rethinking Schools has amazing lesson planning books. They just came out with one for teaching about Palestine. They provide readings and often have role-plays and simulations, which my middle school and high school students love doing, and help put students in the position to humanize the people they are learning about.

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Edutopia and haven't read it yet but: "For White Folks Who Teach in the Hood... and the Rest of Y’all Too" by Christopher Emdin

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Culturally Responsive Teaching and The Brain By Zaretta Hammond