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This looks incredibly helpful for inside and outside the classroom!

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Making it Meaningful: Interrupting Biased Comments in the Classroom

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What do you do if you think you hear one of your students make a racist, homophobic or sexist remark? Rosalind Wiseman looks at how well meaning teachers can contribute to the problem and discusses ways to do things differently.

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This lesson delves deeper into identity, and is developmentally appropriate. https://www.learningforjustice.org/learning-plan/exploring-my-identity

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This seems to be a great exercise on discovering our implicit biases.

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Who, Me? Biased? - The New York Times (Published 2016)

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What is implicit bias? NYT/POV’s Saleem Reshamwala unscrews the lid on the unfair effects of our subconscious.

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This looks incredibly helpful for both inside and outside the classroom!

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Making it Meaningful: Interrupting Biased Comments in the Classroom

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What do you do if you think you hear one of your students make a racist, homophobic or sexist remark? Rosalind Wiseman looks at how well meaning teachers can contribute to the problem and discusses ways to do things differently.

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Empathy is such a hard thing to teach, and I'm always looking for resources (plus, my dad's name is Ashok, so an initiative with Ashoka in it will always intrigue me 😏)

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I will use this for class discussions around code switching and what that means and allow students to choose a podcast to write about and discuss.

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What's CODE SWITCH? It's the fearless conversations about race that you've been waiting for. Hosted by journalists of color, our podcast tackles the subject of race with empathy and humor. We explore how race affects every part of society - from politics and pop culture to history, food and everything in between.

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I chose this resource because I felt it would be an excellent starting point for my students and myself.
https://www.teachersfirst.com/spectopics/self-identity.cfm

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I've bookmarked this article to help facilitate conversations about race in middle school classrooms.

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Discussions of race and society in the classroom are difficult for many teachers. This article provides ten specific ideas that encourage, cultivate, and support race with students.... more

Discussions of race and society in the classroom are difficult for many teachers. This article provides ten specific ideas that encourage, cultivate, and support race with students. Although created with middle school and high school students in mind, this article is also adaptable to the elementary level.

tag(s): bias (15), civil rights (144), difficult conversations (37), professional development (236), racism (59)

In the Classroom
Include this article as part of your professional development activities within your grade level or building as a support for understanding best practices on how to address racial issues, bias, or any difficult conversations that arise in a classroom. One way to really focus on this topic is to discuss one of the ten specific ideas each month. As a staff, share situations where the idea worked well or discuss ways to continue building a supportive environment built upon the topic focus. If you use Microsoft products, create a collaborative document using OneNote, reviewed here, to share ideas and participate in online conversations. Google users may want to consider using Google Keep, reviewed here, as a collaborative tool.

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TeachersFirst Review - Ten Teacher Recommendations in Facilitating Conversations About Race in the Classroom

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Ten Teacher Recommendations in Facilitating Conversations About Race in the Classroom reviewed by TeachersFirst. Discussions of race and society in the classroom are difficult for many teachers. This article provides ten specific ideas that encourage, cultivate, and support race with students.

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I'd love to use this with my middle school to help my staff stop biased comments in the classroom and give them vocabulary to have these conversations.

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Making it Meaningful: Interrupting Biased Comments in the Classroom

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What do you do if you think you hear one of your students make a racist, homophobic or sexist remark? Rosalind Wiseman looks at how well meaning teachers can contribute to the problem and discusses ways to do things differently.

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I found something I liked!!

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I would like to explore this and learn about being a RAKTIVIST

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Inspire people to practice kindness and empathy and pass it on to others. The Random Acts of Kindness (RAK) Foundation is a non-profit organization founded upon the powerful belief... more

Inspire people to practice kindness and empathy and pass it on to others. The Random Acts of Kindness (RAK) Foundation is a non-profit organization founded upon the powerful belief in kindness. It is dedicated to providing resources and tools that encourage acts of kindness. Discover inspirational quotes, kindness, ideas, and share your own ideas. Explore lesson plans, classroom materials, projects, ideas for courses, and RAK clubs. Find research, videos, and stories about random acts of kindness. Sign up for the newsletter or join the blog.

tag(s): character education (64), classroom management (143), emotions (41), empathy (24), service projects (16)

In the Classroom
Become a "RAKTIVIST" and start a kindness raid on unsuspecting communities, classes, or schools! Give children power and voice through their actions. Partner this with character education programs to make a difference in all the lives you touch. For example, you may want to use the Ripples of Kindness activity included in the Empathy videos at the Big Ideas Video Series, reviewed here. During social studies, find ways kindness has changed the world. Look for times in which kindness was thwarted, such as during civil wars, dictatorships, or wars. Start a research project on world leaders who have changed the world through nonviolence, education, or generosity. Explain the power of nonprofit organizations and all the lives affected. Look into your own community and school to find needs that are waiting for active, caring participants. Create school or classroom rules to promote the power of kindness. Show your students how to embed media transforming their work, then challenge students to create "kindness" commercials and share their learning with their peers in a multimedia presentation using Adobe Spark for Education, reviewed here. Alternatively, students could create a video using Typito, reviewed here. Share them using a tool such as SchoolTube, reviewed here. Emotional Support or Autistic Support teachers may find some of the ideas here helpful for talking about how others feel and ways to show kindness in a very deliberate way.

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TeachersFirst Review - Random Acts of Kindness

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Random Acts of Kindness reviewed by TeachersFirst. Inspire people to practice kindness and empathy and pass it on to others. The Random Acts of Kindness (RAK) Foundation is a non-profit organization founded upon the powerful belief in kindness. It is dedicated to providing resources and tools t