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"To begin, we must eliminate the stigma around talking about our bias. School leaders need to help their staffs understand that unconscious bias is not deliberate; it doesn't respect our goals and intentions."

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Interesting how people can value both their own groups and the most culturally valued group.

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The importance of building trust in order to have honest discussions in a safe space.

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The importance of building trust in order to have honest discussions in a safe space.

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Communication, accountability and integrity is extremely important!

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Acknowledging bias is painful, but is a must to improve our world. 

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Acknowledging bias is painful, but is a must to improve our world. 

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"When people understand the problem of unconscious bias, they are more likely to take action to address it
(Pettigrew & Tropp, 2006). However, we can't rely on increased awareness alone to make a difference. We need to anticipate situations in which our bias may skew our behavior and then proactively design systems that help
us be fair."

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Being aware of our biases is the first step in combatting it

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Being aware of our biases is the first step in combatting it

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The first step is to build relationships... how do we work to build trust so that we can have honest conversations?

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Work in groups or GLM's to openly discuss bias and work together to solve these issues.

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"Sometimes we increase awareness by naming bias in others and in ourselves. "

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"Sometimes we increase awareness by naming bias in others and in ourselves. "

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Understanding that language is not synonymous to culture is important.

All Arabic speaking students to not have the same culture. All Bengali speaking students do not have the same culture, all Spanish speaking students do not come from the same culture just like not all English-speaking students have the same culture.

It’s important to know and understand the whole child.

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How do we do this as a school/district impactfully and Effectively?

Professional Developments help, but sometimes only go so far.

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"When someone else calls us on our thinking, we have to practice and model non-defensiveness."

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"When someone else calls us on our thinking, we have to practice and model non-defensiveness."

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Realizing you have fallen into the misbehavior of recognizing the faults of one group more than the other. 

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Realizing you have fallen into the misbehavior of recognizing the faults of one group more than the other. 

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Need to take a look at the data regarding children sent to CST

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Need to take a look at the data regarding children sent to CST

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Realistically we grow when we help each other. We learn from each other, sometimes we don't see ourselves.

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Realistically we grow when we help each other. We learn from each other, sometimes we don't see ourselves.

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How can we create a safe place where educators feel free and comfortable to recognize and acknowledge some biases without judgement

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Colleagues need to trust one another and have hard conversations for their to be change.

Place yourself in the other person's shoes or think about the interaction if it were your child or younger sibling.

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Examining bias is so painful, but so necessary for growth at all levels.

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Examining bias is so painful, but so necessary for growth at all levels.

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Acknowledgement that everyone's behavior is impacted by bias is critical to addressing and reducing the impact of bias. 

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Acknowledgement that everyone's behavior is impacted by bias is critical to addressing and reducing the impact of bias. 

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Interpersonal skills training is definitely needed. How we engage, listening to understand and not to respond.

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We must be willing to match our actions with our intentions by putting in the work to deconstruct our unconscious bias.  

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We must be willing to match our actions with our intentions by putting in the work to deconstruct our unconscious bias.  

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What do you do as an educator when the bias is directed at you?

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What do you do as an educator when the bias is directed at you?

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We have to be completely honest in our conversations and with ourselves.

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We have to be completely honest in our conversations and with ourselves.

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We must understand and accept we all have unconscious biases

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We must understand and accept we all have unconscious biases

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we must eliminate the stigma around talking about our bias. School leaders need to help their staff to understand that unconscious bias is not deliberate; it doesn't reflect our goals and intentions. We can increase
awareness and normalize talking about bias through direct teaching, modeling, and explicitly naming it. This allows teachers to discuss and examine their own biases more freely and productively.

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We have got to embrace discomfort in order to create awareness, provoke dialogue, reflect, and take the necessary action to sustain change.

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We have got to embrace discomfort in order to create awareness, provoke dialogue, reflect, and take the necessary action to sustain change.

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unconscious bias vs disproportionate punishment of black kids

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unconscious bias vs disproportionate punishment of black kids

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Racism today does not look the same as it did 50 years ago

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Racism today does not look the same as it did 50 years ago

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What are the elements of an effective systematic approach to anticipating and reducing bias at the district level?

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What are the elements of an effective systematic approach to anticipating and reducing bias at the district level?

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If we don't take an honest look at disaggregated data in all areas, and reflect on the story it tells from all perspectives, we aren't telling the truth about equity.

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Colleagues need to trust one another to give honest feedback. Developing and agreeing on norms can help.Singleton and Linton (2006) provide a model with their "four agreements of courageous conversation": stay engaged; expect to experience discomfort; speak your truth; and expect and accept a lack of closure.

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Colleagues need to trust one another to give honest feedback. Developing and agreeing on norms can help.Singleton and Linton (2006) provide a model with their "four agreements of courageous conversation": stay engaged; expect to experience discomfort; speak your truth; and expect and accept a lack of closure.

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So much of our school is framed at respecting diversity, but then our practices potentially exclude our EL students and families. I am really struck by how different teachers react to students who they have difficulty communicating with.

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Conduct self audits and solicit the help from peers to aid in the identification of our own unconscious biases

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Conduct self audits and solicit the help from peers to aid in the identification of our own unconscious biases

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The article indicates that parents of color are reassured by white educators who are aware of their own perceptions/prejudices. I wonder how we can create and support this in our schools. There are so many conversations yet to happen. How can we better facilitate this among our staff?

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How do stay engaged in this work beyond today? How do we increase participation? How do we become intentional about creating time and building capacity for this work beyond this allocated time?

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Educators want to be efective with all students. Within this context, looking at student data provides an opportunity to shed light on two critical questions: Are we more efective with some groups of students than others? If so, what change in our practice will make us more efective with all students?

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Educators want to be efective with all students. Within this context, looking at student data provides an opportunity to shed light on two critical questions: Are we more efective with some groups of students than others? If so, what change in our practice will make us more efective with all students?

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"...unconscious bias is not deliberate; it doesn't reflect our goals and intentions."

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"...unconscious bias is not deliberate; it doesn't reflect our goals and intentions."

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"We must ensure our intentions, not our biases are running the show." 

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"We must ensure our intentions, not our biases are running the show." 

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In buildings where staff constantly share their thoughts on students we have created an inability to establish any type of "blind" attitudes/systems as students move from year to year. The same kids get identified as disruptive or unengaged or worse. In effect, we seem to generate, support and defend our own biases.

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Teachers make countless other decisions that affect student learning on a daily and hourly basis. Who gets
called on in class? What kind of feedback do students receive about their work? Who gets praise, and who gets
redirection? How do we communicate with families?

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How do all administrators identify their own implicit biases? Often it is assumed that people of color cannot have implicit biases.

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"Racism today looks different from racism of 50 years ago." For whom?

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"Racism today looks different from the racism of 50 years ago."

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"Racism today looks different from the racism of 50 years ago."

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When someone else calls us on our thinking, we have to practice and model nondefensiveness.

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When we provide time for staff to learn about and discuss implicit bias, we create the conditions for people to monitor their own behavior and call one another on it without the "racist" stigma.

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When we provide time for staff to learn about and discuss implicit bias, we create the conditions for people to monitor their own behavior and call one another on it without the "racist" stigma.

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How can we call people on potential bias in a way that does not feel like a personal attack?

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How can we call people on potential bias in a way that does not feel like a personal attack?