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Knowing yourself and your beliefs so you can get to know others! 

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Knowing yourself and your beliefs so you can get to know others! 

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https://www.facinghistory.org/resource-library/identity-and-community/who-am-i

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Civil Rights: Before you could say, "Jackie Robinson"

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Civil Rights: Before you could say, "Jackie Robinson"

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This will be a great lesson to precede the reading of To Kill a Mockingbird.  The boys will be interested in the lessons because it relates to sport, but it will make more concrete for them the injustice brought on by racial segregation and the roots of the Civil Rights Movement.

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Cultural Norms about what it means to "Be a Man." Particularly powerful to watch in all-male schools

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"Straightlaced-How Gender has got us all tied up" a Documentary

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This is the new trailer for the documentary, "Straightlaced--How Gender's Got Us All Tied Up"

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Given our current culture, this lesson still rings true.  I used it last year, and was  not surprised to see how very relevant Ms. Elliot's lesson remains to students in today's classrooms.  Her more recent videos definitely struck a nerve with my students.
http://www.pbs.org/wgbh/pages/frontline/teach/divided/postviewing.html.

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https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=J3Xe1kX7Wsc&sns=emhttps://www.youtube.com/watch?v=J3Xe1kX7Wsc&sns=em

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I start with this classic piece then challenge my students to create lists of their own, individually and in small groups. What privileges do YOU possess?

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Great spoken word piece on ethnicity, beauty and power.

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A video directed by Karen Lum, adapted from the poem "Slip of the Tongue" written and performed by Adriel Luis

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I love the idea of this, especially in the U.S. We're all part of something much larger.

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Humanity has in many ways come quite far, but it's also clear that it still has a long way to go.

Prejudice is one such area where we have much room for improvement. It continues to create problems among people, and at worst, our bigotry leads to wars and conflicts where countless innocent lives are lost.

Still, these massive problems often begin with the first impressions we make about others based on their skin color, physical appearance, and perceived nationality.

In an effort to contrast the prejudices we all have with the facts about who we actually are, travel company Momondo gathered 67 people from various ethnicities and offered them a DNA test.

All of the test subjects had one thing in common: they were proud of their nationality, ethnicity, and heritage.

But they were also full of bias against people from other races, who in their eyes are totally different from themselves.

Sound a little bit familiar?

The whole thing starts with a question: "Would you dare to question who you really are?"

Then, Momondo gave each of the participants a DNA test. And two weeks later, the test subjects returned to see the results.

The results left the participants in tears... and shattered everything they ever thought about themselves.

This video is an important reminder for all of us to accept others regardless of their nationality or skin color. Because we actually have a lot more in common than we think!

I really hope that this thought-provoking video helps people look beyond appearances and take a step closer toward each other.

We must never forget to love our fellow human beings for who they are, regardless of their appearance, origin, or nationality.
Please share this important video, so that more people can learn this valuable lesson for themselves! Published by Newsner, please like

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Biased girl takes DNA test to reveal her ethnicity - the results bring her to tears

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Humanity has in many ways come quite far, but it's also clear that it still has a long way to go. Prejudice is one such area where we have much room for improvement. It continues to create problems among people, and at worst, our bigotry leads to wars and conflicts where countless innocent lives are lost.

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http://media.sheknows.com/article-downloads/hatch-discussion-guide.pdf

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Educators today hear a lot about gaps in education - achievement gaps, funding gaps, school-readiness gaps. Still, there's another gap that often goes unexamined: the cultural gap between students and teachers.

"A bunch of teachers here, they think they know what's wrong with us. But they don't know. If people want to help us, they have to see what we've been through, not from what their own experiences tell them."
- Billie, a Lakota teen speaking of the teachers at her high school

Most of us in the education profession are white, middle-class, monolingual-English speakers. Increasingly, the same profile does not hold true for our students. Often, when we stand before our classrooms, the faces looking back at us do not look like our own. Many of us try to bridge this difference with an embrace of color-blindness or the Golden Rule, treating others the way we would want to be treated.

But the truth is: culture matters.

Culture isn't just a list of holidays or shared recipes, religious traditions, or language; it is a lived experience unique to each individual. As educators, it's our job to stimulate the intellectual development of children, and, in this era, it's simply not enough to operate on the axis of color-blindness.

To truly engage students, we must reach out to them in ways that are culturally and linguistically responsive and appropriate, and we must examine the cultural assumptions and stereotypes we bring into the classroom that may hinder interconnectedness.

Overcoming Stereotypes

To engage students effectively in the learning process, teachers must know their students and their academic abilities individually, rather than relying on racial or ethnic stereotypes or prior experience with other students of similar backgrounds.

Many teachers, for example, admire the perceived academic prowess and motivation of Asian American students and fail to recognize how even a "positive" stereotype isn't positive if it presses students into molds not built for them individually.

Hear elementary school teacher, Diane Holtam, speak about how she works with other teachers to disabuse stereotypic notions of Asian American students' abilities.

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Educators today hear a lot about gaps in education - achievement gaps, funding gaps, school-readiness gaps. Still, there's another gap that often goes unexamined: the cultural gap between students and teachers. "A bunch of teachers here, they think they know what's wrong with us. But they don't know.

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Has a powerful effect on many teens in our area

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Hatch Youth - Empowering Houston's LGBTQIA Youth

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Hatch Youth is dedicated to empowering lesbian, gay, bisexual, transgender, intersex, queer, questioning, asexual and allied (LGBTQIA) youth, ages 13-20, to become positive contributors to society by providing a safe social environment, offering role models and peer support, and sponsoring educational and community outreach opportunities.

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What is the definition of microaggression?

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Feminism Is Important To Me   Australian School Boys - Art Solution Asia

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These Australian schoolboys asked the women in their lives why feminism was important to them. These were the responses, released for International Women's Day.