“OBJECTIVE: Participants will build relationships, get to know each other, and laugh together over Zoom!”
Category: restorative justice
Sep 14
Conversation groups allow students to explore vulnerability about their experiences and build trust in one another.
“This school year, many educators face the challenge of building relationships with new students virtually. How can they foster a sense of community without the camaraderie and spontaneity of in-person, classroom interactions? One approach is to make more time for personally meaningful, nonacademic, youth-driven conversations. In my teaching practice, this has taken the form of This …
Sep 08
Using Social Justice to Promote Student Voice: Preteen students can gain confidence in their ability to navigate complex topics by using intersectionality to investigate social issues.
“There is power in student voice, and it isn’t a voice any teacher can give. We don’t give voices. We make space for them in our curricula and classrooms, or we don’t. Especially in times like these when our nation is burning, we should listen to the young people. We should center their voices through choice of their tasks, choice of what they want to study, and overall handing them some leadership opportunities. How else will they practice taking over the world?”
Sep 07
Seven deadly sins to avoid on the path to anti-racism
“As we embark on our anti-racism journey, it is important to remember that this commitment is hard but necessary. We are not free until we are all free. Let’s roll up our sleeves and truly get to work. Our country will be better tomorrow for what we do today.”
Sep 06
Practical Advice on Addressing Racial Justice in K-12 Schools: A Q&A with Gloria Ladson-Billings
“How, then, should teachers effectively and appropriately address such concerns, especially as they pertain the systemic and historic nature of racial discrimination and stratification in our country?”
Sep 04
How White Educators Can Approach Antiracist Work:Striving to understand the origins of the concept of race and the effects of implicit biases are good initial steps.
“I believe that, as Dr. Ibram X. Kendi says, we are all “either racist or antiracist; there’s no such thing as ‘not racist.’”
Aug 12
Exploring our reactions: deepening learning from Diangelo’s White Fragility from restorativeteachingtools.com
“Students will reflect on white privilege and how they may have felt defensiveness and responded in unhelpful ways when that privilege or their own learned racism was identified.”
Jul 11
Here’s a word to drop from your teacher vocabulary in order to build connections with kids
Drop the word EASY and build better connections with kids. Mistakes can be useful and productive for learning.
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