Rumble Commitment ❏ Be prepared to offer my POV ❏ Stay aware of emotions and how they affect me ❏ Stay aware of emotions and how they affect others ❏ Be thoughtful about body language ❏ Listen with the same passion with which I want to be heard ❏ Stay in the messy middle ❏ Manage emotional reactivity in a productive way Dare to Lead - Brene Brown
Agreements for our work today Practice generosity and curiosity ❏ Lean into discomfort ❏ Expect & accept lack of closure ❏ Economy of Sharing ❏
Dr. Seuss Books Can Be Racist, But Kids Keep Reading Them
“ A group of social scientists recently went over the records of 100,000 black students in North Carolina over a 5 year period. They found that having even one black teacher between the third and fifth grade reduced the chance that an African-American boy would later drop out of high school. By how much? By 39%. One black teacher. Now does this mean that white teachers are diabolical racist trying to hold down black students? No, this isn’t conscious discrimination. The point is that teachers have power, they’re gatekeepers, they control the classroom, they decide who gets recommended for prizes like gifted programs and who doesn’t, they decide who stays and who gets suspended. By directing their attention to a child, a teacher can inspire. By ignoring another or sending him more often the principal’s office, teachers can discourage…”
“I came across another archive of interviews from the Brown era; Duke University’s Behind the Veil oral history project. The interview you’re hearing is from Richmond, Virginia. It’s with an African-American teacher named Celestine Porter and she says that once you grant this idea, that a teacher is a gatekeeper and that a child needs someone to take an interest in them, then that means integration should’ve been pursued very differently. They made students do the integration. They should have teachers first and they didn’t do that. At every one of those white schools, and at every one of the black schools, if they’re going to send the white children to the black schools, they should have had white teachers out there. If they would go and send black children into the white schools, they should’ve had some black teachers there. Now, the first people that should’ve been integrated should have been teachers and administrations first, but they didn’t do that; they moved the children.”
Perspectives We hold these truths to be self-evident, that all During an interview with the Granite Men are created equal, they are endowed by Freeman , an abolitionist newspaper, when their Creator with certain unalienable Rights, asked if she regretted leaving the comfort that among these are Life, Liberty, and the of the Washington estate for her Pursuit of Happiness. near-poverty conditions, she responded with, “No, I am free.”
Taken from workshop: Elevating Voices: Primary Documents and Resources for EDI Curriculum at AIMS Diversity, Inclusion & Equity Conference
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