Responding to Hateful Speech in Schools
An article I wrote featured in ASCD’s November 2020 newsletter, Education Update (Volume 62, Number 11).
Read here.
Read the whole issue here.
Because you can't improve schools without talking.
An article I wrote featured in ASCD’s November 2020 newsletter, Education Update (Volume 62, Number 11).
Read here.
Read the whole issue here.
An excerpt from Everday Antiracism: Getting Real About Race in School.
Link here.
A podcast done with Ethical Schools where I speak about USvsHate and Schooltalk.
Episode description: “We speak with Mica Pollock about US vs Hate and Schooltalk. Student anti-racism messaging in any medium can catalyze youth activism. Comments embedded in teachers’ everyday communication can impact students’ lifetime trajectories.”
Link here.
to help folks apply texts to make change where we work: the Antiracist Equity Action Planner.
to get folks going beyond reading only, to repairing opportunity systems and the treatment of children in schools: https://bit.ly/WhileYouRead
Thoughts from middle and high school youth on youth-friendly segments of Everyday Antiracism are here.
These lessons for K12 students can also be used in community colleges and with adults. I curated these for #USvsHate, so they are designed to counteract explicit bigotry while being an onramp to much deeper work on each “ism” in schools. I’m working right now to add youth-facing lessons based on Schooltalk and Everyday Antiracism, drawing attention to opportunity-oriented racism and inequality in schools:
These tools help structure dialogue for antiracism and equity work in classrooms and schools. List includes norms, talk tips, protocols, and group work strategies.
Tools for Productive Dialogues (includes Quick Dialogue Suggestions): (from #USvsHate)
These “concepts” help teachers prep for antiracist and pro-equity teaching overall.
Definitions and Concepts to Prepare for Anti-Hate Teaching: (from #USvsHate)
Two notetaking sheets to help you work toward change.
Here’s an overall Antiracist Equity Planner.
Here’s a more specific notetaking sheet on Smart Tech Use for Equity.