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.
Blog
Complete List of Everyday Antiracist Strategies
An excerpt from Everday Antiracism: Getting Real About Race in School.
Link here.
Anti-racism: Lessons for the classroom and faculty lounge
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.
Here’s a scaffold
to help folks apply texts to make change where we work: the Antiracist Equity Action Planner.
Here’s a Conversation Starter
to get folks going beyond reading only, to repairing opportunity systems and the treatment of children in schools: https://bit.ly/WhileYouRead
LESSON LISTS
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:
- Lessons for Building an Inclusive School Community (from #USvsHate)
- These lessons help build inclusive relationships, start to challenge stereotypes, and explore overarching issues of empathy, bias, bullying, and ally behavior. Start here if the people in your group don’t know each other well.
- Lessons on Specific Forms of Hate, Bias, and Inequality (from #USvsHate)
- These lessons build a stronger foundation to explore and refuse specific forms of hate, bias, and inequality needing attention in specific communities and the nation.
Tools for Productive Dialogues
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)
Definitions and Concepts to Prepare for Anti-Hate Teaching
These “concepts” help teachers prep for antiracist and pro-equity teaching overall.
Definitions and Concepts to Prepare for Anti-Hate Teaching: (from #USvsHate)
Notetaking Sheets
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.