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.
Category: convo starters
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.
Using And Disputing Privilege: U.S. Youth and Palestinians Wielding “International Privilege” To End The Israeli-Palestinian Conflict Nonviolently.
Center for Public Leadership Working Paper, MIT
A conversation starter based on research I did to explore what made young activists commit to participate in solving problems oppressing others.
Link here.
Students, Families and Educators Should Lead the Way on the Gun Crisis.
Teaching Tolerance, February 26, 2018.
A conversation starter I wrote with my daughter, on gun control and our schools.
Link here.
Leveraging a University to Create Local Opportunities to Learn
These conversation starters on the CREATE STEM Success Initiative at UC San Diego share our Center’s efforts to leverage an entire university to create local opportunities to learn. This is essential antiracist equity work. Rather than just describe unequal opportunities as education researchers, we actually work to create more opportunities to go around.
“The CREATE STEM Success Initiative: Year 6 Report.” The Center for Research on Educational Equity, Assessment, and Teaching Excellence (CREATE), UC San Diego, July 2019.
“The CREATE STEM Success Initiative: Year 5 Report.” The Center for Research on Educational Equity, Assessment, and Teaching Excellence (CREATE), UC San Diego, July 2018.
“The CREATE STEM Success Initiative: Year 4 Report.” The Center for Research on Educational Equity, Assessment, and Teaching Excellence (CREATE), UC San Diego, July 2017.
“The CREATE STEM Success Initiative: Year 3 Report.” The Center for Research on Educational Equity, Assessment, and Teaching Excellence (CREATE), UC San Diego, July 2016.
“The CREATE STEM Success Initiative: Year 2 Report.” The Center for Research on Educational Equity, Assessment, and Teaching Excellence (CREATE), UC San Diego, July 2015.
“The CREATE STEM Success Initiative: Year 1 Report.” The Center for Research on Educational Equity, Assessment, and Teaching Excellence (CREATE), UC San Diego, July 2014.
Mica Pollock, Susan Yonezawa and Barbara Edwards. “Solving the Math Problem in San Diego Together.” San Diego Union Tribune, May 23, 2014. (This conversation starter talks about the key role of math in K12 opportunity.)
“From Denial to Creation: Meeting the Opportunity Goals of Title VI Today.” Anthropology News, June 2014. (This conversation starter talks about the key role of universities in local opportunity creation.)
Professor writes to Boy Scouts: How to think critically about Trump’s speech to your jamboree.
The Washington Post, July 28, 2017.
A conversation starter encouraging young people to critically analyze the words of adults.
Link here.
Three challenges for teachers in the era of Trump.
The Washington Post, December 9, 2016.
A conversation starter about educators’ key role in standing up for facts and inclusion, in an era threatening both.
Link here.
The Election, One Year Later: Stories from Anthropologists of Education.
Teaching Tolerance, January 18, 2018
A conversation-starter series I designed and edited, by anthropologists who were embedded in U.S. schools before the 2016 election and returned a year later.
Link here.
The frightening effect of ‘Trump Talk’ on America’s schools.
The Washington Post, November 6, 2016.
This conversation starter comments on how to handle the post-2016 explosion in hate incidents plaguing our schools.