Complete List of Everyday Antiracist Strategies
An excerpt from Everday Antiracism: Getting Real About Race in School.
Link here.
Category: convo starters
Anti-racism: Lessons for the classroom and faculty lounge
A podcast with Ethical Schools, where I speak about #USvsHate and Schooltalk.
Episode description: “We speak with Mica Pollock about #USvsHate 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.
#USvsHate LESSON LISTS
These lessons for K12+ students draw from nearly 20 national teacher-support organizations. I curated these lists for #USvsHate. I’m working right now to add youth-facing lessons based on Schooltalk and Everyday Antiracism.
- 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 Countering Specific Forms of Hate, Bias, and Injustice (from #USvsHate)
- These lessons build a stronger foundation to explore and refuse specific forms of hate, bias, and injustice needing attention in specific communities and the nation, so we can together build a society where all are valued!
#USvsHate Tools for Productive Dialogues
These tools help structure dialogue for anti-bias efforts in classrooms and schools. List includes norms, talk tips, protocols, and group work strategies.
Tools for Productive Dialogues (includes Quick Dialogue Suggestions): (from #USvsHate)
#USvsHate Definitions and Concepts to Prepare for Anti-Bias Teaching
I wrote up this page of “concepts” for #USvsHate; it helps teachers prep overall for antibias teaching that treats all people as equally valuable.
Definitions and Concepts to Prepare for Anti-Bias Teaching: (from #USvsHate)
#Schooltalking Tools by Others
A full compilation of talk tools and conversation starters curated on the #Schooltalking Facebook group. Coming soon. Check out/join the group in the meantime!
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.)
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.