curated talk tools – Schooltalking

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.

#Schooltalking Tools by Others

A full compilation of talk tools and conversation starters curated on the #Schooltalking Facebook group. I update it annually.