RADLD | Raising Awareness of Developmental Language Disorder Privilege Walk Lesson Plan | Peace Learner Privilege Walk Lesson Plan Introduction: Many educators and activists use privilege walks as an experiential activity to highlight how people benefit or are marginalized by systems in our society. There are many iterations of such walks with several focusing on a single issue, such as race, gender, or sexuality. This particular walk is designed with questions spanning many different areas of marginalization, because the goal of this walk is to understand intersectionality. Many people with certain privileges never notice them, because they are so woven into the mainstream that those who have them cannot see them. Goal: To discuss the complicated intersections of privileges and marginalizations in a less confrontational and more reflective way. Time: 15~20 minutes for the Privilege Walk 45~60 minutes for the debrief Materials: Procedures: Privilege Walk Statements: If you are right-handed, take one step forward. Debrief Questions: What did you feel like being in the front of the group? Like this:
I didn’t understand male privilege until I became a stay-at-home dad If a woman was wearing her baby in a grocery store, she probably wouldn’t get as much attention as a man. (iStock) When my wife returned to work after parental leave, I took my first trip to the grocery with two kids, not knowing I would return home feeling like a hero. On a Monday morning, I pushed the green cart with flame decals through the second set of sliding doors and toward the deli. My 3-year-old son was strapped in the seat and my 3-month-old son was wrapped against my chest. As a stay-a-home father, strolling through the grocery, I felt conflicting emotions — love for caring for my sons and frustration with being an unemployed 37-year-old dad. At the deli, I exchanged pleasantries with a young woman behind the counter and ordered a pound of sliced turkey breast. “I never could get mine to like the wrap,” one said. “I bet y’all have so much fun together,” another said. “You are the best dad ever,” another said. I swelled with pride. “Nice baby wearing,” a young woman said. true
Banning Discomfort in the Classroom Advances Racism in the Culture Educators in Duluth, Minnesota recently decided to remove two American classics from the curriculum. At some point, of course, every great book will be replaced by a more recent work of equal or greater stature. There’s only so much time in a school year and students can’t be expected to read every book worthy of their attention before leaving high school. But the reasons given in this case have nothing to do with a particular teacher’s literary preferences or the fact that other pieces of literature tackle the touchy topic of racism better. Whenever I read some school district or another has decided that Mark Twain, Harper Lee, or another author of their caliber is no longer going to be read and discussed in the classroom because students risk being “humiliated or marginalized,” I feel like the works of these literary giants are being placed in the same category as Hitler’s Mein Kampf or William Luther Pierce’s The Turner Diaries. Bigotry is vile. Racism is supposed to upset us.
10 TED classroom resources about race in America Angélica Dass / Humanæ Teachers often use TED Talks in the classroom to introduce a lesson topic or to frame a student discussion. Here are 10 TED Talks about race in America that teachers may find useful for starting difficult conversations in the classroom: 1. In an engaging and personal talk — with cameo appearances from his grandmother and Rosa Parks — human rights lawyer Bryan Stevenson shares some hard truths about America’s justice system, starting with a massive imbalance along racial lines: a third of the country’s black male population has been incarcerated at some point in their lives. 2. Our biases can be dangerous, even deadly — as we’ve seen in the cases of Michael Brown in Ferguson, Missouri, and Eric Garner, in Staten Island, New York. 3. As kids, we all get advice from parents and teachers that seems strange, even confusing. 4. Ten days after 9/11, a shocking attack at a Texas mini-mart shattered the lives of two men: the victim and the attacker. 5. 6. 7. 8. 9. 10.
Social Justice Toolbox » Privilege for Sale An activity that gets groups talking about and examining privilege. Materials & Media: Participant handouts(optional) writing implementScrap paper for money amounts for groups Set Up: Write amounts of money to give to the different groups on pieces of scrap paper. The amounts should differ (300, 500, 700, 900, 1100) and ideally are not divisible by the # of people in the group. Goals & Learning Outcomes: For participants to realize what privileges they may not realize they have and/or take for grantedFor participants to recognize that privilege is not only a legal construct but also social, religious, economical and so onFor participants to see how their personal perspective, life situation, etc. influence the types choices they make Process Steps & Talking Points: Explain that we are about to do a group activity and have participants get into groups of 3-5. Debrief/Process Questions: What was it like to do this activity? What struck you about the list? What themes did you notice in the list?
Privilege (sociology) Rohlinger, Deana A. (2010). "Privilege". In Ritzer, G.; Ryan, J.M. ^ Jump up to: a b Twine, France Winddance (2013). The Women Behind White Power Few Americans know the name Cornelia Dabney Tucker, but the Jim Crow South would not have been the same without her. After the Supreme Court issued its 1954 decision in Brown v. Board of Education, ending public-school segregation, Senator James Eastland, the cigar-smoking chairman of the Senate Judicial Committee, turned to Mrs. 15 Classroom Resources for Discussing Racism, Policing, and Protest - Teaching Now By Sarah Schwartz and Madeline Will As nationwide protests against police brutality continue, teachers in their virtual classrooms are once again searching for ways to help their students process the killings of black people in police custody in the United States. Speaking with Education Week on Monday, teachers said that they and their colleagues have a responsibility to address these protests, which erupted when George Floyd, an unarmed black man, died after a Minneapolis police officer knelt on his neck for almost nine minutes. "Teachers cannot be silent during this time," said Patrick Harris, a 6th and 7th grade English and social studies teacher at the Detroit Achievement Academy. Talking with students about these events, as they experience them, is top priority right now, said Abdul Wright, who teaches 8th grade language arts in North Minneapolis. For teachers looking for more classroom resources—for themselves and their students—Education Week has compiled the following list:
Encyclopedia of Multicultural Psychology - Google Books Black With (Some) White Privilege When I was in my early 30s, I started making a list of every child I could think of who had a black parent and a white parent and was born between 1960 and the mid- to late 1980s. It was a collection of people like me, who grew up and came of age after the Supreme Court decision in 1967 that overturned the laws in more than a dozen states that outlawed interracial marriage. I was thinking of people I knew or had heard of, so of course the list included actors like Tracee Ellis Ross (born 1972) and Rashida Jones (1976); athletes like Derek Jeter (1974) and Jason Kidd (1973); singers like Mariah Carey (1969) and Alicia Keys (1981); and, eventually, politicians and public servants like Adrian Fenty (1970) and Ben Jealous (1973).
21 Anti-Racism Videos To Share With Kids | WeAreTeachers The United States has a racism problem. The idea of tackling such complicated and hurtful topics in our homes and classrooms is daunting, but we can’t look away. We MUST face it. For Parents and Educators It’s crucial that you feel confident and prepared to lead important discussions about what it means to be not only “not racist,” but resolutely anti-racist. Be Boldly Anti-Racist Elementary school educator, Naomi O’Brien, asks: “How did I become boldly anti-racist? How to Talk to Kids About Race In a new episode of Home School, The Atlantic’s animated series about parenting, author Jeremy Tisby offers advice on how to have a conversation with children about race, from experiential learning to watching classic animated films. How I Teach Kids About Racism (Kindergarten and 1st Grade) This video is about elementary school teachers sharing the lessons they teach each year to introduce the topic of racism to their kindergarten and first grade students. Dr. For Kids and Students Starting Small
The Concise Encyclopedia of Sociology - Google Books A Guide to Equity and Antiracism for Educators Recent events have shaken me to my core, and the nationwide protests over the killing of George Floyd suggest that people across the country are similarly shaken. These are dark times, but if there’s anything that seems like a glimmer of light to me at the moment, it’s the fact that so many teachers are reflecting on how to fight racism: “I’m a White educator, where do I start?” “How can I help?” “What if I get it wrong?” For me, a Black educator and mother to a Black 16-year-old who has reached the appearance if not the legal age of manhood, these questions stir hope. What Can Teachers Do? The answer, an old joke: How do you eat an elephant? Reading: Even if you only have 10 minutes, you can learn something to help you create a more equitable classroom. In addition to a rich collection of K–12 classroom resources, the website features self-guided PD, on-demand webinars, and podcasts that may enable you to earn a certificate—check with your administration first. Don’t stop now.