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Change the Narrative: Fostering an Anti-Racist Culture in Your School

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Pennsylvania Convention Center, 118B

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Henry Turner, Ed.D., is an award-winning high school principal, author and nationally renowned speaker. Pointing to his unwavering commitment to equity and a student-centered culture, Turner was named 2020 K12 Principal of the Year by K–12 Dive. Turner is the author of the newly released book “Change the Narrative: How to Foster an Antiracist Culture in Your School.” As a national speaker and coach, Turner works with educators, leaders and communities on how to create a culture that commits to diversity, equity and inclusion; empowers students’ voices; and addresses economic and racial disparities.

Session description

Building on the book "Change the Narrative," this engaging workshop will help education technology leaders to understand what systemic racism looks like in schools, develop ideas for beginning or continuing diversity, equity and inclusion work in their schools, and consider a plan to address racism in their schools.

Purpose & objective

The purpose of this workshop is to help any educator, regardless of role to discuss race and how colorblind leadership creates further inequity. This is especially true in technology setting where user-friendly strategies can ignore bias and systemic racism in our technology world.

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Outline

What is an antiracist educator (10 minutes)
A. Definition of an antiracist educator
B. The Antiracist Educator Diagram

II. Racism vs. Antiracism in Education Technology Leadership (10 minutes)
A. Technology Gap
B. Fighting Hate Speech through Digital Literacy
C. Culturally Responsive Leadership

III. The Antiracist Tech Leader (10 minutes)
A. Tech Leadership
B. Instructional Technology Leadership
C. Modeling for other Educators

IV. Participation-- Developing students antiracist education technology skills (20 minutes
A. Developing student social justice skills through Communication Skills
B. Developing student social skills skills through Technology skills

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Supporting research

Henry Turner and Kathy Lopes. Change The Narrative: How to Foster an Antiracist Culture in Your School

Zaretta Hammond and Yvette Jackson. Culturally Responsive Teaching and the Brain: Promoting Authentic Engagement and Rigor Among Culturally and Linguistically Diverse Students.

Sarah Becker and Crystal Paul. "It Didn't Seem Like Race Mattered": Exploring the Implications of Service-learning Pedagogy for Reproducing or Challenging Color-blind Racism

R. Richard Banks, Jennifer L. Eberhardt and Lee Ross. "Discrimination and Implicit Bias in a Racially Unequal Society"

Eduardo Bonilla-Silva. Racism WIthout Racists: Color-Blind Racism and the Persistence of Racial Inequality in America

Watters, A. "To have and to have not: When it comes to the latest technology,
some schools are more equal than others."

Ibram Kendi. How to Be and Antiracist.

Sánchez, P. & Salazar, M. "Transnational computer use in urban Latino
immigrant communities: Implications for schooling".

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Session specifications

Topic:
Equity and inclusion
Grade level:
PK-12
Skill level:
Beginner
Audience:
Chief technology officers/superintendents/school board members, Principals/head teachers, Teachers
Attendee devices:
Devices useful
Attendee device specification:
Smartphone: Android, iOS, Windows
Laptop: Chromebook, Mac, PC
Tablet: Android, iOS, Windows
ISTE Standards:
For Education Leaders:
Equity and Citizenship Advocate
  • Ensure all students have skilled teachers who actively use technology to meet student learning needs.
  • Model digital citizenship by critically evaluating online resources, engaging in civil discourse online and using digital tools to contribute to positive social change.
For Educators:
Citizen
  • Create experiences for learners to make positive, socially responsible contributions and exhibit empathetic behavior online that build relationships and community.