Participate and share: Interactive session 
Recorded Session
The purpose of this workshop is to support an educator and/or school/district team, regardless of role to acknowledge and discuss race. Included in the session will be ways in which to engage in the dialogue necessary for personal as well as collective growth. We will also examine how colorblind leadership and colorblind learning environments actually create further inequity in addition to adversely affecting historically excluded and marginalized students. This is especially true in technology settings where user-friendly strategies can often ignore bias and systemic racism in our technology world. Further to these points is the development of the differences between higher-order and lower-order thinking of which the latter tends to be the norm in schools/districts that serve a historically excluded and marginalized demographic of students.
I. Understanding Race and Racism (10 minutes)
a. Definition of Racism
b. How racism shows up in the technology world
c. How racism manifests within education
d. How racism and inequity can easily be embedded within existing school or district policy
II. Discussing Racism with colleagues (20 minutes)
a. Supporting Affinity groups for staff of color
b. Creating racial equity committees to develop antiracist practices (interpersonal and instructional) for educators
c. Activator–Creating a culture that stands up to racism, creates an open dialogue, and supports the voices of staff, especially BIPOC staff
III. Discussing Racism with students (20 minutes)
a. Incorporating social justice skills and making them adaptable in relevant context
b. Engagement activity– Upstander vs. By Stander
c. Digital Literacy skills that focus on standing up to hate
d. Digital Citizenship skills that focus on standing up to hate
IV. Discussing Racism with families/school or district community (10 minutes)
a. Building partnerships with families
b. Supporting families of color
c. Communication about antiracist work for transparency
d. How to develop a socially conscious approach within a school community that lack diversity
H. Turner and K. Lopes. Change The Narrative: How to Foster an Antiracist Culture in Your School
Joe Feldman. Grading for Equity: What It Is, Why It Matters, and How It Can Transform Schools and Classrooms
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".
Techquity: Going from Digital Poverty to Digital Empowerment, article published by Ken Shelton for ASCD
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