Anti-racism journey for educators with students
Offered By: Microsoft via Microsoft Learn
Course Description
Overview
- Module 1: Understand the process that will be used as the learning path guides you through the anti-racism learning journey. This is the first module in a learning path and is intended to be taken in order in that path.
In this module, you will:
- Define the learning process engaged in throughout the learning path
- Recognize the team of educators and experts who curated and crafted the learning path
- Identify resources and organizations that help continue learning and action beyond the modules in the learning path
- Module 2: This module begins the anti-racism journey by building a strong foundation of knowledge of terminology. This is the second module in a learning path and is intended to be taken in order in that path.
In this module, you will:
- Define key terms and concepts related to race, racism, and anti-racism
- Explain the construct of race and its historical foundation
- Distinguish between the different levels of racism
- Module 3: This module dives into personal identities, specifically discussing race, and how those identities have shaped our personal belief systems. This is the third module in a learning path and is intended to be taken in order in that path.
In this module, you will:
- Define related terminology and concepts related to identity
- Embrace your personal racial identity
- Explain the impact of racial identity
- Describe how to express thoughts and feedback through self and social awareness
- Module 4: Develop an understanding of bias and an awareness of how bias affects what we think and do in a module intended to be taken as part of a learning path.
In this module, you will:
Develop and apply a working definition of bias
Identify the meaning and context of different types of bias
Develop a definitive list of strategies for understanding and unlearning
Describe sustainable strategies for increased awareness of one’s thoughts and actions
Develop sustainable strategies for personalized accountability and growth
- Module 5: Explore how power, privilege, and fragility negatively affect the social, emotional, and academic flourishing of BIPOC students.
In this module, you will:
- Develop a deeper understanding of the related terminology and concepts
- Describe power, privilege, and fragility from a dominant ideological frame
- Explain marginalization, social isolation, and exclusion through the lens of power and privilege
- Explain how grit and perseverance resist fragility
- Distinguish individual accountability and apology
- Module 6: Educators walk through lessons and theory on how to work with students as they become allies and anti-racists.
In this module, you'll:
- Define terminology from a students’ perspective
- Support students with exploring their racial identity
- Facilitate reflective conversations with students to better understand their first thoughts/implicit biases around race
- Examine texts and curriculum resources for representation across racial identity groups
Syllabus
- Module 1: Module 1: Start the anti-racism journey
- Introduction
- The process: professional learning communities
- The team
- Additional resources for learning
- Additional resources for action
- Knowledge check
- Summary
- Module 2: Module 2: Explore terminology in the anti-racism journey
- Introduction
- Norm setting and review
- Storytelling
- Learning activity: Race and its historical foundation
- Learning activity: Levels of racism
- Learning activity: Allyship and anti-racism
- Learning activity: Additional concepts and key terms
- Learning activity: SEL framework
- Knowledge check
- Summary
- Module 3: Module 3: Accept your identity in the anti-racism journey
- Introduction
- Norm setting and review
- Storytelling
- Learning activity: Map your racial identity
- Learning activity: First thoughts
- Restorative problem-solving
- Knowledge check
- Summary
- Module 4: Module 4: Become aware of bias in the anti-racism journey
- Introduction
- Norm setting and review
- Storytelling
- Learning activity: Origins of bias
- Learning activity: Effects of bias
- Knowledge check
- Summary
- Module 5: Module 5: Consider privilege and fragility in the anti-racism journey
- Introduction
- Norm setting and review
- Storytelling
- Learning activity: Contextualize privilege and power
- Learning activity: Marginalization and social exclusion
- Learning activity: Grit and perseverance over fragility
- Learning activity: Individual accountability and racial equity
- Restorative problem-solving
- Knowledge check
- Summary
- Module 6: Module 6: Bring anti-racism work to students
- Introduction
- Norm setting and review
- Storytelling
- Learning activity: Knowledge integration to become anti-racist
- Learning activity: Contextualize terminology (What do all these words mean?)
- Learning activity: Internalize race and identity
- Learning activity: Recognize implicit biases
- Learning activity: Privilege and fragility
- Learning activity: Curriculum as window, mirror, and sliding glass door (Am I learning about people who do and don’t look like me?)
- Restorative problem-solving
- Knowledge check
- Summary
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