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Facilitator's Guide to Courageous Conversations About Race

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September 2006 | 72 pages | Corwin

Create staff development training that addresses the relationship between race and achievement!

Acutely aware of the statistical gaps in achievement between different racial groups, educators realize that eliminating this disparity is critical to developing cultural proficiency. Candid conversations about race help educational leaders understand why performance inequity persists and how to guide policy analysis and instructional reform that promote true academic parity. Designed to complement the best-selling Courageous Conversations About Race, this facilitator's guide shows how to use professional development events to help educational leaders examine the achievement gap through the prism of race.

This chapter-by-chapter guide explains how to engage educators in discussions about personal agendas, multiple racial perspectives, closing the racial achievement gap, and extending their professional learning. Trainers also will find practical features, including

  • Implementation exercises
  • Prompts, language, and tools that support profound discussion
  • Activities and checklists for administrators
  • Action steps for creating an equity team

Highlights for the facilitator include

  • Activities for small or large groups
  • Discussion and journaling prompts
  • Key sources for supplemental reading
  • Sample workshop agendas for half-day, one-day, or two- to three-day sessions
  • A workshop evaluation form

Using the Facilitator's Guide to Courageous Conversations About Race, you can help educators construct a language and a process for addressing the relationship between race and achievement. With creative, open dialogue, leaders can restructure their schools and fulfill every student's potential regardless of race, culture, or class.


 
About the Authors
 
Introduction
How to Use the Guide

 
Additional Resources for Facilitators

 
 
Chapter-by-Chapter Study Guide: Courageous Conversations About Race: A Field Guide for Achieving Equity in Schools by Glenn E. Singleton and Curtis Linton
Chapter 1. Breaking the Silence: Ushering in Courageous Conversation About Race

 
Chapter 2. What's So Courageous About This Conversation?

 
Chapter 3. Why Race?

 
Chapter 4. Agreeing to Talk About Race

 
Chapter 5. The First Condition: Getting Personal Right Here and Right Now

 
Chapter 6. The Second Condition: Keeping the Spotlight on Race

 
Chapter 7. The Third Condition: Engaging Multiple Racial Perspectives

 
Chapter 8. The Fourth Condition: Keeping Us All at the Table

 
Chapter 9. The Fifth Condition: What Do You Mean By "Race"?

 
Chapter 10. The Sixth Condition: Let's Talk About Whiteness

 
Chapter 11. How Anti-Racist Leaders Close the Achievement Gap

 
Chapter 12. Exploring a Systemic Framework for Closing the Racial Achievement Gap

 
Chapter 13. Using Courageous Conversation to Achieve Equity in Schools

 
 
Resources for Extending Your Learning
Professional Development Training Videos

 
Professional Development Books

 
 
Handouts
Handout 1. Got Passion?

 
Handout 2. Racial Consciousness Flow Chart Worksheet

 
Handout 3. Four Agreements of Courageous Conversation

 
Handout 4. Implementation Exercise Part 1 Worksheet

 
Handout 5. De-Centering Whiteness

 
Handout 6. Systemic Equity Anti-Racism Transformation Worksheet

 
 
Overheads
Overhead 1. The Courageous Conversation Compass

 
Overhead 2. Racial Consciousness Flow Chart

 
Overhead 3. Naughty-Nice?

 
Overhead 4. Pacific Educational Group?s Systemic Equity Anti-Racism Transformation Framework

 
 
Sample Seminar Agendas
Half-Day Seminar Agenda

 
One-Day Seminar Agenda

 
Two- to Three-Day Seminar Agenda

 
 
Seminar Evaluation Form

Sample Materials & Chapters

Foreword

Preface

Chapter One


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Facilitator's Guide Print
ISBN: 9781412941563
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