Course curriculum

  • 1

    What is Your Why?

    • Chapter One: Why?

    • Grounding: What Kind of Ancestor Do You Want to Be?

    • What is Your Why?

    • Reflection on Your North Star
  • 2

    What Does it Mean to Be White?

    • Chapter Two: Examining Whiteness

    • Grounding: When Did You First Notice Your Race?

    • Race & Ethnicity: What's the Difference?

    • What Does it Mean to Be White?

    • Defining Stages of White Racial Identity

    • Understanding Stages of White Racial Identity

    • Read: Stages of White Identity Article

    • Preview: Stages of Racial Identity Podcast

    • Listen: Stages of Racial Identity Podcast

    • Watch: Ratchetness as an Identity

    • Reflection on Racial Identity Development
  • 3

    What is White Privilege?

    • Chapter Three: White Privilege

    • Grounding: "White Privilege"

    • Watch: What is White Privilege?

    • White Privilege as Legacy

    • Defining White Privilege

    • What Does White Privilege Look Like?

    • The Wheel of Power and Privilege

    • Explaining White Privilege to a Broke White Person

    • The Systemic Cost of White Privilege

    • Activity: Interview a Family Member

    • Reflection on White Privilege
  • 4

    What Does it Mean to Be Racist or Anti-racist?

    • Chapter Four: Anti-Racist Educators

    • Grounding: Anti-Racism+Artwork

    • To Be Anti-Racist or Not to Be Anti-Racist? That is the Question.

    • Walking Against the Conveyor Belt

    • Redlining and the Effects on Public Education

    • How do Schools Currently and Historically Uphold Racism Within Systems, Structures, and Policies?

    • Are Your School and District Policies Racist or Anti-racist?

    • White Silence

    • White Saviorism

    • Tough talks: How Do You or Don’t You Have Talks About Race and Racism?

    • Racial Equity Detours Reflection

    • Reflection on Anti-Racism

    • Reflection on Being Anti-Racist
  • 5

    Unpacking Narratives

    • Chapter Five: Whose Voice is Centered?

    • Grounding: Who is Centered?

    • White Superiority

    • Providing Windows and Mirrors

    • What are Dominant Narratives?

    • Examining Dominant Narratives

    • Absent and Counter Narratives

    • Identifying Absent and Counter-Narratives

    • Heroes and Holidays: The Myth of Exceptionalism

    • Stages of Multicultural Curriculum Transformation

    • Units and Courses Centering Students of Color

    • Article: Ethnic Studies: A Movement Born of a Ban

    • Article: Students of Color Must Have An Opportunity to Learn Their History

    • Conducting a "Self-Audit"

    • Eight Questions to Ask Yourself

    • Reflection on Narratives
  • 6

    Celebrating Genius, Brilliance and Joy in Your Classroom

    • Chapter Six: Joy

    • Grounding: Finding Joy

    • The Brilliance in Your Classroom

    • As White Educators, How Can We Center Black Joy in our Classrooms?

    • We Want to do More Than Survive-Bettina Love

    • Black Joy

    • Mindshift Podcast: How Centering Joy Can Make Learning More Relevant to Students and Teachers

    • Reflection on Joy
  • 7

    Taking Action Personally and Professionally

    • Final Grounding

    • Deep reflection

    • For Further Support