Let's Talk Social Justice

Honest and courageous conversations are just the beginning of our work for social justice. When we develop safe spaces to have these conversations, we work together to dismantle oppression. Let’s get talking!

Elementary Lesson

Please start by sharing this video with your students

Instructions:

1. Watch the video about discrimination.
2. Think about how Pop gets treated throughout the video. Share how you think Pop feels.
3. Explain how discrimination--what happens to Pop--has happened to you or other people you know here in America.
4. Make a plan to do something to stop discrimination.
5. This week, take your first step to engage in this plan.

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   Secondary Lesson

Please start by sharing this video with your students

Instructions:

1. Watch the video.
2. Consider the courageous conversations highlighted here--students and their teacher building connections and speaking from the heart.
3. Think about a safe space where you can work with other students and teachers to have similar conversations. Make a plan and commit to not only talking, but doing something in your life to make things more equitable for others.
4. This week, take your first step to engage in this plan.

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   See you next week for our next lesson!

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