Case Study #1
Restorative Circle and Definitions
DAY
1
What to Expect: Today’s Lesson
Warm Up
Questions
Vocabulary
Exit Ticket
Key definitions, quick write, learning target, check-in
Questions on identity
Putting our key definitions into context
Wrap-up
Warm Up
Key Definitions to Consider
Identity
Negro
Ethnicity
The qualities, characteristics or beliefs that make a person who they are.
A word that used to be used to reference a Black person. 100 years ago this word would have been ok to use. Like many words, meanings change with the times. Today this word is not widely used. You will notice this word is used in some of the primary sources we will be examining. Today it is better to say Black or African American.
Belonging to a social group that has common cultural traditions.
SECTION ONE: WARM UP
5 Minute �Quick Write
What are your cultural identities?
What Makes Up �Our Identities?
SECTION ONE: WARM UP
I can examine and discuss the impact �of racism on my life and the lives of those who are culturally different from me.
SECTION ONE: WARM UP
Learning Target
Check-In
SECTION ONE: WARM UP
Show the class with your fingers which number ‘dog’ represents how you’re feeling today?
Questions
What do you need to feel supported and challenged?
Preparation Question:
Circle Agreements
SECTION TWO: QUESTIONS
“Not everything that is faced can be changed. But nothing can be changed until it is faced.” –James Baldwin
How does your racial identity impact how you are treated in America?
Round One:
Circle Agreements
SECTION TWO: QUESTIONS
“It’s not our differences that divide us. It’s our inability to recognize, accept, and celebrate those differences.” –Audre Lorde
What do you know about racism and systemic racism?
Round Two:
Circle Agreements
SECTION TWO: QUESTIONS
“In all my work, what I try to say is that as human beings we are more alike than unalike.” –Maya Angelou
Vocabulary
Key Definitions to Consider
Antiracist (adj.)
Systemic Racism
Racist (adj.)
Believing and acting as if racial groups are equals and actively resisting racism.
Racism that shows up in our lives across institutions and society including: wealth gap, employment, housing discrimination, government surveillance, incarceration, drug arrests, immigration arrests, and infant mortality.
Believing and acting as if something is wrong or right, superior or inferior, better or worse about a racial group.
Antiracist (adj.)
Use your own words to define:
Example: Dr. Alice H. Young demonstrated antiracist actions. She was the first Black principal in the Rochester City School District. She helped created MCC and the urban suburban program. Dr. Young fought tirelessly against racism and helped create opportunities for many other Black, people of color in Rochester.
EXAMPLE:
SECTION THREE: VOCABULARY
Racist (adj.)
Use your own words to define:
Example: In 1921, Dr. George Whipple became the director for the University of Rochester New College of Medicine. He demonstrated racist actions at UR. He created a policy that prevented Black students from attending the University of Rochester Medical School. It is reported that he allowed one black student in each year after being threatened with loss of funding to the college after black activists like Dr. Charles Lunsford called him out.
EXAMPLE:
SECTION THREE: VOCABULARY
Systemic �Racism
Use your own words to define:
Article 34 of Part III of the National Association of Real Estate Board’s Code of Ethics, the guiding document for all real estate professionals in the U.S., stated
“A Realtor should never be instrumental in introducing into a neighborhood a character of property or occupancy, members of any race or nationality, or any individuals whose presence will clearly be detrimental to property values in that neighborhood.”
The leaders of the Real Estate Board of Rochester, NY approved and enforced this code of ethics.
EXAMPLE:
SECTION THREE: VOCABULARY
Exit Ticket
Anti-Racist
Racist
Systemic
Racism
SECTION FOUR: EXIT TICKET
Aunt Jemima Advertisement
BLM Protesters in Rochester, NY
Monroe County Legislature in 1939/40 voting on racist deed restrictions on the homes sold to developers
Image Bank
Word Bank
Questions
Matching
Match one image from the bank to one of the words in the word bank.
Next, ask yourself the questions in the ‘questions’ column to put today’s lesson into perspective.
How well do you know the terms?
How is my cultural identity impacted by systemic racism?
How are those with different cultural identities from mine impacted by systemic racism?
What does this quote from the President Obama mean to you?
What zone are you in?
SEL: OPTIMISTIC CLOSURE
Zones of Regulation What zone are you in? | |||
Blue Zone | Green Zone | Yellow Zone | Red Zone |
Bored | Happy | Excited | Upset |
Tired | Positive | Worried | Angry |
Sad | Thankful | Nervous | Aggressive |
Depressed | Proud | Confused | Mad |
Shy | Calm | Embarrassed | Terrified |
“Change will not come if we wait for some other person or some other time. We are the ones we’ve been waiting for. We are the change that we seek.” —President Barack Obama