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Teaching in the Days After

Rowland 2024

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By: Emily Gilmore & Christie Nold

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Welcome!

Get comfortable!

Grab a seat

Check out the various identity models at your table

Grab one that resonates with you & fill in as much/as little as you choose!

Step 1:

Step 2:

Step 3:

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Who are we?

Christie (she/her)

  • Mom to Willa
  • Partner to Stephen
  • Teacher to 9th - 12th graders
  • Public radio & podcast listener

Emily (she/her)

  • Married to Adam
  • Human mom to Arnie (dog), Minnie + Daisy (cats)
  • From Chicago
  • Former HS teacher
  • Current Great Schools Partnership Coach

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Rough Sketch:

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Self - Proactive - Reactive

Table-based conversation

An anchor that can ground this work

How might we prepare for what’s ahead?

Building Connection

IRIS Framework

Setting the Container

Application

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Building Connection:

Together with 3-5 people:

  • Who are you?
  • Why are you here?
  • What parts of your identity call you into this space?

We welcome your interpretations of the prompts above & invite you to practice equity of voice together with your group!

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IRIS: Collective Sense Making

Round 1: Quote only - Resonates

Round 2: Quote only - Dissonance

Round 3: Discussion: drawing connections?

Step 1: Read over the IRIS framework

Step 2: Join your small group from connections

Small Groups:

Questions:

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Starting with Self: Check In

Check in…

How am I… Really?

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Co-Regulation

What are my strategies in moments of elevation?

Mirror Neurons

What is it possible for me to project at this time?

Role Clarity

Who is on my team?

What role am I in right now?

Am I the “right” person?

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Proactive: Norms

Click HERE for a sample lesson from Carly Bennett & Christie Nold

Check out THIS blog post from Jess Lifshitz

Click HERE for an article from Carla Shalaby

Check out THIS interview with Marian Dingle

Norms Lesson

Management as Care

“On the first day”

Discussing Race

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Proactive: Structures

In-Room System/Structures*:

  • Connection
  • Empowerment
  • Flexibility
  • Predictability

Larger Systems/Structures:

  • Times for conversation?
    • Advisory?
    • Current events?
    • Homeroom?
    • Curriculum connections?
    • School counseling?

*Based on Alex Shevrin Venet’s four priorities of trauma-informed education (read more here)

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Example: Daily Practice

What do you think will be in the headlines?

Predictions:

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What did you notice as you watched/listened?

Noticings:

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What questions do you have after watching/listening?

Wonderings:

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Fly a kite or go fishing?

Option A: What happened last Wednesday?!

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Read: “Pro-Trump mob storms U.S. Capitol in bid to overturn election”

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Option B: Anything but last Wednesday…

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Read: “Study suggests video games can help mental health”

Directions:

  • In Green, highlight where you see evidence of the status quo
  • In Yellow, highlight where you see evidence of the challengers to the status quo
  • In Pink, highlight where you see evidence of the maintainers of the status quo
  • In Blue, highlight where you see examples of identity

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Proactive (other contexts):

  • Check-ins
    • Circles
    • Connections Protocol
    • Welcoming Into the Room
  • Pull data from current events
  • Vocabulary/Word Walls
  • Photo of the day

Turn + Talk: How are you creating predictability in your spaces?

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Reactive

How to hold space as things pop up?

  • Lean on art & music
  • Access photography
  • Examine source materials
  • Explore ideas through structured protocols
  • Use your proactive structures to support the conversation

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Example: Ukraine (Art/Music)

Visual Art

Anthem

What can we infer about Ukrainian history and culture through the video?

What can we infer about Ukrainian people and history through their anthem?

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What can you infer about their leadership style through these images?

Ukraine (Photography)

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WKCR

CNN

Questions for reflection:

  • What is their proximity to the event?
  • What can you infer about their perspective?
  • Which might belong in the historical record? Why?

Example: Protests (Media Literacy)

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Example: Protocols for Discussion

Text-based protocol to use with a shared text

Can be used with a series of quotes, images, or questions for discussion

Allows students to engage in a series of questions/prompts

Text-based protocol that can be used with a shared text or with multiple texts

Text-based protocol to use with a shared text

Allows for a sequence of questions in a structured format

World Café

4As

Block Party

Save the Last Word

Text Rendering

Microlabs

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Dos/Don’ts:

DO - check in with yourself

DO - validate and offer choices for support

DO - be gentle with yourself!

DON’T - rush to intellectualize

DON’T - try (or pretend) to know it all

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Don’t Forget: Use your policies

Great Schools Partnership:

At the Great Schools Partnership, we define educational equity as ensuring just outcomes for each student, raising marginalized voices, and challenging the imbalance of power and privilege.

SBSD:

“...Equity means that every school provides and every student has access to high quality culturally responsive curriculum, programs, teachers and administrators, extracurricular activities and support services to meet the needs of each and every student…”

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Don’t Forget: Use your initiatives

Social, Emotional Learning

Portrait of a Graduate

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Application:

Consider:

  • How might you regulate in times of stress or uncertainty?
  • How might you support students/staff in navigating uncertainty?
  • What (if any) strategies might you tap into?
  • Which larger systems/structures could support conversation?
  • What systems/structures in your room could you lean on?
  • What aspects of the IRIS framework can you pull in?

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Share?

Let’s hear a few ideas: what is your role? What might your response include?

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Next Steps…

Planning for uncertainty: how are you planning for it? How can you prepare for conversations ahead?

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Media Literacy:

Practice

Review the three sources below.

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Media Literacy

Civic Online Reasoning- Stanford

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What is Media Literacy and HOW Can Simple Shifts Center It- PBS Teachers Lounge

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Media Literacy & Digital Citizenship - Facing History & Ourselves

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Media Literacy Is Vital During the Election Process- Learning for Justice

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Sentence Starters

  • That’s a great question, let’s make a list of the questions that are coming up for us as we learn more about [the event]
  • That’s an interesting perspective! Who else might we need to hear from to try to gain a more complete understanding?
  • I can’t answer that question. We will learn more information as time goes on. What will support look like and feel like for you/us as a group?

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Identity Work

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Identity Graphic Organizers

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Trauma-Informed Practices

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State Materials

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is a nonprofit school-support organization 
working to redesign public education and 
improve learning for all students.

Feel free to reach out to Emily at:

egilmore@greatschoolspartnership.org

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