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
Race
Ethnicity
The qualities, characteristics or beliefs that make a person who they are.
An assumed category of people based on a similar set of physical and biological traits (what you look like)
Belonging to a social group that has common cultural traditions. (learn more)
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
Check-In
SECTION ONE: WARM UP
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.
Any measure that produces or sustains racial inequity between racial groups. Policy includes: written and unwritten laws, rules, procedures, processes, regulations, and guidelines that govern people.
Believing and acting as if something is wrong or right, superior or inferior, better or worse about a racial group.
Antiracist (adj.)
Mrs. Claude Fawcett and her friends at the Inter-racial Council of Binghamton demanded that real estate agents change their practice of not selling homes to Black people in 'White' neighborhoods through the local newspaper and public meetings.
EXAMPLE:
CRAFT YOUR OWN DEFINITION
Racist (adj.)
Use your own words to define:
In 1927, The Triple Cities was host to a New York State Ku Klux Klan Convention attended by over 800 people. Members of the Ladies Drum Corp of Endicott performed at the convention, supporting ideas about the supremacy of white protestant people like themselves.
EXAMPLE:
CRAFT YOUR OWN DEFINITION
Systemic Racism
Until the late 1950s the National Real Estate Board had a code of ethics that essentially said a real estate agent could lose their job if they showed a home to a non white family in a white neighborhood. The Broome County Board of REALTORS enforced this policy and helped steer Black residents of Broome County into the Sherwood Park neighborhood of Binghamton.
EXAMPLE:
CRAFT YOUR OWN DEFINITION
Exit Ticket
Antiracist
Racist
Racist Policy
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