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Teaching Hidden Histories

Glennys Sánchez

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How do we create a safe environment for difficult conversations about complex issues surrounding race,

identity, and what it means to be “American,” especially through a local lens that will hit close to home?

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Practices and Strategies

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Engage in self awareness

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Project-based learning as a guiding approach to explore complex issues

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Classroom Community agreements

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Engage in Self-Awareness

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Project-based learning as a guiding approach to explore complex issues

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Classroom Community Agreements

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Sample Community Agreements

  • Use "I" statements
  • Practice active listening- Use words and body language to communicate empathy
  • Create a brave space- speak with fairness and call out bias, exclusion, and prejudice

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Resources

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  • Book: “Not Light, but Fire: How to Lead Meaningful Race Conversations in the Classroom” by Matthew R. Kay
  • How to Be an Anti-racist Educator- Dena Simmons
  • Abolitionist Teaching Network
  • #disrupt texts [disruptexts.org]

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