Educators Interrupting Prejudice

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Educators Interrupting Prejudice
Educators Network for Social Justice 2nd Annual
Anti-Racist Anti-Bias Teaching Conference

• Alyssa Ottow and Sarah Ottow
• ELL Teachers, Oak Creek-Franklin Public Schools

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Why are we here?
Teaching for Social Justice

• Quote from Alyssas book about

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Workshop Objective

• Develop and share communication strategies for
  dealing with actions and attitudes that
  negatively affect
• Students
• Colleagues
• Families
• Groups

Lesson adapted from William J. Kreidler
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Sometimes I feel discriminated against, but it
does not make me angry. It merely astonishes me.
How can they deny themselves the pleasure of my
company? It's beyond me. Zora Neale Hurston
You know everybody is ignorant, only on
different subjects.-Will Rogers
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STEREOTYPING PREJUDICE
DISCRIMINATION SCAPEGOATING
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Stereotyping

• Happens out of ignorance and convenience
• Is often unconscious

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Whats the difference?

• STEREOTYPING
• PREJUDICE
• DISCRIMINATION
• SCAPEGOATING

A mental image of a group based on opinion
without regard to individual differences
Negative judgment or opinion formed about a group
without knowledge of the facts
Treating people in a less favorable way because
they are members of a particular group
discrimination is prejudice in action
Holding one person or group responsible for all
the communitys problems isolating or rejecting
a person from a group
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What groups?

• Ethnic
• Racial
• Linguistic
• Cultural
• Class
• Ability
• Gender
• Sexuality
• Citizenship status

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What can we do?

• Groups of 3-4
• Read situation card
• Identify how people lose as result of
  stereotyping, prejudice, discriminating or
  scapegoating
• Discuss how to respond to situation
• Other situations you have experienced?

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Strategies for Handling Conflict

• Aggressive
• Collaborative
• Compromise
• Give in
• Avoid or Delay
• Get Help

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Reflection

• What are ineffective ways of dealing with these
  conflicts?

• What are effective ways of dealing with these
  conflicts?

• What is one thing you could tell a colleague
  about what you did here today?

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Resources

• YWCA Ten Simple Ideas to Eliminate Racism
• Teaching Tolerance Speak Up!
• Educators for Social Responsibility Dealing with
  Stereotyping, Prejudice, Discrimination, and
  Scapegoating
• Vault Diversity Resources
• Prentice Hall Understanding Stereotyping,
  Prejudice and Scapegoating

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situations

• Accent of another teacher
• Speaking Spanish to an Arab student
• Those kids from the apartments
• Anti-Muslim emails