Author Hedreich Nichols infuses this book with a direct yet conversational style to help you identify biases that adversely affect your practice and learn how to move beyond those biases to ensure a more equitable, inclusive campus culture.
Benefits
- Recognize your own personal biases and how they affect the classroom.
- Learn how your language can reinforce discrimination and how to choose inclusive language instead.
- Understand gender and sexuality and how they relate to identity.
- Discover ways to celebrate and foster diversity daily.
- Identify microaggressions and how they create barriers to relationships.
Table of Contents
Chapter 1: Bias and Belonging
Chapter 2: Bias, Guilt, and Accountability
Chapter 3: Bias, Labels, and Language
Chapter 4: Bias in Curriculum
Chapter 5: Bias and Cultural Expression
Chapter 6: Bias, Gender Expression, and Sexual Identity
Chapter 7: Bias and Representation
Chapter 8: Bias in Action: Avoid Missteps
Conclusion
REPRODUCIBLES
- Figure 1.3: Reflection questions on gender and race
- Figure 2.4: Calling-in responses versus calling-out responses
- Figure 3.2: Practice rewriting terms in person-first language
- Figure 4.4: Who else was there? activity
- Figure 5.2: Scenarios and comfort
- Figure 5.3: Choose a relationship to invest in
- Figure 5.5: Character trait association
- Figure 8.4: My students, my biases
SUGGESTED RESOURCES
Books
- 56 Black Men
- All Children—All Families: Beginner’s Guide to LGBTQ Inclusion
- AllSides
- APA Style Bias-Free Language
- Babbel Magazine
- Book Creator
- Canva
- DeepL Translator
- Freedom for All Americans Litigation Tracker
- Gay, Lesbian, and Straight Education Network
- Google Translate
- Human Genome Project
- Learning for Justice
- LGBTQ+ Best Practices Guide
- LGBTQ+ Resources from CDC
- Library of Congress’s Digital Collections
- Love Has No Labels
- Muslims for Progressive Values
- National Park Service’s Telling All Americans’ Stories
- Native American Women Playwrights Archive
- Padlet
- Radical Math
- Safe@School
- Smithsonian Online Virtual Archives
- Test Yourself for Hidden Bias
- The Human Rights Campaign’s Welcoming Schools Project
- The Trevor Project
- Underrepresentation Curriculum Project
- Wakelet
- We Need Diverse Books
- Welcoming Schools Video
- What I Need to Succeed at School Video
- Whosoever