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An excerpt from a training video for Pollyanna, Inc.'s "Racial Literacy Curriculum" for Grades 9-12.

An excerpt from a training video for Pollyanna, Inc.'s "Racial Literacy Curriculum" for Grades 9-12.

An excerpt from a training video for Pollyanna, Inc.'s "Racial Literacy Curriculum" for Grades 9-12.

A video excerpt from "Growing Young Voices: Understanding Black Lives Matter for Teachers". A teacher explains how she uses the analogy of stepping on someone's foot to instruct fourth graders in the novel moral framework of "impact regardless of intent". From the National Association of Independent Schools' People of Color Conference 2019. https://twitter.com/search?q=%23exposeNAIS http://pocc.nais.org https://www.blacklivesmatteratschool.com/curriculum.html http://undercovermother.substack.com

A video excerpt from "Growing Young Voices: Understanding Black Lives Matter for Teachers". For their culminating project, groups of fifth grade students memorized and recited original spoken word poems. In this poem called "Gone", students connect the torture and murder of Emmett Till to more recent deaths of black victims, asserting that in all these cases "these people only got killed because of the color of their skin". From the National Association of Independent Schools' People of Color Conference 2019. https://twitter.com/search?q=%23exposeNAIS http://pocc.nais.org https://www.blacklivesmatteratschool.com/resources.html http://undercovermother.substack.com

A fifth-grade teacher parses the deprecated third verse of the Star-Spangled Banner to teach his class that the national anthem is racist, in order to portray Colin Kaepernick as a role model and lay a foundation for student activism. From the National Association of Independent Schools' People of Color Conference 2019. https://twitter.com/search?q=%23exposeNAIS http://pocc.nais.org https://www.blacklivesmatteratschool.com/resources.html http://undercovermother.substack.com

A video excerpt from "Growing Young Voices: Understanding Black Lives Matter for Teachers". A fifth-grade teacher facilitates a "constructivist" research project for his students on the Colin Kaepernick story. Students use Google exclusively and the teacher ignores the larger issues surrounding free speech, right to association, or any other contextual issues, while accusing "right-wing media" of spinning the story. From the National Association of Independent Schools' People of Color Conference 2019. https://twitter.com/search?q=%23exposeNAIS http://pocc.nais.org https://www.blacklivesmatteratschool.com/resources.html http://undercovermother.substack.com

A video excerpt from "Growing Young Voices: Understanding Black Lives Matter for Teachers". A fourth-grade teacher explains the meaning of "unapologetically black," which translates to, among other things like hair and clothes, honoring Biggie Smalls—a rapper "notorious" for his violent and misogynist lyrics—as a role model in her classroom. She instructs the children to research Instagram models. From the National Association of Independent Schools' People of Color Conference 2019. https://twitter.com/search?q=%23exposeNAIS http://pocc.nais.org https://www.blacklivesmatteratschool.com/resources.html http://undercovermother.substack.com

A video excerpt from "Growing Young Voices: Understanding Black Lives Matter for Teachers". A fourth-grade teacher lays the interpersonal moral foundation of "reparations" as vocabulary in order to prime students for later "debate" about "why we need reparations for slavery in America." From the National Association of Independent Schools' People of Color Conference 2019. https://twitter.com/search?q=%23exposeNAIS h http://pocc.nais.org https://www.blacklivesmatteratschool.com/resources.html http://undercovermother.substack.com

A video excerpt from "Growing Young Voices: Understanding Black Lives Matter for Teachers". How a fourth-grade teacher inculcates the 13 principles of the Black Lives Matter at School curriculum. "That decency that they get in school, is not mimicked by society outside of school." From the National Association of Independent Schools' People of Color Conference 2019. https://twitter.com/search?q=%23exposeNAIS http://pocc.nais.org https://www.blacklivesmatteratschool.com/resources.html http://undercovermother.substack.com

This second grade teacher describes how her political activism connects to her "area of influence in terms of being a teacher and how to really push these concepts forward in a developmentally appropriate way in the classroom." From the seminar "Decolonizing Our Minds: Amplifying BIPOC Culture to Inspire Responsible Action"

Transforming schools from within takes delicate maneuvering. Transparency must be carefully managed so that meddlesome doubters don't imagine they have a say. And different constituencies may require different messaging. "From Brave Spaces to Systemic Change". "Sharing too much can lead people to feel like they have a say in the process, when they actually don't... it can lead to more opportunities for feedback that's obstructive, or negative, or asking a lot of pointed questions"

Rather conveniently for her, this presenter describes pushback to the crusade against "white supremacy" by "skinfolk" as due to "white supremacy" itself. Zora Neale Hurston popularized the "skinfolk" quote in a very different context and expressed views anathema to CRT.

Excerpted clip from the PoCC 2021 session "Let's Talk About It: Anti-Oppressive Unit and Lesson Plan Design"

Excerpted clip from the PoCC 2021 session "From Pawns to Controlling the Board: Seeing BIPOC Students as Power Players in Student Programming"

Excerpted clip from the PoCC 2021 session "Post-PoCC Return to PWI Normal: Engaging and Mapping Complexity with a Cognitive Framework" (PWI stands for "Predominantly White Institutions")

Excerpted clip from "Small Activists, Big Impact: Cultivating anti-racists and activists in Kindergarten"