Pre Work For Participants
Opening Community Circle (10 minutes)
What does an equitable school and/or learning and teaching environment and experience look like for you and/or your students?
Community Agreements (10 minutes)
Reread the community agreements, participants share in a circle one that they want to push themselves to commit to today.
Discussion: RTWT Protocol (50 minutes)
Questions
- What are you noticing based on your audit? What do you feel proud of? What was surprising?
- What are the next steps for you? Your team? Your org?
- How can you increase your spheres of influence? What places and spaces can you become a part of to support your personal and professional growth?
Reflection: Journal (7 minutes)
- What is something you are learning that is challenging your thinking or beliefs? Affirming your thinking/beliefs?
- What is one action I/we can commit to doing after this session to work toward BIPOC and LGBTQ+ Liberation?
- What is one action I/we can commit to stop doing after this session to work toward BIPOC and LGBTQ+ Liberation?
Closing Community Circle (7 minutes)
Pick one of these to share as you go around the circle.
Develop restorative practices in schools, including using restorative justice as a response to harm, fostering trusting relationships among students, creating emotional safe spaces that recognize and nurture students’ identities, and giving students a sense of ownership and belonging in the school.