Skip to main content

Search NYU Steinhardt

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. 

CRSE Definition