Community Conversations Around Race March 10, 2021
Session Two 5:35 p.m. – 6:30 p.m.
Bringing Your Whole Identity
Investigate how and why students don't feel seen at school, how to bring identity of students into our classroom and value all of each student.
Presenter(s): Kelly Muskat
Building Parent Affinity Groups
In this session, participants will discuss the importance of parent participation in building alliances across the Beaverton School District and in the community.
Presenter(s): Desiree Williams-Rajee, Beaverton Black Parent Union Members
Confronting White Nationalism in the Classroom
Using the Western States Center's "Confronting White Nationalism in Schools" toolkit, participants will be equipped to recognize and respond to scapegoating, false equivalency, conspiracy theories, and hateful rhetoric disguised as humor. They will also learn about specific lessons and activities designed to help students resist white nationalist and other anti-democratic recruitment.
Presenter(s): Patrick Griffin, Jessica Acee
Demystifying Black Lives Matter at School
This session will provide a history on the Black Lives Matter at School movement, it will explore the 13 principles of BLM in School, give participants an opportunity to explore concrete examples of how to implement the principles in conversation and lessons across age and grade levels, as well as examine the impact on student work, and provide resources to take away.
Presenter(s): Cory Coleman, Gillian Sullivan-Bing, Lexie Barth
Exploring theTopic of Racism/Discrimination in a High School Spanish Language Arts Class
Exploración del tema de racismo/discriminación en una clase de Literatura y Composición al nivel de preparatoria
This session will be presented in Spanish / Esta sesión se presentará en español
Participants will learn about activities for a 4-week unit during CDL. In this unit, students explored the evidence and impacts of racism in local, national, and global communities through texts, podcasts, political cartoons, and videos in Spanish and English and wrote an argumentative essay. The session will be in Spanish and English, and students will be there to share their experience.
Se presentarán las actividades y los recursos usados para un estudio de 4 semanas durante CDL. Los estudiantes exploraron la evidencia y los impactos del racismo en el contexto local, nacional y global por medio de una variedad de textos, caricaturas, podcasts y videos en español e inglés y escribieron un ensayo argumentativo.
Presenter(s): Jennifer Rawcliffe
Growing Up White: Reflection & Commitment to Being Anti-Racist in Changing Beaverton
Come and listen to BSD educators as they reflect on their experience of growing up in Beaverton when BSD was majority white and now teaching as anti-racist educators in a district that is BIPOC majority.
Presenter(s): Sho Shigeoka
Identifying and Removing Barriers for BIPOC Walking and Biking
Join the Beaverton Safe Routes to School Team to discuss existing barriers in place for BIPOC students and families to actively travel to schools and throughout Beaverton neighborhoods. Conversation will include ideas for direct program improvements such as affinity group walks and corner greeters to address the barriers identified.
Presenter(s): Leah Biado-Luis
Incarceration of Japanese Americans during World War II: Stories from Portland Survivors
Participants will hear from two Portland residents, George Nakata and Joni Kimoto, who were both young children when their families were unjustly removed from their homes and sent to Minidoka Concentration Camp during World War II. They will share their stories of incarceration, resilience, and how their experiences and the recent political climate have shaped their commitment to speaking up against injustice of American xenophobia and racism.
Presenter(s): Jennifer Fang
On the Road: A Conversation About Building Anti-Racist Skills as White Educators
Come and listen to BSD White educators who are part of BAR modeling resources, establishing norms, sharing challenges, working alongside BIPOC affinity groups as allies.
Presenter(s): Sarah Blattner, Jessica Loomis
Power of Student Voice in Improving School Culture
High School Principals and student leaders will facilitate a conversation with participants on the harnessing the power of student voice to drive decision making and building a school culture built on inclusion, equity and social justice. The power of student narrative will be a highlight of this session.
Presenter(s): BSD High School Principals and Student Leaders
Reimagining Our Classrooms
Gholdy Muhammad discusses the importance of creating communities where educators make it impossible for students to fail. Participants will learn ways to foster the "genius of all students" in our classrooms, especially students of color, by examining how to reimagine schools through listening to our students who are like caged canaries in the coal mine.
Presenter(s): Tricia Murphy
Silent No More: Dispelling the Myth of "Model Minority" In the Midst of Racial Liberation Movement
Bigoted language such as "China Virus" and "Kung Flu" has fueled an epidemic of violence against Asian Americans in recent months. Come and listen to our Asian American youth discuss the impact of stereotypes of being "Model Minority," "Perpetual Foreigner" and "Silent Minority" in the midst of racial liberation movement.
Presenter(s): Cynthia Lam Moffett, Anil Naik, Nina Takahashi, Tina Truong
We All Live Downstream: Hidden Histories Still Rippling Through Our Lives
Participants will walk through 13 federal policies that have shaped the United States, resulting in structural inequalities and how the wealth gap between White and Black Americans has been created, policy by policy. Participants will walk away with a better understanding of Systemic Racism that has created different opportunities and disparities for White and Black Americans. Connections will also be made to some local impacts of these policies in Portland, Oregon.
Presenter(s): Liv Cruse
Why Can't I Just Be Colorblind?
When starting to engage in anti-racist work, it's not unusual for white people to feel dissonance with ideas that they have held for a long time. In this session, participants will examine a few of those ideas and dive into discussions to learn more.
Presenter(s): Carissa Marrs, Kerrin Moeller
