Step 1: Preparing to Be an Anti-Racist Educator
This step includes a review of four criteria for the reader to reflect on their current anti-racism practice as an educator.
| Criteria | Tools to Guide You |
|---|---|
| Understand and acknowledge your positionality (worldview you bring to the course and teaching, and how your identity/ies locate you socially, politically etc.) | Reflect on your positionality to ensure student success
How does your positionality bias your epistemology? |
| Understand unconscious bias and how it affects the learner experience, as well as classroom interactions, feedback and assessments | TOOL: Implicit Bias Training |
| Create a personalized land acknowledgement | TOOL: Personalizing Land Acknowledgements |
| Design or plan for classroom and teaching practices that are inclusive of all students | TOOL: Creating a Safe and Supportive Classroom Environment |
