Jamie Utt

Make the classroom a space for authentic and accountable exchange where a diverse set of voices add knowledge to the course beyond the perspective of the teacher.

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Take the time to learn your students’ names and how to pronounce them correctly.

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Create a culturally responsive classroom to ensure you respect the identities of your students of color, this should increase classroom engagement.

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Advocate for hiring more teachers of color in your school, district, and state.

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Spend time listening to your students and their families before deciding the books or examples you’ll use in the curriculum in order to connect the material to your students’ lives.

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Use discipline policies based on principles of nonviolence and restorative justice and investigate how discipline policies are doled out.

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Improve the way you talk about your students and remove words from your vocabulary that make the students sound like outsiders instead of members of the school community.

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Reflect on how implicit bias impacts your teaching so that media representations of female students and students of color don't impact your classroom.

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