Photos by Susie Fitzhugh
Department of Equity and Race Relations:
Bernardo Ruiz – bjruiz@seattleschools.org Director
Noah Prince – njprince@seattleschools.org Specialist
Anita Morales – agmorales@seattleschools.org Specialist
Fran Partridge - fepartridge@seattleschools.org Specialist
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Stay engaged
Speak your truth
Experience discomfort
Expect and accept non-closure
Listen for understanding
Maintain confidentiality
Take a minute to talk to the person next to you
about your feelings, thoughts, impressions,
surprises or an “Ah-ha,” after taking the
implicit bias test.
Participants will be able to define a
micro-aggression, inside and
outside of the school building, as
well as understand and practice
interrupting a micro-aggression.
Racial Micro-Aggression:
“Brief and commonplace daily verbal,
behavioral, or environmental
indignities, whether intentional or
unintentional, that communicate
hostile, derogatory, or negative racial
slights and insults toward people of
color.”
Video Clip
• http://youtu.be/Qc31uo4sk8I
Video Clip
• http://youtu.be/DWynJkN5HbQ
How to interrupt
Example of Micro-Aggression interrupted
Incident in the Grocery Store
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Wf9QBnPK6Yg
Responsiveness Practice
CHALLENGING OPPRESSIONS:
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Take a deep breath
Name it
Give information
Give direction
BEING CHALLENGED:
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Take a deep breath
Listen
Thank the other person
Take action
Source: School’s Out Washington
Reflection
• How did this go?
• How did it make you feel?
• What worked and what didn’t work?
Reflection
1)Write down your next steps toward
interrupting micro-aggressions in your school.
2) Partner with someone in the school
to tell them how your next steps and then
when you will meet to talk about how you are
doing at challenging or being challenged.