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=Session II=

I. Session One Overview
The purpose of session two is to provide participants with skills necessary to build a healthy school climate for racial and ethnic diversity. This session will probe deeper into the barriers to creating and sustaining a climate of cultural and ethnic diversity, as well as provide participants with an awareness of the individual factors that can build a healthy school climate for racial and ethnic diversity.

III. Key questions
Understand how schools contribute to patterns of racial inequality? What is color? What is consciousness? What is white privilege? What is white supremacy? How does it impact us in everyday life? How do students of color and teachers of color resist white supremacy? When does not talking about race make race matter more? How do well-meaning adults unintentionally perpetuate racial inequality?

IV. Key discussion topics
• Schools as race-making institutions • Developing systems of support • Step 1: Analyze the academic data • Diagnostic data • Grades and test scores • Disaggregated by race, ses, gender, teacher • Attendance and attrition • Discipline patterns • Using data to plan or implement the change

V. Key concepts
1. Hegemony 2. Colorblind-racism 3. Meritocracy 4. Anti-Racist Leadership 5. Agency 6. Resistance