Taking time for mindful reflection can help us better understand the implicit biases and assumptions in our own thinking processes, opening us up to new ways of seeing the challenges we and our students face in our learning communities. Use this activity with pre- and in-service teachers to engage in mindful reflection on our students’ learning.
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Mindful reflection process for developing culturally responsive practices
Making connections:
Principled Innovation asks us to work with others and recognize the limits of our own knowledge so that we can better understand and tackle the complex issues our communities face.
John Rawls “Justice as fairness” lesson plan
Tool
45 minutes
By: Academy 4 Social Change
Critical reflection: a road to empathy and growing relationships
Video
3 minutes
By: Nirmal Nanayakkara, TEDx
K-5 Card Deck Activity: Honesty
Tool
10 minutes
By: Principled Innovation® (PI)
Icebreakers
Tool
15 minutes
By: University of Florida
Teams solve problems faster when they’re more cognitively diverse
Article
20 minutes
By: Alison Reynolds and David Lewis, Harvard Business Review