Exploring Race Racism and Unconscious Bias in Schools

Dr. Tracey A. Benson is an assistant professor of educational leadership at the University of North Carolina at Charlotte, and a former public school teacher, middle school assistant principal, and high school principal. 

Show Highlights

• Journey on a racial awakening with Tracey
• Addressing the color of punishment in the continuum of learning 
• How to have a color rich school with concrete solutions 
• Investigate your own behavior and coded language to shape racially literate young people
• How leaders can put out fires of unconscious bias?
• Tracey’s equitable solutions to improving academic achievement for students of color
• Learn to track patterns and blind spots of racial disparity and ingested bias

“I was subconsciously teaching them that they have privilege and that they were above the rules. They would get upset because they had privilege and when someone has privilege, equity feels like oppression.”

- Dr. Tracey Benson

 

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