Perspective Taking is Critical to DEI
Taking on the perspective of others is a critical DEI skill. Rather than pretending to be someone else, try instead to find out what perspective they might have, and is most important when it is different from your perspective. Perspective taking is defined as trying...
Barriers to Allyship at Home
Barriers that cause withdrawal from the DEI conversation As humans, we fear what we don’t understand. This fear can feel very real for people. There are three main categories of fear leading parents, caregivers, and educators to withdraw from the DEI conversation. The...
There Is Still a DEI Problem
We cannot fix a problem if we refuse to see it. As a white woman born and raised in the Midwest in the 1980’s and 1990’s, I was taught to be colorblind. Racism, sexism, and discrimination were of the past. My Mother, a well-intentioned, single, and white, told me that...
Address Your Unconscious Bias
Address Your Unconscious Bias to Foster DEI We all are a product of our lived experiences. This means that our early childhood moments, moments in adolescence, coming of age times, and our adulthood experiences paint a canvas of our normalized behaviors, our...