Reflecting on Biases

Handouts

This handout provides five ways to mitigate unconscious biases.

This handout, Implicit-Bias, from the University of Michigan provides recommended readings and principles to guide educators’ skills on being aware of implicit bias.

Websites

What is culturally responsive teaching?

This website from Harvard University, is the Implicit Association Test (IAT).

This website from the University of Hawaii provides a useful overview and activities for reflecting on bias.

This website from UNC is a part of several modules on building skills to enhance awareness of microaggressions and implicit bias.

This website from PBIS can help facilitate conversations about race and racism in K-12 classrooms.

This website from the University of Oregon explains what microaggressions are and what to do when they happen in your classrooms.

Videos

This 3-min video below discusses the real-world impacts of implicit bias in education.

This 8-min explains the detrimental impacts that can occur if biases are left unchecked and how to check your own unconscious biases.

This 6-min video explores how implicit biases can affect crucial decisions that determine what pathways are available to people.

This 2-min video presents Black parents', teachers', and students' perspectives on belief gaps.

This 5-min video discusses the findings and implications of a study called "Rookie Mistakes: The Interplay of Teacher Experience and Racial Representation."

This 2-min video depicts how microaggressions are a problem.