HOME PAGE - 
 www.stephenbrookfield.com
 •My home page is open access so if you want to find out 
 more about any of the exercises or activities I mention go 
 to the page and click on the ‘Resources’ link.
 •Scroll down to ‘Workshop Materials’ for PDF files or power 
 points of stuffed with activities & exercises.
 •You do not need to ask my permission to use any of these 
 resources. If they’re useful then please try them out and 
 adapt them to your context.
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 Todays Meet
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 Go to: www.todaysmeet.com/mhc
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 Sign in by creating a nickname for 
 yourself USING ONLY NUMBERS! 
 (birthday, favorite year, random #’s)
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 Please post a greeting so we know 
 the system is working
 Todays Meet - Anonymity
 • Students post reactions, questions, criticisms. You check the feed every 10-15 
 minutes. Provides immediate information about students’ learning & 
 experience. Also helps checking for understanding.
 • Students can ask ‘dumb’ questions, clarify assignment instructions or query 
 grading policies without embarrassment, risk.
 • Anonymity means issues of race, racism, microaggressions are more likely to 
 be raised than via direct speech. 
 • Open a session w/ a question to which all respond. This tells you the 
 perspectives & levels of understanding students bring to the topic.
 • Pose a question if you think problems are emerging – What am I doing that 
 most bothers you? What’s most confusing about my instructions? How well 
 am I addressing race? What course changes would help you?
 Introducing Myself
 •History of academic mediocrity – failed my college track 
 exams, my university entrance exams, graduated well in 
 the bottom half of my class,  failed my master’s degree 
 exam – Broadening student-centered assessment 
 measures
 •Watching doctoral supervisor – give me inconvenient 
 news in a way I knew was in my best interests
       Ethical use of teacher power
     Relational underpinnings to teaching
 Introducing Myself – ?A 
 Good White?
 •Someone who didn’t see race, was color blind, free from racist 
 instincts, biases and impulses, treated everyone the same
 •Someone committed to anti-racist sentiments & actions 
 •Who is Actually…
 •Full of learned racism – blackness as danger, animalistic
 •A carrier & enactor of white supremacy – whites should 
 naturally assume leadership roles because of their higher 
 intelligence, ability to use logic, think objectively & rationally
 •Regularly commits micro-aggressions – small, daily, unintended 
 acts of exclusion, diminishment & marginalization