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Board discusses 'courageous conversations' training and how mentors should handle a teacher's racially charged comments
Summary
A facilitator walked the board through an exercise on running courageous conversations and a role-play where a teacher blamed students' behavior for racial gaps; board members debated probing strategies, systemic causes, and which metrics to use to measure 'success.'
A facilitator (S8) led the board through condition 4 of a series on facilitating courageous conversations, emphasizing guardrails such as time-outs and agreed norms to keep dialogues productive. S8 described an extended role-play in which a teacher becomes emotional and claims, "I don't care if students are green, blue, or purple...It is not my fault that black students are choosing to sleep during my class," and then leaves the meeting; S8 used…
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