If you were a teacher at East City, how would you respond to students wearing “All Lives Matter” shirts to help them distinguish that point from the importance of a movement insisting “Black Lives Matter”?

BLACK LIVES MATTER

Questions
1 What are some reasons educators might be fearful about introducing conversations about racism in their classes? What can school leaders do to alleviate that fear? What can we do as individual educators to alleviate that fear in
ourselves?

2 If you were a teacher at East City, how would you respond to students wearing “All Lives Matter” shirts to help them distinguish that point from the importance of a movement insisting “Black Lives Matter”?

3 If you were Ms. Simmons, what pedagogical strategies would you use to engage students in a conversation about racism and the BLM movement? Are there issues or topics about which you feel you would need to learn more before doing this?