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TLED: 2021 TRHT Week: TRHT + TLED Presents: Jane Elliot - Moving Beyond Implicit Bias in the Classroom to Foster a Welcoming Environment
Hours: 1
Please join TLED and TRHT as we host Former Schoolteacher, Anti-Racism Activist, Educator, & LGBT Activist Jane Elliot for a moderated discussion on "The Eye of the Storm."
About the Speaker:
Jane Elliott is known for her "Blue eyes–Brown eyes" exercise. She first conducted her famous exercise for her class on April 5, 1968, the day after Martin Luther King Jr. was assassinated. When her local newspaper published compositions that the children had written about the experience, the reactions (both positive and negative) formed the basis for her career as a public speaker against discrimination. Elliott's classroom exercise was filmed the third time she held it with her 1970 third-graders to become "The Eye of the Storm". This in turn inspired a retrospective that reunited the 1970 class members with their teacher fifteen years later in "A Class Divided". After leaving her school, Elliott became a diversity educator full-time. She still holds the exercise and gives lectures about its effects all over the U.S. and in several locations overseas.
This event will be held via Zoom from 1-3pm. To access, click here. Meeting ID: 925 1634 6799
Passcode: 895925
To see more events going on during 2021 TRHT Week: Social Justice and Collaborative Change: The Time is Now, visit the page here. 2021 TRHT Week will be going on January 18 - 22, 2021. |
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