# @edutopia on Instagram

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- **Original URL:** https://www.instagram.com/p/CLPeLA3FX9b
- **Gondola URL:** https://gondola.cc/posts/20303938-edutopia-instagram
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- **Posted:** 2021-02-13T18:03:05.000+00:00
- **Account Owner:** Edutopia (@edutopia) — https://gondola.cc/edutopia

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Creating an antiracist classroom environment can be a challenge for teachers, as it’s easy to become flummoxed when it’s time to apply principles from PD sessions. “You get to your classroom and don’t have any idea where to begin,” writes teacher Jay Wamstead. He found it useful to monitor his interactions with students for bias; the data he got from carefully taking notes on his classroom management gave him a starting point. ⁣⁣
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“I began to watch myself, to check the spaces in my pedagogy where bias and prejudice were leaking through,” he writes, adding that what he discovered by tracking his actions was not just enlightening but ultimately empowering. Wamsted recommends monitoring for bias in five areas. ⁣⁣
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1. Discipline: Wamsted used a clipboard to note every time he managed a student, including for small things like out-of-turn phone usage. “Sometimes these small things require correction,” he writes, “but how we handle them is worth inspecting for bias.” ⁣⁣
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2. Calling on raised hands: Wamsted suggests paying attention to moments when you have a choice of students to call on to uncover your own biases, including those related to gender. ⁣⁣
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3. Cold calling: Consider that when you cold call students, you might be trying to trap them in a moment of laziness or misbehavior. That’s a legitimate classroom management technique, Wamsted says, but make sure you use it equitably. ⁣⁣

4. Level adjustment: Track the times when you wonder, even for a moment, whether a particular student should be in a different level of your class—up to honors or down to regular. Whether there is bias in these thoughts “is a worthwhile question to explore,” Wamsted writes.⁣⁣
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5. Good times: Take note of which students get you to joke around or swap stories about your lives, whose conversations you join, and which ones routinely wind up in charming anecdotes you share with your partner and friends. 

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