Racial Microaggressions Awareness Program Tailored to Academic Institutions

The Program

ARM for Academics

Who it's for

Administrators, educators, and staff

Length

Customized

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According to a study from Harvard University Voices of Diversity project, Students of Color still face prejudice and discrimination. Unconscious acts of prejudice and discrimination by teachers and peers manifest themselves as “racial microaggressions.” Racial microaggressions in an academic setting are the slights and insults Students of Color experience in their daily interactions with educators and classmates. This creates an unwelcoming environment and is a deterrent to the scholastic performance of Students of Color.

Program details

Learn valuable techniques to integrate racial microaggressions training into your academic organization.

The purpose of the Racial Microaggressions Awareness Program is to increase the educator’s awareness of the current research that stems from psychological and sociological literature on racial microaggressions, exercise critical consciousness on the material presented, and apply this information in the academic environment. In addition, educators will learn strategies to assist in examining their own cultural biases and assumptions as well as best practices to evoke positive systemic change in their school.

The Racial Microaggressions Awareness Program is an evidence-based, intensive, and dynamic workshop. This interactive learning opportunity explores:

  1. How racial microaggressions develop;
  2. How they influence perceptions and decision making; and,
  3. How to mitigate the effects of racial microaggressions.

Learning objectives

  • Build an understanding of the origins and foundations of racial microaggressions.
  • Learn to recognize and identify racial microaggressions as they occur.
  • Increase the participants’ awareness of the psychological effects and negative impact of racial microaggressions on students of color.
  • Empower learners with strategies to manage and reduce racial microaggressions.

Program Length

The Racial Microaggressions Awareness Program is customized to fit your schedule.

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Who we serve

  • Colleges and universities
  • School board and administrators
  • Public and private school

Target audience

  • Administrators
  • Educators
  • Staff

Includes

  • Interactive activities
  • Sharing
  • Reflections
  • Questions and answers
  • Action plans
  • And more

Testimonials

  • Doing situational scenes worked well, as it gave us an opening for discussion that opened our eyes to ways we can be allies, not bystanders. Please bring the team back.

    English Teacher
    Cheltenham High School

  • Powerful, didn’t want it to end. Necessary. Please come to our district (hint: come back “home”) and 
present to our faculty/admin.

    Admin-Delaware Valley Minority Student
    Achievement Consortium

  • Gwendolyn was engaging, interesting, and informative.

    Admin-Delaware Valley Minority Student
    Achievement Consortium

  • This was the 1st time that I felt like our voices were heard and that maybe we are heading in the right. direction.

    Science Teacher
    Cheltenham High School

  • Extremely helpful to my classroom as well as my family which is multiracial and has experienced Microaggressions and Microassaults.

    Teacher
    Cinnaminson High School

Learn more about racial microaggressions

Racial microaggressions are commonplace in teacher/student interactions, especially when there exists a racial incongruence within the teacher/student ratio. However, Students of Color’s emotional and/or psychological experiences with racial microaggressions can seriously undermine their academic achievement. Educators’ unconscious biases play a significant role in how they process their assumptions, interact with Students of Color, and ultimately, engage in racial microaggressions.

Nearly all interracial encounters among Students of Color and administrators, teachers, trainers, and evaluators are prone to the manifestations of racial microaggressions. Teachers are often unaware of the cumulative harm students of color experience from being routinely subjected to a variety of racial microaggressions and are generally not prepared to recognize racial microaggressions when they occur.

Unfortunately, these exchanges are so pervasive and automatic in daily conversations and interactions, that they are often dismissed and glossed over as being innocent and innocuous, however, even subtle microaggressions toward Students of Color can cause emotional and/or psychological experiences that seriously undermine their academic achievement.

Most school board members, administrators, faculty and staff engage in racial microaggressions and are unaware of the hidden messages communicated by their words and actions, as well as the harm these hidden messages inflict on Students of Color. Without fully understanding the complexity of the issues, most educators simply try their best to accept and acknowledge the different perspectives that come with Students of Color. The common approach is to simply diversify their syllabi to provide what they believe to be a healthy learning experience. Despite these efforts, racial microaggressions are still a prevalent problem for Students of Color.

The solution to diminishing the instances of racial microaggressions depends on an understanding and the recognition of the existence of racial microaggressions and the negative effects that result from these biases. Research shows, once racial microaggressions are recognized, educators can better modify their interactions with Students of Color to ensure their academic success.

Racial microaggressions are commonplace in teacher/student interactions, especially when there exists a racial incongruence within the teacher/student ratio. However, Students of Color’s emotional and/or psychological experiences with racial microaggressions can seriously undermine their academic achievement. Educators’ unconscious biases play a significant role in how they process their assumptions, interact with Students of Color, and ultimately, engage in racial microaggressions.

Nearly all interracial encounters among Students of Color and administrators, teachers, trainers, and evaluators are prone to the manifestations of racial microaggressions. Teachers are often unaware of the cumulative harm students of color experience from being routinely subjected to a variety of racial microaggressions and are generally not prepared to recognize racial microaggressions when they occur.

Unfortunately, these exchanges are so pervasive and automatic in daily conversations and interactions, that they are often dismissed and glossed over as being innocent and innocuous, however, even subtle microaggressions toward Students of Color can cause emotional and/or psychological experiences that seriously undermine their academic achievement.

Most school board members, administrators, faculty and staff engage in racial microaggressions and are unaware of the hidden messages communicated by their words and actions, as well as the harm these hidden messages inflict on Students of Color. Without fully understanding the complexity of the issues, most educators simply try their best to accept and acknowledge the different perspectives that come with Students of Color. The common approach is to simply diversify their syllabi to provide what they believe to be a healthy learning experience. Despite these efforts, racial microaggressions are still a prevalent problem for Students of Color.

The solution to diminishing the instances of racial microaggressions depends on an understanding and the recognition of the existence of racial microaggressions and the negative effects that result from these biases. Research shows, once racial microaggressions are recognized, educators can better modify their interactions with Students of Color to ensure their academic success. 

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