• Identify and affirm students who are especially effective at navigating culturally or racially diverse settings and foster the growth of interracial allies
• Develop and support a team of intercultural/interracial student leaders who will seek to eliminate systemic, cultural, and individual racism in their school and community
• Empower young people as racial equity leaders with opportunities to facilitate discussion and engage in collaborative inquiry and cross-cultural learning experiences
• Help students develop and understand their individual and collective racial identity

Students who participate in Dare To Be Real will:

• Engage in training to develop leadership will, skill, knowledge, and capacity
• Participate in an Underground Railroad simulation and other experiential learning
• Engage in and learn protocol for courageous conversations with interracial peers
• Engage in local, regional, state, and national anti-racism leadership opportunities
• Work on relationship, interpersonal conflict, and intercultural communication skill-building
• Develop constructivist listening skills and engage in mindful inquiry
• Engage in a dynamic and demanding learning experience with opportunities to apply their learning in authentic scenarios within their site and the district
• Use literature/film/texts as a basis for shared inquiry
• Engage in interactive lessons on stereotypes and race relations/tolerance/advocacy\
• Participate in dramatizations, role plays, and presentations with peers and younger students
• Develop a symbiotic mentorship relationships with adults and younger students
• Develop a team that constructively advocates for each other and themselves
• Identify opportunities for individual and systemic growth in racial and cultural equity
• Develop a sense of cultural and racial identity through reflection/discussion with allies.

Advisors: Sheri Chaffee-Johnson

Email: sheri.chaffee-johnson@spps.org

Phone: (651)-293-8800 x44513 (Chaffee-Johnson)