Dare To Be Real
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Dare To Be Real is a student led anti-racist leadership group. We meet on Wednesdays during advisory in room 2428.The purpose of Dare To Be Real is:
- 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.