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“creative confidence” or “competence”?

confidence* but in a way, both

Maybe some of you have seen our truck cruising around Stanford :)

Said website: https://dschool.stanford.edu/programs/k12-lab-network

You’ll need to increase your volume.

The audio is as high as it will go, I recommend just turning up your volume.

You might have to turn your device volume up

Awoe’s full video (to watch later): https://youtu.be/j6kBzLFVLVU

Here is the link to the album, please open it up, and scope out a track you want to try out. https://soundcloud.com/dschool-music-633966973/sets/equity-self-care-embodied-exercise

Peaceful

Centering

strengthening

Relaxing

lovely

A nice reminder of what know but forget to do

Reflective

soft

Seeing them, meeting 1:1 with every student

Allowing options for in-class lectures v. reviewing them as recordings later

Starting every class with centering, grounding contemplative practice

1:1s, being really intentional about arbitrary v non-arbitrary deadlines

Trying to address students as agents rather than (only) as persons impacted by forms of structural injustice

+1 on being intentional about what’s “necessary” for deadlines, assignments, etc

Normalizing a range of responses and needs.

I share with my students my own struggles (not too much detail but that life can be challenging) and how I have used a range of specific self-care strategies such as Qigong, meditation, journaling, awe walks, etc to re-center and re-balance

Feel free to drop responses in the chat when you have them. They don’t have to be perfect!

Being explicit with my own boundaries (e.g. time) - in terms of using it I do a lot of “chatter falls” with my class on responses to topics, especially more political or emotional topics.

In part, there's the question of the kind of language I'm using and, as a consequence, inviting students to consider using when discussing topics in the history of medicine - whether this relates to medicalized forms of racialization, or gender policing, or immigration and colonization.

I am always looking for tools that students can have in their toolkits for self-care

I'm not sure if I have modeled this well YET, but wanting to engage and support students in engaging in more REFLECTION about intentionality and power (of self and others)

I am ending each day with a walk and not opening my computer again after that (students don’t necessarily see this ‘modeling’ but they aren’t getting emails from me at late hours and hopefully are noticing that I am [more] rested and balanced)

+1 Erica

Erica, what are “chatter falls”?

@Luke It’s when you all type something but don’t press enter; then all press enter at the same time. It’s nice because you can’t wait to respond until you see what others respond to

Ahhh, that’s lovely, thanks for sharing.

Question: do you think these practices are most important for those most impacted by racial injustice? Or are these general self-care strategies?

(I think I learned it in another d school lecture :) )

https://docs.google.com/presentation/d/17nx9zVnENVv1RmV8tK9jD9Wt25b8-5BdPpMtg8Xnn_A/edit?usp=sharing

An adjacent trick to ‘chatter falls’ if you want to open space for anonymous thought/question sharing in the Zoom chat: have everyone change their Zoom name to a symbol (like %), so that the comments in the chat all show up from the same unidentifiable name

^ yes! Thanks sam. This is what that looks like (this is Jess)

Awesome resources! Thank you so much!!!!

Amazing, thank you1

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Definitely!

Thank you!

Is there a “chatter fall” or way to let people respond to emotional things in “live” classrooms?

A piece that Louie wrote about the Self Care Starter Kit: https://medium.com/stanford-d-school/self-care-for-starters-4e63b8e84cd5

Our Full Sound Practice Discographies: https://soundcloud.com/dschool-music-633966973/sets

In addition to the work that all of us do with students at Stanford, I am also eager to learn about your learnings re: self-care and racial injustice in K-5 classrooms - either from the teacher perspective or student perspective - or both?

I am interested if there is any interest/or already established learning community to continue learning from each other

One option is to join CTL’s summer learning community on IDEAL Pedagogy! :)

https://ctl.stanford.edu/teaching-support/promote-inclusive-learning/ideal-pedagogy

Whoo hoo, I applied for that!

Nice!! :D

Snowball — students write responses on paper >> crumple them>> throw >> folks grab another paper >> read & someone else’s

Another way to get an overview of all of the audio exercises, including Equity Self Care Embodied, Barriers and Challenges to Equity Work, The (In)equity Catcher, and the Critical Lens Group Protocol is to start with this page on our site: https://dschool.stanford.edu/k12-lab-network/soundpractice

Yes....so much. SO MUCH. Thank you.

All the more reason for self care, still tremendous racism even in the Bay Area it is just more veiled

more veiled, exactly

Just step 1...yes. holistic thinking and being. Thank you!!

I am so grateful for folks exhausted at the end of this year still making the time to participate and reflect on challenging issues!! ❤️

It’s good to be in a room with the people who are trying

Thank you for sharing the Sound Cloud albums

I am so glad I made joining this gathering a priority! Thank you for your labor, Sam, Louis, and Jess

Celebrate where you have contributed to your teams

Appreciative of getting myself to attend this lecture after being on call last night (and all of you for this lecture)

Accept different forms of being, moving, knowing, responding

Really appreciating everyones engagement and sharing approaches

Many thanks for the organizers of this event! You put a lot of thought and work into what you're doing.

Thank you so much for all of these resources, your creativity, and sharing your work with us

Thank you, all!! With gratitude.

Thank you all for showing up ready to engage, share, inquire, and learn! These kinds of conversations give me energy and hope.

I cannot believe yo are playing this old school soul music lol

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I appreciate the thoughtfulness, love, and care my community has when we think about each other.