Read each of the scenarios below. Hard copies are available at your table.
After each scenario, write in your journal about how you would respond to each situation.

Scenario 1: Students are preparing to present their posters for a class project that they have been working on for the past week. Some students have already started sharing and looking at each other’s posters. A student who is unhappy about how her poster turned out very loudly states “my poster is gay.”
Scenario 2: You have posted a new seating chart, and a student walks into the room and loudly says “I don’t want to sit with him!” when the student has previously told the class that their pronouns are she/her.
Scenario 3: You are a world language teacher who has been teaching students house vocabulary along with verbs like “to cook,” “to clean” and “to wash.” Students have been practicing with the verb “limpiar” (to clean) and you are asking them questions such as “who cleans your room?” or “who cleans your house?” Many students respond by saying “I clean my room” or “we all clean the house.” A student raises his hand to answer my question about who cleans the house and he responds “Our Mexican cleans our house.”
Scenario 4: You are opening up a Kahoot game, and a student enters “Vinegar” as their screen name. You don’t know what the context is, but when it appears on screen the class responds by laughing and saying “ooooh.” Someone shouts “that’s racist!”
Scenario 5: In your classroom, a swastika has appeared written in several locations around your classroom over several days. Each time you see it, you erase it, but it has happened 8 times, one has been written on a student poster, and you have had to call a custodian to have one removed. You are pretty sure it is third period, and that it is one of the students who sits by the window.
Scenario 6: During a staff meeting, some teachers cheer when the principal announces that students from nearby low-income housing will be attending a different school next year.
Scenario 7: A boy who likes attention gets laughs by chanting to a classmate with hearing aids, “Can you hear me now?”
Scenario 8: During an informal chat, a parent offers to hire a “bunch of illegals” to paint your classroom.