Week of 10/5/20: Ideas for HR

DEI Related

–“LREI: Who’s Who and Back to the Building” (slidedeck) Thank you Carrie for making and presenting this to the eighth grade! Feel free to make a copy and adjust as needed for your POD.

-Acknowledging what students are feeling/dealing with as they transition this week might be a good topic for HR discussion:

• The Mood Meter from the Yale Center of Emotional Intelligence might help encourage more than the typical one-word answers

• What are your thoughts about the change?

• What differences will we need to adjust to?

• How can we keep our remote friends connected?

• How can we take care of ourselves/each other?

Sept. 15-Oct.15 is National Hispanic American History Month!!!

Article:

“Becoming Hispanic” (from Teaching Tolerance)

“Well into the 1970s, before we were Hispanic, we were marked by our own nationalities or our ancestral identities. In Texas communities like El Paso, we were Chicanos, Mexicanos or Tejanos. In New York City, we were often Puerto Ricans or Cubans.

1980 marked the first year that the U.S. Census offered Hispanic as an option for describing ethnic identity on the short form, the form that went to all households. The form offered a list of those who might choose to identify as ‘Spanish/Hispanic,’ including people who identified as ‘Mexican,’ ‘Mexican-Amer.,’ ‘Chicano,’ ‘Puerto Rican,’ ‘Cuban’ or ‘other Spanish/Hispanic.’

Federal recognition of a single Hispanic ethnic identity was a strategic goal of Hispanic community organizers, who hoped to create a collective identity that people from a group of countries colonized by Spain could use to exert political and economic power…”

Looking Ahead

Monday, October 12, 2020

• “How Indigenous People’s Day Came to Be” – TIME (video and article)

• Honoring Indigenous People’s Day (article)