Good evening everyone. On behalf of the American Federation of Teachers, I'd like to welcome everyone to today's webinar on Once Upon a time. Film is a narrative springboard for investigating race and racism. My name is Caitlin Scanlon. I'm an administrative assistant at AFP, and I will be your moderator this evening. Before we begin, I'd like to thank today's virtual conference sponsor, Carnegie Museum of Natural History, the Carnegie Museum of Natural History offers educational support through resource materials. Virtual and in person programs and teacher loyalty passes. You can learn more about Carnegie Museum of Natural History by clicking on their logo on the right of your screen. We truly appreciate your support. Now let's watch a short video on how our webinars work. Hello everyone, welcome to our 2022 share my lesson virtual conference. My name is Kelly Booze, director of the American Federation of Teachers. Share my lesson before we begin. 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I've always wanted to go to Argentina myself. I think I'd probably get up Buenos Aires. Some some dancing and such. After you've answered the poll. Go ahead and tell us in the attendee chat about what you're why you chose, where you want to go. And. Be sure to hit the submit button as after you've selected your answer. On the pole. Give you guys another few moments. Alright. And here are the results. Oh yeah, Paris, Tokyo. Paris is a clear winner. Well. Now we all are familiar with our. Webinar set up so it is my pleasure to introduce our presenters. Doctor nominally and Doctor Elizabeth Fogel with do gooder. You can read their BIOS on the right side of your screen. Thank you so much for joining us this evening and welcome. I am welcome to Once Upon a time this evening myself and doctor Fogel. We're going to talk to you a little bit about how you can investigate race and racism using film in the classroom. And some of the main questions that we're going to try to answer for you this evening is what makes storytelling so effective for connecting emotionally to learning. What makes film a great story form for the classroom? Why critical reflection as a process is key to facilitating transformative learning? Why it's important to continue to teach about race and racism? And then we're going to share some resources for teaching about race and racism. So telling stories is one of the most powerful means that educators have to engage, teach, influence, and inspire. What makes storytelling so effective for learning? For starters, storytelling forges connections among learners and between learners and with the learning content. Stories convey the culture, history and values that unite people we know from experience that when we're listening to or watching a good story rich in detail, full of metaphor, expressive of character, we tend to imagine ourselves in the same situation. Just think about all those scary stories told around the campfire or that you've watched late at night. Your heart rate increases, you get goosebumps. The hairs on the back of your neck stand on end. That's because stories engage us emotionally with the content we are listening to or watching through stories. We can utilize vicarious experience, mentally, rehearsing how we might handle a situation before we have to face it. Our internal data banks full of what ifs and how TOS are refreshed with new options without our having to live through an experience and all the risk that it might entail. Stories allow us to simulate intense experiences without having to actually live through them. Good stories create a sense of connection that build familiarity and trust and allow the listener to enter the story where they are making them more open to learning. Another storytelling aspect that makes it so effective is that it works for all types of learners. Lastly, storytelling also facilitates retention, because stories are easy to remember. Perhaps most importantly, storytelling is central to meaning making and sense making. It is through story that our minds form and examine our own truths and beliefs, as well as discern how they correlate with the truths and beliefs of others. Through watching and listening to stories, we gain new perspectives and a better understanding of the world around us. We challenge and expand our own understanding by exploring how others see and understand the world through their lens. This is central to how our frame of reference is formed. In general, movies have roughly the same structure as stories and any other domain plays, novels, manga, even oral histories. But what sets them apart is the cadence of the film as a result of runtime and construction constraints. That's unique to this particular medium. Films or stories uniquely designed to produce rapid processing of complex narratives. As a story form, films can be emotionally absorbing, thought provoking and educational, all while still being entertaining. Studies have shown that because watching a film is such an immersive process, they are powerful vehicles for changing the attitudes and behaviors of their audience. So let's experiment with this idea. Let's watch this short film and then assess what emotions it elicits for us as a visual story. My name is Stephen John Gallagher. The last seven months I've been deployed to Helmand province, Afghanistan. Since he's been deployed, we had our second baby read he was not able to be there for his birth. I think I'm just like any other dad who would travel and be away from their family is pretty tough. You only have a short period of time every moment away. You're never going to get back. Thank you for my best friend. Subway life we've been together for 10 years. This is a picture from my wife and I our wedding. It's our first dance. I guess our first kiss as husband and wife were high school sweethearts. All day she was absolutely gorgeous. I think this is Kate and John. That's kind of one of my favorite things to do is just proper up my shoulders and walk around and see the picture of read. I don't know yet to meet him. He's two months old. The most difficult thing was obviously missing my my son's birth and you know missing my daughter growing up the last seven months. I just want to feel like a dad again. He called Daddy and and hold my son. I hope instantly I feel like his father. I think I. I think it will be take a short period of time and I'll feel like Dad, you know. Yeah. So this is all about. My God. How you doing Oh my God. I'm like the guy in this body. Wow, who knew that a soap commercial could be so emotional? So now what I want us to do is talk a little bit about what emotions did. This visual story elicit for you. I'm going to put up some poll questions. And give you just a minute. To reflect. OK, we're at about 75%. Have responded. And let's take a look at the poll results. A lot of sadness and a lot of joy. And that video was maybe. 3 minutes long so you can see how effective film is at eliciting emotion and exploring a complex narrative in a very short amount of time. So if you had seen. This same information, but presented as data or a report about soldiers who are deployed and its effect on their families. Do you think it would have had this same emotional impact? Why are why not? That is our chat question, so if you would please put your response into the chat. And then doctor Fogel. Can share. Couple of those responses. Give you just a minute. One of the responses was it gave a face today to seeing people's emotion allows us to connect on personal levels. It was incredibly touching. That's great, thank you. So you can kind of see that the film is very effective in eliciting emotion. Transformative learning requires critical reflection and critical critical reflection is a form of critical thinking that has learners to identify, question, and assess deeply held assumptions. When students examine their thinking by asking probing questions, they shift their frame of reference. Critical reflection is the key reasoning process to facilitate learners making meaning of a learning experience. To make meaning means to make sense of an experience. We make an interpretation of it. When we subsequently use this interpretation to guide decision making or action, then making meaning becomes learning. We learn differently when we are learning to perform then when we are learning to understand what is being communicated to us. Reflection enables us to correct distortions in our beliefs and errors and problem solving. Critical reflection involves a critique of the presuppositions on which our beliefs have been built. Learning may be defined as the process of making a new or revised interpretation of the meaning of an experience which guide subsequent understanding, appreciation, and action. What we perceive and fail to perceive and what we think and fail to think are powerfully influenced by habits of expectation that constitute our frames of reference. That is, the set of assumptions that structure the way we interpret our experiences. It is not possible to understand the nature of education without taking into account the key role played by these habits and making meaning. Much of what we learn involves making new interpretations that enable us to elaborate. Further differentiate and reinforce our long established frames of reference or to create new meaning schemes. Equally important is the process of reflecting back on prior learning to determine whether what we've learned is valid or needs revision. We kept that in mind when we designed these free teacher resources in partnership with Prime Video. So the education team at Duke Couderay wanted to share these free resources with you for critically reflecting on race and racism. These discussion and activity guides use a transformative learning framework to engage students in inquiry design to deepen their knowledge about race and racism. Each activity in discussion leads the student towards deeper understanding of the content. Let's take a quick look at some of these resources and in example of an activity. So I'm going to push out to you. This website and just give you a couple of. Minutes to take a look. And I wanted to talk just a little bit about one of the special. Content that we've created to go along with these discussion guides and action guides in the in the lesson content for Polly Murray. One night in Miami and all in each one of those includes a featurette. Now featurettes are short films that highlight and take the students on a deeper dive into the film content. We understand that teachers have limited time in the classroom and need content designed with this in mind. While these featurettes are brief. They effectively examine complex, complex concepts in an engaging way and can be used with clips from the film or as a standalone hook to spark discussion. Here is an example of a featurette that explores the complexities of intersectionality. Sometimes who we are cannot easily fit into a single category. That's why in 1989, civil rights lawyer professor and philosopher Kimberly Williams Crenshaw coined the term intersectionality to describe how our identities can intersect and impact our experiences in the world. The documentary film My name is Polly Murray examines the concept of intersectionality in more detail by revealing how writer and civil rights lawyer Polly Murray's many identities intersected to make her a target of multiple forms of discrimination on the basis of race, class, sexuality and gender. My whole personal history has been a struggle to meet standards of excellence in a society which has been dominated by the ideas that blacks were inherently inferior to. Whites and women were inherently inferior to men. Born in 1910 and raised in Durham, NC, Poly lived in an era when some Americans were not afforded the same rights and freedoms as others. But that didn't stop Paulie from fighting for equity and fairness. In 1940, she was arrested for refusing to give up her seat on the bus for a white passenger. 15 years before Rosa Parks. Probably experienced class discrimination. Throughout her life, she wrote about her struggles with her sexuality. She even sought medical treatment because she felt like she was a girl who should have been a boy. The turmoil and the the suffering. This is a person who kind of just needed doctors to help in some capacity polys. Multiple identities intersected to give her a unique perspective on how to fight for human rights. She wanted to make a difference in the world so she studied law ranking first in her class at Howard University. She petitioned those in positions of power to help bring about positive lasting change. And by convincing lawmakers to expand the Civil Rights Act of 1964 beyond addressing race inequities to include rights and freedoms based on gender later, including sexual orientation and ability, Poly helps safeguard the rights of 1,000,000. Her sense of in between this made her increasingly. Critical of boundaries. And that allowed her to make one of the most important ideas of the 20th century, that the categories of race and gender are essentially arbitrary. And not a legal basis for discrimination. What are all the different aspects of your identity that make you you? So we wanted to acknowledge that teachers today are facing. Really big challenge. I do apologize for the the images getting shifted around on the slide when we translated it from PowerPoint, but this slide really speaks to the shift in censorship and teachers today face a great challenge as a push to censor what is taught in American classrooms. Takes hold across the nation. Several states have aimed to and succeeded at banning teaching related to race racism. Social, emotional learning and even books about the Holocaust. This movement is a throwback to an idea of an educational golden age. Before the civil rights movement transformed the American educational landscape. As we think back to a time when education was divided by racial lines, we are reminded that segregated education often meant that there was not a single instance, not one in which a student's teacher initiated or even allowed a discussion in the classroom about racism. Instead, many teachers and textbooks presented 1 master narrative of U.S. history as the triumph of democracy. In segregated white classrooms, students rarely, if ever, discussed why their town was separate, had separate black and white water fountains, waiting rooms, bus stations, and more. An acceptance that segregation was just the way things war and would always be permeated life back then. But a lack of knowledge about race and racism inevitably leave learners in society as a whole, with a skewed perception of issues related to race. While censorship in education is not new, the specific attack on discussions of race and racism in the classroom is alarming. Without any candid study, critical thinking and critically reflective practice about race and racism, society could easily be LED backwards towards attitudes and beliefs that are accepting of the bigotry that has long plagued American Society. As educators, we know that teaching hard history includes the nation's complicated history with race and racism. And this ultimately works towards ensuring the civic health of our country and creating a more just society for all. Most of the laws regarding what we can and cannot teach in the classroom are vague. It is unclear if teachers who want to talk about a factual instance of state sponsored racism, like the establishment of Jim Crow. Which are the series of laws that prevented black Americans from voting or holding office and separated them from white people in public spaces will be considered in violation of these laws. It is also unclear whether these new bills are constitutional or whether whether they impermissibly restrict free speech. So we would really like to hear from you on this topic. Would love to begin with a pole. Do you think teachers can adequately teach about the Trail of Tears, the Civil War, and the civil rights movement without mentioning race or racism? Push that out to you. And give you just a minute to respond. Wait time is a skill, is it not? OK, that's about 70%. And most people. Would agree that it would be very difficult. To teach about these particular topics without mentioning race. Where racism? So let's do a chat question. If you have materials that you have found helpful to teach about the civil rights movement, would you please put your response in the chat? I'll give you just a minute to do that. And then Doctor Fogel can share one or two of those. So one is the film the autobiography of Miss Jane Pittman. For those of you that are interested in more information about polyamory, you can go to the Polly Murray Center and find it online. Hidden figures. Is another great film and resources set of resources. Wonderful thank you. So another resource that we have for you is we have a online course that is free. That is a complementary course to the film, all in. And I think that Doctor Fogel will put the enrollment information for you in the chat. We we just got it up. So. I want to push out to you the website so that you can be familiar with it. Oops. Sorry about that. OK. And then you can explore that. On your own. I don't wanna thank you all very much for coming. We are going to do a question and answer session. And we will open it up for the Q&A. All right, let's take a look. Alright. So folks, if you do have a question, you can go over to the Q&A widget on the right side of the screen and type in your question or type it on in the chat and we'll we'll ask our wonderful presenters. There is a question here. What can one do if they don't have the time to show the whole film in the classroom, like whatever film they're choosing to show? Do you want me to take that? Oh yes, sorry. That's OK. So that's a great question and we hear that a lot from educators with the films that we've created content with and with many other films the studios have allowed clips. So on the glittery website you will find clips from the film that go along with the activity or lesson plans. And that's true for many other films that you can find. So clips we think are the best way. Where you don't have to spend that hour and a half two hours watching a film, but you can still get the use of the film, the use of the narrative with your with your students and a lot of teachers. Also, then you know share links and different things with students so they can watch them at home. Excellent, sounds like we got a lot of good resources. Uhm? Another question, can you tell us more about? Participate and how the community of practice works on the platform. I'll let you start a new one and I'll chime in, sure. So participate is a online learning. Environment that actually has the opportunity for you to learn from your peers as well as to participate in that online learning content. So it's a great opportunity for you to grow a network along that will support that learning, along with then practicing and going through the modules that are on the learning platform. You want to add anything Liz, yes, sure. So we So what we have done with the team at the participant is we've taken our lesson plans for all in fight for democracy, which as we approach the election, then at midterm elections we think is going to be really important and we've broken it into pieces and it's free for all of you. You literally just have to put in your email address and sign in and it'll take you to the course and it will walk you through. How do you teach this kind of material? Using the film using these kinds of activities with your classroom and we are hoping to add some other different kinds of content so to that to that platform. But the other piece that no one is said which is really important is that once you're in there, you become part of a community and teachers can then share resources, interact with folks like Nirvana, myself and other experts that we bring in time to time to interact with folks on the platform. Excellent. Thank you so much. Here's another question. I know you mentioned that you have some clips preselections on your website, but more specifically, how could someone use a piece of film without permission of the owners? So the clips that we have, we have permission. Most other organizations that do this work will get permission to use those clips in that, and that permission is granted. The other thing to know is that for educators, if you are using film or film clips for educational purposes, they are free for you to use. Excellent. Uh, here's another question. Uhm? On the website are there guides for lessons that are more appropriate for upper elementary versus high school? Yes, the website does include content for elementary level students. It's not necessarily race focused or about racism, but there is a wide variety of content that is out there on the website, so feel free to explore it. There's quite a bit of lesson plans out there. Wonderful. We have time for a few more questions. If anybody has them. This has been very informative. For me especially, I hope I bet I bet everybody feels that way as well. Just gonna give people another moment in case they have a question that they've been itching to ask and. Haven't had it. Haven't had a chance. And just so everyone knows we have, do gooder has a page on share my lesson and we're going to be adding more content to that page. So right now I believe this presentation is up and we did a project with Amazon Studios for a preschool piece of preschool series called Do-re-mi. I can't use by my words, so that's currently up there, but we're going to add our other resources as well. So kind of one stop shopping for you guys so you don't have to go to 1000 places to find different pieces of content. Excellent, always wonderful information. Well, we've got some extra time here. Is there anything that you that? Either lizbeth or no wanna would like to touch on or expand on in the final 10 minutes or so. I I would just like to to say that it is very difficult to teach about race and racism even when we're not in a climate of censorship so. I think we understand the difficulty in the challenges and I think it's just important to find content that has been designed with that in mind and aims to create transformative learning. In a way that. Allow students to use critical thinking and formulate their own ideas. Yeah, this is very. It's very temporal. I feel like every other day in the the news. It's that chart you had up earlier of the. One versus the other way of, you know. Teaching, teaching U.S. history. Teaching any kind of history, really. Really act for this moment for sure. Yeah, and the other thing I would say which is why we we've decided to start working with participant platform is that we believe that teachers need community and I think one thing that we learned during the pandemic is that we can find those communities on online in different places and find those support. And I think teachers right now more than anything. As you know, as a former elementary school teacher and no one is a former high school teacher, we know the importance of finding those communities. Finding those like mines, and be able to share resources and information and just be able to dialogue and sometimes just to be able to complain and vent 'cause it's it's. Is it currently a challenging time? And we are here to support you in whatever you need. Here's another question. Do the videos come with questions already prepared for reflection? Yes they do. Yep, they have each one of those comes with not only questions that are prepared for those videos, but also action guides that allow the students to participate in actual activities that get them involved. So we all know that when you do something learning sticks more so they are, they are inclusive of both action and inquiry. Excellent. Alright, well unless I see another question in the chat or if folks wanna. Put anything further in the Q&A. I'm so grateful to the two of you for coming here today, virtually. It was really good stuff and I know every all teachers need resources all the time. So I think this is an excellent, excellent excellent Ave for for that as well. So yeah, thank you too so much. Thank you to our presenters and thank you to the audience for joining us. Uhm? Let me just double check yeah, so without further ado, thank you all for joining us this evening and we have one more short video reminder before we closed out, so be sure to download your certificates and enjoy the rest of your evening. Thanks again leaving. Thank you. Hi everyone, Kelly booze rejoining you again. I hope you enjoyed today's webinar as much as I did. I want to go over a couple reminders and I have one big favor to ask of you. First, you should now be able to download that PDF certificate for your participation. Today you can access that PDF certificate using one of the widgets, the one with the checkbox. From here you should be able to open up that PDF certificate and download it. The certificate will be saved to your name for up to a year. 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