Welcome to our first lesson on Anti-Black Racism! We will be diving into this important topic for the next 3-4 episodes as part of our first mini-series! 

Today's lesson is packed with 8 key terms to give our students a basis for discussion and understanding. This episode also has a really great activity to get the lesson started where students are asked to listen to an amazing audio clip that's filled with different voices and countless identifiers while writing down their own. This is a phenomenal way for you and your class to get to know how they view themselves and how they'd like to be addressed by their peers. At the end of the lesson they are given a task which reflects on the terms they explored today. The task and its relation to the curriculum is explained in our Teacher Talk portion.

We would like to thank you for being on this journey with us! 

Please leave us a comment - we can't wait to hear your thoughts! Also, to see what we're diving into next week head over to our Instagram and give us a follow @edssentialpodcast

Here is the breakdown of this episode in case you would like to jump around to different parts or skip right to the lesson! 

Introduction- 0:00- 1:20

Why Anti-Black Racism?-  1:20-4:00

Teacher Talk-  4:00- 9:35

Student Talk- 9:35-38:39 (approx. 30 minute lesson)

*ice-breaker identity audio clip- 16:37-20:53