These are some of the resources for classroom dialogue that I have created over the past several years. I update this page regularly with new resources, so bookmark it and check back!
Some of these resources are from my work at the University of Texas at Austin as Program Coordinator of Difficult Dialogues with the Humanities Institute and as Dialogue Facilitation Training Coordinator with the Plan II Honors peer mentorship program. Some are from my work as a postdoctoral fellow with the Andrea Mitchell Center for the Study of Democracy + the SNF Paideia Program at the University of Pennsylvania. You are welcome to use, adapt, or take inspiration from these materials!
Frameworks for Understanding Dialogue
The 3 Conversations Framework for Understanding Difficult Dialogues
Why Speech: Reasons We Choose to Talk
Why Silence: Reasons We Choose Not to Talk
Protocols of White/Western Culture that Impede Authentic Dialogue on Race from Derald Wing Sue
Inclusive Freedom: 10 Essential Concepts from Sigal Ben-Porath
Planning and Facilitating Dialogue
What Is Your Purpose? : 5 Main Methodological Approaches to Dialogue
The Art of the Dialogue Question Set
Common Challenges in Facilitation: What They Look Like and What to Do
Trauma-Informed Facilitation: How to Create a Safer Space
The Best Apps for Multi-modal and Inclusive Dialogue
4 Liberating Structures for FTF & Online Dialogue
Norms for Dialogue
Responding to Alaska Native Discourse Values
Be Aware Mindfulness Model for Difficult Moments in Dialogue from Beth Berila
The Four Elements & Four Criteria of Loving Speech from Thich Nhat Hanh
Paulo Freire’s Foundations for Dialogue
Challenging Common Norms Activity
Assessing Dialogue
Rubric for grading dialogue for instructors
Self-assessment rubric for students
Self-reflection before, during, and after dialogue for students
Whole-class participation tracking sheet for instructors
Topics-Based Dialogue Activities and Resources
Ijeoma Oluo’s Rules of Engagement for Talking about Race
Race Talk: Guidelines for Facilitators from Derald Wing Sue
Positionality & Awareness Statements
“Don’t Let the Fascists Speak”: A Dialogue on Speech, Silence, and Safety
A Dialogue with the Self (inspired by bell hooks)
The Known Self: Values Awareness and Alignment with the Johari Window
8 Kinds of Believers Likely to Appear in the Classroom
5 Common Attitudes towards Social Class Identity
Related Pedagogies and Frameworks
Basic Features of Anti-oppression Pedagogy
Abolitionist Teaching Principles from Bettina L. Love
Major Differences between Western & Indigenous Cultures by Libby Roderick
“Decolonizing Dialogue” Blog Series (Fall 2021)
Paulo Freire and Dialogue as “Existential Necessity” for Liberation
Race Talk and the Conspiracy of Silence by Derald Wing Sue
Moving Mindfully through Difficult Dialogues with Beth Berila
The Anti-Racist Writing Workshop by Felicia Rose Chavez
Stop Talking by Ilarion Merculieff and Libby Roderick
Inclusive Freedom as a Framework for Campus Speech by Sigal Ben-Porath
Thich Nhat Hanh: “Our Communication Is Our Continuation”
Abolitionist Teaching and Learning with Bettina L. Love
“Dialogic Pedagogies” Blog Series (Summer 2021)
Stop Talking: Indigenous Ways of Teaching and Learning
How to Have Impossible Conversations
Teaching Through Challenges to Equity, Diversity, and Inclusion
So You Want to Talk About Race
Being the Change: Lessons and Strategies for Teaching Social Comprehension
How to Talk About Hot Topics on Campus
Democratic Dialogue in Education: Troubling Speech, Disturbing Silence