These are some of the original 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!
Preparing for Dialogue
The 3 Conversations Framework for Understanding Difficult Dialogues
The Art of the Dialogue Question Set
Paulo Freire’s Foundations for Dialogue
What Is Your Purpose? : 5 Main Methodological Approaches to Dialogue
Common Challenges in Facilitation: What They Look Like and What to Do
Trauma-Informed Facilitation: How to Create a Safer Space
Why Speech: Reasons We Choose to Talk
Why Silence: Reasons We Choose Not to Talk
The Best Apps for Multi-modal and Inclusive Dialogue
4 Liberating Structures for FTF & Online Dialogue
Basic Features of Anti-oppression Pedagogy
Ijeoma Oluo’s Rules of Engagement for Talking about Race
Race Talk: Guidelines for Facilitators from Derald Wing Sue
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
Topic-Based Dialogue Activities and Resources
Challenging Common Norms Activity
Responding to Alaska Native Discourse Values
Protocols of White/Western Culture that Impede Authentic Dialogue on Race (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