Sarah Ropp, PhD

Resources for Dialogue

These are some of the resources for dialogue that I have created over the past several years. I update this page regularly with new resources, so bookmark it and check back!

You are welcome to use any of these materials and to share them with your students and colleagues! Please do not remove any attributions (to me or to other educators and scholars).

Scroll down for links to all of my “book report” blog posts, each focusing on a different book related to dialogue and/or anti-oppression pedagogies.

Frameworks for Understanding & Preparing for Dialogue

A Primer for Participating in DialogueDownload
The 3 Conversations: Anatomy of a Difficult DialogueDownload
Why Speech: Reasons We Choose to TalkDownload
Why Silence: Reasons We Choose Not to TalkDownload
Protocols of Western Culture that Impede Authentic Race Talk from Derald Wing SueDownload
Paulo Freire’s Foundations for DialogueDownload
Thich Nhat Hanh’s Criteria and Elements of Loving SpeechDownload
10 Essential Concepts related to Campus Speech from Sigal Ben-PorathDownload
9 Models for DialogueDownload
Practicing Presence during + in preparation for dialogueDownload

Planning and Facilitating Dialogue

Why Dialogue? Occasions That Call for Dialogue + Defining Your PurposeDownload
Universal Principles for Planning a DialogueDownload
Effective Norms for DialogueDownload
Building Community in Dialogue: The Art of the Check-inDownload
How Dialogue: Choosing Format + ModeDownload
The Art of the Dialogue Question SetDownload
Managing Common Problem Behaviors in DialogueDownload
How to Create a Safer SpaceDownload
Technologies for Dialogue to enhance accessibility, inclusion, & engagementDownload
Post-Dialogue Reflection & Synthesis: 4 Dialogue Exit Ticket IdeasDownload

Topics-Based Resources

5 Dialogue Ideas for Environmental AwarenessDownload
Self-Advocacy through Professional Communication: Resources + GuidelinesDownload
Most Common Attitudes towards Social Class Identity from DeMethra LaSha BradleyDownload
7 Types of Rest by Saundra Dalton SmithDownload
8 Kinds of Believers from Robert NashDownload
Ijeoma Oluo’s Rules of Engagement for Talking About RaceDownload
Anti-oppression Pedagogy: Basic PrinciplesDownload
Abolitionist Teaching Principles from Bettina LoveDownload
Differences between Western and Indigenous Approaches to Knowledge by Libby RoderickDownload

“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

Creating Space for Democracy

Teaching Through Challenges to Equity, Diversity, and Inclusion

Teaching to Transgress

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

Intergroup Dialogues

Democratic Dialogue in Education: Troubling Speech, Disturbing Silence

It’s Time to Talk (and Listen)