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Racing to Empathy

As part of the Associate Professor Experimental initiative, an interdisciplinary research team comprised of Drs. Casey Boyle (Rhetoric and Writing) and Terrance Green (Educational Leadership and Policy) worked with the SAGA Lab to create a game to dislodge teachers’ implicit biases towards and to encourage empathy for African-American female students who are often not welcomed by the traditional classroom. The game, Back to Class, contains 18 classroom scenarios that are common in middle school and require teachers to make choices in order to resolve the situations. Teachers are subsequently provided feedback on the choices they made during the game.