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Teach your students about bias to educate your students and show you care.

Help educate students about implicit bias. For example, when you introduce your plans for anonymous grading you can explain the underlying research about implicit bias. Introducing implicit bias research also communicates to students your goal to treat all students fairly.

Example: "Everyone has unconscious, unintentional biases!

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