Spend time listening to your students and their families before deciding the books or examples you’ll use in the curriculum in order to connect the material to your students’ lives.
Use discipline policies based on principles of nonviolence and restorative justice and investigate how discipline policies are doled out.
Improve the way you talk about your students and remove words from your vocabulary that make the students sound like outsiders instead of members of the school community.
Reflect on how implicit bias impacts your teaching so that media representations of female students and students of color don't impact your classroom.
Set up comforting and encouraging meetings with students leaving the CS major to ensure they know they can always try CS again in the future.
Be explicit when you’re making suggestions to student work, rather than corrections, so your students understand the difference and that it is okay to disagree with your suggestions.
Listen to your students before giving out advice when they ask for guidance, even if they’re considering doing something you disagree with.
Take any start-of-semester survey you give your students to show you won’t ask them questions you wouldn’t answer yourself.
Call students by their preferred name and make sure you’re pronouncing it correctly to demonstrate your respect.