Facing History and Ourselves adapts its anti-bias curriculum from schools to workplaces. Students in the program reduce bullying and increase pro-social behavior. When delivered to employees across company locations, 80% said they could apply the lessons both personally and professionally.
We confront history beyond just facts and figures.
Our work is largely giving teachers, educators, the tools that they need to create safe spaces in classrooms for really tough conversations about the legacies of history.
Our evaluations show that students start to reduce bullying and it increases pro-social behavior. Students feel like they can make a difference in the world.
We do this work normally in schools, and what we're finding is that organizations like CSAIG want to figure out how we can leverage what we learned in the education space to help them create a more equitable and inclusive environment.
It's not just about diversity and having a diverse workforce. It's incredibly important to ensure that you have an environment where people feel a sense of belonging. And so we partnered with Facing History in order to provide an unconscious bias learning event at all our major locations. And these learning events essentially were focused on allowing employees to explore a little bit more about their own values and beliefs and how unconscious bias might show up for them.
As a result of the learning event, 80% of our employees reported that they were able to implement the learnings in their daily lives as well as their professional lives.
We're led through an exercise on unconscious bias that really explained that unconscious bias is a natural part of life. We will notice those differences and we will make associations, but overcoming that unconscious bias is just as simple as bringing some attention to it.
I think a lot of the theme of the lesson was to apply to our work, how to be more open to the ideas of our colleagues, which I think it's very applicable But to me personally, I think it impacted more my personal life. Being aware of the snap judgments I may make of others, being more conscientious of that allowed me to really connect with people who I may not otherwise connect with.
Studies after studies have shown that organizations that are able to include the strengths and differences of their employees are better organizations.
Diverse thoughts, perspectives, and people with different experiences at the table Oftentimes leads to better creativity, more innovative ideas, and helping to create more innovative culture.
This partnership with CSAA allowed us to bring our work into a new space.
Facing History's work to combat bigotry and hatred and to build a world based on knowledge and compassion— that's really important right now.
Steve!
Stay safe!
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