Windows and Mirrors

This activity encourages learners to engage with a balanced variety of text and media perspectives. The activity also builds belonging and class community by expanding students’ understanding of people in their classroom and the broader world.

Students track their media diet and consider individually and collectively whether what they are watching, reading and playing is a mirror that reflects back their own experience or a window that opens up new experiences and perspectives. The exercise then invites students to brainstorm what kinds of stories could balance out their media experience.

This resource was inspired by Dr. Rudine Sims Bishop’s inclusive reading pedagogy.