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HomeDiversity & InclusionResponding to Difficult Moments

Responding to Difficult Moments

These CRLT resources provide strategies for anticipating and responding to difficult discussions as well as classroom incivility:

  • Guidelines for planning and facilitating discussions on difficult or controversial topics
  • Responding to incidents of hate speech
  • Teaching and learning in a tense election season
  • Strategies for making productive use of tense or difficult moments
  • Facilitating Challenging Conversations in your Classes (blog post)
  • Sample guidelines for class participation
  • Guidelines for responding to particular topics and tragedies
  • Responding to Incivility in the College Classroom

Additional resources from around the web:

  • "Managing Hot Moments in the Classroom" (Harvard University)
  • Creating a safe and engaging classroom climate (University of Wisconsin)
  • Difficult Dialogues (Vanderbilt University)
  • Controversy
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  • Hot Moments
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