Book Club - Blindspot: Hidden Biases of Good People 

Join our learning community for an a.m./p.m. conversation about topics relevant to education today. December's book selection, Blindspot: Hidden Biases of Good People by Mahzarin Banaji and Anthony Greenwald, explores the hidden biases that we all carry from a lifetime of experiences with social groups – age, gender, race, ethnicity, religion, social class, sexuality, disability status, or nationality.

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The High Meadows Center for Progressive Learning is the connecting point between the global shifts in education, how communities are advocating for better learning models for their children, and the sought-after learning experience High Meadows offers its diverse student body. Our book clubs are designed as relationship-building experiences that bring people together in conversation about what's relevant in education today. Texts are carefully chosen to represent the best ideas in progressive learning. 

“Blindspot is a metaphor to capture that portion of the mind that houses hidden biases. The authors use it to ask about the extent to which social groups – without our awareness or conscious control – shape our likes and dislikes, our judgments about people’s character, abilities, and potential.

In Blindspot, hidden biases are revealed through hands-on experience with the method that has revolutionized the way scientists are learning about the human mind and that gives us a glimpse into what lies within the metaphoric blindspot – the Implicit Association Test."

“Accessible and authoritative . . . While we may not have much power to eradicate our own prejudices, we can counteract them. The first step is to turn a hidden bias into a visible one. . . . What if we’re not the magnanimous people we think we are?”—The Washington Post

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Light refreshments will be provided. Please dress comfortably. We will meet in the Elementary building at High Meadows, the green-trimmed building above the lower parking lot. 

Please be aware that we have a morning conversation from 9:00 to 10:30 and an evening conversation from 6:30 to 8:00 p.m. Please attend the session for which you register. 

Childcare is provided at the evening conversations for currently-enrolled High Meadows students for a fee of $10 per child. Please click here to register for childcare. 

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