To Listen is to Understand with André Lee

“How can you ask questions with curiosity and take away judgment? How do you take your judgment out of a question you're asking? How do you remove that judgment when ... well, you really did that, versus I want to understand what you did. It's deceptively simple, that concept. Then what's followed up after that is, listen. Really listen when someone gives you an answer to your question when you ask a question with curiosity. Just really, really listen. “

Learning is stifled when a student feels not listened to. How can our classrooms become safe and secure environments for inclusion based on wide-open listening? How can we use listening in order to hold inclusive conversations about race, identity and equity so that our students can optimally learn in the relational classroom? Join educator, filmmaker, and thought-leader André Lee as he shares what matters most when building group cohesion: Listening.

André Lee is a public speaker on topics related to issues of Anti-Racism, Inclusion and Diversity for educational and corporate institutions.

André directed and produced The Prep School Negro and took it on a worldwide tour over the past 10 years. He served as producer on the documentary, I’m Not Racist…Am I? His upcoming film is called Virtually Free.

André also teaches Film-making at the Germantown Friends School. He has worked with the school to develop a film program for Middle and Upper School. In addition to being a game changer at Germantown, André is an adjunct Professor at the Wharton School of the University of Pennsylvania.