Relationships, Empathy & Conflict

Objectives

• D02.S1.08.01 Analyze how tone, body language, and digital messages can change meaning in communication.
• D02.S1.08.02 Manage conflict in a group by facilitating discussion and seeking a solution all can accept.
• D02.S2.08.01 Analyze a conflict from multiple perspectives, including ones they disagree with.
• D02.S2.08.02 Recognize bias and stereotypes that can block empathy, and question them.
• D02.S3.08.01 Analyze how power and resources are shared within a community and who is left out.
• D02.S3.08.02 Take part in strengthening belonging in their school or local community.
• D02.S4.08.01 Analyze how systems of care and mutual aid operate and what makes them fair or unfair.
• D02.S4.08.02 Distinguish charity from mutual aid and solidarity, and explain the difference.

Essential questions

• How do tone, body language, and digital messages change meaning, and how do I facilitate conflict toward a solution all can accept?
• How do I see a conflict from every side, question the bias and stereotype that block empathy, and notice who is left out when power and resources are shared?
• What is the difference between charity and mutual aid and solidarity, and how do I strengthen belonging in my community?

Big ideas

• Meaning lives in more than words — tone, body language, and the medium itself — and facilitation, not force, is how a group finds a solution all can accept.
• Empathy grows when bias and stereotype are questioned and a conflict is seen from perspectives I do not share.
• Mutual aid and solidarity differ from charity, and belonging is something I can actively strengthen rather than only receive.

Lessons

1. 1 Relationships, Empathy & Conflict: Where We've Been, Where We're Going 50 minutes
2. 2 More Than Words: How Tone and Body Language Change Meaning 50 minutes
3. 3 The Screen Between Us: How Digital Messages Change Meaning 50 minutes
4. 4 Facilitating, Not Forcing: A Solution Everyone Can Accept 55 minutes
5. 5 One Conflict, Many Sides: Taking Perspectives I Don't Share 55 minutes
6. 6 Bias and Stereotype: Questioning What Blocks Empathy 50 minutes
7. 7 Who Is Left Out? Power and Resources in a Community 55 minutes
8. 8 Strengthening Belonging: A Real Action in My Community 55 minutes
9. 9 Systems of Care and Mutual Aid: Fair and Unfair 55 minutes
10. 10 Charity, Mutual Aid, Solidarity — and Our Capstone 55 minutes

Assessment plan

Observation of a learner decoding tone and digital messages, facilitating a group conflict, and analyzing a conflict from multiple perspectives; a bias-and-stereotype log, a power-and-resources "who is left out" analysis, a belonging-strengthening action, and a charity-versus-mutual-aid comparison as portfolio artifacts.