Unlocking School Bias

Using Neuroscience to Improve Student Outcomes
Horacio Sanchez - President, Resiliency Inc.
Unlocking School Bias
January 2025 | 176 pages | Corwin
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Break through the bias barrier

What can happen in 200 milliseconds? In a word, everything. In that short time, your subconscious mind has shaped your perceptions and influenced your behaviors. In other words, you have experienced bias—for better or for worse.

Unlocking School Bias ends the confusion around bias and provides educators with research and strategies that enable them to effectively address bias in the classroom and school in appropriate and productive ways. Learn to explore your own and your students' biases and discover:

  • The latest research from psychology, education, and neuroscience
  • Different types of biases, including confirmation bias and impact bias, and how they manifest themselves in everyday life
  • Practical strategies for educators who are ready to change their and their students' actions
  • How patterns in one’s environment create biases and affect the brain’s development

Implicit bias occurs subconsciously and so quickly that the conscious brain is unaware that it happened. Yet, with mindful practice and reflection, we can rewrite the automated processes in our brains, stop our subconscious minds from determining our thoughts and behaviors, and help our students feel safe and successful in school.

Contents

About the Author

About the Author

Foreword

Foreword

The Birth of Bias: A Love Story

The Birth of Bias: A Love Story

The Cup is Half Empty: Negative Bias

The Cup is Half Empty: Negative Bias

Believe It or Not: Confirmation Bias

Believe It or Not: Confirmation Bias

Maximum Impact: Impact Bias

Maximum Impact: Impact Bias

You Had Me at Hello: Face, Hands, Posture, Gesture, and Tone of Voice

You Had Me at Hello: Face, Hands, Posture, Gesture, and Tone of Voice

Pattern Behavior: Patterns in Our Environment Create Bias

Pattern Behavior: Patterns in Our Environment Create Bias

Culture Club: How Culture Can Shape Bias

Culture Club: How Culture Can Shape Bias

Victim of Society: Pervasive Societal Biases

Victim of Society: Pervasive Societal Biases

Conclusion: A Moment of Clarity

Conclusion: A Moment of Clarity

References

References

Additional materials

Description

Break through the bias barrier

What can happen in 200 milliseconds? In a word, everything. In that short time, your subconscious mind has shaped your perceptions and influenced your behaviors. In other words, you have experienced bias—for better or for worse.

Unlocking School Bias ends the confusion around bias and provides educators with research and strategies that enable them to effectively address bias in the classroom and school in appropriate and productive ways. Learn to explore your own and your students' biases and discover:

  • The latest research from psychology, education, and neuroscience
  • Different types of biases, including confirmation bias and impact bias, and how they manifest themselves in everyday life
  • Practical strategies for educators who are ready to change their and their students' actions
  • How patterns in one’s environment create biases and affect the brain’s development

Implicit bias occurs subconsciously and so quickly that the conscious brain is unaware that it happened. Yet, with mindful practice and reflection, we can rewrite the automated processes in our brains, stop our subconscious minds from determining our thoughts and behaviors, and help our students feel safe and successful in school.

Contents

About the Author

About the Author

Foreword

Foreword

The Birth of Bias: A Love Story

The Birth of Bias: A Love Story

The Cup is Half Empty: Negative Bias

The Cup is Half Empty: Negative Bias

Believe It or Not: Confirmation Bias

Believe It or Not: Confirmation Bias

Maximum Impact: Impact Bias

Maximum Impact: Impact Bias

You Had Me at Hello: Face, Hands, Posture, Gesture, and Tone of Voice

You Had Me at Hello: Face, Hands, Posture, Gesture, and Tone of Voice

Pattern Behavior: Patterns in Our Environment Create Bias

Pattern Behavior: Patterns in Our Environment Create Bias

Culture Club: How Culture Can Shape Bias

Culture Club: How Culture Can Shape Bias

Victim of Society: Pervasive Societal Biases

Victim of Society: Pervasive Societal Biases

Conclusion: A Moment of Clarity

Conclusion: A Moment of Clarity

References

References

Additional materials

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Unlocking School Bias

Using Neuroscience to Improve Student Outcomes


January 2025 | 176 pages | Corwin

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Paperback 01/02/2026 9781071974001 $37.95
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Break through the bias barrier

What can happen in 200 milliseconds? In a word, everything. In that short time, your subconscious mind has shaped your perceptions and influenced your behaviors. In other words, you have experienced bias—for better or for worse.

Unlocking School Bias ends the confusion around bias and provides educators with research and strategies that enable them to effectively address bias in the classroom and school in appropriate and productive ways. Learn to explore your own and your students' biases and discover:

  • The latest research from psychology, education, and neuroscience
  • Different types of biases, including confirmation bias and impact bias, and how they manifest themselves in everyday life
  • Practical strategies for educators who are ready to change their and their students' actions
  • How patterns in one’s environment create biases and affect the brain’s development

Implicit bias occurs subconsciously and so quickly that the conscious brain is unaware that it happened. Yet, with mindful practice and reflection, we can rewrite the automated processes in our brains, stop our subconscious minds from determining our thoughts and behaviors, and help our students feel safe and successful in school.


Table Of Contents:

  • About the Author
  • Foreword
  • The Birth of Bias: A Love Story
  • The Cup is Half Empty: Negative Bias
  • Believe It or Not: Confirmation Bias
  • Maximum Impact: Impact Bias
  • You Had Me at Hello: Face, Hands, Posture, Gesture, and Tone of Voice
  • Pattern Behavior: Patterns in Our Environment Create Bias
  • Culture Club: How Culture Can Shape Bias
  • Victim of Society: Pervasive Societal Biases
  • Conclusion: A Moment of Clarity
  • References

Recent Product Reviews:

"As the product of a single mother living in poverty, I truly recommend this book for ALL educators working with diverse populations! From beginning to end, this book is thought-provoking in a way that only Horacio Sanchez can deliver. He compels you to challenge your beliefs and behaviors in a way that is freeing, empowering, and benefits the greater good of humanity."
LaQuanta Nelson, PhD, CEO of The BOSS Educator
"With Unlocking School Bias, Horacio Sanchez takes a completely fresh approach to one of the most entrenched challenges that educators face: How do we address and ameliorate the harmful effects of bias? By better understanding the neuroscience of how bias evolves over time, Horacio removes blame and shame. He makes the complex clear and then translates the neuroscience into classroom practices that increase belonging and inclusion. If you are a district, school or classroom leader committed to equity and access for all students, this book will clarify, simplify, and energize your efforts.”
Kerri Larkin, Kerri Larkin, Senior Education Advisor, Lexia
“Once again, Horacio Sanchez brings a clear, research-based, neuroscientific explanation to educators. Beginning with a statement of how bias is formed beginning in infancy, Horacio traces how biases develop and provides practical strategies for educators to reduce the harmful impact of negative bias. This is a great guide to interpreting emotions, mirror neurons, bias and non-verbal communication, the impact of culture on communication, and more. It's a must-read for all educators!”
Chris Mason, PhD, Founder and Senior Scholar, Center for Educational Improvement

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