9 minutes
Place one live piece of work One live object. One community. One stage reading. Then a move or a written why-not.
What you’ll be able to do Identify the practical implication of “Place one live piece of work” and apply it to one live DHS decision connected to Anti-Racism as Ordinary Work. Compare the responses to this question and explain your choice: How should the team use the concept? Document a next step for Place one live piece of work: Choose one live work object, name a change or formal escalation, assign an owner, and set the date the result will be reviewed. Do not diagnose the whole agency in an hour The guide asks: What work is the institution doing, and where would you place it? Which communities are supported, and which are not? Did you consult those communities?
For this title, pick one live piece of work — a hire, a policy, a public comment, a meeting. Name the community it lands on. Place that object on the continuum. If you cannot name a structural move, you are still in compliance or club, whatever the poster says.
A working sequence 1. Name the object Policy, budget, hire, IT change, comment period — something that will lock.
2. Name who it lands on Not “diverse communities.” A people, a Nation, a language, a disability group. Variation inside the group still applies.
3. Place it Exclusive, Club, Compliance, Affirming, Transforming — for this object. Not for the employee’s soul.
4. Move or write why not A gate, a default, a consult, a formal door. If you will not move it, write that. Theater is the unnamed skip.
Hearts and Minds through institutional and structural equity. Awareness is the on-ramp. Structure is the work. No scores.
Put this lesson to work What you can change You control whether place one live piece of work changes a live DHS process connected to Anti-Racism as Ordinary Work or remains information on a page.
What to watch for The team completes the learning, keeps the same default, assigns no owner, and never checks who carries the burden.
Your next step Choose one live work object, name a change or formal escalation, assign an owner, and set the date the result will be reviewed.
Carry this forward One live object. One community. One stage reading. Then a move or a written why-not.
You control whether place one live piece of work changes a live DHS process connected to Anti-Racism as Ordinary Work or remains information on a page.
Choose one live work object, name a change or formal escalation, assign an owner, and set the date the result will be reviewed.
Completion is shown by a scenario decision and a saved one-minute commitment.
Choose one live work object, name a change or formal escalation, assign an owner, and set the date the result will be reviewed.
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Previous lesson Back to course Carry this into practice Examine how institutional practices can sustain racial inequity and identify a specific work process to change or formally escalate.
Return to the experience: What did you notice or try, whose perspective informed it, and what would you keep or adjust?
Participation and course completion in this program do not count toward DHS-required training credits unless management, a director, or DHS leadership expressly approves an exception.
