Burlington High School VARAT Mini Insitute

In September of 2011 Two members of VARAT created a mini institute at BHS ( Burlington high school) This institute is designed to enhance teacher's and staff's pathways in becoming leaders for multicultural schools and classroom. This mini institute also wants to improve teachers and students both in their social and cultural skills sets, and create an understanding for how race and diversity can affect the student/teacher relationship.  This mini institute also helps educators find out pertinent information about the cultural groups they are working with.

The objective of this is is to create a deeper understanding of multicultural education, its relationship to culturally responsive practices and its imperative of 21st century school transformation.


VARAT  and BHS engage in activity's such as reading, free writing, and some more directly focused activity's such as choosing a partner and choosing an ethnicity and brainstorming some ideas that might be especially effective when attempting to be culturally sensitive toward that student. 


The syllabus is written by Paij Wadley-bailey and Denise Dunbar 

Racism Hotline!

VARAT has a hot line phone number that is used for parents, students, teachers, activists for reporting racism to VARAT so we can address the problem.

If you or someone you know is the victim to racism please call the hot- line

1-866- X-Racism  Or 1-866-972-2476

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What Is VARAT

VARAT  (Vermont Anti Racism Action Team) Is a non profit organization that believes that *ALL* kids should have the right to classroom and curricular free of racial oppression.

VARAT started in 1996 when the Racism Education Action Project (REAP) and Vermont Haymarket Peoples Fund held a town meeting on racism. VARAT then prompted the U.S. Commission on Civil Rights to Investigate reports of rascal harassment in Vermont's public schools.

 VARAT's  Primary focus is confronting and stopping racism in Vermont's schools and communities.


We realize however, the significance of making the links between racism and sexism/misogyny,classism,homophobism,heterosexism,ageism.adultism, looksism, albleism, mentalism, ect..The common thread being oppression. Thus VARAT provides organizational leadership, Form and joins coalitions that foster social justice and work as local, national and international activists.