The hidden curriculum is made up of the implicit, unstated lessons that are delivered in educational settings via school structures, curricular materials, and instructional practices enacted by the teacher. For example, school faculty or administrators may never make explicit the values of hard work, obedience, conformity, and persistence, but these values will be taught every day in subtle ways. “In my second year teaching at the elementary level, two biracial first graders told a Black child that she could not play because her skin was too dark. I found myself, a white female teacher, using the language of the bullying prevention programme to ignore the racialized nature of the incident…