Cultural Proficiency Resources

Dave Worthley, Ed.D.

Videos

How I Learned to Stop Worrying and Love Discussing Race (11:57)

Cracking the Codes: Unconscious Bias (6:56)

CASEL CARES: Owning Your Power to Raise Kids Who Challenge Racism (1:04:03)

Tedx - Grace Lin - The Windows and Mirrors of Your Child's Bookshelf (12:23)

Color blind or color brave?The subject of race can be very touchy. As finance executive Mellody Hobson says, it's a "conversational third rail." But, she says, that's exactly why we need to start talking about it. In this engaging, persuasive talk, Hobson makes the case that speaking openly about race — and particularly about diversity in hiring -- makes for better businesses and a better society.

Ted - Melody Hobson - Color Blind or Color Brave - (14:01)

Articles

Table Talk: Family Conversations about Current EventsTips and strategies for parent and family roundtable discussion with youth about current events and the news of the day.

Common Sense Media Resources About Race and Racism

Common Sense Media Resources About Race and RacismWe've gathered together all our articles and lists of media recommendations to help parents, educators, and others spark important conversations. Advice from Common Sense Media editors.

Harvard EdCast: Putting Diverse Books into Practice

Hooked on ClassicsA classic problem: The push to modernize reading lists is challenging traditional definitions of literature. Surprise: Not everyone is happy about it.

NPR -Racism Is Literally Bad For Your Health

Racism Is Literally Bad For Your HealthRacism affects health outcomes, a new report finds. "The day-to-day little indignities" can negatively impact people's physical health, Harvard researcher David Williams says.

Edutopia - Building Student Understanding Across Racial Differences

Building Student Understanding Across Racial DifferencesA partnership between an all-black class in Memphis, Tennessee, and an all-white class in rural New Jersey has helped students bridge racial and cultural divides.

NPR - Q&A: How To Talk To Kids About Black Lives And Police Violence

Q&A: How To Talk To Kids About Black Lives And Police ViolenceJesse Hagopian, the co-editor of the book Teaching For Black Lives, talks about the curriculum for this moment.

Anti-Racist Resources from Greater Good

Anti-Racist Resources from Greater GoodIn response to the killing of unarmed black people by police, we gathered Greater Good pieces that explore our potential to reduce prejudice in society and in ourselves.

Additional Articles

www.gse.upenn.edu/news/talking-children-after-racial-incidents

www.childrenscommunityschool.org/wp-content/uploads/2018/02/theyre-not-too-young-1.pdf

babyandblog.com/2014/02/5-black-childrens-authors-and-illustrators-you-should-know/

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For Younger Kids

A Kids Book About Racism by Jelani Memory (Video - 3:58)

Systemic Racism Explained - (4:23)

CNN and 'Sesame Street' to host a town hall addressing racism

CNN and 'Sesame Street' to host a town hall addressing racism As anger and heartbreak have swept across America over the killing of yet another black man at the hands of police, CNN and Sesame Street are refocusing their second town hall to address racism.

Teaching Young Children About Bias, Diversity, and Social Justice

Teaching Young Children About Bias, Diversity, and Social JusticeUse young children’s understanding of differences to teach social justice through age-appropriate literature, news stories, anti-bias lessons, familiar examples, and problem solving.

Your Kids Aren't Too Young to Talk About Race: Resource Roundup

Your Kids Aren't Too Young to Talk About Race: Resource Roundup — Pretty GoodYour kids aren’t too young to talk about race. Here are a few resources to get your started.

Teaching Tolerance

www.tolerance.org/

For Older Kids

Mahogany Books -Cultural Literature and History

NPR - A Diverse #SummerReading List For Kids

A Diverse #SummerReading List For KidsThe NPR education team brings you 25 books with minority characters and authors.

1000 Black Girl Books Resource Guide

1000 Black Girl Books Resource Guide1000 Black Girl Books Resource Guide

More Resources

100 Race Conscious Things to Say to Your Child to Advance Racial Justice

Helping Your Child Cope with Media Coverage of Community Racial Trauma: Tips for Parents (Video)

The Time is Always Right to do What is Right (Engaging Minds)

BLM Instructional Library (Click on book to hear it read aloud)

CNN Sesame Street Town Hall Standing Up To Racism Full Video

A Talk about Current Events with Maya & Carleton (Video)

BLM: Facilitating a Conversation with Our Youngest Learners

CASEL Cares: Owning Your Power to Raise Kids Who Challenge Racism

Embrace Race: 31 Children's books to support conversations on race, racism and resistance

Books on Race and Racism From Epic

Social Story: We All Have Different Shades of Skin

9 Anti-Racist Children's Books

5 Black Children’s Authors and Illustrators You Should Know

30 Books to Help You Talk to Your Kids About Racism

Social Story: What is a Peaceful Protest?

Intersection Allies: We Make Room for All

Protesters Call for Justice (Time for Kids Article)

Diverse Book Collections

A Kids Book about Racism by Jelani Memory (Read Aloud)

75 Children's Books to Read Now

21 Anti-Racism Videos To Share With Kids

Expanding Social Awareness & Teaching Activism Through Your Summer Reading

Anti-Racist Resource Guide

Resources for Addressing Racism and Violence Against Black & Brown People

Anti-Racism Resource List

What Did You Say? Responses to Racist Comments Collected from the Field

Anti-Racist Resources from Greater Good

Scaffolded Anti-Racist Resources

WHAT TO WATCH

Just Mercy

Tale of Two Cities

Trevor Noah Insight

Rachel Cargle Public Address

When They See Us (Netflix)

13th (Netflix)

Do The Right Thing (Netflix)

Hello Privilege. It's Me, Chelsea. (Netflix)

The Hate U Give (Hulu)

What It Takes to Be Racially Literate (TedTalk)

Finding Myself in the Story of Race

WHAT TO LISTEN TO

NPR’s Code Switch

Brene Brown with Ibram X. Kendi on How to Be an Antiracist

BOOKS FOR ADULTS

The New Jim Crow by Michelle Alexander

Just Mercy: A Story of Justice and Redemption by Bryan Stevenson

White Fragility by Robin DiAngelo

How to be Anti-Racist by Ibram Kendi

So You Wanna Talk About Race by Ijeoma Oluo

Why Are All The Black Kids Sitting Together In The Cafeteria by Beverly Daniel Tatum

Stamped from the Beginning: A Definitive HIstory of Racist Ideas in America by Ibram Kendi

Things That Make White People Uncomfortable by Michael Bennett

Tell Me Who You Are by Winona Guo & Priya Vulchi

Waking Up White by Debby Irving

Evicted: Poverty and Profit in the American City by Matthew Desmond

Lies My Teacher Told Me: Everything Your American History Textbook Got Wrong by James W. Loewen

Nobody: Casualties of America's War on the Vulnerable, from Ferguson to Flint and Beyond by Marc Lamont Hill

The Color of Law: A Forgotten History of How Our Government Segregated America

by Richard Rothstein

Blackballed: The Black Vote and US Democracy by Darryl Pinckney

The Warmth of Other Suns: The Epic Story of America's Great Migration by Isabel Wilkerson

The Fire Next Time by James Baldwin

The Autobiography of Malcolm X: As Told to Alex Haley by Malcolm X

Between the World and Me by Ta-Nehisi Coates

Killing Rage Ending Racism by Bell Hooks

Becoming by Michelle Obama

The Burning House: Jim Crow and the Making of Modern America by Anders Walker

The Condemnation of Blackness: Race, Crime, and the Making of Modern Urban America by Khalil Gibran Muhammad

Dying of Whiteness: How the Politics of Racial Resentment is Killing America’s Heartland by Jonathan M. Metzl

A Different Mirror: A History of Multicultural America by Ronald Takaki