Racial Equity

Curriculum

Resources

The child who is not embraced by the village will burn it down to feel its warmth. (African Proverb)

The Resource List below includes items for increasing your own self-awareness and knowledge base, as well as items to use to help you address this topic in the classroom. This is a collection of recommended resources from a variety of well intended staff members and friends. The items below do not necessarily reflect the ideas of Equality Charter School.

A website that brings together researchers, data and policy analysts, and community organizers to provide critical research, data, policy and strategic support for the education justice movement.

CRE Hub provides the history, tools, and resources to contextualize and build the movement for culturally responsive education and ethnic studies.

Culturally Responsive Education Hub is from EJROC at NYU Metro Center.

Teaching Hard History: Grades 6–12

Teaching Hard History: American Slavery | Classroom Videos

Teaching Hard History is an amazing instructional resource & curriculum. It provides Key Concepts, Teaching Objectives, rich discussion questions and answers, Essential Questions, a series of short award-winning videos, curated texts, and more. This is a one-stop shop for a curriculum on teaching the real story of American Slavery.

Let's Talk! Discussing Race, Racism and Other Difficult Topics With Students

A recorded webinar from Tolerance.org.

The webinar provides guidance on how to have relevant and rigorous conversations with students about race, racism and other important topics. Teaching Tolerance’s resource Let’s Talk! will serve as a foundation to help build your capacity to safely broach these issues, and you’ll walk away with use-tomorrow strategies.

Helping Students Discuss Race Openly - Educational Leadership.pdf

An article to help teachers lead honest discussions about race, class, and equity.

Helping Students Discuss Race Openly by Julie Landsman

The Power of Protocols for Equity - Educational Leadership.pdf

An article about structured protocols to help create culturally responsive discussions.

The Power of Protocols for Equity by Zaretta Hammond

10 things every white teacher should know when talking about race

A podcast episode to help white teachers feel more confident in having those tough conversations and empower them to be a more culturally responsive teacher.

Truth for Teachers Podcast, from Angela Watson

A video showing how using a powerful topic, such as policing in America, can be integrated into teaching your content standards in the humanities classroom.

Policing in America: Using Powerful Topics and Tasks to Challenge, Engage, and Empower Students

From EL Education

EdWeek.org blogger, Larry Ferlazzo's list of recommended books on anti-racism for teachers and students:

How to Be an Antiracist by Dr. Ibram Kendi
White Rage by Carol Anderson
Dying of Whiteness by Jonathan Metzl
Stamped by Kendi & Jason Reynolds (great for the younger set if you're looking to do this work with your children at home or your middle or high school students)
This Book is Antiracist by Tiffany Jewell (great for middle grades and up in classrooms and at home)
We Got This: Equity, Access, and the Quest to Be Who Our Students Need Us to Be by Cornelius Minor
Being the Change: Lessons and Strategies to Teach Social Comprehension by Sara K. Ahmed. I use this as the base of my teaching bias and discrimination with my students.
An Indigenous People's History of the United States for Young People, adapted by Jean Mendoza and Dr. Debbie Reese. This is the student version of the original written by Roxanne Dunbar-Ortiz and is a vital component of my social studies curriculum.

CEJ_CRSEBook_v7.pdf

A guide book for transforming schools into culturally responsive institutions.

Transforming Our Public Schools

Created by the NYC Culturally Responsive Education Working Group and the Education Justice Research and Organizing Collaborative (EJ-ROC) at the NYU Metro Center.

UnpackingTheKnapsack.pdf

An essay on understanding what is white privilege.

White Privilege: Unpacking the Invisible Knapsack by Peggy McIntosh

The Air We Breathe - Hidden BrainPresident Trump said this week that a few "bad apples" were to blame for police killings of black people. But research suggests that something more complicated is at play — a force that affects everyone in the culture, not just police officers. In this bonus episode, we revisit our 2017 look at implicit bias and how a culture of racism can infect us all.

A powerful NPR podcast on implicit bias and culture of racism (36 min).

The Air We Breathe - Hidden Brain

JFREJ-Understanding-Antisemitism-November-2017-v1-3-2.pdf

This 44-page paper is an offering from a team assembled by Jews For Racial & Economic Justice (JFREJ). It reflects the values, analysis and best knowledge of the authors. It is intended to be a useful resource to our partners and allies in the movement left, especially non-Jewish (gentile) organizations and individuals. It is only a brief introduction to Jews, the Jewish context, antisemitism, and collective liberation; it is not an exhaustive or academic examination of any subject.

Understanding Antisemitism: An Offering to Our Movement

Nothing-to-Add-Published.pdf

This paper analyzes a common dynamic in interracial discussions on race: white silence. Using whiteness theory as the frame, the author explicates the common white rationales for silence in discussions of race and challenge each of these rationales from an antiracist framework.

Nothing to add: A Challenge to White Silence in Racial Discussion