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Resources for Teaching
Resources for Teaching
Example student local history project and discussion of the benefits going through this process:
Video about Salem Poor (6 minutes) created by North Andover High School student, Eamon O’Cearuil
Video- discussion about the process of creating this Salem Poor project (5 minutes) North Andover High School student Eamon O’Cearuil and teacher Brian Sheehy
Understanding and Teaching American Slavery – edited by Bethany Jay and Cynthia Lynn Lyerly.
Teaching Hard History- Focuses on best practices for teaching slavery; Bethany Jay and Steven Oliver are contributors
Learning for Justice- Formerly known as “Teaching Tolerance,” this is a great resources for “centering justice and the action that students and educators can take to realize change.”
Teaching for Change- “By drawing direct connections to real world issues, Teaching for Change encourages teachers and students to question and re-think the world inside and outside their classrooms, build a more equitable, multicultural society, and become active global citizens.”
Brown University’s Choices Program Racial Slavery in the Americas: Excellent set of classroom resources for understanding the history of racial slavery and its legacies.
Facing History and Ourselves Race in US History. Resources for studying the history of race in the United States
Massachusetts Historical Society Free Online Series: Confronting Racial Injustice
Resources for Teaching about the Atlantic Slave Trade from Kabria Baumgartner
The Atlantic Slave Trade in Two Minutes *Note: I pause this simulation occasionally and just ask students to observe what they see. I then click on some of the dots, which provide a bit of information about various ships
Article: My Nigerian Great-grandfather Sold Slaves
Recommended by Glennys Sánchez:
Not Light; But Fire: How to Lead Meaningful Race Conversations, Matthew R. Kay
Being an anti-racist educator- Denna Simmons
#disrupt texts- #Disrupt Texts is a crowdsourced, grass roots effort by teachers for teachers to challenge the traditional canon in order to create a more inclusive, representative, and equitable language arts curriculum that our students deserve. It is part of our mission to aid and develop teachers committed to anti-racist/anti-bias teaching pedagogy and practices.
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