Staff Resources

Introduction to Culturally Responsive Pedagogy: with overview articles, strategies, discussion protocols, and learning style examples  

Introduction to Anti-Racist Education: with overview articles, podcasts, videos, and books

Introduction to LGBTQIA+ Resources: with HPS ELA curriculum, online resources, and educator guides 

Common Sense Education: Diversity, Equity, and Inclusivity Resources for Classrooms

Elementary School Level

• Teachers Network Leadership Institute: Fair Share for Our Schools: A Multidisciplinary Curriculum: Introducing Equity and Equality

  • Lesson One (Grades K-2)

  • Lesson Two (Grades K-2)

• Learning for Justice: What's Fair?

  • Lesson Plan (K-5)

• Example of Sustainable Schools NJ Application lesson plans

  • TJ G4 Authentic Learning Unspeakable

  • TJ G4 The People Who Lead the Way Toward Equality

Middle School Level

• Learning to Give: Character Education: Fairness Unit

  • Lesson Plan: What is Fair?

  • Lesson Plan: Fair Responses to Unfair Acts

  • Lesson Plan: What Can We Do?

  • Lesson Plan: Middle School Game

  • Lesson Plan: Fairness and Philanthropy

High School Level

• Learning for Justice- Visualizing School Equity

• Docs Teach: The online tool for teaching with documents, from the National Archives

  • Lesson Plan: Extending Suffrage to Women 

Holidays & Celebrations 

• Holidays/Celebrations

  • Juneteenth https://educators4sc.org/topic-resources/teaching-about-juneteenth/ https://padlet.com/HHSLMC20/hhsjuneteenth

  • Asian Pacific American Heritage Month https://asianpacificheritage.gov/ https://asianpacificheritage.gov/for-teachers/

  • Hispanic Heritage Month https://www.hispanicheritagemonth.gov/ https://www.hispanicheritagemonth.gov/for-teachers/

http://njamistadcurriculum.net/ 

On August 27, 2002, the Governor of New Jersey signed into law the “Amistad Bill” (A1301), sponsored by Assemblymen William D. Payne and Craig A. Stanley. The bill created an “Amistad Commission” in honor of the enslaved Africans who gained their freedom after overthrowing the crew of the slave ship Amistad in 1839. The Commission’s mandate was to promote a wider implementation of educational awareness programs regarding the African slave trade, slavery in America, and the many contributions Africans have made to American society.

The Amistad Bill created historic legislation for not only the state of New Jersey but also for opening a revolutionary new chapter for teaching our nation’s history. The New Jersey legislation was and remains an important, national landmark event.

• HHS Instruction Coaching Site 

• HPS Digital Learning Center https://sites.google.com/hackensackschools.org/dlc/

• SafeSchools 

Our mandatory training already include:

• 1. 1. 1. “Cultural Competence and Racial Bias”

        2. “Diversity Awareness: Staff-to-Student”

        3. “Making Schools Safe and Inclusive for LGBTQ Students”

Extra Training:

• 1. 1. 4. “Making Schools Safe and Inclusive for Transgender Students”

• HPS Affirmative Action Resources

• Teaching Tolerance: Please subscribe if you have not done so already

• The Innocent Classroom, by Alexs Pate

• Promoting Racial Literacy in School, by Howard C. Stevenson

• Avoiding Racial, article 

• How to Be an Anti-Racist, by Ibram X. Kendi

• Racial Equity Tools Glossary

• The Culturally Proficient School, by R. Lindsey, Roberts, and Campbell Jones

• Culturally Responsive Teaching and the Brain, by Zaretta Hammond

• Book lists for student/staff reading

  • HHS LGBTQ+

  • HMS LGBTQ+

  • Books with Themes & Characters with Special Needs at HHS Library Media Center

  • Latinx Authors

  • South Asian Heritage

  • Black Lives Matter at School Book List