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Resources for Anti-Racist Teaching

Self and Collective Care:

Practice and model self-care
- Manage what you can control, let go of what you can't
- Visit our Virtual Calming Room
- Make use of the Employee Assistance Program
Acknowledge and address grief (both your students' and your own)
- How to identify symptoms of grief
Provide meaningful ways for students to express themselves in multiple ways
Lean on and support your colleagues
- Arrange socially distanced lunch dates
- Consult with team members
- Use the Student Support Team to address significant student concerns

Addressing GriefSchool-based support and increased understanding are essential when a student experiences the death of a friend or loved one. While each student will be affected differently depending on his or her de...

Mini Lesson Resource Library

These lessons are intended to provide teachers with guidance for teaching their students important skills for social emotional and academic success during this unusual time. Teachers may wish to personalize these lessons to reflect their own personalities and teaching styles. If teachers would like help in delivering these lessons, please email Kacie Ellison (kellison@mps-edu.org)

Preview of what's to come...

Stress Management

Mindfulness Resources

Mindfulness Activity Resource Library

50 Mindfulness Exercises

The Mini-Mindfulness Exercise

"I Haven't Got a Minute"

Check out the Apps:

Headspace: meditation and calming tools (Free with some paid features)

Stop, Think, Breath: guided meditations and mindfulness tools/ tips (Free with some paid features)

Calm: meditate, breathe, sleep, relax (Levels: free, $12.99/month, $59,99/ year)

Relax Melodies: sounds, white noise, fans, anxiety relief (Free with some paid features)

Insight Timer: improve sleep, anxiety and stress (Free)

SEL Resources for Teachers

Articles

Making SEL More Relevant to Teens

13 Powerful SEL Activities

Lesson Planning Tools/ Resources

Common Sense Education

The Newsela SEL Collection

Greater Good in Education

Examples of SEL in High School ELA Instruction

Resources for Anti-Racist Teaching

Articles to Read

“America’s Racial Contract Is Killing Us” by Adam Serwer | Atlantic (May 8, 2020)
“Who Gets to Be Afraid in America?” by Dr. Ibram X. Kendi | Atlantic (May 12, 2020)
"My Life as an Undocumented Immigrant” by Jose Antonio Vargas | NYT Mag (June 22, 2011)
"White Privilege: Unpacking the Invisible Knapsack” by Knapsack Peggy McIntosh
What’s My Complicity? Talking White Fragility With Robin DiAngelo from Teaching Tolerance
White Anti-Racism: Living the Legacy from Teaching Tolerance

Books to Read

This Book is Anti-Racist by Tiffany Jewell
So You Want to Talk About Race by Ijeoma Oluo
How To Be An Antiracist by Dr. Ibram X. Kendi
White Fragility: Why It's So Hard for White People to Talk About Racism by Robin DiAngelo, PhD
Me and White Supremacy by Layla F. Saad

Videos to Watch

How to deconstruct racism, one headline at a timeBaratunde Thurston explores the phenomenon of white Americans calling the police on black Americans who have committed the crimes of ... eating, walking or generally "living while black." In this profound, thought-provoking and often hilarious talk, he reveals the power of language to change stories of trauma into stories of healing -- while challenging us all to level up.

How to overcome our biases? Walk boldly toward themOur biases can be dangerous, even deadly — as we've seen in the cases of Michael Brown in Ferguson, Missouri, and Eric Garner, in Staten Island, New York. Diversity advocate Vernā Myers looks closely at some of the subconscious attitudes we hold toward out-groups. She makes a plea to all people: Acknowledge your biases. Then move toward, not away from, the groups that make you uncomfortable. In a funny, impassioned, important talk, she shows us how.

We need to talk about an injusticeIn an engaging and personal talk -- with cameo appearances from his grandmother and Rosa Parks -- human rights lawyer Bryan Stevenson shares some hard truths about America's justice system, starting with a massive imbalance along racial lines: a third of the country's black male population has been incarcerated at some point in their lives. These issues, which are wrapped up in America's unexamined history, are rarely talked about with this level of candor, insight and persuasiveness.

Anti-Racist Lesson Ideas

Teaching About Race, Racism and Police ViolenceIn 2014, the deaths of Michael Brown in Ferguson, Eric Garner in New York City, Tamir Rice in Cleveland and too many others caused waves of nationwide protest and appeals for stronger protections against police brutality. These events—along with the lack of accountability for the police officers who shot and killed these unarmed victims—also prompted educators to seek resources on how to address these subjects in the classroom.

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