Current Events Resources

This subpage has been created to help put the many resources coming your way in one location. Please reach out to Meg Colella or Kristen Gray with any questions.

Principal Colella's Parent Communication (6/3/2020)

From Bridge's Counseling Team

Heather O'Rourke, Deirdre Kinnane, Charlene Haouiliya

Parent/Guardian Resources:

• How to talk to your children about Racism and Protests

• Racism and Violence: How to help kids handle the news

• CNN & Sesame Street: Standing Up To Racism

• Resources About Race, Equity and Inclusion

Student Resources:

• If Racism Didn't Exist Worksheet

• With My Own two Hands I can Change...Worksheet

Additional Resources:

• Pretty Good Design - Your Kids Aren't Too Young to Talk About Race: Resource Roundup

• Sesame Street Town Hall - Coming Together: Standing Up to Racism

• Early Childhood Teacher offers child appropriate explanation of racism

Book Lists:

Grade 4:

• Something Happened in Our Town

• Separate is Never Equal

• My Hair is a Garden

• Ruth and the Green Book

• When I was Eight

• Rosa, the Rosa Parks Story

• Sit-in: How Four Friends Stood Up By Sitting Down

• Coretta Scott

• Gordon Parks, How the Photographer Captured Black and White America