This speech was delivered on October 16, 1963 yet is still very applicable to the education system in the U.S. today. (medium) 

This short article shares five reasons why White students need to learn multicultural education, even when they attend school in all-White spaces. (medium - or listen to the podcast link at the top 44:17)

 Curriculum can be violent--whether you intend it or not. Here's what it looks like and how you can avoid it. (medium)

Mamie Tape's bid to desegregate San Francisco schools went to the California Supreme Court seven decades before Brown v. Board. (mdium)

In this short blog post, teacher Tricia Ebarvia reflects on how one's "racial consciousness determines how you show up." (medium)

You can also pick one of the thirty other short essays by educators who identify as Black, Indigenous and people of color, writing about their experiences as students and teachers today by visiting https://31daysibpoc.wordpress.com/

Restorative justice is a strategy some schools use to build community and mitigate the disparities of traditional discipline approaches. This short article offers an overview of the practice.  (short - or listen to the podcast link at the top 1:08)

This article describes the concept of culturally relevant pedagogy and provides examples of how educators enriched their pedagogy by asking members of the community to share their expertise in the classroom. (medium)

Students experiencing racism can’t wait for schools to move at their own pace and comfort level. In this article, Gorski describes four common racial equity detours schools take as well as five principles to embrace to avoid detours and maximize the impact of equity efforts. (medium)

In this short article, Hammond describes the power of building a learning partnership with students, along with other culturally responsive strategies. (short)

The achievement gap is one of the most talked-about issues in U.S. education and this article argues that a focus on the gap is misplaced. Instead, Ladson-Billings says that we need to look at the “education debt” that has accumulated over time comprising historical, economic, sociopolitical, and moral components. The author draws an analogy with the concept of national debt—which she contrasts with that of a national budget deficit—to argue the significance of the education debt. (long)

In this short blog post, author and educator Cornelius Minor shares key themes from his 2018 book We Got This: Equity, Access and the Quest to Be Who Our Students Need Us to Be, including the impact of listening to students and redistributing power in a classroom. (short - and includes 2 very short videos)

In this article, Mills describes a series of questions to ask when students are not engaging in class. (short)

This extensive report from Columbia Law School analyzes the experience of Black girls in public schools, particularly how Black girls are disciplined. (long)

This blog post is by Laurie Calvert, a National Board Certified Teacher who taught for 14 years in Asheville, North Carolina. She was a Teaching Ambassador Fellow at the U.S. Department of Education. (short)

 A group of educators and parents decided to start their own school. It's called Mní Wičhóni Nakíčižiŋ Wóuŋspe or the Defenders of the Water School and it started during the movement against the Dakota Access Pipeline. Now, five years later, this place of learning operates nothing like other schools in the area. (36:00) 

Seeking solutions to a persistent problem in American education. Part 1 of a special series "The 50 Year Fight: Solutions For Closing The Achievement Gap." (47:00)

Right now, all sorts of people are trying to rethink and reinvent education, to get poor minority kids performing as well as white kids. But there's one thing nobody tries anymore, despite lots of evidence that it works: desegregation. Nikole Hannah-Jones looks at a district that, not long ago, accidentally launched a desegregation program. (59:00)

We know American public schools do not guarantee each child an equal education. Two decades of school reform initiatives have not changed that. But when Chana Joffe-Walt, a reporter, looked at inequality in education, she saw that most reforms focused on who schools were failing: Black and brown kids. But what about who the schools are serving? In this five-part series, she turns her attention to what is arguably the most powerful force in our schools: White parents. Start this series with episode 1. (60:45)

In this podcast episode, researcher and teacher educator Betina Hsieh discusses the identities educators bring into the classroom, and why understanding them is so crucial to help reach students. (44:28)

This podcast episode looks at dynamics of race and whiteness in the classic novel, considers ways in which it may be harmful to students. (38:49)

This podcast series features interviews with experts and educators sharing teaching strategies with an equity lens. Many are focused on equity in language arts classrooms, including this one. (12:00)

Author Cornelius Minor talks about how the teacher as superhero narrative can be misleading if we don’t spend time with the imperfections that allow us to be human. In his book, We Got This: Equity, Access, and the Quest to Be Who Our Students Need Us to Be, Cornelius crafts a better hero story for the profession of education. He writes: “we are allowed to fail, reflect, improve and try again.” To do this, he says it starts with authentically listening to our students. (30:08)

PBS documentary about the Native American boarding school movement designed to “kill the Indian and save the man.” (56:00)

2019 Teacher of the Year describes how he understands educational equity, and what is necessary to achieve it. (16:37)

In this short video, Ladson-Billings describes three aspects of successfully teaching African American children (focus on learning, cultural competence, and critical consciousness), which can be applied to many demographic groups. (3:01)

Conversation with author, psychologist, and educator Dr. Beverly Daniel Tatum, who offers tips for addressing the ongoing challenges of race and racism in classrooms and schools. (27:39)

Rich Milner, Educator, Scholar and Author of the book “Start Where You Are, But Don’t Stay There: Understanding Diversity, Opportunity Gaps, and Teaching in Today’s Classrooms", joins Justin Reich in a powerful conversation on how to help educators work for equity for all students. Rich encourages teachers, "If you're going to engage work that is transformative, if you're going to engage work that meets the needs of every young person with whom you work, then you've got to consider race". (43:17)

Dr. Ilana Horn, a researcher and teacher educator at Vanderbilt University’s Peabody College, discusses finding strengths in every student, listening more closely to student thinking, and finding ways to shift the curriculum from “school math” to the kind of math that’s both more engaging to students and closer to what real mathematicians do. (29:43)

This short video gives examples of ways educators can work to recognize and unlock cultural strengths in African American students. (5:45)

“We sit and we keep banging our heads against this term —'achievement gap’…I think we, as Gloria Ladson-Billings says, should flip our paradigm and our language and call it what it really is. It's not an achievement gap; it's an education debt, for all of the foregone schooling resources that were never invested in the education of the Black and Brown child over time.”