Resources

In this section, we have included a variety of resources that might support the Manchester community in thinking about its work toward greater equity of opportunity for its diverse population of students.

Text Resources

Significant Text Resources

Note to Educators: Hope Required When Growing Roses in Concrete - By Jeff Duncan-Andrade and published in the Harvard Educational Review, this document explores how the concept of "hope" is essential for nurturing urban youth.
Boston Public Schools Essentials for Educational Equity - Published by Boston Public Schools, this document offers and describes in deep but accessible ways a set of competencies for schools that support educational equity.
Designing for Equity: Leveraging Competency-Based Education to Ensure All Students Succeed - CompetencyWorks and iNACOL jointly published this useful resource to support schools and districts in approaching competency education in a way that leads to equity.

Online Articles

Article: Federal Data on Discipline Inequities in School - EdWeek shared the 2018 federal data on school discipline inequities by race and ethnicity with colorful, easy-to-follow infographics
Article: A History in Which We Can All See Ourselves - Edutopia published this article by Holly Korbey that explores culturally relevant teaching approaches, particularly supporting inclusion of diversity in the curriculum by race, gender, and sexuality.
Article: Carol Dweck on Avoiding a False Growth Mindset - A growth mindset is critical to nurture in children - and adults - but Carol Dweck here revisits her earlier work and distinguishes between authentic and false approaches

More coming soon!

Video Resources

Equity in Education Video Series - Published by the National Network of State Teachers of the Year, this video series contains short and accessible video clips and specifically explores "Courageous Conversations about Race in Schools."
A Conversation About Growing Up Black - Published by the New York Times, in this video we hear from Black youths about race, racism and more.
Being 12 Project - This video series from WNYC gives voice to a group of NYC twelve-year-olds and explores topics that include identity, race, growing up, and more.

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Other Resources

Websites

Racial Equity Resource Guide - This shared tool is highly comprehensive and very interactive

Organizations

GLSEN - GLSEN's mission: to create safe and affirming schools for all, regardless of sexual orientation, gender identity, or gender expression. Free teaching resources include educator guides, LGBT-Inclusive Curriculum and K-12 lesson plans on bullying bias and diversity.
Oyate - Oyate is a Native organization working to see that their lives and histories are portrayed with honesty and integrity, and that all people know what Native literature and stories "are" and "are not "appropriate to use. Under Oyate's resource section are tools to critically examine texts and evaluate books for anti-Indian bias.
SWIFT Schools: K-8 Education Center and Open Educational Resources
Freedom Schools: - Children’s Defense Fund
Teaching About Race, Racism & Police Violence: SPLC Open Educational Resources
Teaching for Change - Teaching for Change provides teachers and parents with the tools to create schools where students learn to read, write and change the world. In addition to free teaching resources and articles, they offer extensive recommended booklists written authentically by authors who culturally reflect the children and youth they write for and about.
Zinn Project: Open Educational Resources: The Zinn Education Project promotes and supports the teaching of people’s history in middle and high school classrooms across the country. Based on the lens of history highlighted in Howard Zinn’s best-selling book A People’s History of the United States, the website offers a decentralized White historiography. The Zinn Education Project is coordinated by two non-profit organizations, Rethinking Schools and Teaching for Change.

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