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A Classroom-Ready Resource Site for Regional Educators and Changemakers
👉 Note to 6-12 teachers & fellows before browsing!
👉 Note to 6-12 teachers & fellows before browsing!
🗂️ A lot! This site has a lot of resources. Consider the tips below and the clickable table of contents.
💡 Starting points for lessons: There are lightbulbs 💡 next to highlighted, more complete resources/lessons/units that may be a good starting point.
🚌 To accompany the Portland Bus Tour: Check out these resources to align with your field trip experience.
📵 View on a full computer screen, not a phone or iPad! It will be much better.
🌱 Ongoing: This curated list of resources is inevitably incomplete and is ongoing! Email Brad Parker with any feedback and/or new resources to add.
🔗 K-5: Here is the K-5 Ethnic Studies Resource site, if you're interested.
Integrated Ethnic Studies
Working definition, themes, and essential questions
Oregon House Bill 2845 defined ethnic studies as:
Histories, Contributions, and Perspectives of traditionally underrepresented individuals and groups, including individuals who are American Indian/Alaska Native/Native Hawaiian, Americans of African, Asian, Pacific Island, Chicano, Latino, Middle Eastern, or Jewish descent, immigrants, refugees, of various religious identities, lesbian, gay, bisexual, transgender, and other traditionally underrepresented groups.
Expanding the narrative, and/or a more inclusive, complete, fuller history.
Ethnic Studies concepts are integrated* into the new K-12 standards.
Teaching tip: When thinking of intersections within and across different ethnic and social groups and histories, consider using the Ethnic Studies Themes and these Essential Questions.
Standards: Check out the 2024 Standards here, especially the teaching ideas and examples, as you plan.
Table of Contents & 6-12 Teaching Resources
Black Histories: Oregon & U.S.
Black Histories: Oregon & U.S.
Japanese American Histories: Oregon
Japanese American Histories: Oregon
Latine Histories: Oregon
Latine Histories: Oregon
Arab American Histories: U.S.
Arab American Histories: U.S.
Asian American & Pacific Islander Histories: PNW & U.S.
Asian American & Pacific Islander Histories: PNW & U.S.
Chinese American Histories: Oregon
Chinese American Histories: Oregon
Disability Histories: U.S.
Disability Histories: U.S.
Immigrant & Refugee Histories: Oregon & U.S.
Immigrant & Refugee Histories: Oregon & U.S.
Jewish Histories: Oregon
Jewish Histories: Oregon
LGBTQ Histories: Oregon & U.S.
LGBTQ Histories: Oregon & U.S.
South Asian Histories: Oregon
South Asian Histories: Oregon
Women's Histories: Oregon & U.S.
Women's Histories: Oregon & U.S.
Oregon's Tribally-Specific and Place-Based Histories
Oregon's Tribally-Specific and Place-Based Histories
If you are a Grade 8 or High School U.S. History, Civics, or Government teacher, please see your Tribal History Shared History Lessons (per Senate Bill 13) here. Reach out to Brad Parker for help with integrating Tribal History lessons and/or questions.
ALL teachers, please also consider Tribally-Specific Lessons directly from the Tribes themselves!
Additional resources:
Speak/Sing Native™ is an original, multidisciplinary concept in K-12 music education. It aligns with Oregon state standards and complements Tribal History/Shared History. The mission is to create and deliver a culturally relevant music education for K-12 students that is missing in many classrooms. We do this in Jim Pepper’s (Kaw and Muscogee Creek) name and legacy as a Native, Oregonian, Jazz legend, and reflecting the educational legacy of his mother, Floy C. Pepper.
Fall Newsletter (Confederated Tribes of Grand Ronde, 2025)
Essential Understandings of Native Americans in Oregon (Oregon Department of Education in collaboration with the nine federally recognized Tribes of Oregon, 2020)
Critical Orientations for Indigenous Studies Curriculum (Sabzalian, 2019)
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