Resources

Minutes must be submitted online. Schools must have two meetings a month, with one meeting discussing student concerns and recommendations with discipline and climate and the other meeting on a topic of race, discipline, or student selected topic.

Student Discipline Committee Processes Guide 

PDF Version of minutes

https://tinyurl.com/sdc2324 

Articles & Resources 

Black Emotional & Mental Health (BEAM) Journal Prompts (& other resources)

Why student voice is critical for managing discipline when schools reopen

Teaching Tolerance- This Conversation is Anti-Racist: young people have the vision to imagine and create a world without racism. Adults need to get on board. 

Ladder of Student Involvement

Five things students can do about racism

Teaching about race, racism and police violence

Learning for Justice: Don't say nothing: respondign to police violence

What is colorism?

The Conscious Kid: how to be a co-conspirator

Adults are banning classroom topics. Perhaps they should allow students to explore them? 

Student voice is the most important one in the school (ASCD)

High schoolers who took remote classes during pandemic experienced a "Thriving Gap"

Build with care: recruiting student teacher voices to rethink schools because of the pandemic

Minneapolis Public Schools- Student Voice

Minneapolis Public School- student engagement

Minneapolis Public Schools- student voices

Roger Hart's Ladder of Youth Participation

Participatory Evaluation with Young People (Youthbook)

YouthREX- Youth Research and Evaluation eXchange

Engaging Youth to Address Racial Disproportinoality- EdTalks

Integrate NYC (project out of New York High Schools focusing on race and student voice)

You Matter 2 (Chicago South-Suburb youth group)

Amplify Student Voice- Tools for Anti-racist Teaching (PBIS)

Youth in front: understanding and supportint student-led activism (3 part training series for adults)

Here to Here Language Guide

Latinx college students are struggling with self-hate, but counselors can help

As states place new limits on class discussions of race, research suggests they benefit students

Five steps to a create a progressive, student-centric classroom

Making space for tough talks in class

Schools are surveying students to improve teaching. But many teachers find the feedback too difficult to act on

LAUSD program helping Black students achieve personal, academic goals

How listening to student voices improved learning outcomes at 16 NYC schools

Supporting the well-being of students of color (a video toolkit for staff members)

How to create a classroom culture wall

Youth Justice Toolkit: how to create a youth-centered policy roundtable

17 brain breaks tailored for high schoolers

Schools say dress codes promote discipline. But many Black students see traces of racism

Survey: Teens divided on teaching race, gender identity- like their parents

Colleges exploit Black athletes for March Madness. It's time to boycott anti-DEI universities

What happens when suspensions get suspended

All school meetings give students a voice

Videos

What we need from our schools 

Classroom discussions on race 

"Red Folder" 

"A system not meant for me" RaiseUp Winner Jonny Triumph (former MPS student)

Teaching Tolerance Webinar: Combating Online Youth Radicalization

What educators should know 

Security and police presence in schools 

Navigating your teens in Breonna Taylor's America (webinar) Description

Don't label me

The labels we carry

Why is it important to have conversations on race with students? (Jefferson County student focus group)

Young, gifted and Black (San Diego County student symposium)

Homeroom (Hulu)

Race Forward: Chapter 1- High School (students talking about how they see bias)

This is Equity (Californians Dedicated to Education Foundation)

A conversation with teens who explore racism with their art

Crash Course: Black American History Youtube Channel (multiple videos)  

How do you center young Black voices in conversations about racism? One Twin Cities high school is trying

Spotlight on youth voices

Why do you think stereotypes are true?

Why so many Black characters use electricity

Podcasts

Teaching Hard History

Dance challenge TikTok is on strike 

Written Off (Apple Podcast) (Spotify) (Stitcher)

This American Life- Harper High School 

Unveiling Black girl magic: photovoice as a methodology for self-expression

How hip-hop fights the power- and also serves it

Inclusive dress codes: a challenge and an opportunity

Student interst articles:

William Clarence Matthews almost integrated baseball before Jackie Robinson

Too soon gone: how the life and musci and DMX tell a tragically familiar story for Black men

How whitewashed is TikTok? Let Kahlil Green break it down for you

Miseducation (NY High School student personal stories about race in school)

First Encounters with Racism (as told by youth)

There's a movement to get more schools to teach Black history and it's being led by teens

Black creators wouldn't dance on TikTok to the latest Megan Thee Stallion track. Here's why that matters. 

American schools are failing to equip studenst with racial literacy- and we've seen firsthand how it happens

Caron Butler fighting to end 'dehumanizing' solitary confinement in this country

Central Park Birder Turns Clash Into a Graphic Novel About Racism

Tired of being shut out: Denver students advocate for a student bill of rights

Students Teaching Antiracism - student activism examples

Students Teaching Antiracism- Blog (student submissions on why antiracism is important to them)

So much modern slang is AAVE. Here's how language appropriation erases the influence of Black culture

How teens are using online platforms to cal out racism in high school 

Be warned: for influences, social justice is no more than a branding device

What happens to middle school kids when you teach them about slavery? Here's a vivid example. 

Tiktoker says she was seated in the 'POC section' of a restaurant, sparking debate

Black History Teacher's Viral TikTok series bypasses CRT to inform millions on the real history of America

Why is whitewashing still happening in comics?

When students ask why they haven't seen cicadas, we need to talk about environmental racism

I was constantly bullied being a Black student in one of Indiana's whitest districts

Gen Z Historian Kahil Greene uses TikTok to combat whitewashed depictions of Black History

Redefining what nerd culture looks like

The First A.P. African American Studies class is coming this fall

Gaming vet April Bowler weights in on racism in the anime community

Girl & boy wear same 'revealing' outfit to school to test their school's unequal dress code

Black Panther: Wakanda Forever unearthed deep colorism within Latino communities

Temecula students protest district ban on Critical Race Theory

How segregated schools led Black dead students to develop their own form of American Sign Language

Tackling Michigan youth mental health crisis: Detroit teens say it takes self-love, inner peace

Safe place: How Philly schools are responding to the city's gun violence crisis

Idaho's 18-year old school board member on youth voice and right-wing extremism

Does the NBA have a colorism issue? Twitter starts a conversation about current draft class

50 years ago, teenagers partied in the Bronx- and gave rise to hip-hop

A hip-hop love story

Colleges exploit Black athletes for March Madness. It's time to boycott anti-DEI universities