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Spaces and Places For Students
Spaces and Places For Students
Dr. Kimberly N. Parker | Teaching, Writing, Believing
Dr. Kim Parker is a local leader in literacy and liberation, if some are looking for a mentor or resources. I always love reading folks’ year-end reflections. I’ve rarely gotten it together to write one myself, but think that, in this moment I have between working on my book that’s slated to come out in 2021 and procrastination, a year in review seems appropriate.Inequality-opoly: The Board Game of Structural Racism in America
Inequality-opoly: The Board Game of Structural Racism and Sexism in America is an educational experience that transforms recent national studies into an engaging and personalized perspective-taking experience. In this game, as in the real world, certain players enjoy privileges based on their perceived identity while others face obstacles to building and sustaining wealth.Criminal Justice in America: A Shared Exploration of the Data Activity
A slideshow of shared data exploration.Spaces and Places For Teachers
Spaces and Places For Teachers
Teaching Tolerance: Speak Up At School Pocket Guide
Use this pocket guide from Teaching Tolerance when faced with biased language and situationsAdditional resources can be found at Speak Up At School Our program enables secondary school teachers to promote students’ historical understanding, critical thinking, and social-emotional learning.A website dedicated to building social justice in the classroom with helpful resources for parents and educators.
The Race Institute for K-12 Educators: Anti-Racism Resources for Teachers
Resources for teaching about and responding to police brutalityCreated by Dr. Sheldon Eakins, supporting educators with the tools and resources necessary to ensure equity at their school.A best-of-the-best collection of resources for social justice- and equity-focused educators.The following articles have been selected from our three main journals for K-12 teachers: Social Education, Middle Level Learning, and Social Studies and the Young Learner. These articles are grouped by topic for easy reference. Also included are recent current event responses that address racism and call for human rights education.
The purpose of this site is to organize resources to read, watch, and listen to that support anti-racism efforts for people who work with youth and parents.
Facilitating Conversations with Children
Facilitating Conversations with Children
A resource for talking about race with young children.
Apple Challenge Series: Taking Action on Racial Equity and Justice
A PDF resource used to help facilitate meaningful conversations about race.Smithsonian Museum of African American Culture: Talking About Race Resource
Talking about race, although hard, is necessary. Here are some tools and guidance to empower your journey and inspire conversation.Massachusetts ASCD, a valued affiliate of ASCD, is a professionally diverse voice in the Commonwealth committed to supporting quality education, the Whole Child, and a vibrant network.Interactive Spaces, Guides, and Lists
Interactive Spaces, Guides, and Lists
Race: The Power of an Illusion
RACE–The Power of an Illusion asks a question so basic it's rarely raised: what is this thing we call race? Since its release in 2003, the series has become one of the most widely used documentaries ever in formal and non-formal education in the US. Millions of people have used the film to scrutinize their own deep-seated beliefs about race and explore how our social divisions are not natural or inevitable, but made. Now, in 2019, the series remains salient and timely.Mapping Inequality: Redlining in New Deal America
Mapping Inequality opens the HOLC files at the National Archives to scholars, students, and residents and policy leaders in local communities. This site makes the well-known security maps of HOLC available in digital form, as well as the data and textual assessments of the area descriptions that were created to go with the maps. By bringing study of HOLC into the digital realm, Mapping Inequality embraces a big data approach that can simultaneously give a national view of the program or a neighborhood-level assessment of the 1930s real estate rescue. Project researchers are providing access to some of the digital tools and interactive resources they are using in their own research, in the hope that the public will be able to understand the effects of federal housing policy and local implementation in their own communities.In August of 1619, a ship appeared on this horizon, near Point Comfort, a coastal port in the British colony of Virginia. It carried more than 20 enslaved Africans, who were sold to the colonists. America was not yet America, but this was the moment it began. No aspect of the country that would be formed here has been untouched by the 250 years of slavery that followed. On the 400th anniversary of this fateful moment, it is finally time to tell our story truthfully.Critical Racial and Social Justice EducationAn extensive list of many articles, worksheets, and information to guide in anti-racist practices.We’re committed to addressing racial injustice and helping you drive real change in your school communities. These resources will help you implement social-emotional learning (SEL) in a way that builds on students’ cultural assets, critically examines systems of power, and develops better ways of teaching, learning, and being. The Collaborative for Academic, Social, and Emotional Learning (CASEL) calls this transformative SEL. Engaging in this form of SEL is challenging—it pushes us to question long-standing beliefs, assumptions, and policies—but it is necessary to move toward a more just and equitable future.