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We Need Diverse Books™ is a 501(c)(3) non-profit and a grassroots organization of children’s book lovers that advocates essential changes in the publishing industry. Our aim is to help produce and promote literature that reflects and honors the lives of all young people.

Disrupt Texts is a crowdsourced, grass roots effort by teachers for teachers to challenge the traditional canon in order to create a more inclusive, representative, and equitable language arts curriculum that our students deserve. It is part of our mission to aid and develop teachers committed to anti-racist/anti-bias teaching pedagogy and practices.

Each week, join us for the #DisruptTexts slow chat on Twitter as teachers from across the country and world come together to apply a critical lens on a central text. We’ll discuss how to disrupt traditional pedagogies by suggesting alternative titles and approaches through thoughtful pairings, counter-narratives, and inclusive, diverse texts sets.

SocialJusticeBooks.org is a project of Teaching for Change, a non-profit organization whose mission is to provide teachers and parents with the tools to create schools where students learn to read, write and change the world.

• Curated Booklists : Teaching for Change has carefully selected the best multicultural and social justice books for children, YA, and educators on 50+ topics.
• Reviews of Children's Literature : Critical reviews of children’s books from a variety of sources, compiled by See What We See.
• Teaching for Change Titles : Teaching for Change titles including Beyond Heroes and Holidays and Putting the Movement Back into Civil Rights Teaching.

#ClearTheAir is a group of educators who believe:

• community, learning and dialogue are essential to our personal and professional development
• we have the power and responsibility to lay the foundations necessary to create a more just and equitable society
• education is a vehicle for social change

As a part of #ClearTheAir we:

• engage in public discourse because it allows us to live our values out loud
• invite others into the conversation and hold them lovingly accountable
• understand that we are on a lifelong journey and are committed to taking any steps that move us forward