How to Navigate this Resource
This website is a resource for instructional leaders, K-12. The site includes many opportunities for unlearning, learning, and rebuilding. There are anti-racist supports for administrators, educators, and students. Also included are links to activities and videos for Bullying Awareness + Prevention Week to support all Peel community members in being anti-racist. This resource is meant to be a resource used all year long as educators prioritize this work. If you have a concern about student mental health and well-being see resources at the bottom of this page.
While the tools and supports provide a way for educators to facilitate conversations about anti-racism, being mindful to understand and know our own social location and identity and how it intersects with our student's lived identities is a vital part of the work. Please BEGIN with the personal work in #chooseACTION to Begin the Work, for yourself. Self-reflection, seeking to know and understand how we might be anti-racist is essential. The work is a journey not a destination, and takes a lifetime of personal and professional reflecting and reflexing.
These resources and supports are not the only way and they are not necessarily the one "right" way for you, your students, and school as we all unlearn together. You might have great supports to add and share and enhance the material here. Please share this in #chooseACTION: Accountability + Feedback as this site is a work in progress.
Bullying in any form, including racial bullying, is not acceptable. We are committed to addressing and eliminating Anti-Black Racism and other forms of systemic discrimination as outlined in the Ministry Review that documented anti-Black racism and discrimination in Peel schools and workplaces. This year, supports and resources with a specific focus on learning about and addressing Anti-Black Racism, Anti-Muslim hate & Islamophobia, Anti-Semitism and Anti-Indigenous Racism will be featured as we #ChooseACTION to Be Anti-Racist. Educators are encouraged to use these teaching and learning tools throughout the year in schools and classrooms. Committing to the work of being anti-racist requires acknowledging racism, validating difference, and interrupting differential treatment based on race. We have a responsibility not just to educate about the existence of racism in the world (currently and historically), but to educate about and participate in the act of dismantling it. Our goal is to proactively eliminate racial discrimination every day. This is the transformational change that is required for all students to feel a sense of belonging and well-being in our schools. Bullying Awareness and Prevention Week is one of the key items contained in Bill 13: The Accepting Schools Act, that came into effect on Sept. 1, 2012.
Disrupting and Dismantling Anti-Black Racism, Anti-Indigenous Racism, Antisemitism, Islamophobia, and How to disrupt hate in the moment.
We want to hear from you! In our collective journey to learn and unlearn do you have a resource to share? Do you have feedback to help inform the work? What is a promising practice that has helped you?
Announcements, Community Circle Questions, links to activities, videos and presentations, and a Glossary.
