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Racial Equity
What resources can I find here?
Acceptance and Empathy Resources for Educators (Emerson Collective)
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A collection of readings and tools that are intended to help educators foster acceptance and empathy into their classrooms.
A couple of highlights:
"Let's Talk! Facilitating Critical Conversations With Students" from Teaching Tolerance
Creating a Welcoming Classroom for English Language Learner (ELL) and Immigrant Students from Colorín Colorado.
Becoming An Anti-Racist Multicultural Organization: Resources
Shared by Young Audiences New York
This collection of resources for becoming an anti-racist multicultural organization includes a continuum tool, associated background on organization theory, an assessment tool, and examples of action steps.
Building Equitable Learning Environments (BELE) Library
The BELE Framework, and the accompanying Equitable Learning Library, is not a “how-to” manual but rather a guide for co-designing public school systems in partnership with families and communities, using evidence-based tools. These resources will equip us to collectively design and test changes from the classroom to the state legislature.
The Racial Equity Imperative: The Role of the Nonprofit Sector (Race Forward)
EXPO Keynote
Race Forward believes five areas are necessary to make meaningful change: narrative shift, institutional and sector-level transformation, community-led research, policy development, and movement building. Julie Nelson of Race Forward encouraged the Network to normalize, operationalize, organize, and visualize racial equity. How?
Normalize: Develop shared understanding of what structural racism is, what its effects are, and why it exists.
Operationalize: Use methodologies to ensure decision-making promotes racial equity.
Organize: Have internal infrastructure and partnerships, because no individual organization will dismantle racism alone.
Visualize: What would a racially equitable NYC look like?
6.27 SSN Expo.pptxSix Activities for Students to Investigate School Segregation and Educational Inequality (The New York Times)
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These teaching activities, written directly to students, use recent Times articles as a way to grapple with segregation and educational inequality in the present. This resource considers three essential questions:
• How and why are schools still segregated in 2019?
• What repercussions do segregated schools have for students and society?
• What are potential remedies to address school segregation?
The 1619 Project Curriculum (The Pulitzer Center )
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The 1619 Project, inaugurated with a special issue of The New York Times Magazine, challenges us to reframe U.S. history by marking the year when the first enslaved Africans arrived on Virginia soil as our nation's foundational date. The Pulitzer Center has created reading guides, activities, and other resources to bring The 1619 Project into your program.
Social Emotional Learning and Equity (National Equity Project)
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This resource several pitfalls and recommendations for educators seeking to implement SEL to make progress on equity and inclusion.
SEL As a Lever for Equity (CASEL)
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These resources examines how CASEL’s core SEL competencies reflect issues of equity, including programs and practices that support the development of the competencies to promote educational equity.
Recently, CASEL launched a weekly webinar series on SEL as a Lever for Equity and Social Justice. Watch recordings and view slides from past sessions, and register for upcoming sessions.
Student Success Network's Role in Advancing Racial Equity in NYC
Executive Director Breakfast | 11/8/2019
Sarah Darville, National Editor at Chalkbeat, interviewed Paul Tough, author of The Years that Matter Most.
Shauwea Hamilton, Executive Director of Bottom Line New York, then introduced the "Awake-Woke-Work" stages of racial equity and led the group in a reflection on their "Blue Sky Racial Equity Visions."
