Book Resources:

* Identity Safe Classrooms by Dorothy M. Steele & Becki Cohn-Vargas

* Culturally Responsive Teaching & the Brain by Zaretta Hammond

* Teaching to Strengths: Supporting Students Living with Trauma, Violence, and Chronic Stress, by Debbie Zacarian,

* Roots and Wings: Affirming Culture and Preventing Bias in Early Childhood, by Stacey York * Reading the Rainbow: LGBTQ Inclusive Literacy Instruction in the Elementary Classroom by Caitlyn L. Ryan & Jim Hermann-Wilmarth

* Let's Get Real: Exploring Race, Class, and Gender Identities in the Classroom, Martha Caldwell

Teaching Tolerance -- https://www.tolerance.org/

Social Justice Standards: https://www.tolerance.org/frameworks/social-justice-standards

Web Resources:

The Critical Media Project - http://criticalmediaproject.org/

cmp learning objectives

• EXPLORE: To observe and become cognizant of messages about identity that surface in everyday media and culture
• EXPAND: To understand and gain perspective on the historical, social, and political contexts of media representations of different identities
• EXCAVATE & EXPLICATE: To critically decode and develop skills to analyze the meanings (and ideologies) behind various representations of identity across media genres and platforms
• EXPRESS & ENGAGE: To develop and deploy strategies and skills to create one’s own representations, tell own stories, and create counter-narratives