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Young Children
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Children’s Community School. “They’re Not Too Young to Talk about Race.” Infographic. PDF. 28 Feb. 2018. DeLeon, Aya. Confederate Flag 2 - How to Talk to Small Children About Racism; Celebrating Bree Newsome. Aya deLeon blog, 4 July 2015. a model for educational, age-appropriate storytelling. Derman-Sparks, Louise and Julie Olsen Edwards. “Teaching Young Children about Race: A Guide for Parents and Teachers.” Teaching for Change, 8 July 2015. Early Childhood Education Assembly. “Resources for Educators Focusing on Anti-Racist Learning and Teaching.” “The Early Childhood Education Assembly's Statement on Race and Early Childhood Education was posted in June, 2015. To support our suggestion that early childhood educators engage deliberately in focused anti-racist work, we promised resources. … in support of educators working to (a) deepen understandings about institutional and interpersonal racism and its manifestations in early childhood settings, (b) understand the depth and breadth of histories often left out of or misrepresented in our teaching, and (c) apply new awareness to transforming practice and policy.” Embrace Race with Moms Rising. 10 Tips for Teaching and Talking to Kids about Race. “EmbraceRace is a community of adults of all colors - we are parents, grandparents, uncles, aunts, teachers, older siblings, librarians, cousins, therapists and other caring adults - who support each other in our efforts to raise and guide children who are inclusive, informed and brave when it comes to race.” Moms Rising “take[s] on the most critical issues facing women, mothers, and families by educating the public and mobilizing massive grassroots actions .” A Resource for Talking About Race with Young Children. Raising Race Conscious Children. “The[se] ... strategies have been modeled on th[e] blog” Raising Race Conscious Children. Resources for Educators Focusing on Anti-Racist Learning and Teaching” by the Early Childhood Education Assembly. Spiegler, Jinnie. “Teaching Young Children About Bias, Diversity, and Social Justice.” Edutopia, 16 June 2016. “Use young children’s understanding of differences to teach social justice through age-appropriate literature, news stories, anti-bias lessons, familiar examples, and problem solving.” ELEMENTARY
“Civil Rights Activity Book.” Teaching Tolerance via Civil Rights Memorial Center. Story Pirates - Black Lives Matter. “Black Voices Matter. Black Stories Matter. Black Lives Matter. … Our mission at Story Pirates is to celebrate the words and ideas of kids and to show them that their stories matter. We want to live in a world where everyone’s story matters, everyone’s voice matters, and everyone’s life matters; and we can’t achieve that goal until our society fully recognizes that Black lives matter.” This site offers resources for parents and educators as well as books for children and a Story Spark. ARTICLES FOR HISTORY CLASS
Fisher, Christina Brown. “The Black Female Battalion That Stood Up to a White Male Army.” NYT Beyond the WWII We Know, 17 June 2020. “The unit was set up to determine the value Black women brought to the military. They ultimately ran the fastest mail service in the European Theater during World War II.” Harlan, Jennifer. “Suffrage at 100: A Visual History.” NYT, 20 Aug 2020. Creatively and interactively displayed on the screen. Lu, Denise et al. “Faces of Power: 80% Are White, Even as U.S. Becomes More Diverse.” NYT, 9 Sep 2020. “These are 922 of the most powerful people in America. 180 of the identify as Black, Hispanic, Asian, Native American, multiracial or otherwise a person of color.” In a creative digital format, this article illustrates with photographs of police chiefs, prosecutors, Trump appointees, Supreme Court Justices, military chiefs and more. “Why She Votes.” Washington Post, 21 Aug 2020. “The 19th Amendment was only the beginning of the fight to secure voting rights for all American women. As we honor the suffragists of the early 20th century and the civil rights activists of the 1950s and ’60s, we also remember the women who taught future generations to exercise their most fundamental democratic right. These are the stories of women inspired by those who voted first.” 12 important women of different backgrounds , races and ages. Short videos. MIDDLE SCHOOL
“Confronting Anti-Black Racism.” PBS Learning Media. “Use these materials with middle and high school students to help them understand the long history of anti-Black racism in the United States, and think about ways to address it in their own families and communities. Resources include news coverage of recent protests, videos on the origins of the Black Lives Matter movement and protests against police brutality within the past decade, iconic PBS documentaries on the histories of race and racism in America, and activities addressing civic engagement and elevating students’ voices.” Includes Media Gallery (7), Video (26), Lesson Plan (2), Document (1) for Grades 6-13+. Dias, Marley. “Marley Dias talks Institutional Racism.” YouTube, 7 July 2016. Jordan, June. Letter to the Local Police. from Directed By Desire: The Collected Poems of June Jordan (Port Townsend, WA: Copper Canyon Press, 2005) Use this poem as a conversation starter: Remove key identity words from the poem and ask students to fill in the blanks. Discuss how the poem could actually be about racism, ableism, homophobia, transphobia, or sexism. |
NOTE: This page offers books and articles about pedagogy and curriculum for specific age levels.
Resources for ALL AGES are found on CURRICULUM SUPPORTING RACIAL JUSTICE NOTE 2: 2019 and 2020 titles are noted in PURPLE. Newer is not always better, but it may be important in this context. Suggestions for additional curricular materials may be sent to studentsneedlibraries@gmail.com. CIVIL WAR MONUMENTS
Alexander, Victoria Lynn. “Anti-Racist Resource Guide: Confederate Monuments.” Confronting History, Transforming Monuments. Facing Ourselves and History, updated 11 Sep 2020 and ongoing. “…teacher-facing instructions for the activities. Get student-facing instructions in the Google Slides for this Teaching Idea.” Green, Hillary. “Mapping the removal of CSA monuments, memorials and plaques before and after Charleston Massacre in 2015.” Google map by a user. Updated 12 Sept 2020. HIGH SCHOOL
Bissell, Evan. The Knotted Line. An interactive media project exploring the historical relationship between freedom and confinement in the United States. With miniature paintings of over 50 historical moments from 1495-2025. Includes resources for educators. “Blackface -Then and Now.” Newspaper in Education, A Classroom Resource, The Washington Post. “Understanding the origins of its use and historical context in which blackface emerged will help students to understand why photographs in old yearbooks and its use in Halloween costumes are offensive and part of centuries-old degradation of one race by another.” Bowling, Nate. “A Syllabus For Students When Dealing With Law Enforcement.” Nate Bowling: American Emigrant, 17 April 2016. Nate’s whole website is likely to be interesting to readers of SNL. “Confronting Anti-Black Racism.” PBS Learning Media. “Use these materials with middle and high school students to help them understand the long history of anti-Black racism in the United States, and think about ways to address it in their own families and communities. Resources include news coverage of recent protests, videos on the origins of the Black Lives Matter movement and protests against police brutality within the past decade, iconic PBS documentaries on the histories of race and racism in America, and activities addressing civic engagement and elevating students’ voices.” Includes Media Gallery (7), Video (26), Lesson Plan (2), Document (1) for Grades 6-13+. Fergus, Edward. “Confronting Colorblindness.” Phi Delta Kappan, v98 n5 p30-35 Feb 2017. “Colorblindness is socially acceptable bias that lives in our personal and institutional beliefs. Its existence inhibits our ability to recognize and respond to the realities of the lives of students of color. The author outlines several activities that educators can use to surface beliefs about race during staff meetings and the like.” NOT INTENDED FOR STUDENT USE - TEACHERS ONLY (this one item only) Greenberg, Jon. Curriculum for White Americans, Citizenship and Social Justice, 10 July 2015. “This website is named after the high school course, Citizenship and Social Justice, that Seattle Public Schools unsuccessfully tried to extinguish stemming from the complaints of one white family opposed to study of race and racism.” A Guide to Organizing Dialogue to Change for Education That Works for All. PDF. Nellie Mae Foundation, Everyday Democracy & Great Schools Partnership, 19 June 2019. “Making sure that all young people have equitable opportunities to do well in school and in life is key to the health of our communities and our whole democracy. This brief guide is designed to help you bring this essential work to your local school district and community.” Jordan, June. "Letter to the Local Police." from Directed By Desire: The Collected Poems of June Jordan (Port Townsend, WA: Copper Canyon Press, 2005) Use this poem as a conversation starter: Remove key identity words from the poem and ask students to fill in the blanks. Discuss how the poem could actually be about racism, ableism, homophobia, transphobia, or sexism. Muhammead, Gholdy. Cultivating Genius: An Equity Framework for Culturally and Historically Responsive Literacy (Scholastic, 2019) This book is an essential tool for teachers, principals, counselors, and anyone who strives to teach literacy better, particularly to students of color. While outlining a four-part framework for teaching, Muhammad provides culturally and historically responsive sample plans and text sets. Nettles, Arionne. “The Blackivists on Documenting Movements.” Chicago Reader, 16 June 2020. “A group of Black archivists is helping communities create their own narratives, filling in what history books have left out.” Odewale, Dr. Alicia and Dr. Karla Slocum. “Tulsa Syllabus: The Rise, Destruction, and Rebuilding of Tulsa’s Greenwood District.” Suitable for high school and older. Price, Gary. “University of Texas Libraries: LLILAS Benson Latin American Studies and Collections Launches High School Curriculum Site.” Infodocket, 21 Aug 2020. LatinX “Racial Healing Resources from Library Workers and Scholars.” ilovelibraries.org, 3 June 2020. “The American Library Association’s Great Stories Club has reading lists, discussion questions, and other resources for critically examining race and privilege, all created by librarians and humanities scholars. The Great Stories Club is designed as a program for libraries to host with underserved youth, but anyone can access these free resources for having difficult but necessary conversations about racial equity. You can use their reading lists and discussion prompts in a book club, classroom, or household—or just for your own learning and introspection.” Schmidt, Jennifer et al. “The 'Thumbprint Of The Culture': Implicit Bias And Police Shootings.” NPR Hidden Brain podcast, 5 June 2017. “…explore[s] research about implicit bias and how a culture of racism can infect us all.” SURJ. “When They See Us Discussion Guide.“ The Netflix series, When They See Us by filmmaker Ava DuVernay debuted on May 31st and the next day was steaming at number 1. It ... tells the story of the Central Park Five, a group of Black and Latino boys who were wrongfully accused of sexually assaulting a white woman jogger in Central Park in 1989. … The series provides a provocative and emotional look into our justice system.” Teach the Black Freedom Struggle Campaign. Zinn Education Project. “The Teach the Black Freedom Struggle campaign of the Zinn Education Project (coordinated by Rethinking Schools and Teaching for Change) supports teachers with free lessons for teaching about racism and anti-racist struggles, distribution to school districts of the book Teaching for Black Lives, teacher study groups, a podcast, online classes for teachers, and more.” TPS Teacher Network (Teaching Primary Sources). Uses primarily Library of Congress resources. You need an account but it is free.
“When Perception and Reality Collide: Implicit Bias and Race.” ADL Lesson Plan. High School. “Two studies published by the American Psychological Association (APA) about perceptions and race led to these headlines: “We Think Black Men are Bigger than White Men (Even When they're Not)” and “Black Boys Are Perceived as Older and Less Innocent than Their White Peers.” These studies, one in 2014 and the other in 2017, found that people’s perceptions of African-American boys and men were inaccurate and different compared to their white counterparts. These perceptions are a reflection of stereotypes and assumptions that lead to implicit bias and can ultimately lead to discrimination that has consequences, sometimes dire.” |