
- June 3, 2020
- by Diane Staehr Fenner
- Culturally Responsive Teaching
Anti-Racist Resources for Educators
3 Free Resources to Download, Read, and Watch
This Twitter thread from anti-racist educator Victoria Alexander (@victoriaalxndr) has provided an anti-racist reading list broken up into a starter kit, intermediate kit, specific topics including education, and biographies and personal narratives.
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I’ve been getting a lot of questions from my non-Black friends about how to be a better ally to Black people. I suggest unlearning and relearning through literature as just one good jumping off point, and have broken up my anti-racist reading list into sections: pic.twitter.com/gj5uko69OY
— Victoria Alexander (@victoriaalxndr) May 30, 2020
This webinar from Embrace Race is a conversation with the authors of Something Happened in Our Town: A Child’s Story About Racial Injustice. The authors discuss how parents and caregivers can begin conversations about racial injustice and child empowerment. The book provides resources for caregivers and educators including child-friendly definitions, discussion guides, and sample dialogues.
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This toolkit, an initiative of the Policing Campaign at The Leadership Conference on Civil and Human Rights, states that everyone has the power, both individually and collectively, to make change through grassroots organizing, policy advocacy, and civic engagement. The report details key issues of public safety and includes key challenges, how to advocate for change, talking points, and overcoming opposition for each issue. The toolkit also outlines seven steps for making change in your community, including sample scripts and letter templates. We hope you’ll join us in committing to doing anti-racism work—day in and day out—to confront and dismantle systems of racism and white supremacy and foster a more just and equitable educational system for all students.
We struggled to choose only three resources so as not to overwhelm our community, which is why we have created a more extensive Padlet for you. We recognize this Padlet is by no means exhaustive and encourage you and your colleagues to share additional anti-racist resources that you have found to be useful.
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Note: You can also view the Padlet below. Scroll from left to right to view all columns within the Padlet, or scroll vertically to explore resources within each column. You can also click on individual items to have access to them to print and/or save them.
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