collection of resources you’re finding helpful and wanted to share
collection of anti-racist resources for educators,
ALL students need and deserve characters who look like them and experience life’s challenges in a way that reflects their own
equally important that students explore cultures and experiences different from their own
use empowerment tools
Teaching Tolerance’ is a plethora of free and easy-to-access resources for anti-bias education. It offers lessons and strategies to ground my instructional practices in equity and social justice
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onversation starters, reflection questions, even writing prompts that have empathy embedded into them, can help people of all ages break through the paralysis of not knowing what to say and/or the fear of saying something insensitive or offensive
address the intersectionality of antiracism and educational technology, along with its importance for educators regardless of where they fall in their career.
Be the equity leader in the building
onversation of racism will show up in your hallways. Deal with it. Do the work.
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stand in the gap for students
alking about race is a college/career readiness skill
This resource for teachers provides lesson plans in which students examine continuity and change in the governing of the United States, students look at the Constitution and link early legislative debates to issues of today - from the Learning Page, the Library of Congress
Noted as the most violent in the history of the state. Important for state history, the organization of unions. Possible classroom investigation... how this impacted the local economy as this happened during the depression years.
I absolutely love this web resource! Reading Rocket online articles, this one in particular, offers a wide variety of how to incorporate diversity in k-6 classrooms.
If you haven't heard of EdPost before be sure to add this to your Diigo library for future or current reference. A great one-stop shop to find employment in schools across the state. So many needs out there right now, let's try to fill them!
The book Tops and Bottoms teaches children about the parts of the vegetables that have the food we eat. Some plants the food grows on top of the soil and others grow in the ground below the soil. The story teaches students about knowing your vegetables and how to run a business.
Here's another Teacher's Guide for Omnivore's Dilemma. This one's for the Young Reader's edition. It focuses on the health/science nutrition aspects of the book.