Teaching Resources

Social Justice Standards

• Social Justice Standards and Learning Plan Builder from Learning for Justice

Teaching Resources

• Facing History Facing History’s resources address racism, antisemitism, and prejudice at pivotal moments in history; we help students connect choices made in the past to those they will confront in their own lives.

• Muted Fifth Grade Conversation about Race

• Abolitionist Teaching Network

• Teaching Ideas and Resources to Help Students Make Sense of the George Floyd Protests

• Learning for Justice: Affirming Black Lives Without Inducing Trauma (May 8, 2020)

• Learning for Justice: Let’s Talk! Discussing Race, Racism and Other Difficult Topics with Students

• African American Art Teacher Resources Lesson plans, videos and artist interviews from the Smithsonioan American Art Museum.

• National Association of School Psychologists: Talking About Race and Privilege: Lesson Plan for Middle and High School Students

• Teaching Tolerance Classroom Resources (with search filters)

• Zinn Education Project, African American History teaching activities

• Teaching for Black Lives, Rethinking Schools

• Culturally Responsive Teaching and the Brain: Promoting Authentic Engagement and Rigor Among Culturally and Linguistically Diverse Students by Zaretta L. Hammond

• Tenets of Culturally Relevant Pedagogies and Similar Frameworks

• New York State Education Department: Culturally Responsive-Sustaining Education Framework

• 6 Things School Staff Can Do to Interrupt Unconscious Bias

• A Conversation with former SCCOE Superintendent Michael Watkins on The Importance of Black History (2/25/22)

• Black History: Sustaining the Conversation in Challenging Times (Multiple resources from SC/SVNTP and SCCOE)

Books that Represent

• This site is the result of a Student Capstone Project designed to address the representation and equity issues within the publishing industry. It contains a database of over 100 children's books with inclusive topics, representational characters, and largely #OwnVoices authors. The books are sorted alphabetically by Lexile Level and Amazon's Grade Recommendations.

• See the creator of the website, student Sophia Wright, '21, Pacific Collegiate School, describe her inspiration and process for this project in this video introduction.