Plan a responsible field trip to a plantation or historic site and stay committed to teaching an honest and reflective history of chattel slavery with this toolkit.
The guiding principles behind the Black Lives Matter At School Week of Action can be an important frame through which to reimagine more liberatory educational spaces for Black children.
What is the “new Jim Crow”? Throughout its history, the United States has been structured by a racial caste system. From slavery to Jim Crow to mass incarceration, these forms of racialized social control reinvented themselves to meet the needs of the dominant social class according to the constraints of each era.
By learning about search algorithms, students will start to understand that the information they get from searching online does not simply materialize out of thin air! This understanding will enable students to critically evaluate search results.
Many stories people shared with us dealt with difficult moments involving friends and neighbors. Factors that affect how they speak up include how well or little they know each other, how often they interact and how damaging they consider the offense to be.
As adults and authority figures, teachers have power over their students. This toolkit is an “adult privilege” checklist teachers can use as a self-assessment tool to help them think about their own privilege in the classroom.