This Let’s Talk guide offers classroom-ready strategies you can use to plan discussions and to facilitate conversations about topics such as white privilege, police violence, economic inequality with your students
Let’s Talk! Discussing Race, Racism and Other Difficult Topics With Students Webinar
This NEA and Learning for Justice webinar provides guidance on how to have meaningful conversations with students about race, racism and other important topics.
Yale’s Poorvu Center for Teaching and Learning: Student Construction of Knowledge
Yale’s Poorvu Center for Teaching and Learning provides actionable ideas for helping students to learn by connecting new knowledge with prior knowledge and concepts in order to construct new meanings.
Video: Building a Belonging Classroom
An Edutopia video on Building a Belonging Classroom. “In order to learn, students need to feel safe, cared for, and emotionally connected to their teachers and each other. #HowLearningHappens”
ED School Climate Surveys
Leaders’ support of student-centered learning experiences that foster belonging and ignite student agency, identity and voice will build towards inclusive and affirming environments. Districts can utilize the School Climate Survey to collect and act on reliable, nationally-validated school climate data in real-time.
School Climate Improvement: Resource Package
To improve school and district climates, the National Center on Safe Supportive Learning Environments’ School Climate Improvement Resource Package includes resources to meet a range of needs among those who are interested in improving school climate. Districts may also choose to implement the School Climate Survey.
5 Things Educators Can Do to Address Bias in Their School
Providing continual professional development and support for teachers to ensure their pedagogy is anti-bias and anti-racist. Explore five things educators can do to address bias in schools as identified by the National Education Association.
English Learners Success Forum’s Guidelines for Multi-Lingual Learners
Ensure your curriculum meets the needs of your multi-lingual learners. The English Learners Success Forum’s guidelines are meant to support schools to modify instruction and materials to best meet the needs of English learners.
Culturally Responsive Curriculum Scorecards
The Culturally Responsive Curriculum Scorecards, designed by the NYU Metro Center, help parents, teachers, students and community members determine the extent to which their schools’ curricula are (or are not) culturally responsive.
New York State: Culturally Responsive-Sustaining Education Framework
The New York State Education Department (NYSED) has their Culturally Responsive-Sustaining Education (CR-SE) framework, intended to help all stakeholders incorporate four high leverage CR-SE strategies. School leaders should reference page 34 for inclusive curriculum guidelines. District leaders should reference page 39 for inclusive curriculum guidelines.