Each includes a curriculum, a syllabus, and other practical resources such as a video playlist, a book list, and activities and guidance for caregivers.
Virtual Culturally Responsive Resources: Middle Schoolers
Each includes a curriculum, a syllabus, and other practical resources such as a video playlist, a book list, and activities and guidance for caregivers.
Understood Resources
Resources to help staff learn how to make sure families of color are heard by the school • Article: Why Families of Color May Feel Uncomfortable Communicating with Teachers (Afrika Afeni Mills, MEd) • Video: Tips for better parent-teacher communication (Afrika Afeni Mills, MEd) • Advice: Perspectives: How to Make Sure Black and Brown Families …
Equity Matters: Confronting Implicit Bias
A 47-minute webinar on creating equitable classrooms.
Language, Culture, and Teaching: Critical Perspectives
A book offering information, insights, and motivation to teach students of diverse cultural, racial, and linguistic backgrounds. Examples are included throughout to illustrate real-life dilemmas about diversity that teachers face in their classrooms; ideas about how language, culture, and teaching are linked; and ways to engage with these ideas through reflection and collaborative inquiry.
The Value of Culturally Responsive Teaching in Distance Learning
An article featuring Zaretta Hammond (author of Culturally Responsive Teaching and the Brain) and her three suggestions for implementing culturally responsive teaching in the current situation.
Transforming Our Public Schools: A Guide to Culturally Responsive-Sustainable Education
A guide that illustrates the ties between culturally responsive-sustainable education and students’ social-emotional and academic success.
Racial Justice Guides for Educators and Families
In an effort to be affirming, reflective, and critical about how to approach and celebrate holidays as school communities, these guides offer curated lists of resources for educators and families that aim to provide inclusive understanding of Thanksgiving and religious holiday celebrations and strategies for supporting all students.
How to Be an Antiracist Educator
Resources that include classroom-appropriate lesson plans, guides on how to have tough conversations with peers and students, and more.