SJPL Recommends: Teaching about Race and Racism: Lesson Plans and Educational Activities | San José Public Library

SJPL Recommends: Human Rights Educators' Racial Justice Resource Collection for Educators

https://hreusa.org/projects/racial-justice-resources-for-educators/

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Cornell University's Center for Transformative Action provides resources to teach racial justice through a human rights lens, including lesson plans, curricula, books, articles, and more. Cornell University's Center for Transformative Action provides resources to teach racial justice through a human rights lens, including lesson plans, curricula, books, articles, and more. Show less

SJPL Recommends: Talking about Race: U.S. National Museum of African American History and Culture.

https://nmaahc.si.edu/learn/talking-about-race/topics/being-antiracist

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Addresses individual, interpersonal, institutional, and structural racism in U.S. society. "Antiracist education is a theory of learning and action ...Show more Addresses individual, interpersonal, institutional, and structural racism in U.S. society. "Antiracist education is a theory of learning and action to help us do the important work of dismantling racism in schools. It explicitly highlights, critiques, and challenges institutional racism. It addresses how racist beliefs and ideologies structure one-on-one interactions and personal relationships. It also examines and challenges how institutions support and maintain disadvantages and advantages along racial lines. Antiracist education, while considering class, race, and gender inequity, places race at the center of its analysis. Focusing on race exposes direct links to unequal power, a system of oppression and privilege, and institutional practices." Show less

SJPL Recommends: Looking at Race and Racial Identity Through Critical Literacy in Children’s Books

https://www.learningforjustice.org/classroom-resources/lessons/looking-at-race-and-racial-identity-in-childrens-books

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Lesson to talk about racial identity and the harmful potential of racial stereotypes. "By using critical literacy skills, children will analyze not ...Show more Lesson to talk about racial identity and the harmful potential of racial stereotypes. "By using critical literacy skills, children will analyze not only picture books with explicit messages about race, but they also will learn to examine and begin talking about racial stereotypes present in picture books more generally." Show less

SJPL Recommends: Different Colors of Beauty

https://www.learningforjustice.org/classroom-resources/lessons/different-colors-of-beauty

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Series of Lessons to help students openly develop and discuss their racial or ethnic identities, using Self-portraits; Critical Literacy in Children's Boo...Show more Series of Lessons to help students openly develop and discuss their racial or ethnic identities, using Self-portraits; Critical Literacy in Children's Books; Writing Poetry; Interviewing families; Reflection. Uses visual arts; reading and language arts, and social studies, including elements for English language learners. Show less

SJPL Recommends: Teaching about Race and Racism Across the Disciplines, Yale/New Haven Teachers, 2019. Institute

https://teachersinstitute.yale.edu/curriculum/units/2019/2

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"The influence and assumptions of intellectual white supremacy, with its focus on hierarchy, ordering, and the exaltation of some people above others...Show more "The influence and assumptions of intellectual white supremacy, with its focus on hierarchy, ordering, and the exaltation of some people above others, continues to shape the academic disciplines today, and thus much of what is taught and learned in the K-12 classroom. Celebrations of 'racial colorblindness,' rrace neutrality, and even diversity have not displaced these inheritances. Participants...[middle and high school teachers] considered these legacies across a wide range of fields, including psychology, music studies, art, literature, sociology, education." Curricular units include: Housing and School Segregation in the U.S.; Empire: Investigating International Issues & Human Rights With New Lenses; Latinx History; Incorporating Native American History and Settler Colonialism in the AP United States History Course; Race & Law in US History Curriculum; Identity and Social Justice; Teaching about Race Using Afrofuturism and Critical Race Theory; An Approach to Roll of Thunder Hear My Cry; “The Outsiders” from a Critical Race Perspective. Show less

SJPL Recommends: Morningside Center for Teaching Social Responsiblity. Teachable Moment lesson plans

https://www.morningsidecenter.org/teachable-moment

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Provides timely, free classroom lessons and activities for K-12 educators to help students learn about, discuss, and engage in current issues related to s...Show more Provides timely, free classroom lessons and activities for K-12 educators to help students learn about, discuss, and engage in current issues related to social responsibility while developing essential social and emotional skills, from active listening to standing up to bias. Their plans can be filtered by grade level and by preset themes, such as Diversity, Race and Racism, or U.S. Justice, or searched for more specific topics such as Black Lives Matter, https://www.morningsidecenter.org/black-lives-matter Show less

SJPL Recommends: Anti-Defamation League. Lessons related to Race and Racism.

https://www.adl.org/education-and-resources/resources-for-educators-parents-families/lessons?ed_cat_id[216]=216

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The Anti-Defamation League's goal is to "fight hate for good," originally founded in reaction to anti-Semitism. This is a collection of K-12 cla...Show more The Anti-Defamation League's goal is to "fight hate for good," originally founded in reaction to anti-Semitism. This is a collection of K-12 classroom blended and online learning solutions to promote critical thinking and learning around historical and current events topics through the lens of diversity, bias and social justice. Some of the lesson plans specifically address Black Lives Matter. Show less

SJPL recommends Share My Lesson Free Lesson Plans & Teacher Resources

https://sharemylesson.com/

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Set up a free account to gain access to over 3000 K-12 lesson plans, webinars, teacher resources and classroom activities on racism created by educators. ...Show more Set up a free account to gain access to over 3000 K-12 lesson plans, webinars, teacher resources and classroom activities on racism created by educators. Diverse lesson plans focus not only on African Americans or Black Lives Matter, but also lessons focusing on race and racism in the U.S. related to Native Americans or to either immigrants and immigration policy in general or to specific groups, such as Asian Americans, Latinx, or Native Americans. Show less

SJPL Recommends: Race and Racism Teaching ideas for Classroom Conversations /New York Times.

https://www.nytimes.com/2017/09/27/learning/lesson-plans/first-encounters-with-race-and-racism-teaching-ideas-for-classroom-conversations.html

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https://www.learningforjustice.org/classroom-resources/lessons/racial-disparity-in-the-criminal-justice-system

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Using Editorial Cartoons to Teach About Racial Profiling

https://www.learningforjustice.org/classroom-resources/lessons/editorial-cartoon-racial-profiling

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Black Lives Matter - Continuing the Civil Rights Movement

https://www.choices.edu/teaching-news-lesson/george-floyd-and-the-long-fight-for-racial-justice/

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Race Talk in the Age of the Trigger Warning

Recognizing and Challenging Classroom Cultures of Silence

by Grayson, Mara Lee

Book - 2020

"Drawing upon original research, Mara Lee Grayson tracks the rise of the trigger warning within historical and contemporary educational contexts; exp...Show more "Drawing upon original research, Mara Lee Grayson tracks the rise of the trigger warning within historical and contemporary educational contexts; explores its potentialities, limitations, and abuses as praxis; and offers curricular suggestions for high school and college instructors seeking to implement equitable, antiracist pedagogies that simultaneously encourage students' well-being, provoke intellectual and emotional growth, and challenge the cultures of silence that maintain inequity on school campuses."--Asao B. Inoue, associate dean for academic affairs, equity, and inclusion, College of Integrative Sciences and Arts at Arizona State University, summary, https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/48767968-race-talk-in-the-age-of-the-trigger-warning Show less