Talking About Race and Racism
Lesson plans, information and resources to help educators participate in an open and honest conversation about how to talk about race and racism.
Learning for Justice
Making Space: Affinity groups offer a platform for voices often relegated to the margins.
Students need to be able to be themselves at school—and that’s where affinity groups come in. A group of students who share an identity are going to relate to each other in ways they can’t with peers who can’t or don’t understand their experience. It’s about safety and, in some cases, about fundamental issues of injustice.
Learning For Justice
Learning for Justice houses loads of resources and curricula to use in classrooms around racial justice, educational equity and supporting all students.
Dear Young Person: You Are Valued
This article from Equality Florida emphasize the need for each of us to advocate for safer schools where all young people are valued.
Best Practices for Serving LGBTQ Students
This guide helps school leaders ensure all students feel safe, seen and capable of success, as well as helps schools ensure the curriculum is representative and that the school climate fosters open and respectful dialogue among all students and staff.
A Refuge for LGBTQ+ Young People
Learn about Student-run Gender and Sexuality Alliance (GSA) clubs, which are a federally protected space for young people to survive and thrive in the increasingly hostile anti-LGBTQ+ climate in schools and across the country.
Discussing Race, Racism and Police Violence
The resources below can help spur much-needed discussion around implicit bias and systemic racism, but they can also help inspire us all to enact the changes that will create a more just society.These resources can help spur much-needed discussion around implicit bias and systemic racism, but they can also help inspire us all to enact the changes that will create a more just society.
Critical Practices for Social Justice Education
Resource supports K-12 educators in growing their understanding of social justice principles. Each pillar – Curriculum & Instruction, Culture & Climate, Leadership, and Family & Community Engagment – has strategies that schools and districts can integrate into their practice.
Checking yourself for bias in the Classroom
Unconscious bias can shape the responses of even the most well-intentioned educators. But you can check yourself—one teacher shares how.
