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CARE assessment (Culturally responsive, anti-racist, and equitable) tool

The CARE assessment (Culturally responsive, anti-racist, and equitable) tool meausres schools on these 5 domains of a CARE school are: (1) Teaming and Collaboration; (2) School Climate; (3) School Discipline; (4) Curricula and Teaching Practices; and (5) Professional Development.Each indicator includes a few ways schools may demonstrate success in each area. The included examples are not exhaustive but illustrative, and ratings in each domain can be used as a starting place for quality improvement initiatives. This assessment tool provides suggestions for action planning that can be tailored to meet your school’s needs using the resources in the SHAPE resource library.

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Being Antiracist

This site includes loads of information and ideas to use in schools, classrooms and team meetings, including conversation starters, videos and reflection around what it means to be being anti-racist, with the goal of school community members making conscious decisions to make frequent, consistent, equitable choices daily.

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Audre Lorde Project

The Audre Lorde Project works with LGBTQ+ people of color organizations and communities across differences of race/ethnicity, culture, gender, sexual orientation, age, ability, and life experiences in order to develop and implement culturally specific and effective programs and services reflecting the needs of our communities. Though based, in NY, schools and communities can be inspired with ideas from ALP’s community organization and social justice work to support and keep LGBTQ+ young people safe.

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Back to the Basics of Cultural Responsiveness: What It Is and What It Is Not

Culturally relevant (or responsive) pedagogy was initially conceptualized to explain the intersection of culture and teaching and to increase academic achievement in students of color. Teaching is never culturally neutral, and neither are classrooms. This brief article discusses the importance of understanding who culture influences the way teachers teach and the way students interpret what is taught.

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Being Anti-Racist is Central to Trauma-Informed Care: Principles of an Anti-Racist, Trauma-Informed Organization

Systems and organizations must shift beyond performative action toward becoming antiracist and trauma-informed. This resource offers actionable principles and strategies that organizations can implement to make this move toward fundamental transformation. The goal of this resource is to light a fire in the bellies of systems, their leaders, and their agents to adopt conscious efforts and actions that promote equity, healing, and justice. This cannot be achieved by inspiring systems to simply think differently about individuals negotiating racism in their daily lives – they must act differently.

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Advancing Racial Justice In Our Policies, Institutions, and Culture

The Race Forward toolkits provide comprehensive guidance for civil servants, artists, and cultural practitioners on implementing and strengthening racial equity strategies within their organizations and public institutions. They include actionable steps, challenges to anticipate, and success stories to aid in the strategic and equitable assessment of policies, practices, and programs.

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ADDRESSING Model

This short video provides an overview of the ADDRESSING Model. Developed by Pamela Hays, the “ADDRESSING” model is a framework that facilitates recognition and understanding of the complexities of individual identity. According to Hays, consideration of age, developmental disabilities, acquired disabilities, religion, ethnicity, sexual orientation, socioeconomic status, indigenous group membership, nationality, and gender contributes to a complete understanding of cultural identity.

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