Student Voice Panel on Celebrating and Affirming the Racial and Cultural Identities of BIPOC Students Webinar
Hear how district and school leaders work to center student voice in order to uncover and address systemic inequities.
Family & Community Context
Starting a Gender & Sexuality Alliance (GSA) at your school
LGBTQ+ student-led clubs and GSAs (Gender and Sexuality Alliances) create safe, inclusive schools and serve as powerful agents of change by providing spaces for organization, support, and community. The resources guide starting a GSA, fostering inclusivity for trans youth, and participating in events like the Day of Silence, Solidarity Week, and GLSEN’s Changing the Game.
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Self-Healing Communities
This article presents a model with demonstrated success in improving rates of many interrelated and intergenerational health and social problems by investing in the people most at risk and reducing and preventing the root cause of these problems: Adverse Childhood Experiences (ACEs). The Self-Healing Communities Model (SHCM) builds the capacity of communities to
intentionally generate new cultural norms and thereby improve health, safety and productivity for current and future generations.
Scholar Story: Nia Heard-Garris
In the video, Dr. Nia Heard-Garris explains how media exposure to racism negatively impacts health by causing stress and trauma, especially through vicarious racism, which is when children witness or hear about racist incidents rather than experiencing them directly.
Resources on Personal Pronouns
This website provides information about why pronouns matter in a straight forward way. Access the resources provided to use in student, staff, and family learning events, newsletter, or link to their page in your email signature and share this information and your support of LLBTQ+ communities.
Pushout: the Criminalization of Black Girls in Schools
film underscores the challenges Black girls face with insights from multiple experts across the country who have worked extensively in the fields of social and criminal justice, gender equality and educational equity, giving context to the crisis and providing a roadmap for how our educational system and those who interact with Black girls can provide a positive rather than punitive response to behaviors that are often misunderstood or misrepresented.
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Race Forward for Racial Equity
Race Forward provides training to help people develop skills and strategies to understand, challenge, and address structural and institutional racial inequities. Their website has lots of resources, including videos, podcasts and toolkits to help individuals and communities, including schools build knowledge and skills around dismantling racism.
Race, Equity, and the State of Education: A Conversation with Dr. Pedro Noguera
Reflections on the state of education today and what it means to support social justice and be an anti-racist educator. Conversation with Dr. Pedro Noguera, national educational leader and Dean of the University of Southern California’s Rossier School of Education.
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Racial Equity Impact Assessment
This guide helps schools and districts navigate this process. A Racial Equity Impact Assessment (REIA) is a systematic examination of how different racial and ethnic groups will likely be affected by a proposed action or decision. REIAs are used to minimize unanticipated adverse consequences in a variety of contexts, including the analysis of proposed policies, institutional practices, programs, plans and budgetary decisions. The REIA can be a vital tool for preventing institutional racism and for identifying new options to remedy long-standing inequities.
Racial Equity Tools
This website is designed to support individuals and groups working to achieve racial equity; and offers tools, research, tips, curricula, and ideas for people who want to increase their understanding and help those working for racial justice.