“Do the best you can until you know better. Then when you know better, do better..”
— Maya Angelou
External links for learning and changemaking.
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Learning for Justice
Learning for Justice offers free educational resources—articles, guides, lessons, films, webinars, frameworks and more—to help foster shared learning and reflection for educators, young people, caregivers and all community members.
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Bettina Love
Dr. Bettina L. Love's writing, research, teaching, and educational advocacy work meet at the intersection of education reform, anti-racism, carceral studies, abolition, and Black joy.
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Facing History and Ourselves
Using lessons of history to challenge teachers and their students to stand up to bigotry and hate, this collection of educator resources includes a wide range of flexible, multimedia materials.
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Dancing on Desks Podcast
This podcast asks educators what would happen if we were teaching, learning, and living in ways that engage justice-full, liberatory, and abolitionist teaching and learning practices in our schools and beyond.
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The 1619 Project Curriculum
The 1619 Project challenges us to reframe U.S. history by marking the year when the first enslaved Africans arrived on Virginia soil as our nation's foundational date. The Pulitzer Center offers this curriculum.
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Somebody Podcast Curriculum
Somebody explores the racial disparities and turbulent relationship between law enforcement and citizens. These lessons present an opportunity to bring those larger conversations into the classroom.
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Rethinking Schools
Rethinking Schools is a nonprofit publisher and advocacy organization dedicated to sustaining and strengthening public education through social justice teaching and education activism.
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GLSEN
GLSEN has been championing LGBTQ issues in K-12 education since 1990 and is a national network of educators and students. These resources offer guidance around forming and sustaining clubs and GSAs.
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Zinn Education Project
This project promotes and supports the teaching of people’s history in middle and high school classrooms and offers free, downloadable lessons and articles organized by theme, time period, and reading level.
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Unconscious Bias in Schools
Educators’ can unknowingly perpetuate racism and negatively affect students. This book outlines how educators can address these issues directly and start anti-bias work in their schools.
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Courageous Conversation
This protocol for effectively engaging, sustaining and deepening interracial dialogue helps individuals and organizations address persistent racial disparities intentionally, explicitly, and comprehensively.
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Reading, Writing, and Racism
With a focus on institutional strategies, Bree Picower provides radical possibilities for transforming how teachers think about, and teach about, race in their classrooms.
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Crew Videos
These videos from EL Education show how Crew, a culture and structure of support, can foster identity affirmation and belonging in schools.
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Better World Videos
These videos from EL Education feature students and teachers contributing to their communities, tackling social and environmental issues as a collective.
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Freedom Lifted
Freedom Lifted offers training, facilitation, and coaching to organizations committed to justice and equity. They use stories to illustrate challenging topics.
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National Association of Blind Students
The National Association of Blind Students has works to promote the equality of the blind by serving as a source of information, forum for networking and vehicle for collective action for blind students. Get the latest updates, stay involved, and hear stories from blind students by subscribing to our publications.
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Shay Marie Makes Things
Eatonville, Florida is the nation’s first self-governing Black municipality, founded in 1887. Get your own Eatonville gear, birthed with Erica Marie’s love of the history and heritage of her hometown, and Daphne Shay’s admiration of Eatonville resident Zora Neale Hurston.