Awareness Building Resources
Race-Ethnicity
- Implicit Bias Analysis Guide, Implicit Bias Analysis Guide
- A Guide to Understanding and Avoiding Cultural Appropriation, Thought Co.
- Implicit Bias Talk Moves, Leading Equity Center
- Curriculum as Window and Mirror, National SEED Project
- Teaching For Change: Building Social Justice Starting in the Classroom, Teaching For Change
- A Review of Cultural Appropriation and How To Spot It, Thought Co.
- Don’t Cash Crop On My Cornrows: A Crash Discourse on Black Culture, Amandla Stenberg
- 5 Simple Questions That’ll Help You Avoid Unintentional Cultural Appropriation, Everyday Feminism
- Social Justice Books—A Teaching for Change Project, Teaching For Change
- Learning for Justice (Formerly Teaching Tolerance), Learning for Justice
- Braids and Appropriation in America, Elle
- Native Appropriations, Dr. Adrienne Keene
- Racial Microaggressions in Everyday Life: Implications for Clinical Practice, Sue DW, Capodilupo CM, Torino GC, Bucceri JM, Holder AM, Nadal KL, Esquilin M.
- Use these culturally offensive phrases, questions at your own risk, Indigenous Corporate Training, Inc.
- Creating the Space to Talk About Race in Your School, NEA Ed Justice and Race Forward
- Constructing an Authentic Self: The Challenges and Promise of African-Centered Pedagogy, Merry, M. S., & New, W. (2008). Constructing an Authentic Self: The Challenges and Promise of African‐Centered Pedagogy
- White Privilege: Unpacking the Invisible Knapsack, Peggy McIntosh
- Colonial Structures, Identities, and Schooling: My Take On Multicultural Education and White Supremacy, Luis Urrieta, Jr.
- Examples of Racial Microaggressions, Wing, Capodilupo, Torino, Bucceri, Holder, Nadal, Esquilin
- “We’re a Culture Not a Costume” Campaign, Students Teaching About Racism in Society (STARS), Ohio University
- Explainer—White Nationalism, Facing History and Facing Ourselves
- Culturally Responsive Classrooms: Affirming Culturally Different Gifted Students, Donna Y. Ford, Ph.D.
- The Motivational Framework for Culturally Responsive Teaching, Margery B. Ginsberg
- Talking About Race, Smithsonian National Museum of African American History & Culture
- Black Lives Matter at School Resources, NEA EdJustice
- Why Pronouncing Students’ Names Correctly Is So Important, NEA
- My Name, My Identity, Santa Clara County Office of Education
- My Name, My Identity Educator Toolkit—Creating an Inclusive and Respectful School Community, Santa Clara County Office of Education
Gender
- #MeTooK12, NEA EdJustice
- Meeting the Needs of Girls, Alliance for Girls
- #MeToo—What’s Next?, National Women’s Law Center
- Let Her Learn: A Toolkit to Stop School Pushout for Girls Who Have Experienced Sexual Harassment, National Women’s Law Center
- Survivor Justice is Disability Justice, National Women’s Law Center, National Association of Councils on Developmental Disabilities, Association of University Centers on Disabilities, and National Disability Rights Network
- Women Rising: A Guide to Your Rights at Work, NEA, Office of General Counsel
Class
- Teaching Children from Poverty and Trauma, Ernest Izard, Ph.D. and the National Education Association (NEA), Center for Education Policy and Practice
- School Is No Place for Class(ism), Nichole Berg, Learning for Justice Magazine
- No Time Off, Maya Lindberg, Learning for Justice Magazine
- The Color of Law, Learning for Justice (formerly Teaching Tolerance)
- The Color of Law: Creating Racially Segregated Communities, Learning for Justice
- The Color of Law: Winners and Losers in the Job Market, Learning for Justice
- The Color of Law: Developing the White Middle Class, Learning for Justice
- Mapping Inequality–Redlining in New Deal America, Digital Scholarship Lab, University of Richmond; Digital Curation Innovation Center, University of Maryland; Professor LaDale Winling, Virginia Tech; and Professor N.D.B. Connolly, Johns Hopkins University
- Dreams Deferred: How enriching the 1% widens the racial wealth gap, Institute for Policy Studies
- The Souls of Poor Folk: Auditing America 50 Years After the Poor People’s Campaign Challenged Racism, Poverty, the War Economy/Militarism, and Our National Morality, Learning for Justice
- Economic Injustice Affects Us All: A Lesson from Viva La Causa, Learning for Justice
LGBTQIA+
- Leading for Change: Achieving LGBTQ Equity and Inclusion in our Schools, NEA and the Human Rights Campaign
- 5 Things Educators Are Doing to Support LGBTQ Rights Now, NEA EdJustice
- Schools In Transition: A Guide for Supporting Transgender Students in K-12 School, NEA, ACLU, Gender Spectrum, Human Rights Campaign, and National Center for Lesbian Rights
Ableism
- Human Rights and Differently-Abled Persons, The People’s Movement for Human Rights Education
- 5 Tips for Educators Teaching Students with Autism, Dr. Barry Prizant
- Autistic Behaviors are Human Behaviors, Dr. Barry Prizant
- Survivor Justice is Disability Justice, National Women’s Law Center, National Association of Councils on Developmental Disabilities, Association of University Centers on Disabilities, and National Disability Rights Network
Immigration—Nationality
- Supporting Immigrant Students & Families—Training for Educators, NEA EdJustice and Education Austin
- Know Your Rights: Deferred Action for Childhood Arrivals (DACA), NEA EdJustice
- Know Your Rights: Immigration & School, NEA EdJustice
- Know Your Rights: Immigration Enforcement, NEA EdJustice
- For the Dreamers, NEA EdJustice
Religion—Xenophobia
- Religion Equity in Schools–Protecting Students and Their Civil Rights, Paula Johnson, Ph.D. Intercultural Development Research Association
- Diversity, Equity, Inclusion, and Accessibility (DEIA) Resources, Louisiana State University, Department of Philosophy & Religious Studies
- Six Tips For Fostering a Positive School Climate, NEA EdJustice
- Deconstructing “Islamoracism” & Creating Critically Conscious Learning Communities, Fakhra Shah, Mission HS, San Francisco, CA