Happy First Day of School!
We are excited about the new school year here in NYC! Check out the August 15th episode of NPR’s Code Switch, Behind the Lies My Teacher Told Me. The episode discusses the discomfort educators experience when it comes to honest conversations about U.S. history, particularly about #race. When we don’t speak truth, we deny students truth, we deny students the opportunity to engage in critical thinking and to develop a fact based understanding of history. This is one of the reasons GGE pushes for #CulturallyRelevantCurricula.
See below for a list of resources to help get the conversations started.
Websites:
- Americans Who Tell The Truth: Models of Courageous Citizens: www.americanswhotellthetruth.org/portrait-galleries
- Colorlines: www.colorlines.com
- Facing History: www.facinghistory.org
- The Knotted Line: knottedline.com
- Teaching for Change: www.teachingforchange.org
- Teaching Tolerance: A Project of the Southern Poverty Law Center: www.tolerance.org
- Using Their Words: www.usingtheirwords.org
- Youth Radio: youthradio.org
- The Zinn Project: Teaching A People’s History: zinnedproject.org
Heritage Month & Daily Holiday Guide:
- Heritage Month Guide with a brief summary of each month, by Diversity Central
- Calendar of Observances in the US 2018, but the Anti-Defamation League
- Planning to Change the World, A Plan Book For Social Justice Teachers — with dates of significant events and resource pages with links to information to support curriculum development.
Books:
History
- A Different Mirror: A history of multicultural America, by Ronald Takaki
- A Different Mirror for young people: A history of multicultural America, by Ronald Takaki, Rebecca Stefoff
- A People’s History of the United States, by Howard Zinn
- A People’s History for the Classroom, by Bill Bigelow
Pedagogy/Praxis:
- Building Racial and Cultural Competence in the Classroom: Strategies from Urban Educators, by Karen Teel and Jennifer Obidah
- Confronting Racism in Teacher Education: Counternarratives of Critical Practice, by Bree Picower and Rita Kohli
- Culturally Responsive Teaching: Theory, Research, and Practice (3rd edition), by Geneva Gay
- Culturally Responsive Teaching and The Brain: Promoting Authentic Engagement and Rigor Among Culturally and Linguistically Diverse Students, by Zaretta Hammond
- Other People’s Children, by Lisa Delpit
- Pedagogy of the Oppressed, by Paolo Freire
- Practice What You Teach, by Bree Picower
- Teaching for Black Lives, Edited By Dyan Watson, Jesse Hagopian, Wayne Au
- Teaching to Transgress, by bell hooks
Additional Reading List:
- The Antiracist Alliance AntiRacist Resource List: http://www.antiracistalliance.com/Bibliography-Resources.html
- The Social Justice Training Institute Reading List: http://www.sjti.org/suggested_reading.html
Workshops and Coaching:
Border Crossers’ mission is to train and empower educators to dismantle patterns of racism and injustice in our schools and communities. At Border Crossers, we envision a world where all young people learn and thrive in racially equitable, liberating, and empowering educational spaces.
Expanded Success Initiative is a research and development initiative focused on increasing life outcomes of black and Latino males who attend NYC public high schools by closing educational achievement and opportunity gaps and preparing them to graduate college and career ready.
Langston League is a team of unconventional educators seeking to address educational and opportunistic inequalities in at-promise neighborhoods through culturally relevant/responsive, fun, and equitable curriculum.
The National SEED Project — The National SEED Project is a peer-led professional development program that creates conversational communities to drive personal, organizational, and societal change toward greater equity and diversity. We do this by training individuals to facilitate ongoing seminars within their own institutions and communities.
NYU Metro Center promotes equity and opportunity in education through engaged science work: applied research, program evaluation, policy analysis, community engagement, and professional assistance to educational, governmental, and community agencies serving vulnerable populations.
Undoing Racism Workshop Schedule for NYC, sponsored by the Antiracist Alliance, which also has a teacher, women of color, and white allies working group.
