Resources on Teaching to Disrupt White Supremacy

For All Educators (not age-level specific)

• The St. Louis Anti-Racist Collective: On Showing Up, Staying in Our Lane, and Doing the Work that is Ours: 8 Guideposts for White People Supporting Black Lives Matter (see PDFs below)
• Rethinking Schools Editors' Editorial Black Lives Matter: Building the School to Justice Pipeline
• Guidelines for Discussing Difficult or Controversial Topics, by Center for Research on Teaching & Learning
• Civil Discourse in the Classrooms, by Teaching Tolerance
• The Differences between Dialogue and Debate
• Diversity Discussion Starters: A Collection of Ice Breakers Designed to Start Conversations about Race
• "A Talk to Teachers" by James Baldwin
• Seven Ways that Teachers can Respond to the Evils of Charlottesville, Starting Now, by Xian Granzinger Barrett
• The Charlottesville Syllabus, UVA Graduate Coalition
• The First Thing Teachers should do when School Starts is Talk about Hatred in America. Here’s Help. By Valerie Strauss
• ShareMyLesson.com Curriculum and Resources for Discussing Charlottesville in the classroom, American Federation of Teachers
• Resources for Educators to Use in the Wake of Charlottesville, Anya Kamenetz/ NPR
• There is No Apolitical Classroom: Resources for Teaching in these Times, National Council of Teachers of English
• Charlottesville Syllabus: Readings on the History of Hate in America, Catherine Halley
• If You Think Racism is Too Political For Your Classroom, Think About What Your Silence Says, Sonja Cherry-Paul
• Responding to Hate and Bias in School from Teaching Tolerance

For Elementary Educators

• Teaching Tolerance Anti-Bias Framework (PDF below)
• Teaching Current Events and Media Literacy: Critical Thinking, Effective Communication and Active Citizenship, by Karon LeCompte, Brooke Blevins and Brandi Ray, Social Studies & the Young Learner
• Addressing Current Events in Age-Appropriate Ways: Learning about the Confederate Flag Controversy, Jeannette D. Alarcón, Pratigya Marhatt, and Emily Price, Social Studies & the Young Learner
• Join the CRESST Facebook group! (Critical Resources for Elementary Social Studies Teachers)

For Middle/High School Educators

• Police Brutality Action Kit, created by Showing Up for Racial Justice (SURJ) (PDF below)
• Talking Race, by Teaching Tolerance

For Families

• How to Talk to your Kids about the Violence in Charlottesville, by Sonali Kohli, LA Times
• The Dos and Dont’s of Talking to Kids of Color about White Supremacy, Hilary Beard, Colorlines
• What Charlottesville Means for Our Black Family, by Lori Taliaferro Riddick
• White Supremacists Still Exist. Here’s What White Parents Can Do About It, Caroline Bologna

Children’s Book Lists

• How to Talk to your Kids about Charlottesville, Maria Russo, NYTimes
• Children’s Books: A Resource for Talking About Race with Young Children, Raising Race Conscious Children
• Knowing Our History to Build a Brighter Future: Books to Help Kids Understand the Fight for Racial Equality, by Olugbemisola Rhuday-Perkovich

Taking Action/ Organizing​

• Charlottesville Organizers Ask you to Take These 8 Actions, Solidarity CVille
• Ten Ways to Fight Hate: A Community Response Guide, Southern Poverty Law Center
• Speak Up: Responding to Everyday Bigotry from the Southern Poverty Law Center
• So You Want to Fight White Supremacy, The Establishment
• Anti-Muslim Hate Crimes Will Likely Increase.  Here’s How Not To Be A Bystander by Kelly Walters
  • Video tutorial from Buzzfeed
• How to Intervene in a Racist Attack by Akshat Rathi

On White Accountability

• Teaching While White: Where Whiteness Intersects with Antiracist Teaching and Learning
• The St. Louis Anti-Racist Collective: On Showing Up, Staying in Our Lane, and Doing the Work that is Ours: 8 Guideposts for White People Supporting Black Lives Matter (see PDF below)
• 70+ Race Resources for White People, Leslie Verner
• Towards the ‘Other America,’ Anti Racist Resources for White People Taking Action for Black Lives Matter, by Chris Crass (e-book)
• Ten Things Every White Teacher Should Know When Talking About Race, Angela Watson

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Self-Care Resources

• 4 Self-Care Tips for People of Color after Charlottesville, Lara Witt
• 4 Self-Care Resources for Days When the World is Terrible by Miriam Zoila Perez
• Resisting White Supremacy Can’t Happen Without Self-Care, Ebonye Gussine Wilkins
• Here's what those of us still grieving the election of Donald Trump don't need to hear right now by Kimberly Foster
• 11 Ways Black People Can Practice Self-Care in the Wake of Trump’s Win by Zeba Blay​

News Articles that Disrupt & Heal

• 25 Magical Moments the Media Might Not Show or Tell you About the Anthony Lamar Smith Protest – Huffington Post by Keisha Mabry, Posted 9/18/17
• Waiting for a Perfect Protest? – The New York Times by Michael McBride, Traci Blackmon, Frank Reid, and Barbra Williams Skinner, Posted 9/1/17
• ExpandED Dialogue: What can you do to fight racism?​ by Sherita Love

Media Literacy

• 10 Reasons Why Media Education Matters (PDF below)

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