Social Justice Information for Educators and our Community
*Names are live links; click on the names to be taken to their site
Websites/Trainings/Publications/Lesson Planning:
Traverse City Region Support Networks
Books/book lists for Students & Children:
*When purchasing books, please consider going through an independent book seller, local small business, or the author’s website
Videos:
Staff/Adult Reads/Resources:
*When purchasing books, please consider going through an independent book seller, local small business, or the author’s website
Lists of Recommendations:
Individual Books:
Podcasts:
Support for Teacher Lesson Planning:
Watch (video clips, documentaries, etc):
Visuals/Tools:
*Names are live links; click on the names to be taken to their site
Websites/Trainings/Publications/Lesson Planning:
- Learning for Justice (Previously Teaching Tolerance)
- The Conscious Kid
- Abolitionist Teaching Network
- Children’s Community School
- Native Justice Coalition
- Missing & Murdered Indigenous Women
- Human Rights Campaign
- Trevor Project
- First Nations Development Institute
Traverse City Region Support Networks
Books/book lists for Students & Children:
*When purchasing books, please consider going through an independent book seller, local small business, or the author’s website
- Teaching Tolerance: Student Texts by level
- First Nations’ Development Institute: Children's Book List
- The Conscious Kid: Inclusive Resource List; Multiple Ethnicities/Backgrounds
- Association of California School Administrators: 26 Children's Books to Support Conversations
- Embrace Race Booklist: 20 Picture Books for 2020: Embrace, Provide Solace, Do Good
- Social Justice Books
- Book Riot: Books for Teens
- Here Wee Read: 2020 Ultimate List of Diverse Children's Books
- Books with Lead Characters of Color
- Books for Littles: Books on Diversity
- NY Times: Kids Books on Racism
- Anti-discrimination cartoon/video
- "Kids Book About" Series: Racism
- Mixed: Book and Diversity discussion Guide for Adults
Videos:
- The Conscious Kid: Read Aloud Storytime Videos
- We Are Teachers: 21 Anti-Racism videos to share with students
- “Same Difference” book read
- “The Skin You Live In” book read
- 15 kid-friendly movies that can help start a conversation on racism
Staff/Adult Reads/Resources:
*When purchasing books, please consider going through an independent book seller, local small business, or the author’s website
Lists of Recommendations:
- Ibram X. Kendi's Top Ten list of "Books to Better Understand the History of Racism in America"
- Culturally Responsive Leadership: Book Recommendations
- Indigenous-centered readings
Individual Books:
- Culturally Responsive Teaching and the Brain, Zaretta Hammond
- My Grandmother's Hands, Resmaa Menekam
- Decolonizing Trauma Work, Renee Linklater
- Stamped (Two versions: adult and YA), Jason Reynolds & Ibram X. Kendi
- The Hate U Give, Angie Thomas
- The New Jim Crow, Michelle Alexander
- Me and White Supremacy (great opportunity for journaling with prompts), Layla Saad
- How to be an Anti-Racist (and other powerful reads by Professor Ibram X. Kendi)
- So You Want to Talk About Race, Ijeoma Oluo
- Why Are All the Black Kids Sitting Together in the Cafeteria?, Beverly Daniel Tatum
- The Guide for White Women who Teach Black Boys, Edi Moore Jr., Ali Michael, & Marguerite Penick-Parks
- Everyday White People Confront Racial & Social Injustice: A Collection of 15 Stories
- Raising Race Questions, Ali Michael
- Whiteness and Education, Journal
- Books specific to Mindfulness/Trauma-based information:
- My Grandmother’s Hands, Resmaa Menekam
- Mindful of Race, Ruth King
- Skill in Action: Radicalizing your Yoga Practice for a More Just World, Michelle Cassandra Johnson
- Inner Work of Racial Justice, Rhonda V. Magee
- Radical Dharma, Angel Kyodo Williams, Lama Rod Owens, Jasmine Syedullah
- Oppression and the Body: Roots, Resistance, and Resolutions, Christine Caldwell and Lucia Bennett Leighton
- Books specific to Mindfulness/Trauma-based information:
- Learning for Justice: Don’t Say Nothing
- Your Kid is Not too Young to Talk About Race: Resource Roundup
- Hey Sigmund: How to Talk About Racism by Age
- KPJR films resource guide (they created the documentaries Paper Tigers and Resilience)
- Ed Week: Using SEL to Challenge Systemic Oppression
- Mindful Schools: Awakening to Implicit Bias
- Medium: 75 Things White People Can do for Racial Justice
- ASCD: Culturally Responsive Teaching
- Northeastern University: 5 Strategies for Culturally Responsive Teaching
- Responsive Classroom: Student Sharing Strategy to Increase Cultural Responsiveness
- Today Show feature of resources
Podcasts:
- https://dointhework.podbean.com/
- https://www.ibramxkendi.com/be-antiracist-podcast
- https://www.wbur.org/news/2020/06/05/podcasts-to-listen-to-about-race-america
- https://ecowarriorprincess.net/2020/11/podcasts-hosted-bipoc-women/
- https://www.gameplan-a.com/2020/10/listen-learn-4-of-the-best-podcasts-on-race-and-inclusion/
- https://projects.iq.harvard.edu/antiracismresources/allies/podcasts
Support for Teacher Lesson Planning:
- Learning for Justice: Classroom Resources and Lessons
- Social Studies Curriculum: Confederation of Michigan Tribal Education Departments
Chicago Public Schools: “Say Their Name” lesson - Processing Racism Together
- Common Sense: Social and Cultural Literacy Resources
- Scaffolding anti-racism resources
Watch (video clips, documentaries, etc):
- 13th (Doc): https://youtu.be/krfcq5pF8u8
- Racially Charged: America's Misdemeanor Problem: https://youtu.be/Bm2PxE0HMr4
- Racially Charged: Post-Film Discussion: https://youtu.be/OmVBdxAvdDQ
- Difference between BLM and ALM via TikTok: https://vm.tiktok.com/Ej1PWo/
- Just Mercy (major motion picture): www.justmercyfilm.com/
- Jane Elliot clip: https://youtu.be/4yrg7vV4a5o
- DocPlay’s list of recommendations: https://www.docplay.com/articles/10-documentaries-to-watch-about-race-instead-of-asking-a-person-of-colour-to-explain-things-for-you/
Visuals/Tools:
