Best Practices for Serving LGBTQ Students [downloadable] [web resource]
An LGBTQ-inclusive school benefits all students. Seeing LGBTQ identities valued in the classroom, in the curriculum and in day-to-day interactions inspires empathy, understanding and respect. Read more >>
Using ‘Stamped (For Kids)’ to Have Age-Appropriate Discussions About Race
Dr. Ibram X. Kendi wasn’t pulling any punches when he set out to write “The Definitive History of Racist Ideas in America.” “Stamped from the Beginning” has since been remixed as “Stamped: Racism, Antiracism, and You,” a version of the Read more >>
3 SEL Practices Teachers Can Use Every Day
Regardless of your teaching and learning situation (fully online, hybrid, or in person), we know that the intentional and explicit weaving of SEL into the fabric of our everyday learning and life is critical. Read more >>
Social Justice Books [web resource]
SocialJusticeBooks.org is a project of Teaching for Change, a non-profit organization whose mission is to provide teachers and parents with the tools to create schools where students learn to read, write and change the world. Read more >>
Helping Struggling Students Build a Growth Mindset
Researchers and teacher educators Donna Wilson and Marcus Conyers have found that a gift many effective educators give struggling students is a practical and optimistic mindset coupled with strategies that help them learn successfully. Read more >>
Gifted and Dyslexic: Identifying and Instructing the Twice-Exceptional Student [downloadable]
As individuals, each of us has a unique combination of strengths and weaknesses. But sometimes we are exceptionally strong or weak in certain areas. In the school setting, students with exceptional strengths and weaknesses may have different instructional needs than Read more >>
Books Matter: Children’s Books on Bias, Diversity and Social Justice [web resource]
When books contain experiences and characters to which children can relate, they foster a positive self-concept and respect for diversity. This collection of children’s books curated by Anti-Defamation League address issues of identity, bias and bullying. Featured books come with Read more >>
BlackPast – Black History Online Repository and Reference Center [web resource]
BlackPast.org is a 6,000+ page reference center dedicated to providing information to the general public on African American history and the history of more than one billion people of African ancestry around the world. Read more >>
African American History Month Resource Collection [web resource]
The Library of Congress, National Archives and Records Administration, National Endowment for the Humanities, National Gallery of Art, National Park Service, Smithsonian Institution and United States Holocaust Memorial Museum join in paying tribute to the generations of African Americans who Read more >>
African-American Pioneers of Science [web resource]
Dorothy Johnson Vaughan was part of a team that did mathematical calculations to help launch satellites—and later humans—into space. Every time you print something, you can thank Mark E. Dean, who, along with a colleague, developed a system that allowed Read more >>
