How to Talk to Kids about Race
In this video, HuffPost Life reporter Caroline Bologna shares an age-by-age guide for discussing race with your children. Read more >>
Verbal Jiujitsu, Disarming and Other Tips for Dealing With Microaggressions
Psychologist Derald Wing Sue calls microaggressions the “everyday slights, indignities, insults, putdowns and invalidations” that people from marginalized communities experience on a regular basis. Whether and how we respond to a microaggression is situational, but we don’t have to passively Read more >>
Cultural Humility: Fostering Respect and Understanding – Voices of Compassion Podcast
As our children develop their own identities, it’s up to parents to teach them how to interact with other cultures, beliefs and backgrounds. It all starts with self-reflection, developing an understanding of our own cultural beliefs and biases. From there, Read more >>
How to Foster Cultural Awareness at Home
Many minority households routinely have open discussions about racial issues and how they impact their daily lives. White families, on the other hand, sometimes are uncomfortable with such discussions even amid news coverage related to systemic racism and the Black Read more >>
4 Tools to Help Kids Develop Empathy and Cultural Humility [web resource]
Humility is not necessarily about modesty or pretending to be less than you are. In fact, people who are humble often have a high sense of self-worth; it’s just that they can recognize their own strengths and limitations. Research about Read more >>
How To Practice Cultural Humility With Your Kids
As American families become increasingly diverse and complex in terms of race, ethnicity, immigrant status, socioeconomic circumstances, and family structures, it is imperative that we practice cultural humility – to move beyond simply being aware of or sensitive to people’s Read more >>
3 Things to Know: Cultural Humility
Most people are familiar with the concept of being humble. To be humble is to demonstrate “humility,” which is commonly defined as “freedom from pride or arrogance.” What, then, might it mean to practice “cultural humility?” Read more >>
Why So Many Asian American Students Are Learning Remotely
Asian American students are far more likely to be learning remotely than members of any other racial or ethnic group in the United States. As of February 2021, almost 7 in 10 Asian American K-12 students were still learning online 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 >>
Facing History and Ourselves [web resource]
Facing History use lessons from history to teach about racism, antisemitism, and prejudice to help students connect choices made in the past to those they will confront in their own lives. Read more >>
