For Educators: Teaching About the Black Lives Matter Movement

International protests in response to the recent killings of Ahmaud Arbery, Sean Reed, Breonna Taylor, George Floyd and Tony McDade show the vast reach and profound importance of the Black Lives Matter movement.

Learning for Justice has developed resources that can help spur much-needed discussion around implicit bias and systemic racism, but they can also empower your students to enact the changes that will create a more just society.

These resources can help you talk with students about the historical context and mission behind Black Lives Matter and work toward making your school a more affirming, safer space for Black students.

Articles

  • “Teaching in Solidarity.” The guiding principles behind the Black Lives Matter At School Week of Action can be an important frame through which to reimagine more liberatory educational spaces for black children.
  • “Why Teaching Black Lives Matter Matters | Part I.” All educators have the civic responsibility to learn and teach the basic history and tenets of this movement for racial justice.

Webinar Series

  • Let’s Talk! Teaching Black Lives Matter. This series covers a range of critical topics that can be difficult to discuss with students and colleagues. Let’s Talk! Teaching Black Lives Matter explores Black Lives Matter, an activist group that media, schools and communities often struggle to understand.
  • Let’s Talk! Discussing Whiteness. This webinar discusses whiteness as a racial identity with the understanding that acknowledging whiteness and the privilege and power attached to it is a necessary step in working toward racial justice.

Also see the Learning for Justice collection of professional development resources for teaching about race, racism and police violence.

Source: Learning for Justice | Teaching About the Black Lives Matter Movement, https://www.learningforjustice.org/the-moment/august-20-2018-black-lives-matter-still-matters | Southern Poverty Law Center ©2020

Learning for Justice provides free resources to educators—teachers, administrators, counselors and other practitioners—who work with children from kindergarten through high school.

The Learning for Justice program emphasizes social justice and anti-bias. The anti-bias approach encourages children and young people to challenge prejudice and learn how to be agents of change in their own lives. Our Social Justice Standards show how anti-bias education works through the four domains of identity, diversity, justice and action.

CHC offers free community education sessions for educators. Join us to learn practical teaching strategies you can use in your classroom to help more kids reach their promise and potential. Educator sessions are led by experienced educator/clinician teams from Sand Hill School and CHC.

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