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From the Civil War to our combustible present, acclaimed historian Carol Anderson reframes our continuing conversation about race, chronicling the powerful forces opposed to black progress in America.

The Center on Great Teachers & Leaders at American Institutes for Research has created a guide outlining the work conditions for educations, how to identify those work conditions, standards that should be in place in our to create better working and learning conditions, and how to identify the challenges in place in order to create change.

Drawing on her lifes work of teaching and researching in urban schools, Bettina Love persuasively argues that educators must teach students about racial violence, oppression, and how to make sustainable change in their communities through radical civic initiatives and movements. She argues that the US educational system is maintained by and profits from the suffering of children of color. Instead of trying to repair a flawed system, educational reformers offer survival tactics in the forms of test-taking skills, acronyms, grit labs, and character education, which Love calls the educational survival complex. To dismantle the educational survival complex and to achieve educational freedomnot merely reformteachers, parents, and community leaders must approach education with the imagination, determination, boldness, and urgency of an abolitionist. Following in the tradition of activists like Ella Baker, Bayard Rustin, and Fannie Lou Hamer, We Want to Do More Than Survive introduces an alternative to traditional modes of educational reform and expands our ideas of civic engagement and intersectional justice.

H.E.A.L. (Honest Education Action & Leadership) Together is building a movement of students, parents, and educators in school districts across the United States who believe that an honest, accurate, and fully funded public education is the foundation for a just, multiracial, and pluralistic democracy. This H.E.A.L. Together toolkit shares why the recent controversies around CRT and education deemed divisive are showing up in your school district. This toolkit equips you with strategies not just to respond to these manufactured controversies but to also organize students, parents, and educators on making your schools and community more equitable and inclusive. This is a living document and will be updated to include the lessons learned from campaigns and to share examples of other efforts from communities across the country.

How do issues of race, class, religion, and sexual orientation live within us How does our societal conditioning shape the way educators show up in classrooms Bronx native Yolanda Sealey-Ruiz challenges educators to examine their views on the communities and students they serve. Using an archaeological approach, Sealey-Ruiz mentors educators of all backgrounds on how to do the "deep work" of excavating their personal histories and activating their racial consciousness as a precursor to theorizing about pedagogy.

First published in Portuguese in 1968, Pedagogy of the Oppressed was translated and published in English in 1970. Paulo Freire's work has helped to empower countless people throughout the world and has taken on special urgency in the United States and Western Europe, where the creation of a permanent underclass among the underprivileged and minorities in cities and urban centers is ongoing.

This document distinguishes between mission and vision in business. As well as explains how values statements can support the goals of an organization.

This document includes stategies for qualitative interviews, sharing guidelines, a step-by-step guide and other helpful tools.

Over the past year, public schools across the country have been roiled by attacks on critical race theory and education equity that aim to roll back the progress that parents, youth, and educators have made toward anti-racist schools that teach students the truth. EJ-ROC is excited to announce a partnership with Race Forwards H.E.A.L. Together Initiative (Honest Education, Action and Leadership) and the Schott Foundation for Public Education parents, youth and communities that are organizing for education justice in the face of attacks on critical race theory and education equity.

Rudine Sims Bishop uses "Mirrors, Windows and Sliding Glass Doors" as an analogy to discuss the importance of diversity in books and the authors who write them. We need books in which children can see reflections of themselves but also look through and see other worlds.

Bringing together theory, research, and practice to dismantle Anti-Black Linguistic Racism and white linguistic supremacy, this book provides ethnographic snapshots of how Black students navigate and negotiate their linguistic and racial identities across multiple contexts. By highlighting the counterstories of Black students, Baker-Bell demonstrates how traditional approaches to language education do not account for the emotional harm, internalized linguistic racism, or consequences these approaches have on Black students' sense of self and identity. This book presents Anti-Black Linguistic Racism as a framework that explicitly names and richly captures the linguistic violence, persecution, dehumanization, and marginalization Black Language-speakers endure when using their language in schools and in everyday life.

Seed the Way has created a helpful guide for navigating and responding to racist, inappropriate or insensitive comments.

As a social and emotional learning (SEL) practitioner-scholar, I am fortunate to get invitations to support schools and districts all over the United States. When schools and districts learn that I address SEL within the larger sociopolitical context, integrating culturally responsive and SEL practices to ensure equitable student outcomes, some are excited. Too many, however, insist that there is no need to discuss equity or culturally responsive practices; their school population is mostly white. The pushback at these schools reveals an underlying discomfort with talking about race, identity, and difference in our nation's classrooms. I worry about the marginalized students and educators in these schools who are either expected to do the brunt of the race and equity work or who are likely struggling silently. We cannot afford to wallow in our discomfort regarding issues of race and equity. The Southern Poverty Law Center reported an overwhelming 3,265 incidents of hate or bias in schools throughout the nation in the fall of 2018 alone. I, too, have experienced racial trauma at many of the education institutions where I've worked or studied. Educators have an obligation to confront the harm of racism. That is why we must commit to becoming antiracist educators and to preparing our young people to be antiracist, too. I recommend five actions for teaching for an antiracist future.

This resource is intended to support facilitators and coordinators of racial affinity groups. Racial affinity groups are retention tools which are specifically designed to provide support for educators of color and help them remain in the profession.