Teacher: Resources
Empower your community to Take Action for social change! After educating students about understanding their own identity, as well as the identity
and experiences of others, they will be ready to actively participate in social change. Employ these resources to consider the challenges facing their community, to help them assess their community’s assets, to formulate a plan to achieve their goals and to put the plan in motion.
Resources
Help Get the Conversation Started:
Additional Resources
As a teacher, initiating conversations around difficult subject matter can be a daunting task. The following resources are great places to start aconversation or supplement your curriculum to initiate thoughtful dialogue. The links and resources below are a suggested place to start before
diving into more specific subject matter.
- Advocacy 101:
An Unfamiliar Genre for Teachers
School Climate Questionaire:This one page document allows teachers or students to take stock of the current climate of tolerance of their school. This can serve as a jumping off point for conversations and then action.
Speak Up at School:This packet provides guidance on addressing prejudice, stereotypes, and bias within your school. - Teaching Tolerance’s “Perspectives for a Diverse America”is a free literacy based curriculum that marries anti-bias social justice content with rigorous standards for student performance tasks. This resource is a great starting point for initiating critical conversations about identity, diversity, and social justice while putting a variety of unique text in the hands of students.
Everyday Democracyprovides students and teachers a place to learn more about changing current events and how individuals can impact their community in a peaceful and democratic way.
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A key to positive social change lies in our ability to understand our own identity, the ways in which we are all differ and the ways in which we are all fundamentally the same. Grasping these concepts gives greater insight into how we can work together for a common good. Using these resources provide students with a broad perspective on diversity to mold empathetic leaders of the future.
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Empower your community to Take Action for social change! After educating students about understanding their own identity, as well as the identity and experiences of others, they will be ready to actively participate in social change. Employ these resources to consider the challenges facing their community, to help them assess their community’s assets, to formulate a plan to achieve their goals and to put the plan in motion.