Inclusion

• Teaching Tolerance Anti-Bias Framework (pdf)

• Diversity Without Silos - Scott E. Page

• Curriculum as Window and Mirror - Emily Style

 

Race

• 15 Questions White People Will Never Have to Ask Themselves  - Derrick Clifton

• Rethinking Conversations on Race Among Educators - José Vilson

• The Great Unlearn - Rachel Cargle

• “A Justice Letter to Educators of Color and Conscience” by José Vilson

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Gender 

• One Classroom, Two Genders - Jennifer Finney Boylan

• Speaking While Female - Sheryl Sandberg and Adam Grant

• Gender Bias in Teaching - Kathryn Scantlebury

 

Gender Identity and Sexual Orientation

• On National Coming Out Day, Don’t Disparage the Closet - Preston Mitchum

• Call to Action to Advance Equity & Justice for LGBTQ Youth of Color

• “Please Don’t Call Me Brave: For Those Who Continue to Teach Within the Closet” by Jess Lifshitz [LGBTQ+]

• “The First Time I Said, ‘I’m Trans’” by Jennifer Finney Boylan

• “The Time to Support and Advocate for LGBTQ Students and Educators Is Now” by Nathan Whitman

 

Ethnicity​

• I am Asian-American - Andrea Bittle

• Asian-American Children: What Teachers Should Know - Jianhua Feng 

 

Social Class

• Three Miles produced by This American Life

 

Supporting Grieving Students

• Coalition to Support Grieving Students - scholastic.com

• Dealing with Death, Grief, and Bereavement - National Association of Nursing Home Attorneys

To help you make the most of this list of resources, I have included a link to Amazon.com so you can read the reviews and get more information about individual texts. 

 

Racial Diversity

Books

• 35 Dumb Things Well-Intended People Say: Surprising Things We Say That Widen the Diversity Gap by Maura Cullen

• Black Ants and Buddhists by Mary Cowhey [social justice education in the primary grades]

• Cultivating Genius by Gholdy Muhammad [antiracism]

• For White Folks Who Teach in the Hood (and the rest of y’all too) by Christopher Emdin [antiracism]

• How to be an Antiracist  by Dr. Ibram X. Kendi [antiracist]

• The Guide for White Women who Teach Black Boys by Ali Michael

• How to Be Less Stupid About Race by Crystal M. Fleming [antiracism]

• Mindful of Race by Ruth King [antiracism]

• My Grandmother’s Hands: Racialized Trauma and the Pathway to Mending Our Hearts and Bodies by Resmaa Menakem [a

• Race Talk and the Conspiracy of Silence: Understanding and Facilitating Difficult Dialogues on Race by Derald Wing Sue 

• Raising Race Questions: Whiteness and inquiry in education by Ali Michael [antiracism]

• This Book is Anti-Racist by Tiffany Jewell, illustrated by Aurélia Durand [YA antiracism]

• We Want to do More than Survive: Abolitionist Teaching and the Pursuit of Educational Freedom by Bettina Love 

• White Fragility by Robin DeAngelo [antiracism]

  • Useful additional resource “Discussion Guide for Educators” by Valeria Brown

• Affirming Diversity: The Sociopolitical Context of Multicultural Education by Sonia Nieto

• Covering: The Hidden Assault on Our Civil Rights by Kenji Yoshino

• Love, Race, and Liberation: 'Til the White Day is Done by JLove Calderon and Marcella Runell Hall

• Minor Feelings: An Asian American Reckoning by Cathy Park Hong

• Other People's Children: Cultural Conflict in the Classroom by Lisa Delpit

• Preparing Teachers for Cultural Diversity edited by King, Hollins, and Hayman

• Savage Inequalities: Children in America's Schools by Jonathan Kozol

• The Difference: How the Power of Diversity Creates Better Groups, Firms, Schools, and Societies by Scott Page

• The Dreamkeepers: Successful Teachers of African American Children by Gloria Ladson-Billings

• We Can't Teach What We Don't Know: White Teachers, Multiracial Schools by Gary Howard

• Whistling Vivaldi: How Stereotypes Affect Us and What We Can Do by Claude Steele

• Why Are All the Black Kids Sitting Together in the Cafeteria? And Other Conversations About Race by Beverly Daniel Tatum

• Yellow: Race in America Beyond Black and White by Frank Wu

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Gender

• Delusions of Gender: How Our Minds, Society, and Neurosexism Create Difference by Cordelia Fine

• We Should All Be Feminists by Chimamanda Adichie

• Eloquent Rage: A Black Feminist Discovers Her Superpower by Brittney Cooper

• Becoming by Michelle O'Bama

• Odd Girl Out: The Hidden Culture of Aggression in Girls by Rachel Simmons

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Gender Identity and Sexual Orientation

• LGBTQ+ Youth: A Guided Workbook to Support Sexual Orientation and Gender Identity by Lee-Anne Gray

• Odd Girls and Twilight Lovers: A History of Lesbian Life in Twentieth-Century America by Lillian Faderman

• Me Talk Pretty One Day by David Sedaris

• Continental Divide by Alex Myers

• Fun Home: A Family Tragicomic by Alison Bechdel

• Redefining Realness: My Path to Womanhood by Janet Mock [antiracism / LGBTQ+]

• This is How it Always Is by Laurie Frankel

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• Gender Spectrum -works to create gender-sensitive and inclusive environments for all children and teens.

  •  Extensive vocabulary list surrounding gender

• GLSEN - GLSEN works to ensure that LGBTQ students are able to learn and grow in a school environment free from bullying and harassment. 

  • Pronoun Resource Guide 

  • GLSEN Research: 

    • Native and Indigenous LGBTQ Youth in U.S. Schools (link) [antiracism / LGBTQ+]

    • Latinx LGBTQ Youth in U.S. Schools (link) [antiracism / LGBTQ+]

    • Black LGBTQ Youth in U.S. Schools (link) [antiracism / LGBTQ+]

    •  LGBTQ Youth in U.S. Schools (link) [antiracism / LGBTQ+ 

    • The 2017 National School Climate Survey (link) [LGBTQ+]

• Center for Courage and Renewal - Parker Palmer Founder and Senior Partner Emeritus

• Edutopia

• Cult of Pedagogy

• National Black Justice Coalition

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• The Atlantic Magazine - EDUCATION - ON TEACHING   (ongoing series)

• “Avoiding the Mistakes of Discussing Race in the Classroom” hosted by Larry Ferlazzo with Marian Dingle

• “Intersectionality Matters” with Kimberlé Crenshaw [antiracism]

• “Teaching While White” [antiracism]

• “Beyond the Letters S2: Normalizing Language with Jess Lifshitz” hosted by Kate Roberts and Maggie Beatty Roberts [LGBTQ+]

• “Third Space” with Jen Cort [LGBTQ+, antiracism]

• Become a Good Ancestor by Layla F. Saad (author of Me and White Supremacy.)

• Race and Healing: A body practice - The On Being Interview with Krista Tippett and Resmaa Menakem (author My Grandmother's Hands)

• “Situational Specificity and Undoing the Hypervisibility of Queer Students of Color” (#Queer_EduChat - June 10) 

• Teach and Transform (Liz Kleinrock)

• How to Humanize Your Classroom or School When You’re Teaching from a Distance: Principles and Practices. Dave Stuart, Jr.    subscribe to the newsletter

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Relationship Building

• Making Caring Common - Harvard Graduate School of Education 

• Every Kid Needs a Champion - Rita Pierson Ted Talk 

• A 4-Part Series for Getting to Know Your Students 

• How to Become Better at the Things You Care About - Eduardo Briceno Ted Talk

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