This page includes a collection of educational resources: some suggested reading (both books and articles); links to lesson plans & teaching materials; links to organizations that publish and collect educational resources and curriculum; webinars; and websites.
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Zinn Education Project
The Zinn Education Project promotes and supports the teaching of people’s history in middle and high school classrooms across the country. Based on the lens of history highlighted in Howard Zinn’s best-selling book A People’s History of the United States, the website offers free, downloadable lessons and articles organized by theme, time period, and reading level.
This is a resource-dense web-based workbook from Dismantling Racism Works (drworks). In addition to the workbook, their site also includes many further resources.
Resources for Teaching Black History
The Pulitzer Center: Global Awareness through Education
The Pulitzer Center is committed to building global awareness through education and works with elementary schools, high schools, and universities to bring pressing international issues, and the journalists who cover them, into the classroom. This site includes international news stories, lesson plans and activities, and programs for students and teachers. The Pulitzer Center says their programs aim to engage students, foster curiosity, and encourage critical thinking. Themes cover everything from global health, to slavery, to indigenous populations or voter suppression.
Teaching Tolerance | Diversity, Equity And Justice: Lets Talk! Discussing Whiteness: A four-part web series that covers a range of critical topics that can be difficult to discuss with students and colleagues.
Raising Anti-Racist White Children: A live interactive online workshop for parents and educators offering information and guidance on how to prepare white children in our increasingly multiracial society. The workshop encourages the development of an anti-racist outlook in all children, and focuses on the particular experience of raising white children.
SEGL TV: The School for Ethics and Global Leadership aims “to provide intellectually motivated high school juniors who represent the diversity of the United States with the best possible opportunity to shape themselves into ethical leaders who create positive change in our world”. This is their programming page - they are currently hosting live programming as well as maintaining an archive of previous offerings.
Crip Camp: The Official Virtual Experience: A summer-long, weekly gathering where experts and trailblazing speakers from the disability community speak on a variety of topics including the intersections of disability, race, class and gender.
*Articles are noted with quotation marks.