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Portsmouth High School student’s rubric helps evaluate books on race and culture
Published on Jan 30, 2021 by Portsmouth Herald
As part of an independent study project that’s nearing completion, 17-year-old Portsmouth High School junior Aulia Castellano has created a social justice literacy matrix – a rubric of sorts used to evaluate the credibility and quality of books that address race, ethnicity, religion and culture.
Give It Up, D.C. 2020 Giving Guide
Published on Nov 25, 2020 by Washington City Paper
If 2020 has taught us anything, it’s that community organizations are an essential part of D.C. When the COVID-19 pandemic shut down the region in March, these groups stepped up to ensure that D.C.’s vulnerable residents…
How teachers are bringing lessons from the racial justice uprisings into the classroom
Published on Sep 18, 2020 by The Boston Globe
For centuries, dead white men have dominated high school English classes. Syllabuses and summer readings lists are chock-full of Shakespeares, Hemingways, Faulkners, and Fitzgeralds…
“Indigenous Peoples’ Day: Rethinking How We Celebrate American History
Published on Oct 12, 2020 by Smithsonian
The first documented observance of Columbus Day in the United States took place in New York City in 1792, on the 300th anniversary of Columbus’s landfall in the Western Hemisphere. The holiday originated as an annual celebration of Italian–American heritage in San Francisco in 1869. In 1934, at the request of the Knights of Columbus and New York City’s Italian community, President Franklin Delano Roosevelt declared the first national observance of Columbus Day. President Roosevelt and the U.S. Congress made October 12 a national holiday three years later. In 1972 President Richard Nixon signed a proclamation making the official date of the holiday the second Monday in October. (Download PDF of article)
‘This Is the Reality I Go Home To’: Students at Virtual Town Hall Urge Educators to Talk About Race and Racism. Here Are Some Starting Points for Teachers
Published on Aug 30, 2020 by The 74
The 2020-21 school year will be unlike any other in history, with many students learning online from home, and with those who are in school wearing masks and taking other precautions against the coronavirus pandemic.
Racial Equity in Your PTO or PTA: What Are You Doing?
Published on Aug 27, 2020 by PTO Today
Some robust conversations with leaders in PTO Today’s PTO and PTA Leaders & Volunteers Facebook group and an expert on equity in education have pointed toward earnest paths for moving forward with inclusiveness within parent groups.
Creating An Anti-Racist Manifesto With Zetta Elliott
Published on Aug 2020 by Raising Luminaries
A recording of a live chat between powerhouse author Zetta Elliott & the phenom Francie of Wee The People.
Teachers are reinventing how Black history, anti-racism are taught in schools as system falls short
Published on Jun 30, 2020 by Good Morning America
When historian Carter G. Woodson was calling for the first Negro History Week in the 1920s — which would go on to become what we now celebrate as Black History Month — he said of his efforts, “This crusade is much more important than the anti-lynching movement, because there would be no lynching if it did not start in the schoolroom.”
The Beat Don’t Stop: TV One’s Long-Awaited Go-Go Documentary Airs Tonite
Published on Jun 21, 2020 by Medium
A few years ago I was in the classroom of predominantly Latin American students in D.C. The teacher had invited Experience Unlimited’s Sugar Bear to speak to the children about his music career as part of “Teach the Beat: Go-Go Goes to School,” where artists are looking to infuse D.C.’s rich and unique tradition of go-go into the curriculum.
CNN Town Hall with Sesame Street
Published on Jun 6, 2020 by CNN
Dr. Beverly Daniel Tatum recommended Social Justice Books during the CNN Sesame Street Coming Together Town Hall (at 6:55 min).