Anti-Bias Resources
Books on Anti-Bias
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How to Raise An Antiracist by Ibram X. Kendi
The book that every parent, caregiver, and teacher needs to raise the next generation of antiracist thinkers, from the #1 New York Times bestselling author of How to Be an Antiracist. How do we talk to our children about it? How do we raise our children to avoid repeating our racist history and the ongoing errors of the present? While we do the work of dismantling racist behaviors in ourselves and the world around us, how do we raise our children to be antiracists?
Dismantaling Racism Workbook from DRWorkbooks
This web-based workbook was originally designed to support the Dismantling Racism Works 2-day basic workshop. The workbook is now offered as a resource to the community. If you would, please continue to credit dRworks if and when you use our material. This web-based workbook is resource dense, so for best results, use a computer to view and use it.
Websites on Anti-Bias
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Education for Racial Equity is a nonprofit organization committed to dismantling the global system of white supremacy, and cultivating cultures of wholeness. We offer educational events which inspire personal, cultural and systemic transformation. Guided by the principles of Anti-Racist activism, we practice communal healing for collective liberation.
Teaching for Change provides teachers and parents with the tools to create schools where students learn to read, write, and change the world. By drawing direct connections to real world issues, Teaching for Change encourages teachers and students to question and re-think the world inside and outside their classrooms; build a more equitable, multicultural society; and become active global citizens. Our professional development, publications, and parent organizing programs serve teachers, other school staff, and parents.
The Zinn Education Project promotes and supports the teaching of people’s history in classrooms across the country. Since 2008, the Zinn Education Project has introduced students to a more accurate, complex, and engaging understanding of history than is found in traditional textbooks and curricula. With more than 150,000 people registered, and growing by more than 10,000 new registrants every year, the Zinn Education Project has become a leading resource for teachers and teacher educators.
This site shares many article, videos, and resources for parent and educators who are looking for ways to address the issues of racism with children.
YouTube has many books for children that are viedos of the book being read aloud.
You will find everything you need to create lessons for children ages 3 to 8 and build a classroom community. Topics include sense of self, family and community, the natural world, the Bible and Quakerism, worship, celebrations, empowerment, and Quaker testimonies, as well as guidance on hard issues like grief, divorce, extreme weather, violence, and more. Written with a busy, new First Day school teacher in mind, it folds in basic elements of teacher training and streamlines the whole lesson-planning process. Extensive booklists help make curriculum planning fun. A step-by-step Master Lesson Plan, blank lesson templates, and seven sample lessons give teachers a jump start. The modular shape of Sparkling Still lets you design programming for other uses too, such as meeting retreats, vacation First Day school, and in-home First Day school."
When you create the conditions for belonging, smiles grow wider, relationships grow stronger, people soar higher. AmazeWorks is an anti-bias educator known for transforming classrooms, cultures, companies, and organizations. With a strategic approach that can be tailored to any education equity or DEIB (diversity, equity, inclusion, belonging) goal, we’ll teach you how to create the conditions of belonging and equity for all. Bring belonging to life in your school through our dynamic anti-bias education approach, including student-centered curriculum and programs.
This is Ibram Kandi's website page of books. You will find his current books for parent/teachers and for children of different ages.
Articles on Anti-Bias
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How to Talk to Your Kids About Anti-Racism: A List of Resources
This article from PBS offers resources, videos, & discussion for parents and teachers to support teaching children about racism and bias.
The New York Times article by Ibram-X-Kendi shares books in multiple fields of interest that discuss anti-racism.
10 Tips on Talking to Kids about Race and Racism
This is an article for educators. It has useful ideas for teachers working with children of any age.
Talking About Race and Racism with Children
Race and the harmful effects of racism are common topics of conversation for some families. Other parents, though, might talk about racism and discrimination with their kids rarely, or not at all. But when parents stay silent, kids can get the message that racism doesn't matter or that it's someone else's problem. To help put an end to racism, everyone has to take an active role, no matter who they are.
Everyday Words and Phraises That Have Racist Connotations
“Master bedrooms” in our homes. “Blacklists” and “whitelists” in computing. The idiom “sold down the river” in our everyday speech. Many are so entrenched that Americans don’t think twice about using them. But some of these terms are directly rooted in the nation’s history with chattel slavery. Others now evoke racist notions about Black people. “Words like ‘slave’ and’ master’ are so folded into our vocabulary and almost unconsciously speak to the history of racial slavery and racism in the US,” says Elizabeth Pryor, an associate professor of history at Smith College.
The Characteristics of White Supremacy Culture
While white supremacy culture affects us all, harms us all, and is toxic to us all, it does not affect, harm, and violate us in the same way. White supremacy targets and violates BIPOC people and communities with the intent to destroy them directly; white supremacy targets and violates white people with a persistent invitation to collude that will inevitably destroy their humanity. This article describes many of the charistics of white supremacy and their effects.
4 Ways White People Can Process Their Emotions Without Bringing the White Tears
While it’s important for all folks to stop centering the emotions of white people in our activism and in our lives, it’s also important for you, and all white people, to be able to process your emotions.
Love is in Need: 5 Things You Can Do to Center Black Freedom
This article is the author's shareing of an offering of love to all of the leaders seeking to do the work of liberation behind the statements of commitment to Black lives and freedom.
Creating an Anti-Bias Early Education Community
In this special series about Parenting and Race, we highlight the experience of what it’s like to raise kids of color in our society. The intention is to spark courageous conversations, encourage reflection, and provide guidance and support for talking to kids about race and racism at every age, so we can create more inclusive, respectful, and socially just communities.
Viewpoint: Creating Anti Racist Early Childhood Spaces
The focus on racial equity following the murder of George Floyd has resulted in conversations about racism that were unheard of less than a year ago. A critical examination of race, bias, racial inequity, and racism is taking place at every level in our society, and researchers, educators, and advocates have proposed anti-racism strategies for a variety of settings, including in early childhood spaces. To enact and sustain an anti-racist approach, early childhood educators need to understand the racial history of early childhood programs and the racism in current early childhood programs. In this article, we outline the past and present along with strategies for creating anti-racist early childhood spaces.
Spanish Resources on Anti-Bias
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PROYECTO: Posición de EPCC Sobre Antirracismo
Educators for Peaceful Classrooms and Communities' position statement on anti-racism
Las 7 C's para desarrollar la resiliencia en niños
Find out what are the keys that will help your children better face life's adversities, overcome them and get the most out of them. In the current environment in which we live, it is important that children and adolescents develop skills and abilities to face obstacles, know how to recover from difficulties and be prepared for future challenges. In short, they must have resilience to have a satisfying life.