Equity, Diversity and Inclusion
Some You Tube Videos on Race:
The Danger of Silence Ted Talk
Jay Smooth – “How To Tell Someone They Sound Racist”
Bethesda Chevy Chase High School – “I, Too, am B-CC”
Chimamanda Adichie- “Danger of a Single Story”
Jamila Lyiscott – ” 3 Ways to Speak English”
Clint Smith – “The Danger of Silence”
Franchesca Ramsey – “5 Tips for Being an Ally”
Here is a newsletter put our periodically by the ODE Equity Unit. It has great information statewide. They are doing some innovative work and provide some excellent resources.
GLBTQ Student Support Links
Do you have a student who is gender non conforming in your class? Do you need to get some help on how to support this student and also ensure you are ensuring their rights under Oregon Law. These links should help.
1) Portland, OR: TransActive (see attached informational brochure)
https://www.transactiveonline.org/education/trainings.php
Executive Director Jenn Burleton
Phone: 503.252.3000
Email: info@transactiveonline.org
2) Seattle, WA: Welcoming Schools
http://www.welcomingschools.org/resources/
Teacher Educator: Tracy Flynn
Tracy@tracyflynnconsulting.com in addition the GLSEN (Gay, Lesbian, Straight, Education Network)
http://www.glsen.org/students/tsr has resources for schools on addressing these issues
Education and Outreach Curricular Materials from Several Organizations
Anti-Defamation League http://www.adl.org/education-outreach/
Teaching Tolerance – http://tolerance.org
Grassroots Curriculum – http://grassrootscurriculum.org/
Freedom School Curriculum – http://www.educationanddemocracy.org/index.html
Rethinking Schools – http://www.rethinkingschools.org/index.shtml
Teaching for Change – http://www.teachingforchange.org/
Zinn Education Project – https://zinnedproject.org/
MESEA (The Society for Multi-Ethnic Studies: Europe and the Americas) http://mesea.org/ (transnational/diasporic/post-colonial frame for ES teaching and research)
MELUS (The Society for the Study of Multi-Ethnic Literature of the U.S.) http://www.melus.org/
Young Teachers Collective – http://youngteacherscollective.org/
K-12 News Network – https://k12newsnetwork.com | https:/community.k12newsnetwork.com | https://thewire.k12newsnetwork.com
Education for Liberation Network http://edliberation.org
Some articles to read on race, ethnicity, disability, gender, and intersectionality.
Powerful Hashtag Has a Beautiful Message That All #NativeYouth Need to Hear
Segregation Now: The Resegregation of America’s Schools
America’s Teachers Still Don’t Think Black and Latino Kids Are Smart
Presuming Incompetence: Decolonizing Epistemologies of Deficit Thinking by Rebeca Burciaga
The Ghetto Is Public Policy, Ta-Nehisi Coates (stand alone piece and as part of the longer series The Case For Reparations)
Feminist Politics: What’s Home Got To Do With It? (comfort and discomfort in coalitional spaces), Biddy Martin & Chandra Talpade Mohanty
Mapping the Margins: Intersectionality, Identity Politics, and Violence Against Women of Color, Kimberle Crenshaw (the origin story of the term ‘intersectional’)
You Can’t Fix What You Don’t Look At: Acknowledging Race in Addressing Racial Discipline Disparities; Prudence Carter, Russell Skiba, Mariella Arredondo, & Mica Pollock
An Indian Father’s Plea, Robert Lake (Medicine Grizzlybear)
Your Local Public School Is Failing At Addressing Racism — Here Are Three Ways How, Jon Greenberg (how ethnic studies classes are intentional spaces to critically re-assess race/gender/power/class/ability etc, and therefore a crucial remedy to breaking down these structures of inequality/injustice)
White America’s racial illiteracy: Why our national conversation is poisoned from the start, Dr. Robin DiAngelo (on the concept of white fragility)
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