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Education Resources

Books, Activities, and Lessons for Promoting Social Justice

  • Dowdy, J. K., & Cushner, K. (Eds.). (2014). . Lanham, MD.: Rowman & Littlefield Publishing Group.
  • Dowdy, J. K. & Fleischaker, R. (Eds.). (2018). . Leiden, The Netherlands: Sense Publishers.
  • Boske, C., & Osanloo, A. (2015).. Leiden, The Netherlands: Sense Publishers.

Resources by Subject Area

Math
  • (PDF)
Science
  • NSTA Positions ; ; ; ;
Social Studies
  • K. Cushner, & Dowdy, J. K. (Eds.). (2014). . Lanham, MD.: Rowman & Littlefield Publishing Group.
Language Arts
Articles:
  • Slater, D. (Sept./Oct. 2016). . Mother Jones.
  • Flannery, M. E. (Winter 2015). . NEA Today.
  • Nelson, L. & Lind, D. (Feb. 2015). . Justice Policy Institute.
Websites:

Resources for Social Justice Topics

Human Trafficking
LGBTQ
  • (PDF) from the City of Columbus LGBTQ Health Initiative
  • - see also the
  • GLSEN
  • American Library Association (includes all winners from 1971-present)
  • by Cris Mayo (Teachers College Press, 2013)
Teaching English Language Learners
  • (SIOP)
Learning about Racism / Anti-Racist Teaching

Books

  • Critical race theory: An introduction (3rd edition) by Richard Delgado and Jean Stefancic (New York University Press, 2017)
  • How to be an antiracist by Ibram X. Kendi (One World, 2019)
  • Other people's children: Cultural conflict in the classroom by Lisa Delpit (New Press, 1995/2006)
  • So you want to talk about race by Ijeoma Oluo (Seal Press, 2018)
  • Stamped from the beginning: The definitive history of racist ideas in America by Ibram X. Kendi (Nation Books, 2016)
  • Waking up white: and finding myself in the story of race by Debby Irving (Elephant Room Press, 2014)
  • We want to do more than survive: Abolitionist teaching and the pursuit of educational freedom by Bettina L. Love (Beacon Press, 2019)
  • White fragility: Why it's so hard for white people to talk about racism by Robin Diangelo (Beacon Press, 2018)
  • "Why are all the Black kids sitting together in the cafeteria?" and other conversations about race by Beverly Daniel Tatum (Basic Books, 1997-2017)
  • Culturally sustaining pedagogies: Teaching and learning for justice in a changing world by Django Paris and H. Samy Alim (Teachers College Press, 2017)
  • Everyday antiracism: Getting real about race in school by Mica Pollock (New Press, 2008)
  • For white folks who teach in the hood - and the rest of y'all too: Reality pedagogy and urban education by Christopher Emdin (Beacon Press, 2016)
  • Teaching for Black Lives (Rethinking Schools, 2018)
  • Teaching to transgress: Education as the practice of freedom by bell hooks (Routledge, 1994)
  • Teaching when the world is on fire: Authentic classroom advice, from climate justice to Black Lives Matter edited by Lisa Delpit (New Press, 2019)
  • We can't teach what we don't know: White teachers, multiracial schools (3rd edition) by Gary Howard (Teachers College Press, 2016)
  • This book is anti-racist: 20 lessons on how to wake up, take action, and do the work by Tiffany Jewell, illustrated by Aurelia Durand (Frances Lincoln Children's Books, 2020)

Podcasts & Documentaries

  • (PBS)

  • This podcast examines the future of democracy as we know it hinged on the outcome of two senate races in a state that shocked the nation by turning blue for the first time in nearly three decades.

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