Diversity, Equality, Cultural Competency
Black Lives Matter, a Black-centered political will and movement founded in 2013, offers toolkits, reports, social media graphics, and other free resources to learn more about the movement to fight injustices for African Americans.
Use this resource published by Edutopia as a guide to equity and antiracism in classrooms and programs.
The Trauma and Learning Policy Initiative’s (TLPI) mission is to ensure that children traumatized by exposure to family violence and other adverse childhood experiences succeed in school. To accomplish this mission, TLPI engages in a host of advocacy strategies including: providing support to schools to become trauma-sensitive environments; research and report writing; legislative and administrative advocacy for laws, regulations, and policies that support schools to develop trauma-sensitive environments; coalition building; outreach and education; and limited individual case representation in special education where a child’s traumatic experiences are interfacing with his or her disabilities.
Use these tools produced by National Geographic to help provocate thinking, spur dialogues, and guide conversations regarding race, diversity, inclusion, and justice.
This resource provides research and case studies on engaging diverse families, especially engaging African-American and Hispanic families in large, urban public school districts.
In this lesson, Identity and Intersecting Perspectives: Between the World and Me | MacArthur Fellows Program, students explore how our complex identities shape our understanding and experience of our world.
Use these Arthur activities to help children understand themselves and those around them. Topics include self-esteem, understanding others, and cultural diversity.
This toolkit is meant for anyone who feels there is a lack of productive discourse around issues of diversity and the role of identity in social relationships, both on a micro (individual) and macro (communal) level. Perhaps you are a teacher, youth group facilitator, student affairs personnel or manage a team that works with an underserved population. Training of this kind can provide historical context about the politics of identity and the dynamics of power and privilege or help build greater self-awareness.
GLSEN’s resources include educator guides, LGBT-Inclusive curriculum, and lesson plans on bullying, bias, and diversity.
ADL’s collection of K-12 curricula include timely lesson plans and multi-grade units that promote critical thinking and assist educators in teaching current events topics through the lens of diversity, bias and social justice.
The Global Oneness Project believe that stories play a powerful role in education. Founded in 2006, as an initiative of Kalliopeia Foundation, they are committed to the exploration of cultural, environmental, and social issues. They house a rich library of free multimedia stories comprised of our award-winning films, photo essays, and articles, accompanied by companion curriculum for teachers.
Teaching Tolerance is dedicated to reducing prejudice, improving intergroup relations and supporting equitable school experiences for our nation’s children.
We provide free educational materials to teachers and other school practitioners in the U.S. and Canada. Our self-titled magazine is sent to 450,000 educators twice annually, and tens of thousands of educators use our free curricular kits.