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Diversity, Equity & Inclusion
Diversity, Equity and Inclusion Resources
The below resources are provided to help parents, faculty, staff and other community members navigate challenging conversations with students around issues of race and inequity.
This list of resources will be updated and augmented over time.
This list of resources will be updated and augmented over time.
List of 4 items.
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To read, listen and watch for older students and adults:
- I Stayed Silent When I Saw Racism. No More (Morningside Center for Teaching Social Responsibility)
- The Weaponization of Whiteness in Schools (Teaching Tolerance)
- Creating an Affirmative Space for All (Share My Lesson)(Free On Demand Webinar)
- 6 Ways to Be an Anti-Racist Educator
- Teaching Tolerance
- Morningside Center for Teaching Social Responsibility
- Abolitionist Teaching Network
- The Conversation Ignored for Too Long: Race and Racism in Education and Society (NAIS Webinar Recording)
- Abolitionist Teaching and the Future of Our Schools (Webinar Recording featuring: Bettina Love, Gholdy Muhammad, Dena Simmons and Brian Jones)
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To read, listen and watch for Lower and Middle School students:
- Talking Race with Young Children (NPR)
- Talking to Kids About Racism, Early and Often (New York Times)
- Talking to Children After Racial Incidents (Penn GSE News)
- Racism and Violence: How to Help Kids Handle the News (Child Mind Institute)
- Beyond the Golden Rule: A Parent’s Guide to Preventing and Responding to Prejudice (Teaching Tolerance)
- Helping Students Make Sense of News Stories about Bias and Injustice (ADL)
- Discussing Hate and Violence with Children (ADL)
- Supporting Vulnerable Students in Stressful Times: Tips for Parents (NASP)
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Books that celebrate differences:
- Happy in Our Skin by Fran Manushkin and Lauren Tobia
- Barefoot Book of Children by Kate DePalma, Tessa Strickland, and David Dean
- Just Ask! Be Different, be brave, be you by Sonia Sotomayor
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Books for younger students that discuss difficult topics (police shooting, white privilege, discrimination):
- Something Happened in Our Town by Marianne Celano, Marietta Collins and Ann Hazard
- Separate is Never Equal by Duncan Tonatiuh
- Not My Idea by Anastasia Higginbotham
- You Don't Know Everything Jilly P. by Alex Gino (ages 8+)
- Can I Touch Your Hair? by Irene Latham & Charles Waters (ages 8+)
- A discussion about race and racism with the authors of ABCs of Diversity, Y. Joy Harris-Smith and Carolyn Helsel
