The goal of this section is to support Illinois Educators as they strive to provide equitable educational opportunities for all students inclusive of class, ability, ethnicity, gender, race, religion, sexual orientation or language. This section offers educative materials for teachers and classroom resources in an effort to make learning more equitable for all students.
teacher literature
Articles:
- White Privilege: Unpacking the Invisible Knapsack
- Mirrors: Windows and Sliding Glass Doors
- Privileged Identity Exploration
- Intergroup Dialogues: An Educational Model for Cultivating Engagement Across Differences
- Creating Classrooms for Social Justice
- The Long Term Effects of Social Justice Education on Black Students
- National Council of Teachers of English Statement on Social Justice
- Understanding Education for Social Justice
- Making Black Lives Matter in Our Schools
- How One Elementary School Sparked a Citywide Movement to Make Black Students Lives Matter
- Nothing to add: A Challenge to White Silence in Radical Discussions by Robert DiAngelo
- Detour-spotting for white anti-racists by Joan Olson
- White Debt: Reckoning with what is owed and what can never be repaid for Racial Privilege by Eula Biss
- The Shame of the Nation: The Restoration of Apartheid Schooling in America
- Pedagogy of the Oppressed by Paulo Freire
- Death by a Thousand Cuts: Racism, School Closures and Public School Sabotage
- Funds of Knowledge: Theorizing Practice in Households, Communities and Classrooms
- Research: Teachers as Cultural Workers: Letters to Those Who Dare Teach
classroom book list
lessons and activities
- Teaching Tolerance
- Illinois Holocaust Museum
- Reparations Won: A Case Study in Police Torture, Racism and The Movement for Justice in Chicago
- Global Oneness Project
- Facing History and Ourselves
- UnboundEd Disrupting Inequality: Having Brave Conversations About Bias
