This Equity and Access Page offers educational materials and resources for teachers 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