Capacity Building Resources
Race-Ethnicity
- Implicit Bias Talk Moves, Leading Equity Center
- Teaching For Change: Building Social Justice Starting in the Classroom, Teaching For Change
- Social Justice Books—A Teaching for Change Project, Teaching For Change
- Learning for Justice (Formerly Teaching Tolerance), Learning for Justice
- Native Appropriations, Dr. Adrienne Keene
- Creating the Space to Talk About Race in Your School, NEA Ed Justice and Race Forward
- Culturally Responsive Classrooms: Affirming Culturally Different Gifted Students, Donna Y. Ford, Ph.D.
- The Motivational Framework for Culturally Responsive Teaching, Margery B. Ginsberg
- Talking About Race, Smithsonian National Museum of African American History & Culture
- Racial Justice in Education Resource Guide, NEA, Center for Human and Civil Rights
- Black Lives Matter at School Resources, NEA EdJustice
Gender
- #MeTooK12, NEA EdJustice
- Meeting the Needs of Girls, Alliance for Girls
- #MeToo—What’s Next?, National Women’s Law Center
- Let Her Learn: A Toolkit to Stop School Pushout for Girls Who Have Experienced Sexual Harassment, National Women’s Law Center
- Women Rising: A Guide to Your Rights at Work, NEA, Office of General Counsel
Class
- Teaching Children from Poverty and Trauma, Ernest Izard, Ph.D. and the National Education Association (NEA), Center for Education Policy and Practice
- No Time Off, Maya Lindberg Learning for Justice Magazine
- The Color of Law, Learning for Justice (formerly Teaching Tolerance)
- The Color of Law: Creating Racially Segregated Communities, Learning for Justice
- The Color of Law: Winners and Losers in the Job Market, Learning for Justice
- The Color of Law: Developing the White Middle Class, Learning for Justice
- Making Cents of Privilege, Learning for Justice
- Economic Injustice Affects Us All: A Lesson from Viva La Causa, Learning for Justice
LGBTQIA+
- Support for Student-led Clubs, GLSEN
- Leading for Change: Achieving LGBTQ Equity and Inclusion in our Schools, NEA and the Human Rights Campaign
- 5 Things Educators Are Doing to Support LGBTQ Rights Now, NEA EdJustice
- Schools In Transition: A Guide for Supporting Transgender Students in K-12 School, NEA, ACLU, Gender Spectrum, Human Rights Campaign, and National Center for Lesbian Rights
Ableism
- 5 Tips for Educators Teaching Students with Autism, Dr. Barry Prizant
Immigration—Nationality
- Supporting Immigrant Students & Families—Training for Educators, NEA EdJustice and Education Austin
- Know Your Rights: Deferred Action for Childhood Arrivals (DACA), NEA EdJustice
- Know Your Rights: Immigration Enforcement, NEA EdJustice
- We Have Rights: What to Do When Interacting with ICE, ACLU
Religion—Xenophobia
- Six Tips For Fostering a Positive School Climate, NEA EdJustice
- Deconstructing “Islamoracism” & Creating Critically Conscious Learning Communities, Fakhra Shah, Mission HS, San Francisco, CA