Building Racial Justice and Equity

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As an antiracist organization, ASCD stands with educators and students across the country who are rightfully outraged with the systems that have led to the deaths of George Floyd, Ahmaud Arbery, Breonna Taylor, Tony McDade, and countless others. We unequivocally believe that Black Lives Matter and are dedicated to supporting our educators and students, as well as school districts and communities, as we work to advance an education system where social justice and equity are cornerstones.

Below we have provided access to resources to help you as we collectively do the work to dismantle racism at every level—individual, institutional, structural—and educate ourselves to do and be better.

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Articles 

All of the articles listed here are open to all readers.

Education Update Membership Newsletter

• Abolitionist Teaching in Action: Q&A with Bettina L. Love by Kate Stoltzfus (December 2019)
• How to Be an Antiracist Educator by Dena Simmons (October 2019)
• How to Talk "Taboo" Topics with Young Students by Liz Kleinrock (September 2019)
• Why We Can't Afford Whitewashed Social-Emotional Learning by Dena Simmons (April 2019)

Educational Leadership Magazine

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Trauma-Sensitive Schools / October 2020

• How Trauma-Informed Are We, Really? by Paul Gorski
• Trauma Is a Word—Not a Sentence by Kristin Souers and Pete Hall
• Building Racial Equity Through Trauma-Responsive Discipline by Micere Keels
• Issue Table of Contents

Rooted in Reading / February 2020

• Confronting Inequity / Fighting the Jeffersonian Dismissal by Matthew R. Kay
• Freedom for Literacy by Kimberly N. Parker
• Conversations in the Margins by Callie Ryan Brimberry
• Issue Table of Contents

Separate and Still Unequal: Race in America's Schools / April 2019

• Avoiding Racial Equity Detours by Paul Gorski
• Robin DiAngelo on Educators' "White Fragility" by Sarah McKibben
• Widening the Lens: A Conversation with Beverly Daniel Tatum by Anthony Rebora
• What Black Educators Built by Vanessa Siddle Walker
• Why School Integration Matters by Pedro A. Noguera
• Issue Table of Contents

Disrupting Inequity / November 2016

• Helping Students Discuss Race Openly by Julie Landsman
• Conversation Interrupted by Vernita Mayfield
• Protecting Black Girls by Monique W. Morris
• Let's Talk about Racism in Schools by Rick Wormeli
• Issue Table of Contents

Helping ELLs Excel / February 2016

• Engaging Your Beginners by Jane Hill
• Getting to Know ELLs' Families by Lydia Breiseth
• Ten (Usually Wrong) Ideas about ELLs by Barbara Gottschalk
• Issue Table of Contents

ASCD Express E-Newsletter

• Identity-Affirming Schools Need Race-Conscious Educators by Erica Buchanan-Rivera (October 24, 2019)
• Aspiring Educators Need to Know the History of Race in America by Maren Oberman and Debi Khasnabis (April 11, 2019)
• Historical Black Excellence Provides a Blueprint for Reimagining Education by Gholdy Muhammad (February 13, 2020)
• A Black School Leader Confronts Privilege and Power by Jamel Adkins-Sharif (January 9, 2020)

ASCD Inservice Blog

• Finding the courage to be specific about systemic racism in education by Matthew R. Kay
  (June 9, 2020)
• Lessons from crisis: trauma-responsive teaching tools for the work ahead by Arlène E. Casimir
  (June 8, 2020)
• If we aren’t addressing racism, we aren’t addressing trauma by Dena Simmons (June 5, 2020)
• Richard Milner on Why Racial Inequity Persists in Schools by Anthony Rebora (October 29, 2018)

Quick Reference Guides

• Using Data for Equity in the Classroom
• Trauma Invested Practices to Meet Students Needs
• Teaching and Supporting Students with Adversity

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Books 

Selected chapters from each book are open to all readers. Visit the Table of Contents links to see the additional chapters and resources for each publication.

Motivating Black Males to Achieve in School and in Life

by Baruti K. Kafele

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Becoming the Educator They Need: Strategies, Mindsets, and Beliefs for Supporting Male Black and Latino Students

by Robert Jackson

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Raising Black Students' Achievement Through Culturally Responsive Teaching

by Johnnie McKinley

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Culture, Class, and Race: Constructive Conversations That Unite and Energize Your School and Community

by Brenda CampbellJones, Shannon Keeny, and Franklin CampbellJones

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Cultural Competence Now: 56 Exercises to Help Educators Understand and Challenge Bias, Racism, and Privilege

by Vernita Mayfield

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Webinars 

Access free professional development on demand and online. Registration is required but free.

• Effective School Leadership During a Global Pandemic and Social Unrest with Baruti Kafele (June 9, 2020)
• How to Become the Educator That Male Black and Latino Students Need with Robert Jackson (September 19, 2019)
• The Innocent Classroom: Building Relationships that Undermine Bias with Alexs Pate (September 22, 2020)
• The New Teacher's Guide to Cultural Competence with Vernita Mayfield (April 16, 2020) This is an ASCD member webinar. If you are an ASCD member, please use your member ID during registration. Nonmembers should enter ID 16420.

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