It’s been a while. Since November, actually. Since the day white people (myself included) had a rude awakening to the state of our country. The day protecting our most vulnerable became undeniably crucial, and combatting bigotry in the classroom went to the top of the agenda.
I want to keep this short. Lots of great people have already written on this topic and I want to highlight them:
Jose Vilson on the politics at play in our classrooms
Rafranz Davis on why seeing Hidden Figures is important
Melinda Anderson on how teachers learn to discuss racism
Rusul Alrubail on teaching about the Muslim Ban
Radical Equations, a book by Robert Moses that discusses math and civil rights.
Thanks for rounding these up. Now on to read
Wow! I appreciate all these reads. We need to educate our students and understand our students backgrounds in order to move forward and identify how we can teach them.