Your weekly newsletter, with resources for culturally responsive online teaching, recommitting to critical conversations and a free poster download.

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January 5, 2021
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** Recommit to Critical Conversations
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As we return to school, we can commit to checking bias in ourselves and others and speaking up every time students or colleagues make biased comments. These resources ([link removed]) can help prepare and facilitate those critical conversations.
Rethinking Poverty and Casual Conversations // Ann Van Etten ([link removed])

This Conversation Is Anti-Racist // Monita K. Bell and Cory Collins ([link removed])

The Weaponization of Whiteness in Schools // Coshandra Dillard ([link removed])
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Online Teaching Can Be Culturally Responsive
As the COVID-19 pandemic continues, many teachers and students are returning from winter break to virtual classrooms. Though distance learning is not without challenges, online classes can offer new opportunities for culturally responsive teaching. Here’s what one educator is trying ([link removed]) with her fifth grade students.
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** Why I Teach: I Teach for Black Girls Like Me
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Bria Wright understands the impact one teacher can have—to help or to harm. In the latest edition of Why I Teach, Wright wrote that she teaches “for the little Black girls who have their voices misread as attitude and not confidence and passion.” Read more ([link removed]) about how an experience in seventh grade solidified her calling into teaching.


** Supporting Students Through Coronavirus
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We’ve developed resources to support student well-being and learning during school closures, including articles about supporting specific student populations, addressing coronavirus racism, using trauma-informed approaches to teaching and more. We’re updating this page ([link removed]) as we publish new pieces.
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** Download ‘Black Lives
Matter’ One World Poster
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Our newest One World poster was created by Chicago designer Adé Hogue, who originally approached this piece ([link removed]) simply, but then a scanner mishap changed everything. “The [poster] is now a collage of a hand-drawn lettering piece that has been scanned and manipulated on the scanner bed,” Hogue says. “I think it helps amplify the many times we’ve felt we need to shout this phrase.”


** Check Out What We’re Reading
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“Diversified curriculums are not progress if they are not institutionalized and sustained for the long term.” — Teen Vogue ([link removed])

“Creating Indigenous heroes we can be truly proud of allows us to reframe skewed histories and support the notion of cultural continuance: we are still here and will continue to survive into future generations.” — We Need Diverse Books ([link removed])

“2020 was — to borrow a phrase from a popular kid's book — ([link removed]) a terrible, horrible, no good, very bad year. And for parents, one of the year's hardest jobs was trying to explain current events to young kids.” — KQED ([link removed])
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