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This is an incredibly powerful reminder of the importance of representation in the stories we read and the stories we share.

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Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie: The Danger of a Single Story | TED

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Unit and lesson plan ideas from Liz Kleinrock's Blog

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Unit and lesson plan ideas from Liz Kleinrock's Blog

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LIz Kleinrock is an elementary educator in Los Angeles who is dedicated to teaching social justice in her classroom. This link will take you to the section of her blog containing curriculum if you want to get a glimpse into some real world examples.

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Social justice lessons, resources, mentoring, and consulting for educators, parents, and schools.

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This video really touched me- another good reminder of the importance of celebrating personal identities in our classroom!

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Dena Simmons: How students of color confront impostor syndrome | TED

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White Privilege: Unpacking the Invisible Knapsack -The first time I read this it really shook me into a new level of awareness and opened my eyes to all the ways I experience privilege and gave me a new lens to look at my life and the world.

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A POWERFUL short, honest accounting of whiteness and white privilege that doesn't pull punches, or shy away from hard truths but also doesn't make you feel horrible.

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Dr. Robin DiAngelo (Author), Michael Eric Dyson (Foreword)

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White Fragility: Why It's So Hard for White People to Talk About Racism

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White Fragility: Why It's So Hard for White People to Talk About Racism [DiAngelo, Dr. Robin, Dyson, Michael Eric] on Amazon.com. *FREE* shipping on qualifying offers. White Fragility: Why It's So Hard for White People to Talk About Racism

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13th-Documentary on Nextflix based on Michelle Alexander's book "New Jim Crow"

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13th-Documentary on Nextflix based on Michelle Alexander's book "New Jim Crow"

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JUST WATCH IT! ITS ON NETFLIX,  and is possibly THE BEST recent documentary on modern racism, particularly around racism in the justice system and the prison industrial complex.

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This short article provides some specific data to help combat these pervasive myths.

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Debunk the misinformation students bring to school-and help them think for themselves.

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Why Teaching Social Justice is Non-Negotiable

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Why Teaching Social Justice is Non-Negotiable

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This is a quick article that counters several reasons that "politics" should be kept out of school. He explains that social justice is not politics, but a representation of who we are.

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Zachary Wright, a national finalist for the United States Department of Education's School Ambassador Fellowship is an assistant professor of practice at Relay Graduate School of Education serving Philadelphia and Camden. Prior to that, he was the 12th-grade world literature and AP literature teacher at Mastery Charter School Shoemaker Campus for the last eight years, teaching the school's first eight graduating classes. Full profile →

In a recent article, J. Martin Rochester, a professor of political science at the University of St. Louis-Missouri, raised concerns about teaching social justice in schools. Rochester's problem with teaching social justice in schools is focused on two simultaneous axes. One, he thinks that social justice exists outside the jurisdiction of school curricula, and second that those who would teach social justice approach it only from a liberal perspective.

As an educator who includes social justice as a necessary part of my classroom practice, I think Rochester got some some things right but a lot of things wrong.

Education Has Always Been Political

Rochester's first insinuation is that schools ought to focus on the traditional curricula of reading, writing, mathematics, sciences, etc. Schools ought not to, in Rochester's words, "aspire to be churches or social work agencies."

What this overlooks, however, is that education has always been political. When a nation has within its DNA laws regulating who can learn, with whom one can learn, and where one can learn, then the idea that a school ought not engage in the political realm reeks of forced naïveté.

As long as our school systems are funded within halls of state legislatures that maintain 21st-century houses of education for zip codes of wealth, and crumbling school houses for zip codes of poverty, then it is disingenuous at best to assert that schools exists outside the realm of political discourse.

Furthermore, schools have always been community centers akin to congregations. Schools are where communities come together to vote, engage in town halls and hear from their elected representatives. They are the places where evening athletic leagues flourish, where families gather for tax filing support and where communities gather to enjoy the arts.

To assert that schools should exist solely as collections of classrooms is to not only deny the reality of schools across the country, but also to waste the potential of using these community centers to promote social justice as defined by that particular school community.

Our Jobs as Educators Is to Educate Not Indoctrinate

Rochester paints with an absurdly large brush when he argues that, "Educators for social justice are disingenuous in posing as facilitators of student-centered learning when as teachers they have largely foreclosed the discussion or at least steered it toward a preferred outcome."

To label all educators as disingenuous is lazy and calls into doubt one's arguments as purely didactical, more concerned with an agenda than honesty. However, if we assume the best, and discuss the argument underlying the insult, there may be some merit.

It is true that our job as educators is to educate, not indoctrinate. It is our job to help students develop the critical skills to be able to think for themselves, not simply to regurgitate the values forced onto them by a chosen curricula. This truth, however, does not call for the elimination of the social justice curriculum, but rather its expansion.

In my classroom, I choose to teach Michelle Alexander's "The New Jim Crow." I teach it as a means for building critical reading skills that allow students to identify an author's central point, analyze the methodology of that argument and to critique the merit of that argument. According to Rochester, since Alexander's work is decidedly left of center, it has no place in my classroom. What Rochester does not know, however, is that to supplement Alexander's work, I purposefully choose secondary source materials that run counter to Alexander's narrative. I ask students to not only analyze the merits of Alexander's arguments, but their shortcomings as well. In fact, after reading Rochester's article, I will take his suggestion of including Heather McDonald's "The War on Cops."

More and more, our political reality resembles the kindergarten sandbox wherein we yell over each other rather than engage with each other. The point is that we should not shut down the conversation simply because we think the other side's view might be expressed. That's not how we get a conversation on social justice to flourish.

What's Justice Anyway?

Lastly, Rochester argues that social justice curricula imply a stagnant set of value systems. He argues that social justice itself is open to interpretation, for exactly what is justice? Fair enough.

But while we may disagree on what justice is, we can likely agree on what justice is not. It is not justice when schools in affluent zip codes have laptops for all students, while those in zip codes of poverty cannot provide every student a book. It is not justice when, according to the Brookings Institute, suspension rates for Black students was 17.8 percent while those for Whites was 4.4 percent.

We will disagree on causes and remedies. We should. That discourse, as Rochester himself argues, is precisely how we can arrive at best solutions. What we cannot do is bury our heads in the sand and abstain from engaging in these discussion for fear of offending one another. And, most importantly, we cannot block our students from having these conversations in school, not when we must soon look to them to solve the ills of their predecessors.

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It's Non-Negotiable. We Have to Teach Social Justice in Our Schools.

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Zachary Wright, a national finalist for the United States Department of Education's School Ambassador Fellowship is an assistant professor of practice at Relay Graduate School of Education serving Philadelphia and Camden. Prior to that, he was the 12th-grade world literature and AP literature teacher at Mastery Charter School Shoemaker Campus for the last eight years, teaching the school's first eight graduating classes.

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Deconstructing White Privilege by Robin DiAngelo

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Deconstructing White Privilege by Robin DiAngelo

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This thought-provoking 20 minute video explains what it means to be white in America. It gave me a lot to think about!

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General Commission on Religion and Race of The UMC

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Deconstructing White Privilege with Dr. Robin DiAngelo

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This Video Essay by Lindsay Ellis knocked my socks off. I liked how it took two movies (Crash and Bright) and went in to what made them so problematic, both as bad examples of negative stereotypes of race in media but also as lazy screenwriting. It talks about how these films highlight specific instances of discrimination obscuring the larger problem of institutional racism. NSFW for swearing probably...

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Bright: The Apotheosis of Lazy Worldbuilding | Video Essay

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This is an honest and vulnerable memoir of a white woman developing her racial awareness, and making many mistakes along the way.

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Waking Up White is the book I wish someone had handed me decades ago. My hope is that by sharing my sometimes cringe-worthy struggle to understand racism and racial tensions, I offer a fresh perspective on bias, stereotypes, manners, and tolerance. As I unpack my own long-held beliefs about colorblindness, being a good person, and wanting to help people of color, I reveal how each of these well-intentioned mindsets actually perpetuated my ill-conceived ideas about race.

I hope it will give you or someone you know new insights into how racism works and why you (or white people you know) can get so anxious when it comes to talking about race and racism. Writing the book was not only my way to reach out to other white people confused and/or curious about racism, it was like writing a five-year-long journal entry in an effort to make sense of all I learned and experienced in my research.
Happy reading

-Debby

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Preview of this entire book is on Stenhouse website.

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Do you know how to initiate and facilitate productive dialogues about race in your classroom? Are you prepared to handle complex topics while keeping your students engaged?Inspired by Frederick Douglass's abolitionist call to action, "it is not light that is needed, but fire", author Matthew Kay demonstrates how to mov

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What happens when I talk to white people about race

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What happens when I talk to white people about race

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NPR video - black author talks about trying to talk about race to white people.

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What happens when I try to talk race with white people

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BBC special about white privilege in America

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Inside the mind of white America - BBC News

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Equity, Access, and the Quest to Be Who Our Students Need Us to Be

While challenging the teacher as hero trope, We Got This shows how authentically listening to kids is the closest thing to a superpower that we have. Cornelius Minor identifies tools, attributes, and strategies that can augment our listening, allowing us to make powerful moves toward equity by broadening access to learning for all children.

"That's the problem with you, Minor" a student huffed. "You want to make everything about reading or math. It's not always about that. At school, you guys do everything except listen to me. Y'all want to use your essays and vocabulary words to save my future, but none of y'all know anything about saving my now. "

In We Got This Cornelius Minor describes how this conversation moved him toward realizing that listening to children is one of the most powerful things a teacher can do. By listening carefully, Cornelius discovered something that kids find themselves having to communicate far too often. That "my lessons were not, at all, linked to that student's reality."

While challenging the teacher as hero trope, We Got This shows how authentically listening to kids is the closest thing to a superpower that we have. What we hear can spark action that allows us to make powerful moves toward equity by broadening access to learning for all children. A lone teacher can't eliminate inequity, but Cornelius demonstrates that a lone teacher can confront the scholastic manifestations of racism, sexism, ableism and classism by showing:

exactly how he plans and revises lessons to ensure access and equity

ways to look anew at explicit and tacit rules that consistently affect groups of students unequally

suggestions for leaning into classroom community when it feels like the kids are against you

ideas for using universal design that make curriculum relevant and accessible

advocacy strategies for making classroom and schoolwide changes that expand access to opportunity to your students

"We cannot guarantee outcomes, but we can guarantee access" Cornelius writes. "We can ensure that everyone gets a shot. In this book we get to do that. Together. Consider this book a manual for how to begin that brilliantly messy work. We got this."

(click any section below to continue reading)

Contents

Foreword, Kwame Alexander

Acknowledgments
Introduction: PART 1 This Ain't Everybody's Hero Story-It's Yours 1. Begin by Listening We All Want Better
How Listening Can Help

How to Listen to What Students Are Really Communicating
2. You Can Disrupt the Status Quo in Your Class
How to Ensure That Your Lessons Speak to What Students Say They Need

Question the Things That Define Your Classroom Culture

Identify Any Groups That Consistently Benefit Less from the Way Things Are
3. Do Your Homework and Then Go for It
Change the Way You Do School So That Kids Have More Opportunities to Succeed

Identify Why Change Needs to Happen

Do a Little Bit of Research

Decide What to Do and Make a Plan

Execute the Plan
PART 2 Taking Your Dreams off Deferment
Find a Productive Way to Say No

4. Show Kids That You Hear Them

Plan for and Hold Regular Class Meetings to Maintain Community

Designate Specific Kids Who Can Give You Feedback
5. Make Curriculum Work for Your Kids
Shift from a Punitive to an Instructive Mind-Set

Use a Universal-Design-for-Learning Framework to Make Learning Accessible

Understand Exactly What You're Being Asked to Do

Understand What Test Prep Is Really Asking You to Do

6. Being a Good Teacher Versus Being a Good Employee

Engage in Imaginative Mind-Set Work

Gather a PR Team as You Make a Plan to Be Better for Kids
Epilogue: The Gravity of Our Work
Bring It Back to the Classroom

Companion Resources

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Race, not class, plays a greater role in future success (because of how we have constructed our society, not genetics)

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Race, not class, plays a greater role in future success (because of how we have constructed our society, not genetics)

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"The worst places for poor white children are almost all better than the best places for poor black children."

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Extensive Data Shows Punishing Reach of Racism for Black Boys (Published 2018)

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A study of 20 million children shows the fragility of the American Dream.

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Prek- 2nd grade teachers created a framework for reflecting to action for Social Justice in classrooms.

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Moving Beyond Anti-Bias Activities_ Supporting the Development of Anti-Bias Practices _ NAEYC

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"#1 NEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLER • A powerful true story about the potential for mercy to redeem us, and a clarion call to fix our broken system of justice—from one of the most brilliant and influential lawyers of our time

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Just Mercy: A Story of Justice and Redemption

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Amazon.com: Just Mercy: A Story of Justice and Redemption: 9780812984965: Stevenson, Bryan: Books

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This article tells about a study uncovering implicit racial bias in Pre-K teachers. Research shows that we all have implicit biases. The best anecdote is to learn about our own implicit biases and consciously work to put them in check.

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First, a story:

Late one night, a man searches for something in a parking lot. On his hands and knees, he crawls around a bright circle of light created by a streetlamp overhead.

A woman passes, stops, takes in the scene.

"What are you looking for? Can I help?"

"My car keys. Any chance you've seen them?"

"You dropped them right around here?"

"Oh, no. I dropped them way over there," he says, gesturing vaguely to some faraway spot on the other side of the lot.

"Then why are you looking here?"

The man pauses to consider the question.

"Because this is where the light is."

New research from the Yale Child Study Center suggests that many preschool teachers look for disruptive behavior in much the same way: in just one place, waiting for it to appear.

The problem with this strategy (besides it being inefficient), is that, because of implicit bias, teachers are spending too much time watching black boys and expecting the worst.
The study
Lead researcher Walter Gilliam knew that to get an accurate measure of implicit bias among preschool teachers, he couldn't be fully transparent with his subjects about what, exactly, he was trying to study.

Implicit biases are just that - subtle, often subconscious stereotypes that guide our expectations and interactions with people.

"We all have them," Gilliam says. "Implicit biases are a natural process by which we take information, and we judge people on the basis of generalizations regarding that information. We all do it."

Even the most well-meaning teacher can harbor deep-seated biases, whether she knows it or not. So Gilliam and his team devised a remarkable - and remarkably deceptive - experiment.

At a big, annual conference for pre-K teachers, Gilliam and his team recruited 135 educators to watch a few short videos. Here's what they told them:

We are interested in learning about how teachers detect challenging
behavior in the classroom. Sometimes this involves seeing behavior before it becomes problematic. The video segments you are about to view are of preschoolers engaging in various activities. Some clips may or may not contain challenging behaviors. Your job is to press the enter key on the external keypad every time you see a behavior that could become a potential challenge.

Each video included four children: a black boy and girl and a white boy and girl.

Here's the deception: There was no challenging behavior.

While the teachers watched, eye-scan technology measured the trajectory of their gaze. Gilliam wanted to know: When teachers expected bad behavior, who did they watch?

"What we found was exactly what we expected based on the rates at which children are expelled from preschool programs," Gilliam says. "Teachers looked more at the black children than the white children, and they looked specifically more at the African-American boy."

Indeed, according to recent data from the U.S. Department of Education, black children are 3.6 times more likely to be suspended from preschool than white children. Put another way, black children account for roughly 19 percent of all preschoolers, but nearly half of preschoolers who get suspended.

One reason that number is so high, Gilliam suggests, is that teachers spend more time focused on their black students, expecting bad behavior. "If you look for something in one place, that's the only place you can typically find it."

The Yale team also asked subjects to identify the child they felt required the most attention. Forty-two percent identified the black boy, 34 percent identified the white boy, while 13 percent and 10 percent identified the white and black girls respectively.
The vignette
The Yale study had two parts. And, as compelling as the eye-scan results were, Gilliam's most surprising takeaway came later.

He gave teachers a one-paragraph vignette to read, describing a child disrupting a class; there's hitting, scratching, even toy-throwing. The child in the vignette was randomly assigned what researchers considered a stereotypical name (DeShawn, Latoya, Jake, Emily), and subjects were asked to rate the severity of the behavior on a scale of one to five.

White teachers consistently held black students to a lower standard, rating their behavior as less severe than the same behavior of white students.

Gilliam says this tracks with previous research around how people may shift standards and expectations of others based on stereotypes and implicit bias. In other words, if white teachers believe that black boys are more likely to behave badly, they may be less surprised by that behavior and rate it less severely.

Black teachers, on the other hand, did the opposite, holding black students to a higher standard and rating their behavior as consistently more severe than that of white students.

Here's another key finding: Some teachers were also given information about the disruptive child's home life, to see if it made them more empathetic:

[CHILD] lives with his/her mother, his/her 8- and 6-year-old sisters,
and his/her 10-month-old baby brother. His/her home life is turbulent, between having a father who has never been a constant figure in his/her life, and a mother who struggles with depression but doesn't have the resources available to seek help. During the rare times when his/her parents are together, loud and sometimes violent disputes occur between them. In order to make ends meet, [CHILD's] mother has taken on three different jobs, and is in a constant state of exhaustion. [CHILD] and his/her siblings are left in the care of available relatives and neighbors while their mother is at work.

Guess what happened.

Teachers who received this background did react more empathetically, lowering their rating of a behavior's severity - but only if the teacher and student were of the same race.

As for white teachers rating black students or black teachers rating white students?

"If the race of the teacher and the child were different and [the teacher] received this background information, severity rates skyrocketed," Gilliam says. "And the teachers ended up feeling that the behavioral problems were hopeless and that very little could be done to actually improve the situation."

This result is consistent with previous research on empathy, Gilliam says. "When people feel some kind of shared connection to folks, when they hear more about their misfortunes, they feel more empathic to them. But if they feel that they are different from each other ... it may actually cause them to perceive that person in a more negative light."

It's impossible to separate these findings from today's broader, cultural context - of disproportionately high suspension rates for black boys and young men throughout the school years, of America's school-to-prison pipeline, and, most immediately, of the drumbeat of stories about black men being killed by police.

If implicit bias can play a role on our preschool reading rugs and in our classrooms' cozy corners, it no doubt haunts every corner of our society.

Biases are natural, as Gilliam says, but they must also be reckoned with.

The good news, if there is such a thing from work such as this, is that Gilliam and his team were ethically obligated to follow up with every one of the 135 teachers who participated in the study, to come clean about the deception.

Gilliam even gave them an out, letting them withdraw their data - for many of them, the lasting proof of their bias.

Only one did.

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Bias Isn't Just A Police Problem, It's A Preschool Problem

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This article explains one of the many ways racism affects people of color in 2019 in America.

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The racist photo in the medical school yearbook page of Gov. Ralph Northam of Virginia has probably caused many physicians to re-examine their past.

We hope we are better today, but the research is not as encouraging as you might think: There is still a long way to go in how the medical field treats minority patients, especially African-Americans.

A systematic review published in Academic Emergency Medicine gathered all the research on physicians that measured implicit bias with the Implicit Association Test and included some assessment of clinical decision making. Most of the nine studies used vignettes to test what physicians would do in certain situations.

The majority of studies found an implicit preference for white patients, especially among white physicians. Two found a relationship between this bias and clinical decision making. One found that this bias was associated with a greater chance that whites would be treated for myocardial infarction than African-Americans.

This study was published in 2017.

The Implicit Association Test has its flaws. Although its authors maintain that it measures external influences, it's not clear how well it predicts individual behavior. Another, bigger systematic review of implicit bias in health care professionals was published in BMC Ethics, also in 2017. The researchers gathered 42 studies, only 15 of which used the Implicit Association Test, and concluded that physicians are just like everyone else. Their biases are consistent with those of the general population.

The researchers also cautioned that these biases are likely to affect diagnosis and care.

A study published three years earlier in the Journal of the American Board of Family Medicine surveyed 543 internal medicine and family physicians who had been presented with vignettes of patients with severe osteoarthritis. The survey asked the doctors about the medical cooperativeness of the patients, and whether they would recommend a total knee replacement.

Even though the descriptions of the cases were identical except for the race of the patients (African-Americans and whites), participants reported that they believed the white patients were being more medically cooperative than the African-American ones. These beliefs did not translate into different treatment recommendations in this study, but they were clearly there.

In 2003, the Institute of Medicine released a landmark report on disparities in health care. The evidence for their existence was enormous. The research available at that time showed that even after controlling for socioeconomic factors, disparities remained.

There's significant literature documenting that African-American patients are treated differently than white patients when it comes to cardiovascular procedures. There were differences in whether they received optimal care with respect to a cancer diagnosis and treatment. African-Americans were less likely to receive appropriate care when they were infected with H.I.V. They were also more likely to die from these illnesses even after adjusting for age, sex, insurance, education and the severity of the disease.

Disparities existed for patients with diabetes, kidney disease, mental health problems, and for those who were pregnant or were children.

The report cited some systems-level factors that contributed to this problem. Good care may be unavailable in some poor neighborhoods, and easily obtained in others. Differences in insurance access and coverage can also vary by race.

But the report's authors spent much more time on issues at the level of care, in which some physicians treated patients differently based on their race.

Physicians sometimes had a harder time making accurate diagnoses because they seemed to be worse at reading the signals from minority patients, perhaps because of cultural or language barriers. Then there were beliefs that physicians already held about the behavior of minorities. You could call these stereotypes, like believing that minority patients wouldn't comply with recommended changes.

Of course, there's the issue of mistrust on the patient side. African-American patients have good reason to mistrust the health care system; the infamous Tuskegee Study is just one example.

In its report, the Institute of Medicine recommended strengthening health plans so that minorities were not disproportionately denied access. It urged that more underrepresented minorities be trained as health care professionals, and that more resources be directed toward enforcing civil rights laws.

In practice, it endorsed more evidence-based care across the board. It noted the importance of interpreters, community health workers, patient education programs and cross-cultural education for those who care for patients.

All of this has met with limited success.

In 2017, the Agency for Healthcare Research and Quality issued its 15th yearly report on health care quality and disparities, as called for by the medical institute in 2002. It found that while some disparities had gotten better, many remained. The most recent data available showed that 40 percent of the quality measures were still worse for blacks than whites. Other groups fared worse as well. Measures were worse for 20 percent of Asian-Americans, 30 percent of Native Americans, and one third of Pacific Islanders and Hispanics.

Of the 21 access measures tracked from 2000 to 2016, nine were improving. Nine were unchanged. Three were worsening.

It would be easy to look at a racist photo from the 1980s and conclude that it was a different time and that things have changed. Many things have not. We know that racism, explicit and implicit, was pervasive in medical care back then. Many studies show that it's still pervasive today. The recommendations from the medical institute in 2003 still hold. Any fair assessment of the evidence suggests much work remains to be done.

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Doctors and Racial Bias: Still a Long Way to Go

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The racist photo in the medical school yearbook page of Gov. Ralph Northam of Virginia has probably caused many physicians to re-examine their past. We hope we are better today, but the research is not as encouraging as you might think: There is still a long way to go in how the medical field treats minority patients, especially African-Americans.

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Powerful, current and fairly short intro to educating yourself on race, and racism with solid practical tips on how to be an ally and how to help fight and deconstruct racist systems.

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So You Want to Talk About Race [Oluo, Ijeoma] on Amazon.com. *FREE* shipping on qualifying offers. So You Want to Talk About Race

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Zinn Education Project -Tons of great ideas for teaching social justice issues k-12

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Zinn Education Project -Tons of great ideas for teaching social justice issues k-12

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The Zinn Education Project is my compass in a sea of corporate textbooks, packaged common core curriculum and standardized testing. My entire curriculum is based on lessons that can be found on the Zinn Education Project.

High School Social Studies Teacher, Portland, Ore.

Your support is needed to help more students learn people's history. 100% of Zinn Education Project funding comes from individuals like you. Donate today.

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From voter ID laws to voter-roll purges, gerrymandering to poll closures to the deadly in-person voting conditions during a pandemic, the right to vote is under attack and the stakes are high. It is critical that students learn about the fight for voting rights, past and present.

Nov. 30, 1924: Shirley Chisholm Born...

Teaching About the Violence in Palestine and Israel...

I can UNDERSTAND pessimism, but I don't BELIEVE in it. It's not simply a matter of faith, but of historical EVIDENCE. Not overwhelming evidence, just enough to give HOPE, because for hope we don't need certainty, only POSSIBILITY.

-Howard Zinn

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Zinn Education Project: Teaching People's History

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The Zinn Education Project promotes and supports the teaching of people's history in middle and high school classrooms across the country. Based on the lens of history highlighted in Howard Zinn's best-selling book A People's History of the United States, the website offers free, downloadable lessons and articles organized by theme, time period, and reading level.

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Rethinking Schools: Great magazine and publication for teaching for social justice 

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Rethinking Schools: Great magazine and publication for teaching for social justice 

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By Wayne Au

Interrogating the recent Supreme Court decision ending affirmative action in college admissions, Au dismantles conservative arguments that pit Asian Americans against other people of color.

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Four Asian American middle school students connect and grow during the pandemic through a virtual book club focused on Asian American history and literature.

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Teaching Tolerance: Great website, and publication with TONS of ideas and resources for teaching for social justice k-12.

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Understanding how school discipline policies can contribute to the school-to-prison pipeline is essential for educators and families. Harsh punishments, automatic out-of-class time and police involvement for discipline can push young people out of classrooms and into the criminal legal system. But educators, parents and caregivers can help to change this harmful system by advocating for and implementing practices that prioritize mental health and well-being.

We offer this new resource page that highlights LFJ articles and content to open dialogue, shift practices and foster change to benefit all young people.

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Learning for Justice provides free resources to educators-teachers, administrators, counselors and other practitioners-who work with children from kindergarten through high school. Educators use our materials to supplement the curriculum, to inform their practices, and to create civil and inclusive school communities where children are respected, valued and welcome participants.

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Documentary on Hulu about the genesis and origin of Black Lives Matter in Ferguson from the people who lived it. 

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Black Lives Matter In Schools Official Website 

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Black Lives Matter At School is a national coalition organizing for racial justice in education. We encourage all educators, students, parents, unions, and community organizations to join our annual week of action during the first week of February each year.

Please see our slide presentation on BLM at School that accompanied our national webinar.

During the 2017-2018 school year, from February 5 to 9, thousands of educators around the U.S. wore Black Lives Matter shirts to school and taught lessons about structural racism, intersectional black identities, black history, and anti-racist movements for a nationally organized week of action: Black Lives Matter at School. Educators in over 20 cities participated in this national uprising to affirm the lives of Black students, teachers, and families including, Seattle, Philadelphia, Los Angeles, Chicago, Detroit, Boston, New York City, Baltimore, Washington, D.C., and beyond.

In this era of mass incarceration, there is a school-to-prison-pipeline system that is more invested in locking up youth than unlocking their minds. That system uses harsh discipline policies that push Black students out of schools at disproportionate rates; denies students the right to learn about their own cultures and whitewashes the curriculum to exclude many of the struggles and contributions of Black people and other people of color; and is pushing out Black teachers from the schools in cities around the country. With this analysis educators in the BLM at School movement developed these demands for the movement:

1) End "zero tolerance" discipline, and implement restorative justice

2) Hire more black teachers

3) Mandate black history and ethnic studies in K-12 curriculum

4) Fund counselors not cops

The lessons that educators taught during that week of action corresponded to the thirteen guiding principles of Black Lives Matter:

Monday: Restorative Justice, Empathy and Loving Engagement

Tuesday: Diversity and Globalism

Wednesday: Trans-Affirming, Queer Affirming and Collective Value

Thursday: Intergenerational, Black Families and Black Villages

Friday: Black Women and Unapologetically Black

The Black Lives Matter at School movement started as a day of action in Seattle during the fall of 2016, when thousands of educators in Seattle came to school on October 19 th wearing shirts that said, "Black Lives Matter: We Stand Together." Hundreds of families and students did too. Many of the shirts also included the message "#SayHerName," a campaign to raise awareness about the often unrecognized state violence and assault of women in our country.

This action attracted national news, helping it spread to Philadelphia. That city's Caucus of Working Educators' Racial Justice Committee expanded the action to last an entire week that year with teaching points around the thirteen principles of Black Lives Matter. Educators in Rochester, New York also held a Black Lives Matter at School day in 2017.

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Black Lives Matter At School is a national coalition organizing for racial justice in education. We encourage all educators, students, parents, unions, and community organizations to join our annual week of action during the first week of February each year. Please see our slide presentation on BLM at School that accompanied our national webinar.

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Award Winning Film on Racism in Criminal Justice System and the Prison Industrial Complex

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Bitter sweet, heart breaking movie based on a true story of a wrongful conviction of a man on death row and the failings of the criminal justice system in America.

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Teach Us All - Documentary on re-segregation of American schools an racism in education 

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Teach Us All - Documentary on re-segregation of American schools an racism in education 

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Stunning, powerful book on how racism effects every aspect of peoples lives and the main narratives we construct about racism

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A fourth edition is now available.

In the third edition of his highly acclaimed book, Bonilla-Silva continues to challenge color-blind thinking. He has now extended this challenge with a new chapter on Obama's election addressing the apparent miracle of a black man elected as the 44th President of the nation despite the fact that racial progress has stagnated since the 1980s and, in some areas, even regressed. In contrast to those who believe the election of President Obama is a watershed moment that signifies the beginning of a post-racial era in America, he suggests this development embodies the racial trends of the last 40 years including two he has addressed in this book: the rise of color-blind racism as the dominant racial ideology and the emergence of an apparently more flexible racial stratification system he characterizes as Latin America-like.

Some material from previous editions, including 'Answers to Questions from Concerned Readers,' 'What is to Be Done,' and an Appendix detailing interview questions, is now available on the Rowman & Littlefield website through the Teaching/Learning Resources link.

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Racism without Racists: Color-Blind Racism and the Persistence of Racial Inequality in America

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A fourth edition is now available. In the third edition of his highly acclaimed book, Bonilla-Silva continues to challenge color-blind thinking. He has now extended this challenge with a new chapter on Obama's election addressing the apparent miracle of a black man elected as the 44th President o...

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Why Are All  the Black Kids Sitting Together in the Cafeteria

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Why Are All  the Black Kids Sitting Together in the Cafeteria

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Our book club book selection-accessible book about race and racism particularly in education

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In many parts of the U.S., public school districts are just minutes apart, but have vastly different racial demographics - and receive vastly different funding. That's in part due to Milliken v. Bradley, a 1974 Supreme Court case that limited a powerful tool for school integration.

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A Tale Of Two School Districts : Code Switch

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In many parts of the U.S., public school districts are just minutes apart, but have vastly different racial demographics - and receive vastly different funding. That's in part due to Milliken v. Bradley, a 1974 Supreme Court case that limited a powerful tool for school integration.

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Stay Woke-Best and short documentary I've seen on BLM 

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Stay Woke-Best and short documentary I've seen on BLM 

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"Stay Woke: The Black Lives Matter Movement" is an original documentary film that chronicles the evolution of the Black Lives Matter movement through the first person accounts of local activists, protesters, scholars, journalists and others.

Dubbed the new "civil rights movement", #BlackLivesMatter launched a transformative grassroots movement that moved from social media to the streets across America. As news and images of the senseless deaths of Trayvon Martin, Eric Garner, Michael Brown, Freddie Grey and others spread online, a new generation of civil rights activists came together demanding institutional change. From scheduled marches, to assembled sit-ins and to heated rallies across the country, protesters and communities pushed the hashtag #BlackLivesMatter into a worldwide rallying cry. This is the real story of brave young people who have found their voice to lead a powerful social movement. Now these activists face the daunting challenge of turning protest - into lasting change.

Directed by Peabody and three time Emmy Award-winning filmmaker Laurens Grant, "Stay Woke: The Black Lives Matter Movement," chronicles the evolution of the Black Lives Matter movement through the first person accounts of local activists, protesters, scholars, journalists and celebrities including Jesse Williams, Nelly, Deray McKesson, Michaela Angela Davis, Wesley Lowery, Alicia Garza, Patrisse Cullors, Keeanga-Yamahtta Taylor, Johnetta Elzie, Brittany Packnett and others.
Available on: Amazon

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Stay Woke: The Black Lives Matter Movement (2016)

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A Collection of Articles from Rethinking Schools About Teaching Black Live Matter 

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Articles for Black Lives Matter at School Week of Action-Rethinking Schools

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Short Huff Post Video About BLM from BLM Leaders

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Short Huff Post Video About BLM from BLM Leaders

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What The World Needs To Know About Black Lives Matter

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BLM in Portland Public Schools: What our neighbors to the South PPS and PAT do for BLM in schools 

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Black Lives Matter at School Week of Action

February 3-7, 2020

What is Black Lives Matter at School Week of Action?

Black Lives Matter at Schools Week of Action began in Seattle, Washington at John Muir Elementary School in 2016. From there, educators in cities across the nation, began organizing a week to intentionally celebrate the lives of Black students, teachers and families. Cities including Seattle, Philadelphia, New York, Chicago, Boston, Washington D.C., Baltimore and Portland, Oregon!

Black Lives Matter at Schools Week of Action consists of educators teaching lessons about systemic and structural racism, intersectional Black identities and Black history.

How to Participate

Pledge to Participate

Share this website with colleagues and encourage colleagues to join you in this week of action

Wear your Black Lives Matter shirt or sticker on Tuesday, February 4th

1. Order your National Week of Action shirt here by January 27th - hyperlink to the order page

2. Request P.A.T. to pony you a BLM PAT shirt (UPDATE: we have a very limited supply left, but will order more in the future)

3. Wear your P.A.T. BLM Sticker

4. Take a photo with your BLM gear and tag it #BLMWOAPAT

Watch the "How to Participate" webinar

Post a BLM poster

the Read PPS School Board Resolution (Passed on 1/22/20!)

Teach a lesson in your class (lessons links below)

Attend a Community Event (more info below)

Sign-up for a Portland Association of Teachers Racial Equity professional development (coming soon!)

Plan an event at your school

Lesson Plans and Classroom Resources

Black Lives Matter at School Demands

RECRUIT AND RETAIN BLACK TEACHERS

FULLY RESOURCED RESTORATIVE JUSTICE

ETHNIC STUDIES IN ALL GRADE LEVELS AND SUBJECTS

FUND COUNSELORS NOT COPS

END ZERO TOLERANCE

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Great podcast full of information about the history of race in the US

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Just what is going on with white people? Police shootings of unarmed African Americans. Acts of domestic terrorism by white supremacists. The renewed embrace of raw, undisguised white-identity politics. Unending racial inequity in schools, housing, criminal justice, and hiring. Some of this feels new, but in truth it's an old story.

Why? Where did the notion of "whiteness" come from? What does it mean? What is whiteness for?

Scene on Radio host and producer John Biewen took a deep dive into these questions, along with an array of leading scholars and regular guest Dr. Chenjerai Kumanyika, in this fourteen-part documentary series, released between February and August 2017. The series editor is Loretta Williams.

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It was clear his students were used to this type of question. They immediately started throwing out ideas.

"I think why African American people end up on the street is because they lose jobs because people were treating them badly, and then they end up on the street with no home," said one girl.

"Some people might also be homeless if they try to apply for jobs, but they keep getting denied because of the color of their skin," suggested a boy.

Turner and his students have been discussing all year long how power and privilege are built into all aspects of society. He often takes opportunities like this one to ask students to connect those prior conversations to whatever topic is at hand. In fact, the structural inequalities that lead to homelessness is one of the least potentially controversial topics they've tackled. They've also discussed microaggressions, gender inequality, gender identity and structural racism.

"I think that kids can handle a lot more nuance than we generally give them credit for," Turner said. "You can talk about anything with kids. You can make anything accessible, no matter how uncomfortable or atrocious it may seem."

Some people may think first grade is a bit early for some of these heavy topics. Some parents have pushed back against Turner's approach, and he's received many critical -- and sometimes hateful -- comments online from people who disagree with him. But Turner says kids are aware of race from a very early age, as early as 6 months old. And his students bring their own honest questions to class.

Turner sees what he's doing as planting seeds of inquiry and offering students some tools so they can continue to grapple with issues that are at the core of American society as they grow up. He says that, as a white man, he had the privilege not to think about how his race, class and sexuality smoothed his way through life. He's doing a lot of that work now, and he says teachers owe it to both their white students and their students of color to initiate these conversations in safe and developmentally appropriate ways.

But when recess comes, they still run around with friends, play in the dirt and have fun. The difference is that when they see something on TV or encounter discrimination on the playground, they're empowered to talk about it outright.
GIVING KIDS TOOLS TO GRAPPLE WITH DIFFICULT TOPICS
About half of Turner's students are kids of color. Turner wants his students to feel comfortable talking about privilege and power so they can move through life aware of how these issues play out all around them. He wants to equip them with the vocabulary, tools and confidence to continue engaging difficult subjects as their understanding gets more nuanced. He says they aren't too young. In fact, he's found his students are often better at talking about difficult issues than most adults. They just process them from a 6-year-old's perspective.

Take fairness. Turner noted that it's common for young kids to exclude one another in games and on the playground based on differences, including racial differences. When that happens, Turner doesn't ignore the racial aspect of the exclusion. He talks about it openly with kids.

"I mean, if you've ever seen kids try to get into line and like who goes in front of who, and cutting in line, you'll know immediately that kids want everything to be fair. So it actually doesn't take that much for kids to enter into the conversation about racism and privilege."

Turner is also careful to weave these discussions into everything he does. He doesn't isolate discussions of race to Black History Month, or talk about Native Americans only around Thanksgiving. When his class studied money, for example, they noticed that only white men are pictured. Or, when the class was learning to skip-count by twos, Turner had them practice by tallying the number of men and women in the U.S. Senate. From there, they had a fruitful discussion about unequal representation in Congress and whether that's fair. Students had mixed opinions, which Turner loves.

"That is a lesson that stuck with a lot of kids and it gets referenced a lot," he said.

Check out the MindShift Podcast to hear what these conversations sound like in Bret Turner's classroom. Listen on Apple Podcasts, Google Play, NPR One, Spotify or wherever you get your podcasts to learn more about what brought Turner, a straight white man, to teach this way. And, hear about some of the gratitude and pushback he's gotten from parents.
BRET TURNER'S JOURNEY TO TEACHING ABOUT POWER AND PRIVILEGE
Turner didn't always teach this way. In his early years of teaching, when students would ask a question that implicated race or asked why there were more white characters in their classroom books than kids of color, he would steer the conversation back to the lesson. He'd say they'd talk about it later or brush past the topic. But he began to realize that he was sending kids the message that they shouldn't talk about those issues.

"All of the evidence, both academic and anecdotal, that I've ever seen suggests that you actually have to talk to kids about it," Turner said. "And if you don't, you are unfortunately perpetuating the idea that it is not to be talked about, that white privilege is off-limits, that racism has been solved."

But that doesn't mean it's comfortable for him. Turner is acutely aware that he's a straight white man with a lot of privileges. He was worried he didn't have the depth of understanding, or the personal experience, to teach about these difficult topics well. He also knows he's not the only one doing this work -- many teachers of color have been bringing these types of lessons into their classrooms for years. Still, 80 percent of classroom teachers are white, so he sees it as his duty to help students navigate these tricky issues.

"When I realized that opting out of conversations and difficult questions was potentially damaging, I realized I couldn't do it anymore," Turner said. "As uncomfortable as I might be sometimes."

Still, he admits there are logistical challenges to teaching this way. He has a jampacked curriculum to get through, and every time one of these conversations comes up, it takes time. He understands that many teachers fear messing up or not knowing all the answers, and that can be a barrier to even starting this type of classroom conversation. At first he felt that way, too, but gradually he came to a place where he'd rather try, admit what he doesn't know, and model being a learner to find the answers.

Turner is also careful to set expectations at the start of the year with parents. He tells them at back-to-school night that in his classroom, they will be talking about all the "isms" -- racism and sexism among them -- because kids bring questions about them into the classroom. And he uses his newsletter to communicate to parents when a potentially fraught conversation took place spontaneously, or if one is planned.

"I don't want any of this to seem like cloak-and-dagger stuff where I'm doing this 'indoctrination' behind their backs in class," Turner said. When it's relevant, he also sends articles home, videos of the class, and recaps of the discussions, "just so I can be as open and clear as possible, so it doesn't take people by surprise."

Oakland mother Carla Wicks appreciates Turner's leadership. She's an African American parent whose daughter, Kendal, was in Turner's class last year. When she heard his back-to-school speech about the "isms," she approached him afterward to thank him for his "courage."

Wicks and her husband didn't have to sit their kids down to talk about racism -- it comes up all the time. When Kendal was in preschool, she was already hearing messages that lighter skin colors are more beautiful.

"These are the conversations that we have, as people of color, very early on, all the time," Wicks said.

She sees it as a teacher's job to be culturally literate and sensitive so they can respond nimbly when issues of race, privilege or power come up in the classroom. She trusts her kids' teachers to understand what's developmentally appropriate, and they should be able to have difficult conversations with kids in ways that equip them to live in a complicated world.

"I think if most human beings going through our education system had these conversations at this early age, then we'd probably be in a different place than we are today," she said.

But Turner said other parents have objected to his approach. They've told him these topics are too heavy for young children, or that he's abusing his position of power as a teacher to push a "liberal agenda."

Turner has taken that critique to heart, analyzing his classroom practice for whether there's truth in those claims. He understands that young kids want to please their teachers, but says he's not telling his students what to think. He asks questions that help kids to see patterns of injustice, and encourages them to make connections across the curriculum.

"I don't know what we want of kids other than for them to be critical thinkers and to question when things don't seem right," Turner said.

CLASSROOM RESOURCES BRET TURNER USES TO TEACH ABOUT POWER AND PRIVILEGE

Turner also shares these resources with parents:

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Privilege and power play out in the world all around us every day. And kids notice. First-grade teacher Bret Turner has decided not to avoid the difficult conversations and questions his students bring to class. Instead, he's weaving discussions of things like racism and gender inequality into everything he does.

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You will never look at the criminal justice system the same way again...

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"One of the most influential books of the last 20 years."
-Chronicle of Higher Education

"Two years after Obama's election, Alexander put the entire criminal justice system on trial, exposing racial discrimination from lawmaking to policing to the denial of voting rights to ex-prisoners. This bestseller struck the spark that would eventually light the fire of Black Lives Matter."
- Ibram X. Kendi, The New York Times

"[ The New Jim Crow] transformed forever the way thinkers and activists view the phenomenon of mass incarceration."
-Slate

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When They Call You a Terrorist: A Black Lives Matter Memoir

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When They Call You a Terrorist: A Black Lives Matter Memoir

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This is a moving memoir, written by one of the founders of Black Lives Matter. Highly recommended!

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When They Call You a Terrorist: A Black Lives Matter Memoir, Patrisse Cullors' first book cowritten by ashe bandele, is a poetic memoir and reflection on humanity. A New York Times Best Seller - necessary and timely, Patrisse's story asks us to remember that protest in the interest of the most vulnerable comes from love. Leaders of the Black Lives Matter movement have been called terrorists, a threat to America. But in truth, they are loving women whose life experiences have led them to seek justice for those victimized by the powerful. In this meaningful, empowering account of survival, strength, and resilience, Patrisse Cullors and asha bandele seek to change the culture that declares innocent black life expendable.

It is a story our nation desperately needs to hear, especially right now. Our country has been at war with its own people for decades...This remarkable book reveals what inspired Patrisse's visionary and courageous activism and forces us to face the consequence of the choices our nation made when we criminalized a generation.

- Michelle Alexander, author of The New Jim Crow

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The Most Anticipated Books of January 2018
The story of one of the women who co-founded the Black Lives Matter movement, Patrisse Cullors' book, When They Call You a Terrorist, chronicles the true birth of a movement that has been maligned and misunderstood. Michelle Alexander of The New Jim Crow calls this memoir a must-read

19 of the Best Books to Read This Winter
Patrisse Khan-Cullors co-founded one of the most vital activist groups of recent years. Now, get to the heart of Black Lives Matter with her account of how the movement began, and marvel at the brilliance and persistence of her mission despite a continuing lack of understanding and compassion from many.

The 30 Most Anticipated Nonfiction Books of 2018
Black women rarely publish coming-of-age memoirs, particularly ones that grapple with issues that are often gendered as male, such as mass incarceration, the war on drugs, and militarized policing. Patrisse Khan-Cullors, with the assistance of prominent writer asha bandele, breaks that mold in When They Call You a Terrorist. The Black Lives Matter co-founder beautifully merges memoir with political analysis

Publishers Weekly Book Review
Activist Khan-Cullors, one of the co-founders of the Black Lives Matter movement, draws a clear line from her early life to her political activism in this potent memoir, co-written with bandele (The Prisoner's Wife). Over the course of the book, she plots the hardships she and her family experienced on a larger map of social and racial injustice in America... (read more)

Booklist Review
Khan-Cullors, a self-described "artist, organizer, freedom fighter" as well as a Fulbright scholar and recipient of the Sidney Peace Prize, recounts, with coauthor asha bandele, her personal experiences and those as a founder of the Black Lives Matter Movement. Khan-Cullors delineates the harsh realities she faced growing up in Los Angeles in the late 1990s and early 2000s, from her mother working three jobs and still not able to earn a living wage to the grievous harm the war on drugs did to so many young black men, including her relatives and friends

Kirkus Review
A founder of Black Lives Matter chronicles growing up sensitive and black in a country militarized against her community.With assistance from bandele (Something Like Beautiful: One Single Mother's Story, 2009, etc.), Khan-Cullors synthesizes memoir and polemic to discuss oppressive policing and mass imprisonment, the hypocrisy of the drug war, and other aspects of white privilege, portraying the social network-based activism of BLM and like-minded groups as the only rational response to American-style apartheid

Celebrate Black Women All Yearlong with These Noteworthy Titles
A foreword by Angela Davis opens this powerful memoir by Khan-Cullors, one of the three founding women of the Black Lives Matter movement. Khan-Cullors describes, in wrenching detail, the severe exacerbation of her brother Monte's schizoaffective disorder through multiple violent arrests and torturous incarceration, alongside the effects of... (read more)

Goodreads Review
A poetic memoir and reflection on humanity. Necessary and timely, Patrisse Cullors' story asks us to remember that protest in the interest of the most vulnerable comes from love. Leaders of the Black Lives Matter movement have been called terrorists, a threat to America. But in truth, they are loving women whose life experiences have led them to seek justice for those victimized by the powerful

13 books to read in January
In this urgent and harrowing memoir from one of the co-founders of Black Lives Matter, the birth of a social movement is traced through one woman's personal experiences.

65 Queer and Feminist Books To Read In 2018
In this part memoir, part meditation on humanity, Black Lives Matter co-founder Patrisse Khan-Cullors and Asha Bandele examine what inspired Khan-Cullors' vision, activism as an act of love, and the search for justice. Cullors' book was also reviewed for Read a F*cking Book Club: We're Reading "When They Call You A Terrorist"!

71 Things To See, Hear, And Read This January
Listed by Fast Company as one of the 71 things to see, hear and read this January, When They Call You a Terrorist: A Black Lives Matter Memoir by Patrisse Khan-Cullors and asha bandele is release January 16, 2018.

The Luxury of Being Fascinated
There is a scene in Black Lives Matter co-founder Patrisse Khan-Cullors' new memoir, When They Call You a Terrorist, that punched me in the gut. Her brother, Monte, gets into a fender bender while off his anti-psychotic medication. Police, discovering a young man unhinged, shoot him with rubber bullets, tase him, and then charge him with, literally, terrorism... (read more)

10 of the Best Books of January 2018
From one of the co-founders of the Black Lives Matter movement comes a poetic memoir and reflection on humanity. Necessary and timely, Patrisse Khan-Cullors' story asks us to remember that protest in the interest of the most vulnerable comes from love. Leaders of the Black Lives Matter movement have been called terrorists, a threat to America... (read more)

9 Black-Ass Books to Add to Your Reading List on Book Lovers Day
"Patrisse Cullors grew up as a child of this war-a drug war that aimed to destroy families like hers, communities like hers, places she called home. asha bandele tells the story beautifully, sharing the often razor-sharp details of the police and prisons that punctuated Patrisse's young life with unflinching honesty and deep insight... (read more)

Books By Women To Read During The Week Of January 16
On the day after America's annual celebration of Martin Luther King Jr. comes a memoir that poignantly and poetically emphasizes the root of civil disobedience: love. However, co-authors Patrisse Khan-Cullors and Asha Bandele want you to know that change is not usually pretty or diplomatic. In fact, fighting on behalf of yourself and those who have been victimized

This Week's Best New Releases
Last week, we encouraged you to read more this year, a New Year's resolution. This week, we have some more fantastic additions for your bookshelf- or for someone else's bookshelf- if you're feeling generous, or in need of a gift! With the latest thrillers, political analyses and exposés, and edgy literary fiction, you'll have fun browsing through this curated online bookstore we've made for you. Here they are...

The List Book Review
An emotional and powerful memoir which opens up conversations about the state-sanctioned hostility facing black Americans today. Brought together by a collective goal of dismantling the shackles of systemic racism, Black Lives Matter is a movement that has reverberated around the world. Despite an emphasis on love and justice, they (and indeed the movement) have been routinely labelled as extremists. But the movement's origins and the context in which it was founded are vital to any understanding of how privilege can shield people from the cultural drivers that demand the reiteration that Black Lives Matter

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I learned a lot about the Black Lives Matter movement from this moving memoir.

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When They Call You a Terrorist: A Black Lives Matter Memoir, Patrisse Cullors' first book cowritten by ashe bandele, is a poetic memoir and reflection on humanity. A New York Times Best Seller - necessary and timely, Patrisse's story asks us to remember that protest in the interest of the most vulnerable comes from love. Leaders of the Black Lives Matter movement have been called terrorists, a threat to America. But in truth, they are loving women whose life experiences have led them to seek justice for those victimized by the powerful. In this meaningful, empowering account of survival, strength, and resilience, Patrisse Cullors and asha bandele seek to change the culture that declares innocent black life expendable.

It is a story our nation desperately needs to hear, especially right now. Our country has been at war with its own people for decades...This remarkable book reveals what inspired Patrisse's visionary and courageous activism and forces us to face the consequence of the choices our nation made when we criminalized a generation.

- Michelle Alexander, author of The New Jim Crow

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The Most Anticipated Books of January 2018
The story of one of the women who co-founded the Black Lives Matter movement, Patrisse Cullors' book, When They Call You a Terrorist, chronicles the true birth of a movement that has been maligned and misunderstood. Michelle Alexander of The New Jim Crow calls this memoir a must-read

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Patrisse Khan-Cullors co-founded one of the most vital activist groups of recent years. Now, get to the heart of Black Lives Matter with her account of how the movement began, and marvel at the brilliance and persistence of her mission despite a continuing lack of understanding and compassion from many.

The 30 Most Anticipated Nonfiction Books of 2018
Black women rarely publish coming-of-age memoirs, particularly ones that grapple with issues that are often gendered as male, such as mass incarceration, the war on drugs, and militarized policing. Patrisse Khan-Cullors, with the assistance of prominent writer asha bandele, breaks that mold in When They Call You a Terrorist. The Black Lives Matter co-founder beautifully merges memoir with political analysis

Publishers Weekly Book Review
Activist Khan-Cullors, one of the co-founders of the Black Lives Matter movement, draws a clear line from her early life to her political activism in this potent memoir, co-written with bandele (The Prisoner's Wife). Over the course of the book, she plots the hardships she and her family experienced on a larger map of social and racial injustice in America... (read more)

Booklist Review
Khan-Cullors, a self-described "artist, organizer, freedom fighter" as well as a Fulbright scholar and recipient of the Sidney Peace Prize, recounts, with coauthor asha bandele, her personal experiences and those as a founder of the Black Lives Matter Movement. Khan-Cullors delineates the harsh realities she faced growing up in Los Angeles in the late 1990s and early 2000s, from her mother working three jobs and still not able to earn a living wage to the grievous harm the war on drugs did to so many young black men, including her relatives and friends

Kirkus Review
A founder of Black Lives Matter chronicles growing up sensitive and black in a country militarized against her community.With assistance from bandele (Something Like Beautiful: One Single Mother's Story, 2009, etc.), Khan-Cullors synthesizes memoir and polemic to discuss oppressive policing and mass imprisonment, the hypocrisy of the drug war, and other aspects of white privilege, portraying the social network-based activism of BLM and like-minded groups as the only rational response to American-style apartheid

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A foreword by Angela Davis opens this powerful memoir by Khan-Cullors, one of the three founding women of the Black Lives Matter movement. Khan-Cullors describes, in wrenching detail, the severe exacerbation of her brother Monte's schizoaffective disorder through multiple violent arrests and torturous incarceration, alongside the effects of... (read more)

Goodreads Review
A poetic memoir and reflection on humanity. Necessary and timely, Patrisse Cullors' story asks us to remember that protest in the interest of the most vulnerable comes from love. Leaders of the Black Lives Matter movement have been called terrorists, a threat to America. But in truth, they are loving women whose life experiences have led them to seek justice for those victimized by the powerful

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In this urgent and harrowing memoir from one of the co-founders of Black Lives Matter, the birth of a social movement is traced through one woman's personal experiences.

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In this part memoir, part meditation on humanity, Black Lives Matter co-founder Patrisse Khan-Cullors and Asha Bandele examine what inspired Khan-Cullors' vision, activism as an act of love, and the search for justice. Cullors' book was also reviewed for Read a F*cking Book Club: We're Reading "When They Call You A Terrorist"!

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Listed by Fast Company as one of the 71 things to see, hear and read this January, When They Call You a Terrorist: A Black Lives Matter Memoir by Patrisse Khan-Cullors and asha bandele is release January 16, 2018.

The Luxury of Being Fascinated
There is a scene in Black Lives Matter co-founder Patrisse Khan-Cullors' new memoir, When They Call You a Terrorist, that punched me in the gut. Her brother, Monte, gets into a fender bender while off his anti-psychotic medication. Police, discovering a young man unhinged, shoot him with rubber bullets, tase him, and then charge him with, literally, terrorism... (read more)

10 of the Best Books of January 2018
From one of the co-founders of the Black Lives Matter movement comes a poetic memoir and reflection on humanity. Necessary and timely, Patrisse Khan-Cullors' story asks us to remember that protest in the interest of the most vulnerable comes from love. Leaders of the Black Lives Matter movement have been called terrorists, a threat to America... (read more)

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"Patrisse Cullors grew up as a child of this war-a drug war that aimed to destroy families like hers, communities like hers, places she called home. asha bandele tells the story beautifully, sharing the often razor-sharp details of the police and prisons that punctuated Patrisse's young life with unflinching honesty and deep insight... (read more)

Books By Women To Read During The Week Of January 16
On the day after America's annual celebration of Martin Luther King Jr. comes a memoir that poignantly and poetically emphasizes the root of civil disobedience: love. However, co-authors Patrisse Khan-Cullors and Asha Bandele want you to know that change is not usually pretty or diplomatic. In fact, fighting on behalf of yourself and those who have been victimized

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The List Book Review
An emotional and powerful memoir which opens up conversations about the state-sanctioned hostility facing black Americans today. Brought together by a collective goal of dismantling the shackles of systemic racism, Black Lives Matter is a movement that has reverberated around the world. Despite an emphasis on love and justice, they (and indeed the movement) have been routinely labelled as extremists. But the movement's origins and the context in which it was founded are vital to any understanding of how privilege can shield people from the cultural drivers that demand the reiteration that Black Lives Matter

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When They Call You a Terrorist: A Black Lives Matter Memoir - Patrisse Cullors

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When They Call You a Terrorist: A Black Lives Matter Memoir, Patrisse Cullors' first book cowritten by ashe bandele, is a poetic memoir and reflection on humanity. A New York Times Best Seller - necessary and timely, Patrisse's story asks us to remember that protest in the interest of the most vulnerable comes from love.

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What's wrong with saying "all lives matter"? | Black Lives Matter