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Programas Europeos e Inmigración - First Erasmus + eTwinning On Site Event

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Since Trayvon Martin was murdered in 2012, we have seen a renewed investment from white people in our community who want tools to help gain a foothold in their struggles to understand the ways that racism and white supremacy opperate in their minds, their families, and the larger world. The most recent police killings have renewed the urgency of the struggle in the minds of many white people and we are getting lots of calls and requests for help. Below is a list which is designed to meet a broad variety of reader's needs and experiences. Some of these books, like The Charleston Syllabus address our contemporary moment, some like Waking Up White, How I Shed My Skin, and White Like Me, are first person accounts of how individual white people came to understand themselves as white and to desire an end to white supremacy. These are books we recommend which are all currently in print and available online from us 24/7 or in our store at 1189 Euclid Ave. NE Atlanta, GA 30307. (404) 524-0304. We also released a book list for teens and children, which you can find here. There is no time for inaction. We have all the tools we need. Only white people can end white supremacy.

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Understanding and Dismantling Racism: A Booklist for White Readers

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Since Trayvon Martin was murdered in 2012, we have seen a renewed investment from white people in our community who want tools to help gain a foothold in their struggles to understand the ways that racism and white supremacy opperate in their minds, their families, and the larger world.

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eTwinning Project "Bridge of friendship: linking East and West"

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eTwinning Project "Bridge of friendship: linking East and West"

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Yana. Ukraine

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Multidisciplinary/cross-cultural project helping our students learn more about the national diversity through various activities and virtual and face-to-face meetings. This project is an opportunity to help our students understand the value of their diversity and learn how to live together in harmony and take care of each other at the same time. The creative approach and the teamwork would be particularly appreciated. It is an opportunity to unleash the creative potential of their different languages and traditions, habits and ways of life and to ensure that these differences enrich and strengthen us, teach the Ss to be careful, instead of dividing them. The project is going to show children that taking care of each other is very important nowadays. We want to promote positive behavior and try to find the ways to avoid bullying among young children. The main aim of the project is to promote the knowledge and respect of diversity about countries (food, religion, culture, language...) each country will share music, cooking recipes and local information: geography, culture and traditions. As the project is going to be conducted in English, students will get better knowledge of English language. Moreover, they will learn new ICT tools and will be able to use them. The project is planned to last for this school year.

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Multidisciplinary/cross-cultural project helping our students learn more about the national diversity through various activities and virtual and face-to-face meetings. This project is an opportunity to help our students understand the value of their diversity and learn how to live together in harmony and take care of each other at the same time.

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For White Folks Who Teach in the Hood... and the Rest of Y’all Too: Reality Pedagogy and Urban Education (Race, Education, and Democracy)

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For White Folks Who Teach in the Hood... and the Rest of Y’all Too: Reality Pedagogy and Urban Education (Race, Education, and Democracy) [Emdin, Christopher] on Amazon.com. *FREE* shipping on qualifying offers. For White Folks Who Teach in the Hood... and the Rest of Y’all Too: Reality Pedagogy and…

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A Leaflet about Inclusion from our Erasmus Project called 'We are Less When we don't inlude Everyone '

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A Leaflet about Inclusion from our Erasmus Project called 'We are Less When we don't inlude Everyone '

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Great list of resources

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26 Mini-Films for Exploring Race, Bias and Identity With Students (Published 2017)

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To help teachers make the most of these films, we also provide a grab-bag of teaching ideas, related readings and student activities.

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Awesome resources

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Learn about resources you can use from RespectAbility, including free webinars on various disability-related topics.

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Lesson plan to go with the beloved TED Talk classic https://lanetwork.facinghistory.org/the-danger-of-a-single-story-2/

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The "Danger of a Single Story", a 2009 TED Talk by Chimamanda Adichie, a young Nigerian author, provides a powerful tool for the Facing History classroom. In the twenty minute video, Adichie describes the powerful impression the multitude of British stories made on her as a young girl growing up in Nigeria. She argues that inherent in the power of stories, is a danger-the danger of only knowing one story about a group. "The single story creates stereotypes, and the problem with stereotypes is not that they are untrue, but that they are incomplete. They make one story become the only story."

Adichie recounts speaking to an American student who, after reading her novel centered on an abusive male protagonist, lamented the fact that Nigerian men were abusive. Having just read American Psycho, Adichie returns his pity, and calls it a shame that "all young American men are serial killers." The TED audience laughs at the absurdity of this generalization and her point is clear: on a micro-level, the danger of a single story is that it prevents people from authentically connecting with people as individuals. On a macro-level, the issue is really about power: almost by definition, there are many stories about the dominant culture so the single-story threatens to create stereotypes that stick to groups that are already disempowered.

After seeing this twenty minute video, I knew I wanted to share it with students. I've observed that Africa is often students' default example of human tragedy-"starving children", "war-torn societies" and other scenes of deprivation and scarcity are conflated with "Africa." Adichie is articulate, insightful, empowered and engaging-I knew that just seeing her speak would shatter some stereotypes that students hold which oversimplify "Africa" and lump all Africans together.
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Adichie's video raises questions that fit directly with Facing History's scope and sequence. Facing History begins with an exploration of identity with questions such as "Who am I?" "To what extent am I able to define myself?" "What labels do others place on me?" Defining oneself and the groups to which one belongs often means distinguishing "us" from "them." As Rudyard Kipling writes "All the people like us are We and everyone else is They." (Click here for Kipling's poem, "We and They") Adichie's TED Talk shows how this "we/they" dichotomy is established. The We/They divide is an enduring theme which you can use in any humanities classroom.

I chose to use it in my eighth grade Global Studies course as a way to reflect after last quarter's major assignment: a lengthy interview with a person from another country. This assignment is a part of a year-long "Country Project" where students choose one developing nation to investigate in depth. During the third quarter, students developed questions; scheduled, conducted, and recorded the personal interview. This goal of the interview was to move students beyond the statistics and facts they had researched about the country as well as to develop their interpersonal and interviewing skills.

The culminating assessment was a reflective essay about the lessons and content learned from the interviewing process. The students' reflections revealed "aha moments." For example, in her essay Ashley wrote of her great revelation that Chipotle was not "real" Mexican food and, to her surprise, burritos were an American concoction with roots in California. This felt like progress; but though I was encouraged at the baby-steps, I also realized that students might have trouble discerning the opinion of one Mexican person from a fuller picture of Mexico. Each student gained so much respect for the life story of the person they interviewed, that this person became the authority on anything about the country. I could see how new knowledge could be greatly over-simplified and generalized. I decided to complicate my students' thinking by introducing "The Danger of a Single Story."
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My students were moved by the ideas. The simple message was clear: do not stereotype. But, they picked up on the nuance of all of her points. This video clearly has many classroom applications and I would love to hear from other Facing History teachers about how they envision using this resource in the classroom.

Click here to see another teacher's take on short videos useful in the Facing History classroom, from our sister blog in Toronto: ONnetwork.facinghistory.org

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The "Danger of a Single Story", a 2009 TED Talk by Chimamanda Adichie, a young Nigerian author, provides a powerful tool for the Facing History classroom. In the twenty minute video, Adichie describes the powerful impression the multitude of British stories made on her as a young girl growing up in Nigeria.