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Kind Academy CRT Resources

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"Thus much of the current debate appears to spring not from the academic texts, but from fear among critics that students—especially white students—will be exposed to supposedly damaging or self-demoralizing ideas."

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How should we respond to legislation in Texas and in other states that are limiting the use of CRT in classrooms?

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Why do you think CRT is under attack, instead of specific pedagogies or curriculums?

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Why do classrooms so often cater to white students, and what should we do about it as anti-racist educators?

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"CRT thus puts an emphasis on outcomes, not merely on individuals' own beliefs, and it calls on those outcomes to be examined and rectified."

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Why do you think that legislators are pinpointing CRT as an "evil" in schools today? Is it their own discomfort in their privilege that leads them to want to invalidate the experiences of others?

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An emerging subtext among some critics is that curricular excellence can’t coexist along- side culturally responsive teaching or anti-rac- ist work. Their argument goes that efforts to change grading practices or make the curricu- lum less Eurocentric will ultimately harm Black students, or hold them to a less high standard.

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"CRT thus puts an emphasis on outcomes, not
merely on individuals’ own beliefs, and it calls
on these outcomes to be examined and recti-
fied."

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What does it mean in the infographic when it says legal advances for poc serve the interests of dominant white groups?

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What does it mean in the infographic when it says legal advances for poc serve the interests of dominant white groups?

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How we do actively incorporate anti-racist practices in non-social sciences courses (ie. math, science)?

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This is a bit difficult to put into words, but sometimes it feels like I'm invading spaces or bringing all the baggage of whiteness with me when I enter a classroom as a white educator. Reading the article was a bit overwhelming because it sort of left me feeling like "Ahhh I don't want to be racist or impact my students with biases I don't even consciously think about!!"

also just overwhelmed because I don't know how to affect things on a policy-level. I want to teach history with an anti-racist lens, but I'm scared of potential repercussions from the state or the school I'm at.

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The text said that the bills banning CRT are vague, so what is allowed can be unclear; what loopholes could educators use to teach the essence of CRT within the rules?

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To be honest, I was a little scared.  When they were talking about banning CRT would make it hard for History teachers to adequately teach certain topics or English teachers being unable to use certain texts I felt scared about how far reaching the effects of banning CRT are.

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Throughout my education as an aspiring educator...

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Throughout my education as an aspiring educator...

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CRT has been something I have had at least 6 credit hours of instruction over. It seems to be addressed as the "cure-all" to education. And I do not at all dismiss its importance and significance for implementation in my classroom. Surely, though, we must need instruction about how CRT is affected/influenced by non-race related factors of education?

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How can we, as educators, best respond to/sustain cultures we don't know much about as they are brought up in class? (eg. before we have time to sit down and properly educate ourselves on that culture)

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How could CRT be made more accessible for teachers?

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In what ways can CRT be incorporated more into different facets of education? What changes need to be made at a higher level (legislative or administrative) that encourage teachers to implement CRT based ideas in their lessons?

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The lack of culturally responsive/sustaining teaching that was given in my education

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It's disheartening to think that people want to ban the teaching of racism in classrooms because that is so complexly intertwined with the writings of people of color and major events in history

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Is there a way to measure/evaluate the effectiveness of
how teachers are teaching the concepts of CRT?

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How do state legislatures constitutionally have the right to restrict CRT?

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"Critical race theory is not a synonym for culturally relevant teaching, which emerged in the 1990s. This teaching approach seeks to affirm students’ ethnic and racial backgrounds and is
intellectually rigorous. But it’s related in that one of its aims is to help students identify and critique the causes of social inequality in their own lives."

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When they talked about how: As of mid-May, legislation purporting to outlaw CRT in schools has passed in Idaho, Iowa, Oklahoma, and Tennessee and have been proposed in various other statehouses.

The bills are so vaguely written that it’s un- clear what they will affirmatively cover.

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Over how so many places are passing/considering these bills banning CRT and the effects these bills will have

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It scares me how there is a possibility that legislators will be able to effectively censor and whitewash much of history and literature and prevent children from learning about it healthily, thereby creating uneducated adults who cannot face their own whiteness or other racial issues without becoming defensive and angry

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How can we still support students of color when we cannot discuss Critical Race Theory? How do we make sure their experiences are still represented in our classroom?

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It really stuck out to me how I need to know my own identity and culture as a white woman as well to be an effective educator. My students aren't going to be helped by a self-limiter such as "Well since I am not-white, I am inadequate"

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What are some of the problems with teaching kids to be "color blind?" What are some of the shortcomings that CRT improves upon? What are some of the problems with CRT itself?

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GT assessments are primarily composed of IQ tests. Not-so-coincidentally, I did not have a single black classmate in any of my GT courses all the way up through 12th grade

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I feel like Critical Race Theory has become a foundational element to learning about accurate history of the US. I do not know how to teach history, social studies, English, and other classes without discussing racism. I feel like it is a huge disservice to our students when we cannot discuss CRT.

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In Kindergarten, I vividly remember my Librarian innocently asking who celebrates Easter when we were getting close to the Holiday and were reading a book about it. Everyone's hand was raised. I was the only one who didn't raise my hand, and I remember feeling embarrassed for not knowing what it was. Not teaching to a strictly Christian audience would have made me feel less alienated in this instance.

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I remember one of the first day I am here at the US. When me and my friends having conversations in public and using our language. One guy came up and told us that we should only speak English in public.

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I am thinking of my high school history teacher who took the time teach through a CRT lens. He did not ignore racism in the US, but spent most of our year discussing it.