Don't forget to give us feedback!
Primary Resource:
Primary Resource:
- As we continue our education about Critical Race Theory, it is essential to include the work of Black women theorists like Kimberlé Crenshaw. Before you explore the examples below, review this interview with her.
- Instead of sharing one article/podcast/video this month, we are providing you a few examples of individuals and groups who are organizing and resisting anti-CRT attacks. Please spend some time exploring any that resonate with you. (Also, if you are part of a group organizing against anti-CRT attacks, we’d love to hear about it.)
Discussion Questions:
Secondary Resources:
Facilitation Reference Guide:
Feedback Form:
As we grow in year six, we hope that one person in your group can take a few minutes to fill out our feedback form to let us know how it went.
Here are reflections from previous meetings:
- What are you feeling after engaging with these stories/organizations? Is it hope? Is it curiosity? What are you going to do with that feeling?
- Do these stories/organizations lead you to consider any next steps in your own local context? What is needed to fight for the truth in your context? What are your next steps?
- If you teach in a context that is not facing attacks on truth, what would it look like to ally/offer support with a nearby school/district that is?
Secondary Resources:
- Overview of CRT from Delgado
- Chalkbeat tracker
- Why Truthful, Inclusive Education Benefits All Students - And How to Make it Happen (from the NAACP Legal Defense Fund)
Facilitation Reference Guide:
- Set a day and time for your group to meet - Make sure to send reminders. If you’re meeting in person, snacks are always a good idea!
- Send this month’s Primary Article to your group. Look through the additional readings to see if there is another reading that might be better suited to your group and its interests.
- Prepare yourself to facilitate by reading through our Norms and Discussion Protocol.
- Pass the Hat and collect donations for Black Lives Matter at School this month.
- Complete the Feedback Form.
- Prepare yourself for next month by setting a date and time, inviting colleagues, and looking out for our next Discussion Guide on December 1st.
Feedback Form:
As we grow in year six, we hope that one person in your group can take a few minutes to fill out our feedback form to let us know how it went.
Here are reflections from previous meetings:
Thank you all for your feedback so far, please keep it coming!
Pass The Hat:
In addition to being accountable to our colleagues and students of color, we believe it is important to be financially accountable to people of color who are doing this work on a daily basis. Each month, we will recommend an organization led by people of color, in education and beyond, doing the work of pushing for justice.
At the end of each monthly discussion, pass a hat (or a box) and collect donations for the designated organization. You can then have one group member go online and donate in the name of your school. If you want, you can add “Building Anti-Racist White Educators” after your school name.
This month, we encourage you to donate to Black Lives Matter at School, a national movement to teach “about structural racism, intersectional black identities, black history, and anti-racist movements.” Black Lives Matter at School is currently raising money for a Freedom School “where high school students can gain access to Black scholars and leaders and have a chance to unlearn the lies and re-learn the truths of Black history.”
Pass The Hat:
In addition to being accountable to our colleagues and students of color, we believe it is important to be financially accountable to people of color who are doing this work on a daily basis. Each month, we will recommend an organization led by people of color, in education and beyond, doing the work of pushing for justice.
At the end of each monthly discussion, pass a hat (or a box) and collect donations for the designated organization. You can then have one group member go online and donate in the name of your school. If you want, you can add “Building Anti-Racist White Educators” after your school name.
This month, we encourage you to donate to Black Lives Matter at School, a national movement to teach “about structural racism, intersectional black identities, black history, and anti-racist movements.” Black Lives Matter at School is currently raising money for a Freedom School “where high school students can gain access to Black scholars and leaders and have a chance to unlearn the lies and re-learn the truths of Black history.”