Charlottesville Response

Here are a few resources teachers can use as they think about how to respond to recent events in Charlottesville, Virginia:

• Anti-White Supremacy Call-In Tips (Debby Irving)
• Standing Up Against Hate (Mica Pollack, Teaching Tolerance, Issue 56, Summer 2017)
• There Is No Apolitical Classroom: Resources for Teaching in These Times (Literacy and NCTE  — blog)
• The Reconstruction Era and the Fragility of Democracy (Facing History, Facing Ourselves)
• Seven Ways Teachers Can Respond to the Evil of Charlottesville, Staring Now” (Xian Franzinger Barrett, AlterNet)
• #Charlottesville Curriculum (Melinda Anderson) 
• The Other Inconvenient Truth (Charles Blow, New York Times)
• Charlottesville Syllabus: Readings on the History of Hate in America (JSTOR Daily)

Resources for Addressing Crises, Tragedies, Major News Events

• Talking to Children About Tragedies (American Academy of Pediatrics)
• Explaining the News to Our Kids (Common Sense Media)
• Helping Children Cope with Frightening News (Childmind Institute)
• Talking to Our Children After Racial Incidents (University of Pennsylvania Graduate School of Education)

Resources for Teaching Positive Racial Attitudes and Identity

• Beyond the Golden Rule: A Parent’s Guide to Preventing and Responding to Prejudice (Teaching Tolerance)
• The Dos and Don’ts of Talking to Kids of Color About White Supremacy (Colorlines magazine)
• What White Children Need to Know About Race (Independent School)
• Teaching Tolerance: How White Parents Should Talk to Their Young Kids About Race (Slate)
• What Happens When Minority Kids are Taught Not to Talk About Race? (New York Magazine)
• 100 Race Conscious Things You Can Say to Your Child to Advance Racial Justice (Raising Race Conscious Children)