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)