Resources

Teaching for Social Justice and Antiracism

Top Ten

• Social Justice Standards

• Being Antiracist

• Critical Practices for Social justice

• Gloria Ladson Billings on Critical Race Theory

• 12 Questions to Ask When Designing Culturally & Historically Responsive Curriculum

• Transgender Children and Youth: Understanding the Basics

• Multicultural Literature

• Ethnic Studies Resource for Teachers

• Deepening Social Justice Teaching

• Lessons from Teachers

All the Rest

• Critical Practices for Anti-bias Education

• Decolonization is not a Metaphor

• The Silenced DialogueOCSU Social Justice Library

• Talking about RaceTruth in the Classroom Bridges Divides

• Resources About Social Justice Activists

• Allies Reading List (Book List)

• 10 Important Books on Anti-Racism (Book List)

• NYT Books on Race (Book List)

• NPR's List of Books, films and Podcasts (Resource List)

• Books to Help Talk about Race with Kids (Book List)

• What White Colleagues Need to Understand

• Gender Diversity Fact Sheet

• Best Practices for Serving LGBTQ Students

Having Courageous Conversations with Students

• Courageous Conversations Agreements

• Common Sense Education: Talking with Students About Shocking or Disturbing News

• Education Week: Doing the Nearly Impossible: Teaching When the World Delivers Fear

• Facing History & Ourselves: Teaching Current Events Educator Guide

• NPR: What to say to kids when the news is scary

• Mental Health America: Talking To Kids About Fear And Violence

• National Association of School Psychologists: Talking to Children About Violence: Tips for Families

• Sesame Workshop: Violence

Adolescent Development and Identity

• Reflection

• Care in the Middle

• Identity Toolkit

• Engaging Students in Courageous Conversations about Difficult Topics

• Student-Led Conferences toolkit

• Young Adolescent Identities

• Healthy Identities

Student Voice & Democratic Education

• Putting Democracy at the Center

• Advocating for Teaching Honest History

• Negotiated Curriculum

• Spectrum of Student Voice

• Negotiated Curriculum

• Student Negotiated Curriculum - Sam Nelson Style

• Goals Can Empower

School & Classroom Organization

School Level

• Considering Middle School Organization through the Lens of Justice and Equity

• Culture & Community Toolkit

• Adult Culture Toolkit

• Critical practices for anti-bias education: family and community engagement

• Middle School is Not a Building

• Family and Community Engagement

• Middle Level Structures in US & Australia

• A Report on Middle Schools

• I Feel Like I Am Safe Again

Classroom Level

• Looping

• Transitions

• Stations

• Flexible Classrooms

Equity Literacy

• Equity Toolkit

• Equity Literacy for All

• Equity Literacy Abilities Chart

• Equity Literacy & the Middle Grades Competencies

• Avoiding Racial Equity Detours

• Jeannie Phillips' podcast on Gorski's book on poverty and class

• A Vermont act relating to ethnic and social equity studies standards for public schools

• Rebecca Haslam’s Workshop on Equity Literacy - MGI 2019

Curriculum, Instruction & Assessment

Curriculum

• Curriculum Integration and the Disciplines of Knowledge

• How do we do curriculum integration?

• Community Engaged Learning

• Authentic Curriculum

• Planning Project Based Learning - Extreme Weather

• Outdoor and Place Based Learning

• Project Based Education

Instruction

• Universal Design for Learning

• Critical practices for anti-bias education: InstructionLesson Planning for Active Learning

• Building Culture and Community

• Math dialogue with sentence starters

Assessment

• Skills and Dispositions

• Formative Assessment

• Summative Assessment

• Single Point Rubric

• Co-Constructing Rubrics

• Student Led Conferences

• Personalized Learning

• Proficiency Based Education

Standards & Transferable Skills

• Deep Dive into Transferable Skills

• Vermont Graduation Proficiencies for Transferable Skills

• Social Justice Standards

• Common Core State Standards

• Next Generation Science Standards

• College, Career, and Civic Life (C3) Framework for Social Studies State Standards

• World-Readiness Standards

• WIDA Standards for Language Proficiency

• National Art Standards

Project-Based/Community Engaged/Service Learning

Place Based Learning

• Outdoor and Place-Based Learning Toolkit

• Place-Based Education in Southeast Michigan

• Preparing Teachers for Place-based Teaching

• Reading the World, Not Just the Words

• The Best of Both Worlds: A Critical Pedagogy of Place

Project Based Learning

• Project Based and Service Learning

• Building Service and Project Based Learning Climate

• Structures for project based learning

• Teachers talking about project based learning

• Work that Matter: Teacher’s Guide to PBL

Community Based Learning

• Community-Engaged Learning Toolkit

• Shelburne Farms Community Learning Resources

• NHIS ?A?ali?i Program 2017

Three Pillars of Personalized Learning

Personalized Learning Plans

• Personalized Learning Plans Toolkit

• How Personal Learning is Working in Vermont

• Personalized Learning AOE Module

• Teaching Students to Learn without Us

• Critical Elements of PLPs

• What personalized Learning Looks Like

• Stetter on Personal Learning

Proficiency Based Assessment

• Proficiency-Based Education Toolkit

• How Good is Good Enough

• Delaying the Grade for Students to Read Feedback

• 10 Principles of Proficiency Based Learning

• MHS Learning Expectation - Example of Transferable Skills

• Standards based Learning - Peaks and Pitfalls

• Proficiency-Based Learning Resources

Flexible Pathways

• AOE Flexible Pathways

• Flexible Pathways AOE Module

Expanded Learning Opportunity Providers in Vermont

• Intervale Center

• Flynn Center for the Performing Arts

• Echo Lake Aquarium and Science Center

• Contemporary Dance and Fitness Studio

• Green Mountain Youth Symphony

• Burlington City Arts

• Shelburne Farms

• Audubon Vermont

• Minecraft

MakerSpace Learning

The Maker Framework

• Makerspace Toolkit

• Thinking about thinking - Design Models

• Youth Makerspace Playbook

• Dive into the Maker Movement

• Supporting the Teacher Maker Movement

• Using Design Thinking to Make Something for Others

• Maker Movement is Moving into Classrooms

• Making and Transferable Skills

Inclusivity and Making

• The Myth of the Neutral Makerspace

• Drexel Study - k12 makerspace lack of inclusive culture

• How To Build and Inclusive Makerspace

• Power Wheels

• An Ethnography of Maker and Hacker Spaces Achieving Diverse Participation

New and Digital Literacies

Socio Cultural Approach to Literacy

• How to Get Your Mind to Read

• Is your child a phone addict?

• Smart Phone Detox

Literacy Strategies

• Close Reading Strategies

• SketchNoting

• Being a Better Online Reader

• Gaming in the Humanities Classroom

• Effects of Technology on Young Adolescents

• Digital Citizenship - Six Resources

• Educational Digital Tools

Integrating Equity Practices into Math

Math for Social Justice

• Rehumanizing Math from Rochelle Gutierrez

• Antiracist Math Education

• Rethinking Mathematics: Teaching Social Justice by the Numbers (2nd ed.)

• Slow Reveal Graphs

• NY Times: What is Going on with This Graph?

• Jo Boaler's YouCubed

• Discovering multicultural mathematics dispositions. Journal of Urban Mathematics Education, 5(1), 31-43. (Lead author, Dr. Dorothy White, is a professor of math education who works with elementary and middle grades teacher candidates at the University of Georgia. Her entire body of work is related to supporting math teachers in being culturally conscious and actively engaged in improving mathematics education.

• Radical Math website: Radical Math is a resource for educators interested in integrating issues of social and economic justice into their math classes and curriculum. On this website, you’ll find links to access and download over 700 lesson plans, articles, charts, graphs, data sets, maps, books, and websites to help you bring these issues into your classroom.

• Four Dimensions of Equity in Math Education

Asset Based Math Instruction

• Starting with the Students: An Asset-Based Model to Teaching Middle Grades Mathematics (Kulow & Caskey (2020)

• Developing Mathematics Identity: Strategies for Teachers (Allen & Schnell (2016)

• NCTM article: Learning to See Students’ Mathematical Strengths

• Assembling the Puzzle of Mathematical Strengths White, D. Y. et al. (2018)

• Educators Learning from Mid Sch Students' Views of Math Strengths.Reflective & Collaborative Processes, Chap 3

• Helping Students See Hamlet and Harry Potter in a New Light With Computational Thinking EdSurge News

• A Pathway towards Equitable Math Instruction (including strides)

• Citizen Math with lessons that connect to social justice issues

Helpful Educational Organizations 

Organizations in Support of Equity & Sustainability

• Rethinking Schools

• Learning for Justice

• Equity Literacy Institute

• Southeast Michigan Stewardship Coalition

• Up For Learning

• Vermont Learning For The Future

• Students At the Center

• Great Schools Partnership

Blogs and Podcasts

• Cult of Pedagogy

• Mindshift

• Edutopia

Professional Development by Discipline

• English - NCTE,

• Social Studies - NCSS, SHEG

• World Languages - ACTFL

• Math - NCTM

• Science - NSTA, Exploratorium, LHS, ECHO, CFE

Middle Grades Journals & Magazines

• Middle Grades Review

• Middle School Journal

• Middle Grades Research Journal

• RMLE Online: Research in Middle Level Education