Below are some excellent resources for teachers to boost equity practices in their classroom! If you have recommendations for additions to this list, please email me at fishyteaching@gmail.com!
Equity Training Resources
- AORTA: Anti-oppression training and resource alliance
- NAEYC Anti-Bias Resources
- Peoples’ Institute for Undoing Racism
- San Francisco Coalition of Essential Small Schools
- Teaching Tolerance, especially “Speak Up” curriculum and Social Justice Standards
LGBTQIA+ Focus
- Gender Unicorn – Infographics for better understanding gender, sex, and sexuality
- The Trevor Project Support Center – FAQs and resources for LGBTQ youth and their allies
- Trans what? Resource for cisgender allies of transgender people
- SextEd – Inclusive Sex Ed Language Checklist Applies to language used in all classrooms, not just sex ed!
- GLSEN Educator Guides
STEM Focus
- Science Educators for Equity, Diversity, and Social Justice (SEEDS)
- SciGirls Connect
- The Color of STEM
- Project Biodiversify
Social media resources (All can be followed on Instagram, which is an excellent way of staying connected to anti-bias work and injecting new energy and ideas into your teaching!)
- Britt Hawthorne: Anti-bias, anti-racist educator and facilitator
- Growing with Mx. T: Tooley is a nonbinary anti-bias educator in grades 3-5
- The Conscious Kid: Black-/Brown-run parenting and education organization focused on positive representation of kids of color in children’s literature
- Teach and Transform: Liz Kleinrock is an elementary school teacher whose year-long curriculum centers on anti-racism
- Teaching Outside the Binary: Ace Schwarz is a phenomenal educational resource for LGBTQIA+ inclusion across grade levels and subjects
Further reading
- Everyday Feminism
- Jessica MF Hughes’s Disability Justice reading list
- Rethinking Schools magazine & publications
- Teaching While White Foundational Texts
- White Supremacy Cultural Norms