Social Justice

• Abolitionist Teaching Network

• Anti-Indigeneity – What does it look like?

  • Includes a downloadable Land Acknowledgement Guide

• Are you planning to do a Land Acknowledgement?

  • A blog post from the AICI (American Indians in Children’s Literature) with 26 things to consider + 1 update

• Education for Liberation Network

• Equity Design Lab (hosted by the National Association of Independent Schools; NAIS)

  • The NAIS Equity Design Lab (EDL) is a leadership and professional development series. Each lab employs iterative design, mind science and other research, skill-building, and best and emerging practices. The goal is to develop innovative solutions and models that independent schools can use to address challenges and opportunities related to equity and social justice.

• Facing History and Ourselves

  • Our mission is to engage students of diverse backgrounds in an examination of racism, prejudice, and antisemitism in order to promote the development of a more humane and informed citizenry.

  • By studying the historical development of the Holocaust and other examples of genocide, students make the essential connection between history and the moral choices they confront in their own lives.

  • Topics explored include: democracy and civic engagement, race and US history, justice and human rights, antisemitism and religious intolerance, bullying and ostracism, global immigration, genocide and mass violence, and holocaust.

• First Sound Pedagogical Institute by Youth Speaks and the School of Education at the University of San Francisco

• Free Minds, Free People convened by the Education for Liberation Network

• In Our Own Hands: tools for talking abolition and transformative justice with little ones (a toolkit)

• Institute for Teaching Diversity & Social Justice (IDSJ)

• International Institute for Restorative Practices

• Language of Social Justice: Cheat Sheet

  • Defines key terms by describing what is meant and examples of what it is

• Multicultural Classroom Consulting

• National School Reform Faculty (NSRF)

  • The National School Reform Faculty® organization empowers educators to create meaningful learning experiences for all, by collaborating effectively in reflective democratic communities

  • that foster educational equity and social justice.

  • Owner of the Critical Friends Group – leads training on the Critical Friends Group curriculum by certified National Facilitators. Training schedules can be accessed on their website linked above.

• New York Collective of Radical Educators

• SoJust: a primary source history of social justice

• Social Justice Training Institute

• Teaching Economics as if People Mattered

• Teaching for Change: Building Social Justice Starting in the Classroom

• Teaching for Social Justice Annual Conference by Teachers 4 Social Justice

• The National Association for Multicultural Education: Advancing and Advocating for Social Justice & Equity

• Transform Harm.org

  • TransformHarm.org is a resource hub about ending violence. It offers an introduction to transformative justice. Created by Mariame Kaba and designed by Lu Design Studio, the site includes selected articles, audio-visual resources, curricula, and more.

• White Privilege Conference (WPC)

  • The WPC provides a challenging, collaborative and comprehensive experience. We strive to empower and equip individuals to work for equity and justice through self and social transformations.

• World Trust: Social Justice and Equity Movement Building

  • Films, curriculum, and workshops

• Zinn Education Project: Teaching People’s History

  • Workshop topics include: Civil Rights Movement, Environmental/Climate Change, Ethnic Studies, Immigration, Islamophobia, Labor Movement, New Deal/Great Depression, Reconstruction, Slavery/Civil War, Women’s History, War/Antiwar Movements, Writing Curriculum and Articles for Publication