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Quick Reads for Teachers

General Resources

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  This library of resources from Mid-Atlantic Equity Consortium offers educational equity research, resources, webinars and best practices to assist educators in understanding a wide range of topics related to educational equity.
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  This website hosts a series of free, online professional development modules for school and public youth services librarians, library administrators and others interested in improving their knowledge about race and racism, racial equity and culturally sustaining pedagogy.
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  This organization created a set of resources for teachers and teacher professional developers who want to know why multicultural education makes sense in the classroom, what it means and what teachers can do.
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  The Smithsonian Institute provides K–12 educators of all disciplines a collection of featured teaching tools, scholarly resources and interactive materials that center around their initative Our Shared Future: Reckoning with Our Racial Past.
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  The Collaborative for Academic, Social and Emotional Learning (CASEL) answers the question "How Does SEL Support Educational Equity and Excellence?" and provides resources intended to transform inequitable settings and systems and promote justice-oriented civic engagement.
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  This update to the Universal Design for Learning Guidelines focuses specifically on addressing systemic barriers that result in inequitable learning opportunities and outcomes.

Quick Reads for District Leaders

Literature

• (The School Superintendents Association, April 8, 2021)
  This report from the Learning 2025: National Commission on Student-Centered, Equity Focused Education presents a holistic systemic redesign to facilitate equity through culture, social, emotional and cognitive growth and resources.
• (June 2021)
  EdReports commissioned Education First to identify and define the key terms being used to describe culturally centered theories and models of instruction. The report aims to better understand the current state of the discussion around culturally centered philosophies, needs of the field and implications for instructional materials.
• (Krasnoff, March 2016)
  The Region X Equity Assistance Center at Education Northwest funded by the US Department of Education created this guide to provide a wide range of practices—supported by research—that can help prepare educators become more culturally responsive in their approach to teaching.
• (Darling-Hammond & Cook-Harvey, 2018)
  This report by the Learning Policy Institute summarizes evidence about the effects of positive school climate, social-emotional learning, and productive teaching strategies on achievement. These approaches can help children overcome toxic stress and trauma, including stereotype threats that undermine achievement.
• (2021)
  The National School Boards Association’s Dismantling Institutional Racism in Education Initiative and the Center for Safe Schools published this guide to explore how school board members can set the tone and create policy to influence operations in each of these areas so that all students receive the resources they need to graduate prepared for success after high school.
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  This toolkit includes guiding questions to support district leaders and equity committee members in guiding initial conversations around equity and profiles districts that have successfully implemented these strategies with fidelity.
• (Leading Educators, 2020)
  Teaching for Equity is an integrated framework designed to guide educators to reflect on their practice, to see the connections across areas of research that support whole students, and to live out commitments to anti-racism.

Videos & Webinars

Additional diversity, equity and inclusion strategies can be found on the above New Jersey Department of Education's page.

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  This article describes a science and justice-based framework for promoting health equity designed for researchers and practitioners working across public health and social science fields.
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  The purpose of this article is to identify the attributes of urban settings that influence how physical education is taught, and to provide action-oriented strategies for addressing challenges and for making the most of available resources. The strategies discussed highlight the importance of preservice training and ongoing professional development, reflective and responsive instructional practices, and partnerships with academic and community institutions.
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  The Centers for Disease Control provides a variety of resources to support educators in creating a safe, healthy learning environment for all students.
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  This comprehensive website provides a variety of resources that promote wellness in the school community.
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  The Special Olympics New Jersey website provides a guide to inclusive physical education that focuses on the physical, intellectual and social growth for all students. In this model, students of all ability levels come together through ongoing fitness, sports, leadership and wellness activities to create important social relationships.

Additional guidance and resources that can be used in comprehensive health and physical education classes can be found under the General section on this webpage.

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  This website provides a wide range of current and archived research, reports and toolkits. A Guide to Inclusive Computer Science Education and Computer Science for All are two examples of resources related specifically to diversity, equity and inclusion.
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  The National School Boards Association created this resource to assist districts in developing an equity focused computer science program.
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  The K–12 Computer Science Framework provides a chapter that offers background as well as examples of equity in practice.
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  An article by the Computer Science Teachers Association that provides practical tools and resources.

Additional guidance and resources that can be used in computer science and design thinking classes can be found under the General section on this webpage.

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  These booklists highlight diverse voices including racial diversity and sexuality, and can be used in the classroom and when ordering collections. There are many booklists in the world that are categorized by topic, but these booklists ensure that underrepresented voices are being heard as well.
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  A crowdsourced, grass roots effort by teachers for teachers to challenge the traditional canon in order to create a more inclusive, representative and equitable language arts curriculum that our students deserve.
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  The Collection Analysis Tool provides districts and educators with the ability to receive a report that analyzes their picture book collections and provides suggestions on how to increase the diversity of their book selection.
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  This tool promotes a comprehensive approach to text selection that prioritizes critical literacy, cultural responsiveness and complexity.

Additional guidance and resources that can be used in English language arts and literacy classes can be found under the General section on this webpage.

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  This position statement from the National Council of Teachers of Mathematics answers the question “What is required to create, support, and sustain a culture of access and equity in the teaching and learning of mathematics?”
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  This website provides an integrated approach to mathematics that centers on Black, Latinx and Multilingual students in grades 6-8, addresses barriers to math equity and aligns instruction to grade level priority standards. The Pathway website offers guidance and resources for educators to use now as they plan their curriculum, while also offering opportunities for ongoing self-reflection as they seek to develop an anti-racist math practice. The toolkit “strides” serve as multiple on-ramps for educators as they navigate the individual and collective journey from equity to anti-racism.

Additional guidance and resources that can be used in math classes can be found under the General section on this webpage.

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  This website provides images, videos and other resources intended to inspire young girls to pursue STEM careers, while creating a culture shift in how the world perceives women in STEM.
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  This organization offers a set of resources to help educators reflect on the role of culture, equity and a social justice in a science curriculum.
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  This website provides professional learning tools and other resources (e.g., STEM teaching tools) to foster culturally responsive practices in science classrooms.
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  This book from the National Science Teachers Association describes how implementing the science practices in science classrooms fosters more equitable, active and engaged learning for all students.

 Additional guidance and resources that can be used in science classes can be found under  the General section on this webpage.

• (National Council for the Social Studies)
  This position statement is aimed at informing all who hold a stake in the PreK–12 communities regarding the ethical, moral and civic imperative to contextualize LGBT+ history within the social studies curriculum.
• (Edutopia)
  This article offers resources and a framework for creating an inclusive history curriculum that benefits all students by providing mirrors to their own lives and windows into others’ live experiences.
• (Annenberg Learner)
  This program examines how social studies teachers in any grade level can embrace both unity and diversity in their classrooms. Topics range from exploring democratic values to building awareness of student diversity. Through examples of students connecting with one another and embracing the different cultures within their community, teachers can reflect on how to best address issues of unity and diversity in their classroom.
• (National Council for the Social Studies)
  This position statement affirms the importance of women as citizens and thereby calls for greater attention to women within social studies by offering recommendations for policy and practice.
• (Edutopia)
  This article provides strategies for incorporating Black history throughout the year-round curriculum.
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  This position statement supports the creation and implementation of social studies curricula that explicitly present and emphasize accurate narratives of the lives, experiences and histories of Indigenous Peoples and provides recommendations for educators and administrators
• (Learning for Justice)
  This webpage provides an exploration of the history of sexual identity and gender identity in the United States. Leila Rupp and John D’Emilio host this podcast series to help educators integrate LGBTQ history into their curriculum.

Additional social studies instructional resources that foster a culturally responsive classroom through centering and valuing students’ cultures and identities can be found on the Sample Activities and Lessons webpage as well as under the General section on this webpage.

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  This lesson series from Learning for Justice capitalizes on children's natural relationship to art by prompting them to examine the ways art relates to accessibility, LGBT rights and social justice.
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  The artist Titus Kaphar makes paintings and sculptures that wrestle with the struggles of the past while speaking to the diversity and advances of the present. In an unforgettable live workshop, Kaphar takes a brush full of white paint to a replica of a 17th-century Frans Hals painting, obscuring parts of the composition and bringing its hidden story into view. There's a narrative coded in art like this, Kaphar says. What happens when we shift our focus and confront unspoken truths?
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  This website provides resources to help music educators develop critical practices through research, training and discourse to build a more equitable future.
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  The National Art Education Association’s guide is organized around the following areas: Context and History, From Individual/Self to Community/Others, In the Classroom, Organizational Change, Impact, and Action Steps You Can Take Today—with the goal to assist educators in meeting the needs of all students.
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  This article from the Association of Supervision and Curriculum Development exams visual thinking strategies as a tool for change in addressing bias, stereotypes and racism.
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  The Composer Diversity Database is a resource for the musical community through which composers from underrepresented groups can be discovered. Composers can be found through several different search filters including gender, racial/ethnic demographics, sexual/romantic identity, residence and various large ensemble and chamber ensemble genres.
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  This website provides resources for educators to use artworks to explore historical eras, literary themes, and connections to the present day. Contextualized within the people, movements, and stories of the United States, these artworks provide rich opportunities to uncover complexities and perspectives and put new knowledge to use.

 Additional guidance and resources that can be used in visual and performing arts classes can be found under the General section on this webpage.

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  This webinar by the American Council on the Teaching of Foreign Languages is a resource for language educators that addresses issues of race, diversity and social justice.
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  The American Council on the Teaching of Foreign Languages provides an assortment of webinars, articles, research papers and resources to support educators.

Additional guidance and resources that can be used in world language classes can be found under the General section on this webpage.