Thank you for your time and interest–and all you do each day for youth in our community. We understand that while a Community of Practice is a significant time commitment, we can all continue to leverage resources to learn and grow.
We encourage you to explore STEMSTL’s Educator Resources page to help you access professional development, instructional resources, and field trips to support your STEM programming.
Strategic Community Partners have curated the following list of resources to help OST STEM programs develop their capacity for providing anti-biased, anti-racist STEM programming.
Resources for Educators
- Facing History and Ourselves has a long-standing legacy of creating comprehensive anti-racist resources for teachers. Here is the most recent one regarding the murder of George Floyd.
- Check out these resources from Critical Resistance on the abolition of the prison industrial complex.
- Teaching Tolerance has a ton of lessons for all ages around racism, classism, and sexism.
- CNN posted this article on how to discuss protests and racism with children.
- The Smithsonian History Explorer has compiled several lessons for all ages on protests and civic action throughout the history of the United States
- Teaching for Change created “Resistance 101“, a series of lessons on how to challenge injustice.
- Nicole A. Cooke compiled this comprehensive list of Anti-Racist resources for all ages
This is a great list of resources for educators the National Association of Charter School Authorizers compiled:
- How To be an Antiracist Educator
- 13th, a documentary analyzing the criminalization of African Americans and the U.S. prison boom.
- A Young People’s History of the United States, by Howard Zinn.
- Your Kids Aren’t Too Young to Talk About Race: Resource Roundup
- THE CHARACTERISTICS OF WHITE SUPREMACY CULTURE
- Avoiding Racial Equity Detours
- Creating an Anti-Racist Classroom
- The Urgent Need for Anti-Racist Education
The Learning Network via the NY Times has several critical resources involving the death of George Floyd and systemic racism:
- Students learn of the murder of George Floyd and respond by taking action or artistic expression in this lesson.
- Teachers and students learn about first encounters with the concept of race and racism in this lesson appropriate for younger ages.
- Here’s an entire teaching unit on historical and current student activism and protest that can be used in response to this moment.
- Want to cover school segregation and inequality to frame this moment? This lesson addresses that.
PBS also has excellent resources around evaluating current events.
- This lesson covers the protests that were sparked after the murder of George Floyd
- This lesson follows the response from the National Guard and from President Trump and asks students to evaluate the response.
The Equity Literacy Institute offers a free, self-paced mini course as well.