Racial and Social Justice in Education Toolkit
We compiled the top resources from the workshops at our Leadership Conference 2022 in one location. Resources on implicit bias, working with undocumented students, intersectionality, community schools, and more — find it all here in our new Racial and Social Justice in Education toolkit!
Supporting Undocumented Students
Undocumented
Students Support E-Handbook
This new electronic handbook aims to collect and elevate
promising practices across the California Community Colleges in
order to provide undocumented students with holistic resources
and services.
UnDocuAlly Toolkit
This google drive contains information from the workshop at the
CFT Leadership Conference, including the slides presented, family
resources, and collective bargaining MOUs. Materials have been
compiled by members of the Los Rios College Federation of
Teachers.
CFT Safe Havens
Toolkit
Find CFT’s comprehensive collection of resources from AFT and
other community allies. You can find booklets, flyers, and a
poster, websites and lesson plans.
Understanding Implicit Bias
Kirwan
Institute for the Study of Race and Ethnicity
Learning about implicit bias provides a lens to help examine
causes of racial, gender, or other social disparities, even in
the absence of explicit intent to discriminate. The Kirwin
Institute at Ohio State University provides four training modules
from the nation’s leading experts on implicit bias . The modules
range from “Understanding Implicit Bias” to “Mitigating Unwanted
Biases.” Each module has an introduction and several lessons.
Knowledge about the operation of implicit bias can help inform
the individual and institutional approaches you take to address
inequitable outcomes in your classroom or school.
“The
Look”
Watch this short video (less than 2 minutes) where people react
in negative ways to a Black man — not holding the elevator for
him, a driver rolling up the car windows when her daughter waves
at his son, looking at him oddly when he and his son are in the
pool, choosing not to sit near him at a diner. At the end of the
video, the scene is a courtroom where he’s the judge. “Let’s talk
about the look…so we can see beyond it.”
What Does it Mean to Be Anti-Racist?
In the wake of protests against police violence and the killings
of Black and Brown people over the decades, the term
“anti-racism” is popping up all over the place. What is
anti-racism, and what does it mean to be anti-racist? Find out in
the 10-minute video.
Ted Talk:
How I Learned to Stop Worrying and Love Discussing
Race
Jay Smooth is host of New York’s longest running hip-hop radio
show, the Underground Railroad on WBAI 99.5 FM in NY, and is an
acclaimed commentator on politics and culture. In this 11-minute
talk, he discusses the sometimes thorny territory of how we
discuss issues of race and racism, offering insightful and
humorous suggestions for expanding our perception of the subject.
Project
Implicit
On the Project Implicit site, you can take an Implicit
Association Test (IAT) from a list of possible topics. The
mission of Project Implicit is to educate the public about bias
and to provide a “virtual laboratory” for collecting data on the
internet. Project Implicit scientists produce high-impact
research that forms the basis of our scientific knowledge about
bias and disparities.
Dismantling Male Supremacy and White Supremacy
The
urgency of intersectionality
Now more than ever, it’s important to look boldly at the reality
of race and gender bias — and understand how the two can combine
to create even more harm. Kimberlé Crenshaw uses the term
“intersectionality” to describe this phenomenon; as she says, if
you’re standing in the path of multiple forms of exclusion,
you’re likely to get hit by both. In this moving Ted talk, she
calls on us to bear witness to this reality and speak up for
victims of prejudice.
White supremacy culture
This is a list of characteristics of white supremacy culture that
show up in our organizations. Culture is powerful precisely
because it is so present and at the same time so very difficult
to name or identify. The characteristics listed are damaging
because they are used as norms and standards without being
pro-actively named or chosen by the group. They are damaging
because they promote white supremacy thinking.
Dismantling
Racism Works Web Workbook
This online workbook, also from Dismantling Racism Works
(dRworks), is offered as a resource to the community after the
group worked with and learned from hundreds of
activists, leaders, and community members and compiled this
collection of resources.
NYPD’s infamous stop-and-frisk policy found
unconstitutional
The controversial policy allowed police officers to stop,
interrogate and search New York City citizens on the sole basis
of “reasonable suspicion.” Judge Shira A. Scheindlin ruled that
NYPD’s stop-and-frisk tactics violate the U.S Constitution’s
4th Amendment prohibition of unreasonable searches and
seizures. Overwhelming evidence suggests that the policy is used
as a method of racially profiling and harassing Black and Latinx
citizens.
Community Schools for Student Success
What
is a Community School?
Watch AFT’s short 3-minute video that describes how
community schools are public schools that partner with
stakeholders to create the conditions students need to thrive.
AFT
Community Schools Toolkit
The AFT has a mountain of resources about community schools
including case studies and profiles of award-winning community
schools representing the best of what community schools have to
offer. There are also AFT brochures and articles from
American Educator.
Community
Schools Playbook
Community schools provide each and every student with the
resources, opportunities, and support that make academic success
possible and that create strong ties among families, students,
schools, and community. This “Practical Guide to Advancing
Community Schools Strategies” provides tools for advancing
community schools as a strategy to improve schools, provide more
equitable opportunities, and prepare students for success in life
and as citizens.
Case Study: Felicitas & Gonzalo Mendez High School, Los
Angeles
Learn about a community school located in the Los Angeles
neighborhood of Boyle Heights that has partnered with United
Teachers Los Angeles and more than 40 community-based
organizations to transform their high school into a thriving and
successful community school.
CFT
launches community schools training program
The CFT launched a training program following Governor
Newsom’s extraordinary allocation of $2.8 billion in 2021 to
expand existing community schools in California and establish new
ones.