A Framework for Anti-Bias Education
This website looks at standards to provide a common language and organizational structure educators can use to guide curriculum development and make schools more just and equitable. Divided into four domains—identity, diversity, justice and action (IDJA). Together, these domains represent a continuum of engagement in anti-bias, multicultural and social justice education.
This journal article explores students of color who are disproportionately assigned to special education because educators lack knowledge about or appreciation for their cultural values and socialization, and how these affect learning behaviors. Additionally, the educational quality of students of color in both special and regular education can be improved significantly by using instructional programs and practices that reflect their cultural heritages, experiences, and perspectives. Several components of this ''culturally responsive teaching'' are explained, along with some research findings about its effects on student achievement.
Democracy and Education: The Ethics of Teaching Social Justice
A framework for exploring the intellectual and moral virtues of social justice educators. This article presents three categories that need to be taken into consideration when identifying the virtues of social justice teachers.
Equity in Education, Even During the Pandemic
This website explores an Ed-webinar that focuses on how educators can continue to support the learning needs of their full range of students and make the education they provide more equitable.
Kids for Social Justice: 6 Ways Kids Can Change the World - Sacraparental
You don’t have to be a mature adult to help in creating social justice. With these six ways, kids can become better human beings and change the world into a better place.
K-12 Exemplars- Justice Education
This is a collaborative space- that includes voices of youth, teachers, social workers, counselors, lawyers, activists, parents, friends, families, and neighbors. It includes resources to support the development of young people, curricula resources, critical media literacy resources, and social justice books for children.
Social Justice Issues: Lesson plans, resources and activities
These prek-12 social justice resources address topics like activism, the power of protest, helping students express their feelings, building an environment of respect and an overall sense of teaching tolerance.
Social Justice Resources for K-12 Teachers
This website examines the mission of Social Justice Resources, to provide social justice resources for teachers to use in K-12 Iowa schools. The resources have been built through the collaboration of faculty and graduate students in the College of Education along with colleagues at the Public Policy Center who work with Iowa City Community School District.
Teaching Tolerance-Civil Rights History Instruction (Login Required)
A set of teaching principles and curriculum rehabilitation tools it provides ideas for teachingAmerican students about the modern civil rights movement, This framework is perfect for history educators who want to improve upon the simplified "King-and-Parks" narrative and engage this critical content at the level of depth it deserves.
These ready-to-use classroom lessons offer breadth and depth, spanning essential social justice topics and reinforcing critical social emotional learning skills. Search by keyword or browse our lesson bank—you can filter more than 500 lessons by grade level, subject, topic or social justice domain.
10 Social Justice Activities to Try in Class
Here are 10 great activities that will get kids at different grade levels thinking about human rights and our responsibility to take care of each other.
6 Elements of SJE « Using Their Words
An overview of the six elements of social justice curriculum design for elementary education. Within every element, the role and the objective of teachers and students are explained with examples.
6 Things Anti-Racist Educators Want Grown-ups to Know about Teaching and Raising Kids
Educators and equity activists address questions related to when and how to talk about race with young people and how to challenge systemic racism in schools.