Educator Resources
Elevate your own knowledge and skills as an educator or decision-maker with curricular resources, professional development opportunities, and providers to help you become a more effective advocate for culturally responsive social studies.
In this section, you can:
Search for culturally responsive curriculum and resources
Find solutions providers that focus specifically on teacher professional learning
Stay up to date with the latest research and best practices
| Resource | Source | Description |
|---|---|---|
| Zinn Education Project Campaigns | Zinn Education Project | The Zinn Education Project promotes and supports the teaching of people’s history in classrooms across the country. Campaign resources provide teachers and students with curricula and advocacy materials to encourage school systems and teachers to include areas of study that are often being overlooked or under-represented, such as Teaching for Black Lives, Reconstruction and Climate Justice. |
| Anti-Racist Teaching Guides | Anti-Racist Teaching & Learning Collective | The Anti-Racist Teaching and Learning Collective (ARTLC) brings together students, youth organizers, teachers, and teacher educators to build our shared capacity to transform K-12 public education in Connecticut. They provide comprehensive guides to teaching Black/Latinx Studies, Asian American Studies and Indigenous Studies for teachers of all subjects, grade-levels and familiarity with anti-racist material. |
| Embracing Culturally-Responsive and Sustaining Instructional Materials | New America | Choosing instructional materials wisely is one of the most important jobs education leaders and teachers have, perhaps now more than ever. Unfinished academic instruction resulting from the COVID-19 crisis demands better ways to reignite student engagement and accelerate learning. At the same time, the disparate impact of the pandemic on students of color and growing efforts to quash discussions about systemic racism in schools reveals an urgent need to approach this work through a racial equity lens. This report argues that embracing highquality instructional materials that are both rigorous and relevant is crucial to addressing these priorities. |
| Learning for Justice Classroom Resources & Professional Development | Learning for Justice | Learning for Justice provides a variety of free educational resources to help foster learning and reflection for educators, young people, caregivers, and community members. They also provide engagement opportunities such as conferences, workshops, and school-community partnerships |
| Facing History & Ourselves Teacher Preparation Resources | Facing History & Ourselves | Facing History offers curriculum and professional development programs aimed at creating inclusive classrooms, including a number of free artifacts and lesson plans along with self-paced courses and events. |
| Teaching for Change Educator Resources | Teaching for Change | A collection of resources such as curriculum, resources, tools, and methodologies for educators on a variety of topics including anti-bias education, social justice, and civil rights. |
| Common Sense Education | Common Sense Education | Resources for parents and educators that center student learning on building social and cultural literacy via multicultural education, social justice education,a nd culturally responsive pedagogies. |
| AAPI History Hub | The Asian American Foundation | The AAPI History Hub, developed by The Asian American Foundation in collaboration with The Social Studies Accelerator, was designed with the needs of educators in mind. It provides a centralized, vetted, and interactive platform to access lesson plans, multimedia, and other learning materials on Asian American and Pacific Islander history. |
CURRICULUM AND TEACHING RESOURCES
PROFESSIONAL DEVELOPMENT RESOURCES
| Resource | Source | Description | Audience |
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| Learning for Justice | Southern Poverty Law Center | Formerly known as Teaching Tolerance and run by the Southern Poverty Law Center, LFJ has classroom resources and PD opportunities focused on catalyzing racial justice, dismantling white supremacy, strengthening intersectional movements and advancing the human rights of all people. LFJ's classroom resources include the Social Justice Standards, lesson plans, teaching strategies, film kits and more. They also host professional development opportunities such as workshops, webinars, virtual cohorts and other synchronous and asynchronous learning opportunities. | Teachers; Educators |
| Facing History and Ourselves | Facing History and Ourselves | Facing History & Ourselves uses lessons of history to challenge teachers and their students to stand up to bigotry and hate. Their site has resources for educators to help students reflect on bigotry and hate and draw out lessons that they can apply to their lives and choices today. There are also school and district programs and events for deeper or in-person learning. | Teachers; Educators |
| Culturally Responsive Teaching in Social Studies Webinar | National Council for the Social Studies | Culturally responsive teaching develops students' personal agency and grounds learning in the rich context of students' lived experiences. When this happens, learning deepens and outcomes improve. How does inquiry set the stage for culturally responsive teaching? And what strategies and tools used in inquiry promote culturally responsive teaching practice? | Teachers; Educators |