Below is a suggested library of resources compiled by from a variety of outside agencies for specific interested individuals by age grouping or purpose.

Classroom curriculum and adopted textbooks go through a thorough vetting process and are approved by the ESUSD Board of Education in accordance with Board Policy and Administrative Regulation.

• Teaching Tolerance Website

• Teaching Tolerance: Let’s Talk! Discussing Race, Racism and Other Difficult Topics with Students

• USC Rossier School of Education, Resources for Learning and Teaching About Race

• National Education Association, Diversity Toolkit: Race and Ethnicity

• National Association of School Psychologists: Talking About Race and Privilege: Lesson Plan for Middle and High School Students

• Resources for Talking with Kids about Race, Racism and Racialized Violence

• California Democracy School Online Professional Development Series (LACOE)

Ten online professional development modules provide educators with the knowledge, skills, and resources to implement high-quality civic inquiry and investigations in K-12 schools, including videos of actual classroom projects.  Three of the modules present examples for engaging students in civil dialogue using Socratic Seminar, Philosophical Chairs, and Structured Academic Controversy.

• Regional Educational Laboratory Program West’s Educator’s Guide for Family and Caregiver Activities for Teaching Academic Content and Literacy to English Learners in Elementary and Middle School Practice Guide

• Facing History and Ourselves

They have a number of lessons, discussion points to use with students regarding race and social justice. Their programs help students learn about hatred and bigotry so they can stop them from happening in the future.

• Speak Up At School

• Responding to Hate and Bias at School

• Talking About Race

• Diversity Resources from SCBWI (Society of Children’s Book Writers/Illustrators)

• Classroom Resources and Professional Development from Teaching Tolerance

Social Emotional Learning

• RULER - Yale Center for Emotional Intelligence

• CASEL: Collaborative for Academic, Social and Emotional Learning

• CASEL: Collaborative for Academic, Social, and Emotional Learning. Resources During COVID-19

• National Equity Project

• How to Help Students Navigate this Social Emotional Rollercoaster

• Social-Emotional Learning: Why it Matters and How to Foster It

• Edutopia: Social Emotional Learning

Resources for Parents and Families

• Too Few Parents Talk About Race 

• What Do We Tell Our Children?

• How to Talk to Kids About Race

• Embrace Race

• South Bay Families Connected: Talking to our children about racism, hate and violence

• Talking to Children After Racial Incidents

• Addressing Anti-Asian Bias

Family and Caregiver Activities to Support Young English Learners and Language Development

The Regional Educational Laboratory Program provides these resources to provide simple, fun activities families and caregivers can use with children at home to strengthen language development.

• Questions About Stories

• Questions About Informational Text

• Questions About Experiences

• Wordplay

• Guess my Object

• Word Detective

• Making a Meal Together

• Interviewing a Special Person

• Writing Notebooks

Recommended Reading

• The Power of Story - Diverse Books for All Readers

• We Need Diverse Books

• Diverse Booklist - Washington-Centerville Public Library

Adults

• Why are All the Black Kids Sitting Together in the Cafeteria

• Stamped from the Beginning

• How to Be an Antiracist

• We Want to Do More Than Survive

• Biased

• So You Want to Talk About Race

• 100 Books About Race to Read Instead of Asking a Person of Color

Young Adult Novels

• The Rock and the River by Kekla Magoon

• Born a Crime: Stories from a South African Childhood  by Trevor Noah

• Other Words for Home by Jasmine Warga

• Three Keys by Kelly Yang

• Front Desk by Kelly Yang

• The Secret Life of Bees by Sue Monk Kidd

• X: A Novel by Kekla Magoon & Illyasah Shabazz

• The Black Girl Next Door: A Memoir by Jennifer Baszile

• Flygirl by Sherri L. Smith

• Black Enough: Stories of Being Young and Black in America edited by Ibi Zoboi

• We Are Not Yet Equal: Understanding Our Racial Divide  by Carol Anderson

• Dear Martin by Nic Stone

• The Stars Beneath our Feet by David Barclay Moore

• Life on the Color Line: The True Story of a White Boy Who Discovered He Was Black by Gregory Howard Williams

• Brown Girl Dreaming by Jaqueline Woodson

Picture Books

• Books to Support Conversations About Race

• Books About Equity

• Coretta Scott King Book Award Winners: books for children and young adults

• 31 Children's books to support conversations on race, racism and resistance

• Sulwe by Lupita Nyong’o

• Hammering for Freedom by Rita Lorraine Hubbard

• Little Melba and Her Big Trombone by Katheryn Russell-Brown

• Skin Again by Bell Hooks

• The Youngest Marcher: Story of Audrey Faye Hendricks: a Young Civil Rights Activist by Cynthia Levinson

• We March by Shane Evans

• I am Enough by Grace Byers

• We are the Change: Words of Inspiration from Civil Rights Leaders

• The Day You Begin by Jacqueline Woodson

• One Love: Based on the Song  by Bob Marley by Cedelia Marley

• Dream Big, Little One by Vashti Harrison

• All Because You Matter by Tami Charles

• The Undefeated by Kwame Alexander and Kadir Nelson

Diversity, Equity, and Inclusion

DEI Resources

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