Useful links
(We will update this section weekly)
ORGANIZATIONS YOU COULD SUPPORT
Green Tree Estates Water Relief: Go fund Me
(Nationally)
CURRICULAR (Black Lives Matter)
Resources of Abolitionist teaching: Teacher 4 Social Justice
2020 Black Lives Matter Curriculum Resource Guide
Black Lives Matter resources: compiled by Dra. Tia Madkins
Scaffolded anti-racist resources
Anti-racism resources for all ages
26 mini films for exploring RACE
teaching ideas and resources for students to make sense of Floyd protests
Recursos antirracistas en español
Black Lives Matter Any way you say it
CURRICULAR (culturally relevant distance learning)
Distance learning resources for multilingual teenagers and their teachers in Philly and beyond
Culturally relevant Elementary Online Learning Resources
International Consortium for Multilingual Excellence in Education
Teaching ELLs and working with families from home (Secondary version)
Teaching ELLs and working with families from home (Elementary version)
NCTE There is no apolitical classroom: resources for teaching in these times
CUNY-New York state initiative on emergent bilinguals
ADVOCACY/RESEARCH
NCTE-Ways to change the conversation about assessment
IDRA (Intercultural Development Research Association)
READ ALOUDS/VIDEOS
Kwame Alexander read aloud of Undefeated
BLM instructional library: read alouds
CHILDREN’S BOOK LISTS
37 children's books to help talk about racism and discrimination
28 more black picture books that aren't about boycotts, baseball, or buses
23 phenomenal young adult books by black authors
Children's and YA anti-racist reading list
50 books about empowering latinas
books for kids about arab culture
Indigenous Reads by indigenous authors
21 inspiring LGBTQ-themed children's books
ARTICLES/VIDEOS/PODCASTS (Black Lives Matter and Race)
What is white privilege: John Amaechi
How black people are policed for being in public spaces
Detroit teens speak about race and activism: if you don't advocate for yourself, no one will
Abolitionist teaching network: guide for racial justice and abolitionist SEL
Jamila Lyiscott: Demanding an "independent autopsy" of America's schools
Learning about my blackness: Afrodescendencia en El Salvador
What if we radically imagined the new school year?
New teachers mistakenly assume Black students are angry
Christopher Emdin: Reality Pedagogy: teaching isn't about managing behavior
Until Black woman are free none of us will be free
Racism and bias against speakers of AAVE is a pillar of systemic racism
University of Pittsburgh: PittEDcast
From Juneteenth to Tulsa: What isn't taught in classrooms has a profound impact
Why now white People? Code Switch NPR
We can't breathe at work either: John Henryism and the health impact of racism
What anti-racists teachers do differently
When Black people are in pain white people just join book clubs
Kyla Jenee Lacey: Spoken word about white privilege
This movement is about black freedom, not white people's comfort
Academia isn't a safe haven for conversations about race and racism
Why the term BIPOC is so complicated, explained by linguists
The spirit of rebellion grows during America's summer of protest
Public Enemy: State of the Union (STFU)
An essay for teachers who understand racism is real
Dismantling anti-Blackness together
Latinos much acknowledge our own racism, then we must pledge to fight it
What is racism: Unpacking the 7 Is: David Kirkland
How can center equity and racial justice when schools open: David Kirkland
Time for white people to have "the talk" with their kids
Racism will fester if schools don't step in: Richardson teacher
The racializing context of uprisings, riots, and rebellions- Leigh Patel
When SEL is used as another form of policing
Remember, nobody is coming to save us
teachers must hold themselves responsible for dismantling oppression
Do Black Lives Matter in Bilingual Ed.
Do BLM in DL education in Urbana school district 116
Kareem Abdul Jabbar: what you're seeing is people pushed to the edge
Settler fragility: why settler privilege is so hard to talk about
Not every black experience needs your white opinion
The greatest white privilege is life itself
75 things white people can do for racial justice
"America has looted Black people," says activist Tamika Mallory
Unmasking the linguistic policing of brown and black children
What if white people took responsibility for our role in this moment?
the urgent need for anti-racist education
White teachers need to see color. Here's why.
DiAngelo- White people are still raised to be racially illiterate
white people assume niceness is the answer to racial inequality. It's not.
My white friend asked me on Facebook to explain white privilege
A student told me I couldn't understand because I was a white lady
How to be a true anti-racist- Cheryl Matias
Fighting Anti-Blackness is real linguistics
The unbearable grief of Black Mothers
Dear white people, this is what we want you to do
On performative academic anti-racism
Call it what it is: Anti-blackness
how to talk to kids about black lives and police violence
Professor makes her case for a virtual fall semester
10 habits of somebody who doesn't know their anti-black
nailed it: Nicole Byer gives guidance for talking to white kids about BLM
defunding the police will save black and indigenous lives in Canada
Dear white people your black colleagues may look OK, but chances are they're not
If you don't have an anti-racist plan, you plan to be racist
Take your school reform to white kids so they don't grow up to kill black people
Obama: how to make this moment the turning point for change
Your kids aren't too young to talk about race
David Kirkland- Black Lives Matter
teaching for Black lives in a mostly white classroom
Why a raciolinguistic perspective passes the classroom reality check
Raciolinguistic ideologies: explained
Coates- When words don't belong to everyone
What is the hardest part about being brown/black in Portland, OR
White teachers need anti-racist therapy
What's the harm in tone policing
ARTICLES (COVID-19 and education, distance learning with bi/multilingual families, )
10 ideas for transitioning to remote teaching
Showing up for our students in the pandemic
Numb: 15 year old's short film about pandemic
Learning hubs opening across San Francisco to help 6000 kids in need
Without WiFi low-income Latino students resorted to doing homework in parking lots
Online teaching can be culturally responsive
Teachers need opportunities to heal
Warning of COVID Slide: TEA reports that 1 in 10 students disengaged during the pandemic
COVID-19 spotlights the inequities facing EL students: Migration Policy Institute
Our stories are remedios we need right now
Addressing the socioemotional well-being of bilingual and immigrant students: Tatyana Kleyn
Dual Language Bilingual Education Implementation in Unprecedented times
Teachers, we cannot go back to the way things were
DL teachers try to 'stay the course' separated from classrooms
Ramadan and Distance learning: Insight from 2 Muslim Parents
Imagine online school in a language you don't understand
ISU professor sees room for equity on long road back from Coronavirus
A trauma informed approach to teaching through Coronavirus
ELLs may be left behind as remote learning becomes "new normal"
Exhausted and Grieving: teaching during the Coronavirus Crisis
College Faculty: Forget next fall, assign less now
Dear Educators...this is a lot
A call from Black and Brown mothers for true family engagement
English learners are at home with their home languages, and that's OK
Texas should seize this chance to reinvent its schools
Educator Preparation Community Coronavirus response
For Latinos and Coronavirus, doctors are seeing an alarming disparity
Disaster capitalism is coming for public education
ARTICLES/VIDEOS (MULTILINGUAL LEARNERS/LATINX ISSUES)
The long, bloody strike for ethnic studies
Latinx don't need to speak Spanish
Henderson & Palmer (2020): Videos about key parts of their book about dual language implementation
Spanglish isn't a wrong form of English, it's how great stories are told
The invisible work of dual language educators
Mike Mena: breaking down N. Flores' "producing national and neoliberal subjects"
Los pueblos indigenas no somos la raiz de Mexico, somos su negación constante
Forgotten history: Chicano student walkouts changed Texas, but inequities remain
PODCASTS/COMMUNITY PROJECTS
Understanding anti-racist instruction for language learners
En comunidad: Conversation with Carla España y Luz Yadira Herrera
Bilingualism is. It just is (Vocal Fries): Conversation with N. Flores/J. Rosa