Black Lives Matter at School – Resources

Talking About Race

Check out resources to help facilitate conversations about race, including classroom appropriate lesson plans, guides on how to have tough conversations with peers and students, and more.

• Teaching for Black Lives, Edited By Dyan Watson, Jesse Hagopian, Wayne Au. Rethinking Schools.
• Black Lives Matter: Resources for Curriculum, The Rochester Board of Education, Rochester Teachers Association and Association of Supervisors and Administrators of Rochester

• Black Lives Matter School Resources by Grade Level, Teaching for Change
• Creating the Space to Talk about Race in Your School (PDF), National Education Association

Lessons by grade-level and educator resources, Washington DC Black Lives Matter Classroom Activities, Circle Scripts, and Promoting Positive School Climate, Rochester City School District Black Lives Matter Week of Action in Schools – Schedule and Resources, DC Area Educators for Social Justice Discussing Race, Racism and Other Difficult Topics With Students, NEA and Teaching Tolerance Webinar

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Standing Together

See how cities like Milwaukee, Rochester, and Seattle have passed community and union resolutions — and then mobilized to support Black Lives Matter at School.

• Resolution Regarding Black Lives Matter at School, Rochester Teachers Association and the Rochester City School
  District
• Black Lives Matter resolution, Milwaukee Public Schools
• Milwaukee School District Earmarks Funds For Black Lives Matter Initiative, NonProfitQuarterly.org

#BlackLivesMatterAtSchool: Hundreds of educators across Seattle to wear “Black Lives Matter” shirts to school, IAmAnEducator.com #BlackLivesMatterAtSchool FAQ: Answering why hundreds of Seattle educators are wearing “Black Lives Matter” shirts to school, IAmAnEducator.com NJEA Joins Call for Black Lives Matter at School week, New Jersey Education Association

Vermont-NEA: Montpelier High School shines light on systemic racism by raising Black Lives Matter flag, Vermont-NEA Black Lives Matter Rally & Forum, United Teachers of Los Angeles Seattle Education Association join the national call for Black Lives Matter at School Week, Seattle Education Association Black Lives Matter at School resolution, Reynolds Education Association (Oregon Education Association) Resolution Regarding Black Lives Matter at School (PDF), Prince George’s County (MD) Board of Education Share your BLM at School events, actions or resolutions here: neaedjustice@nea.org

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Art and Activism

Art and video, and ideas to engage classrooms and communities to support racial and social justice. An interview with the founders of Black Lives Matter (VIDEO), Ted Talks NEA activists launch series of video “primers” for anti-racist white educators, NEA EdJustice Transformational action through Art Build, NEA EdJustice Share Art for Action, NEA EdJustice

Grim – Do You Hear Us? (VIDEO), NEA YouTube Channel Marley Dias talks Institutional Racism (VIDEO), NEA YouTube Channel Share your BLM at School events, actions or resolutions here: neaedjustice@nea.org

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