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Quick Reads for Teachers

General Resources

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  This library of resources from Mid-Atlantic Equity Consortium offers educational equity research, resources, webinars and best practices to assist educators in understanding a wide range of topics related to educational equity.
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  This website hosts a series of free, online professional development modules for school and public youth services librarians, library administrators and others interested in improving their knowledge about race and racism, racial equity and culturally sustaining pedagogy.
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  This organization created a set of resources for teachers and teacher professional developers who want to know why multicultural education makes sense in the classroom, what it means and what teachers can do.
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  The Smithsonian Institute provides K–12 educators of all disciplines a collection of featured teaching tools, scholarly resources and interactive materials that center around their initative Our Shared Future: Reckoning with Our Racial Past.
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  The Collaborative for Academic, Social and Emotional Learning (CASEL) answers the question "How Does SEL Support Educational Equity and Excellence?" and provides resources intended to transform inequitable settings and systems and promote justice-oriented civic engagement.
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  This update to the Universal Design for Learning Guidelines focuses specifically on addressing systemic barriers that result in inequitable learning opportunities and outcomes.

Quick Reads for District Leaders

Literature

• (The School Superintendents Association, April 8, 2021)
  This report from the Learning 2025: National Commission on Student-Centered, Equity Focused Education presents a holistic systemic redesign to facilitate equity through culture, social, emotional and cognitive growth and resources.
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  EdReports commissioned Education First to identify and define the key terms being used to describe culturally centered theories and models of instruction. The report aims to better understand the current state of the discussion around culturally centered philosophies, needs of the field and implications for instructional materials.
• (Krasnoff, March 2016)
  The Region X Equity Assistance Center at Education Northwest funded by the US Department of Education created this guide to provide a wide range of practices—supported by research—that can help prepare educators become more culturally responsive in their approach to teaching.
• (Darling-Hammond & Cook-Harvey, 2018)
  This report by the Learning Policy Institute summarizes evidence about the effects of positive school climate, social-emotional learning, and productive teaching strategies on achievement. These approaches can help children overcome toxic stress and trauma, including stereotype threats that undermine achievement.
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  The National School Boards Association’s Dismantling Institutional Racism in Education Initiative and the Center for Safe Schools published this guide to explore how school board members can set the tone and create policy to influence operations in each of these areas so that all students receive the resources they need to graduate prepared for success after high school.
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  This toolkit includes guiding questions to support district leaders and equity committee members in guiding initial conversations around equity and profiles districts that have successfully implemented these strategies with fidelity.
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  Teaching for Equity is an integrated framework designed to guide educators to reflect on their practice, to see the connections across areas of research that support whole students, and to live out commitments to anti-racism.

Videos & Webinars

Additional diversity, equity and inclusion strategies can be found on the above Ó£»¨ÊÓƵ Department of Education's page.

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  This article describes a science and justice-based framework for promoting health equity designed for researchers and practitioners working across public health and social science fields.
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  The purpose of this article is to identify the attributes of urban settings that influence how physical education is taught, and to provide action-oriented strategies for addressing challenges and for making the most of available resources. The strategies discussed highlight the importance of preservice training and ongoing professional development, reflective and responsive instructional practices, and partnerships with academic and community institutions.
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  The Centers for Disease Control provides a variety of resources to support educators in creating a safe, healthy learning environment for all students.
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  This comprehensive website provides a variety of resources that promote wellness in the school community.
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  The Special Olympics Ó£»¨ÊÓƵ website provides a guide to inclusive physical education that focuses on the physical, intellectual and social growth for all students. In this model, students of all ability levels come together through ongoing fitness, sports, leadership and wellness activities to create important social relationships.

Additional guidance and resources that can be used in comprehensive health and physical education classes can be found under the General section on this webpage.

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  This website provides a wide range of current and archived research, reports and toolkits. A Guide to Inclusive Computer Science Education and Computer Science for All are two examples of resources related specifically to diversity, equity and inclusion.
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  The National School Boards Association created this resource to assist districts in developing an equity focused computer science program.
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  The K–12 Computer Science Framework provides a chapter that offers background as well as examples of equity in practice.
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  An article by the Computer Science Teachers Association that provides practical tools and resources.

Additional guidance and resources that can be used in computer science and design thinking classes can be found under the General section on this webpage.

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  These booklists highlight diverse voices including racial diversit