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Educator and Parent Resources

We created a guide for teachers to start implementing Peace Education easily in their classrooms! Please check it out and share!

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July 5, 2021

Resources for Black and Immigrant Youth

Resources for Black and Immigrant Youth created by Golden Mti   Picture books for pre-KG to grade 1:   I Am Enough by Grace Byers https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/35396839-i-am-enough   All the Colors We Are: The Story of How We Get Our Skin Color by Katie Kissinger https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/50564.All_the_Colors_We_Are   The Proudest Blue: A Story of Hijab and Family by Ibtihaj...

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Peace Education Resources

Books

Lessons/Activities

Podcasts

Instagram

Videos

Curriculums

Events

Websites

 

Peace Education Resources

https://www.peace-ed-campaign.org/

https://www.i-i-p-e.org/

https://www.seedsofpeace.org/wp-content/uploads/2011/12/PeaceGames.pdf

 

Books

Adult Books

Racism, Anti-Racism

White Fragility: Why It’s So Hard for White People to Talk About Racism by Robin DiAngelo.

Me and White Supremacy by Layla Saad

Why Are All the Black Kids Sitting Together in the Cafeteria? And Other Conversations About Race by Beverly Daniel Tatum

How to Be An Antiracist by Ibram X. Kendi

When They Call You a Terrorist: A Black Lives Matter Memoir by Asha Bandele and Patrisse Cullors

Black Looks, Race and​ Representation by Bell Hooks

Pedagogy

For White Folks Who Teach in the Hood… and the Rest of Y’all Too: Reality Pedagogy and Urban Education by Christopher Emdin

Pedagogy of the Oppressed by Paulo Friere

Indigenous

All Our Relations, Finding the Path Forward by Tanya Tallaga

Seven Fallen Feathers by Tanya Tallaga

Braiding Sweet Grass by Robin Wall-Kimmerer

 

Kids Books

Social Justice Book List

Our Class is a Family by Shannon Olsen

Rise Up and Write It by Nandini Ahuja

The Day You Begin by Jacqueline Woodson

Something Happened In Our Town: A Child’s Story About Racial Injustice by Marianna Celano, Marietta Collins and Ann Hazzard

Tree of Cranes by Allen Say

The Christmas Coat: Memories of My Sioux Childhood by Virginia Driving Hawk Sneve

An Angel Just Like Me by Mary Hoffman

Three Wise Women by Mary Hoffman

The Return of the Light: Twelve Tales from Around the World for the Winter Solstice by Carolym McVikar Edwards

We Learn from the Sun by David Bouchard

Your Fantastic Elastic Brain: Stretch It, Shape it by JoAnn Deak

The Universal Declaration of Human Rights by Ruth Rocha and Otavio Roth (New York: United Nations, 2000)

Martin’s BIG Words: The Life of Dr. Martin Luther King Jr. by Doreen Rappaport (New York: Scholastic, 2001)

Amazing Grace by Mary Hoffman (New York: Dial, 1991)

The Other Side by Jacqueline Woodson (New York: Putnam, 2001)

Daddy’s Roommate by Michael Willhoite (Los Angeles, CA: Alyson, 1991)

Fly Away Home by Eve Bunting (New York: Clarion, 1993)

The Story of Ruby Bridges by Robert Coles (New York: Scholastic, 1995)

Talking About Disability by Jillian Powell (New York: Raintree, 1999)

Lessons/ Activities

New York Times Lesson plans on Amanda Gorman’s “The Hill We Climb”!

Micro-Aggression Activity

Comic Meme Series on Micro-Aggressions

 

Podcasts

Intersectionality Matters

The Secret Life of Canada

Twisted Histories

Co-Conspired Conversations

Sincerely, Lettie

No White Saviors Podcast

1619

The Cult of Pedagogy

99% Invisible

Freakonomics Radio

No White Saviors Podcast

Nice White Parents

A Place to Belong by Historica Canada

Instagram Pages

@Rachel.Cargle

@No White Saviors

@Read Like a Rockstar (Naomi O’Brien)

@The Mirror

@Conscious Kid

@Parents for Diversity

@Unpopularvote

@teaching while muslim

@Chris Emdin

@teachandtransform (Liz Kleinrock)

@teachingisintellectual (Jen & Mira)

@weneeddiversebooks

@myishathill

@sincerely.lettie (Lettie Shumate)

@subversivethread

@apron_education

@ckyourprivilege

@laylafsaad

@the.root

@actiondignity

@tamikadmallory (Tamika d. Mallory)

 

Videos

Why Do We Lose Control of Our Emotions?

Learning to live together in peace through Global Citizenship Education 

Finding ethical spaces in social justice– Dustin Louie

Seven Sacred Laws Video Series

 

Curriculums

UNESCO: https://en.unesco.org/themes/building-peace-programmes

 

Events

Websites

Radical Teacher (free journal publication)

Native Land Maps: https://native-land.ca/

Global Peace Education: https://www.peace-ed-campaign.org/category/categories/curricula/

Forgotten Metis: http://legacyofhope.ca/forgotten-metis/?fbclid=IwAR3Jo7g4DDm7YSTUuoIu3I9WxAV2B2RHfjuFHAbxeFqh-L0Gb3cLWuu0SJg

Aspen Foundation for Labour Education: http://www.afle.ca/

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