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Speaking for Ourselves Teaching Guide

This lesson plan is an offering to the Speaking for Ourselves community, for K-12 educators & beyond who want to decolonize their classrooms by honoring the voices and experiences of the global majority. These stories speak to the beauty and resiliency of Black, Indigenous, Asian Pacific Islander and Latinx people.

It's That Time Again: Back to School Resources

Embracing Equity seeks to pass on the wisdom and foresight that was handed down to us over the years from the educators, children, families, and communities who have made us stronger and more critically aware practitioners.

Embracing Equity in the Wake of Police Brutality

Amelia Allen Sherwood is an Embracing Equity graduate of both the workshop and the online cohort, living in New Haven, Ct. She is the Dean of Social Emotional Learning at Elm City Montessori School and is a racial justice organizer. This is a reflection about the cohort and her action project.

Ode to White Liberals

Austin, Texas is the land of the White Moderate. They who “prefer a negative peace...and the absence of tension” as Dr. Martin Luther King, Jr. said. They are liberal. They are progressive. They are “good” White people. And so I wrote this poem, “Ode to White Liberals” for you, Austin, Texas. Global Majority, I want you to know that it’s ok to refuse to be the bridge for White moderates.

Finding Your Person: Why We Need Buddies in Embracing Equity

I believe that identifying an “Embracing Equity Buddy” in my life has been the difference maker that has allowed the work of disrupting dominant white supremacy culture to be a sustainable practice.

Honor Native Land

Land acknowledgements need to happen because only then will we begin to provide a more truthful and just learning about Indigenous people of this land; our languages, our histories, our existence, our children. Land acknowledgements are a crucial step toward the United States practicing truth and reconciliation.

Where Are You Really From?

What does it look like to have conversations about race that acknowledge and center the fact that the U.S. was built on a foundation of genocide, antiblackness, and white supremacy, and find ways to validate and incorporate the experiences of those of us who occupy the many spaces between the categories around which we have oriented our research, our vocabulary, our world?

Reimagining Schools as Spaces for Radical Healing

By understanding the causes, effects, and restorative responses to toxic and traumatic stress, we adults have not only the ability but the obligation to buffer its long-term impact on the children in our lives.

Embracing an Equitable Sliding Scale

Part 1: 3 minute read If you identify as being poor, this is for you. Part 2: 4 minute read If you identity as someone committed to economic justice, this is for you. “We invite each person to take inventory of their financial resources and look deeper at their levels of privilege or systemic barriers.

The Role of White Co-Conspirators in Dismantling Systemic Racism

Social justice work necessitates being in partnership with and yielding to the leadership of People of Color through solidarity, accountability, and dialogue.

Embracing Equity is a Pathway for Healing

“The summer of 2016 was painful. I locked myself in our home and didn’t leave for two weeks. Struck with grief, anger, and fear, I started reading everything I could about equity, race, and structural racism to understand and dismantle white supremacy.

Why Diversity, Equity, and Inclusion Training Is Important for the Modern Workplace

Diversity, equity, and inclusion training can create a more cohesive work environment. Learn about this training and different ways to approach it in our guide.

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