Content-Specific Resources:
**NOTE: we would like to add more content-area specific anti-racist teaching resources. Please email dawn.moretz@jcta.org if you have some to add to this section.**
Please scroll below or look to the right at the listings under "Content-Specific Resources" to go directly to the subject area of interest.
Business & Marketing: How Brands Are Responding to the George Floyd Protests
English Language Arts: Crawling Out of the Classroom 5th grade literacy teacher Jessica Lifshitz designs
anti-bias, anti-racist lessons and shares them in her blog. These could be adjusted for younger AND older
students. Here are some examples of the work she does:
● Confronting Bias with Fifth Graders: Using the Draw-A-Scientist Experiment and the Covers of Picture
Books To Help Students Recognize the Biases They Hold
● Teaching Personal Narratives as a Way to Explore Identity and Our Lived Experiences
ELA: DisruptTexts “disrupting” the ways we approach and teach literature
ELA/Publications/Graphic Design: How Alexandra Bell Is Disrupting Racism in Journalism
Mathematics: Classroom Resources Main Page The National Council of Teachers of Mathematics upholds this
statement on access and equity in mathematics.
● lesson plans for Algebra, Geometry, Probability & Statistics
● The Role of Statistics in Human Rights Advocacy statistics & human rights
● Peace-Work Studies | website statistics & data analysis
Music: “You Might Be Left with Silence When You're Done” takes a look at the racist history behind some of
the music children are asked to learn in school
Science: Build Your Portfolio With These Data for Good Project Ideas
Science/statistics/data: The American Nightmare introduces and explains how “race science” led to false
beliefs about race and genetics. Episodes 2 & 8 of the “Seeing White” series on the Scene on Radio podcast
explains much of this, as well.
Social Studies: Educator Resources on Facing History and Ourselves: a wealth of lessons on topics on all areas
of social studies
● Echoes & Reflections teaching the Holocaust
● The History of Racism in America | History from The Smithsonian |