Social Justice Resources on NCMALearn (Story)
Resources for Social Justice Education on NCMALearn
Teaching Tolerance’s Social Justice Standards are a framework for teachers and administrators to use in implementing an anti-bias curriculum and make their schools more just and equitable. The standards use the domains of Identity, Diversity, Justice, and Action to reduce prejudice and encourage students to take action. For this resource, we reviewed lessons and activity ideas that complement the standards and organized them according to domain. Some lessons and activities are listed more than once because they fell into multiple domains.
Identity
Lessons
Quick Tips
- Activity Idea: Forward
- Activity Idea: John Thomas Biggers
- Activity Idea: Poetry Inspired by Three Graces
- Personal Prompt
- Poems that Link Humanity
- Resources for Parents
- Tableau Vivant
Diversity
Lessons
Quick Tips
- Activity Idea: A German Immigrant Inquiring His Way
- Activity Idea: Empathy Poem
- Activity Idea: Forward
- Activity Idea: John Thomas Biggers
- Activity Idea: Kitchen Ball at White Sulphur Springs, Virginia
- Activity Idea: Poetry Inspired by Three Graces
- Exploding Atom
- Poems that Link Humanity
- Resources for Parents
Justice
Lessons
- Asking Questions
- Communicating Ideas through Art
- Dual Perspectives
- Flood Control- Environmental History
- Images of Immigration
- Making Choices
Quick Tips
Action
Lessons
- Asking Questions
- Comparing and Contrasting Images of Child Labor
- Flood Control- Environmental History
Additional Resources for Educators
- we are: Working to Extend Anti-Racist Education, organization based in Durham, NC
- CREED: Center for Racial Equity in Education, organization based in Charlotte, NC
- Anti-Racist Art Teachers: Resource site developed by art educators
- Teaching for Change: Building Social Justice Starting in the Classroom
- Abolitionist Teaching Network: Developing and supporting educators to fight injustice in their schools and communities
- Teaching Tolerance: Helping teachers and schools educate children and youth to be active participants in a diverse democracy
Recommended Artists and Works of Art
Below, you will find links to artists and their work cited in the lessons and activities listed here.