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