Resources on Race and Oppression
As school counselors it is our ethical duty to ensure equity and access in education through striving to create school cultures free from racism and bias. Below are resources to aid in the personal work we all must do to create more just communities and to aid in working with students, families and colleagues to end systemic racism.
Resources from ASCA
- Ethical standards in practice: - The school counselor's role
- ASCA Town Hall: Racism in Schools
Resources for families and guardians
- Understand Race and Privilege
- Talking to Your Children After Racial Incidents
- How to Talk to Your Children about Protests and Racism
- Talking to Kids About Race
- Talking Race with Young Children (podcast)
- People Colors' Crayon Pack
- SAMHSA: Adopting the National Standards for Culturally and Linguistically Appropriate Services (CLAS)
- Racial Justice is Education Justice: List of resources from the National Education Association
- Race Talk: Engaging Young People in Conversations about Race and Racism
- What Educators Should - and Should Not Do - in Response to George Floyd's Death
- Also contains a list of books at the bottom to aid in personal work around race
- There is no Apolitical Classroom: Resources for Teaching in These Times
- All the Colors We Are by Katie Kissinger
- What's the Difference? Being Different is Amazing by Doyin Richards, Feiwel and Friends
- A Kids Book About Racism by Jelani Memory
- Sulwe by Lupita Nyong