Curriculum/
Lesson Plans 
This respected online branch of public television provides socially conscious and culturally relevant curriculum units for all subjects and grade levels. Lessons often tie in with current television broadcasting features, and incorporate various contemporary instructional techniques and materials.
http://tolerance.org/teach
This website is a great resource for teachers who want to expand their
repertoire of resources for becoming an anti-bias educator. This site
is sponsored by the Southern Poverty Law Center and promotes tolerance
and teaching against hatred. It addresses bias based on race, ethnicity,
class, gender, and sexual orientation. One section is designed specifically
for teachers and includes: classroom lesson plans; books and other resources
to use in the classroom; activities to help you and your students examine
language and its effects; free videos, handbooks, and posters to promote
an anti-bias classroom; interactive discussion forums with other teachers;
tests to identify your own possible biases; ideas for professional development;
the latest news on anti-bias events around the country; and much more.
This site also has sections specifically for parents and kids, which can
be used by teachers to get your school community involved in working towards
becoming anti-bias. This site is very practical and useful, giving educators
information and resources on how to further evaluate their beliefs and
how to teach from an anti-bias perspective throughout the curriculum.
http://www.givens.org/k-12.asp
Curriculum units on African American history and arts, cultural awareness,
and deconstructing stereotypes for K-12.Anti-Bias Teacher Education Project
http://www.adl.org/tools_teachers/tools_main.asp
Strategies for Creating a Positive Environment in Which to Raise Diversity
Issues. Lesson plans on diversity, racism, and religion. Creating Safe
Schools for Lesbian and Gay Students: A Resource Guide for School Staff
http://www.mtv.com/partners/cic/comingout_pt4.jhtml
A lesson that addresses the strong language often used to insult and inflict
pain on students who are, or are perceived to be, Lesbian, Gay, Bi-sexual,
or Transgender.
http://members.tripod.com/~twood/guide.html#Introduction
Background information on gay and lesbian students. Strategies and activities
to use in the school and the classroom.Gender Equity in Western Massachusetts:
Curriculum Guide
http://www.genderequity.org/curriculum.html
Extensive teachers guide and lesson plans on gender issues for high school
students. Topics include: gender roles and stereotyping, language, careers,
media, sexual harassment, technology, and creating an equitable classroom
environment. Entire unit on media literacy and gender issues. Multicultural
Pavilion: Resources and Dialogues for Equity in Education
http://www.edchange.org/multicultural/
Multicultural Teacher Toolbox: handouts and tools, classroom activities,
archives of historic documents and speeches, multicultural literature
bibliographies, multicultural song index (search by theme: race and ethnicity,
social class, age, gender, sexual orientation). Partners Against Hate
Program Activity Guide
http://www.adl.org/education/default_anti_bias.asp
The Anti-Defamation League offers information for educators on their site.
Key resources include a teacher checklist for creating an anti-bias learning
environment, articles about how to talk about and respond to prejudice
in the classroom, current news articles regarding bias in educational
settings, and around 20 lesson plans and activities for different grade
levels.
http://hastings.ci.lexington.ma.us/Library/Yes/Lessons/Community/communit.htm
Web of Respect the power of community to stop hate crimes. This site is
a link to a lesson plan, although this lesson is not specifically aimed
at the issue of race, it can be easily tailored to fit the needs of anti-bias
and anti-racism work by substituting any racial group desired into the
lesson plan.
http://www.newton.mec.edu/Franklin/Yes/Lessons/Skincolor/skin.htm
Cyber Lesson …. Positive Images: What Makes People
Different Colors? This lesson takes a scientific approach to the understanding
of the physical basis of various skin colors. This site also provides
links to other sites geared towards race based diversity.
Community Outreach
http://www.naacp.org/
The NAACP site is quite useful in its own right, but there is one link
that talks specifically about education: http://www.naacp.org/work/education/education.shtml
This link describes three of their most successful outreach programs:
Back to School and Stay in School (BTS/SIS), and the REACH program (Reaching
Educational Achievement by Completing High School).“BTS/SIS is a
program dedicated to providing students from elementary school to high
school, with academic and social support. The program aims to enhance
student success by reducing the absenteeism and dropout rate, providing
a higher level of academic and cultural enrichment, increasing parental
involvement and improving overall perceptions about public schools. The
theme reminds young people that they must reach for their goals and that
the completion of high school is only the first step toward their goals.
The theme does not however only pertain to young people. Community members
must also learn to “reach out” to young people to provide them
with assistance and guidance. With the help of family members, teachers
and community members, the BTS/SIS program aims to keep young people on
a pathway for success.” Both program models provide tools and strategies
that can be used in our classrooms and communities for all at risk students
and families.
http://www.enidlee.com An anti-racism website offering a variety of services to help schools and school districts achieve equitableoutcomes for all students. Includes many anti-racism resources and links.
Multiracial Issues
http://www.mavin.net
Multiracial children are redefining America. Today, more multiracial babies
are born in states like California and Washington than any other race
except Caucasian. Census 2000 was the first time that Americans could
identify as multiracial, and seven million did so. However, multiracial
youth are rarely recognized on forms requesting racial information, or
in diversity curriculum. The lack of resources that address their unique
challenges is one reason why multiracial children have the highest rates
of physical and sexual abuse of any racial group, and are among the fastest
growing segments entering the juvenile justice system.
http://www.ameasite.org
Association of Multiethnic Americans
AMEA aims to educate and advocate on behalf of multiethnic individuals
and families by collaborating with others to eradicate all forms of discrimination.
http://members.aol.com/njgift
Getting Interracial Families Together (GIFT)
GIFT has links to other multiracial websites, magazines, etc., gives info
about online chats.
http://www.i-pride.org
Interracial/Intercultural Pride (I-Pride)
I-Pride's mission is education, and this organization has many activities,
which reflect this goal. I-Pride strives to educate our selves, our children,
and our community about the facts of interculturalism and interracial
identity.
http://www.csbc.cncfamily.com
Center for the study of Bi-Racial Children
The center provides advocacy, training and consulting. Its primary mission
is to advocate for the rights of interracial families, biracial children,
and multiracial people
http://www.ocma-multiracial.org
Oregon Council on Multiracial Affairs (OCMA)
The mission is to broaden awareness of the multiracial and multicultural
experience and to give multiracial people the choice of being recognized
in their wholeness rather than one part over another.
Professional Development
http://www.teachingforchange.org
Teaching for Change is a self-described provider of “tools to transform
schools into socially equitable centers of learning where students become
architects of a better future.” The site is intended to be a resource
for educators and parents who are interested in anti-bias and multicultural
perspectives in education. It offers headlines of news stories about race
and education-related topics, a calendar of events and conferences for
educators, a searchable database of print resources and links to other
sites of interest.
http://www.partnersagainsthate.org/publications/guide_summary.html
Extensive guide available to down load. Focused on helping teachers address
hate and hate crimes in elementary school. Provides background information
on hate and hate crimes, information on interacting with children around
these issues (including info on how children develop racial and cultural
identities and attitudes), recommends practices, approaches, and age-appropriate
activities, tips on responding to actual hate or biased motivated incidents,
and a bibliography.
http://www.wcwonline.org/seed/
The National S.E.E.D (Seeking Educational Equity and Diversity) summer program brings teachers from all over the country and the work together for an intense workshop on gender, race, and class. Teachers then return to their own schools to lead year-long seminares for 10-20 colleagues on making the curriculum, teaching methods, and school climate more gender-fair and multicultural.
General
Information and other resources
http://urban.edreform.net/catalog.html
The Urban Teacher Education section of EdReform.net includes a searchable
database of texts (both printed and online) dealing with racism, anti-bias,
multiculturalism, minorities, discrimination, civil rights, and many other
subjects. The database leads to capsule summaries of each resource, which
lead to texts at other web sites.
http://www.racematters.org
links to other anti-bias and anti-racism web sites
http://classes.csumb.edu/ED/ED612-03/world/Resources/teacher_resources.html
links for books, lesson plans, professional web sites, and places to find information about multicultural instruction.
http://depts.washington.edu/ctcenter/k12dlink.htm
This is a University of Washington web site with links to more useful resources