My role is to help make our school a place where EVERYONE feels welcome. EVERY culture, religion, race and ethnicity celebrated and represented and heard.
I’m here to listen. I’m here to give you a voice. I’m here to make you feel included.
Feel free to stop me and chat when you see me at pick up or drop off at school. Feel free to get in touch with me via email with ideas, issues, suggestions, needs, comments at maplewoodpta.dei@gmail.com.
Use these resources to talk to your kids about Inclusion
Anti-Bullying resources:
- Engage Maplewood’s counselors for support
- PPS Students’ Rights and Responsibilities Handbook
- PPS’ Inclusivity Resources
- StopBullying.gov
- More Anti-Bullying Resources:
- https://teentruth.net/best-ways-promote-anti-bullying-school/https://positivepsychology.com/anti-bullying-program-classroom/
- https://www.apa.org/topics/bullying/prevent
- https://www.ocali.org/project/bullying_and_individuals_with_special_needs/page/anti_bullying_program_resources
- https://anti-bullyingalliance.org.uk/tools-information/all-about-bullying/whole-school-and-setting-approach/what-whole-school-or-setting
How to talk to your kids about racism:
- Are kids too young to talk about race & social justice? (LOTS of great resources from The Children’s Community School)
- How to talk to kids about racism – an age by age guide
- How to Talk About Race and Racism with Young Kids: Q+A with Dr. Jane Rosen
- Kindergarten teacher in Brooklyn explaining current George Floyd protests to her students
- Raising Race conscious children (lots of resources)
- How White Parents Can Talk To Their Kids About Race | NPR
- Dear white parents of my black child’s friends, I need your help.
- Are we raising racists?
- White parents, here’s how to start talking to your children about race
- Your Kids Aren’t Too Young to Talk About Race: Resource Roundup from Pretty Good*
- 7 Reminders for White Parents Talking to Their Kids About Police Killing Black People
- 100 Race-conscious things you can say to your child to advance racial justice
- Video on systemic racism for older grade students (redlining, implicit bias) –
Talking about Holidays:
- Teaching Your Child About Black History Month | PBS*
- Student Ignition Society Indigenous Peoples’ Day Family Action Toolkit
- Decolonizing Thanksgiving – a toolkit for combatting racism in schools
- Teaching Thanksgiving in a Socially Responsible Way
- Saying “No Thanks” to Lying to kids about Thanksgiving
- What really happened at the First Thanksgiving – The Wampanoag Side of the tale
Children’s books:
- EmbraceRace | Children’s Books
- Anti Defamation League’s monthly book club
- Anti Defamation League list of children’s books
- 28 MORE BLACK PICTURE BOOKS THAT AREN’T ABOUT BOYCOTTS, BUSES OR BASKETBALL (2018)
- Coretta Scott King Book Award Winners: books for children and young adults*
- Children’s book by and about Native People Children’s books – captivating stories to recognize privilege (economic, male, white, non-disabled, heteronormative, body size & others)
- 20 Picture Books for 2020: Readings to Embrace Race, Provide Solace & Do Good
- 50 Children’s Books Celebrating Native American and Indigenous Mighty Girls*
- Titles by/for/about Latinx
- 18 multiracial books celebrating LGBTQIA characters
- 10 laugh out loud funny multicultural picture books
- “The Cat is Out of the Bag: Orientalism, Anti-Blackness, and White Supremacy in Dr. Seuss’s Children’s Books”
- Books by black authors for kids ages 0-18
- Authors of colors writing for kids*
- 12 children’s books to help you talk about prejudice*
Adult books:
- The sum of us
- Despite the Best Intentions
- 10 books about race to read instead of asking a person of color to explain things to you
- 9 essential reads for your racial justice conversation
- 16 books about race every white person should read
TV and films:
- 26 mini-films exploring race, bias and identity with students
- Kids’ tv shows that celebrate diversity*
- Massive online catalog of indigenous films online – 6 suggestions to get you started
Podcasts for adults:
- Nice white parents
- Parenting Forward podcast episode ‘Five Pandemic Parenting Lessons with Cindy Wang Brandt’
- Fare of the Free Child podcast
- Integrated Schools podcast episode “Raising White Kids with Jennifer Harvey”
- Seeing White
Local Portland/OR links
- PPS Parents presentation – Racism in Oregon
- Portland black owned restaurants
- PDX POC owned restaurants list
- Timeline of Oregon’s Racial and Educational History
- When Portland Banned Blacks – Oregon’s shameful history as an all white state
School Segregation
- Integrated Schools podcast
- We can draw school zones to make classrooms less segregated. This is how well your district does.
- Two moms choose between separate and unequal schools in Oakland
- How the systemic segregation of schools is maintained by individual choices
Diversity/Equity/Equality – what do they mean? What’s the difference?
- “Diversity Isn’t Equity” blogpost
- Back to basics – equity vs equality and how to tell the difference
- Teaching kindness isn’t the same as teaching justice
Supporting BIPOC businesses
- Portland black owned restaurants
- 10 black owned businesses that sell back to school items
- 100 black owned businesses
- Black owned Portland brands
- Directory of Portland Black owned businesses
Other info/resources
- Smithsonian National Museum of African American History & Culture Exhibits
- How white privilege is taught
- Syllabus for white people to educate themselves
- Hate is taught on the playground and we (the parents) have to stop it
- What well meaning white people need to know about race
- For our white friends desiring to be allies
- It takes a village to save a child: 7 ways to help a black kid who feels like life is too much
- Why the myth of meritocracy harms kids of color
- 10 ways whiteness shows up you may not even realize
- What it looks like when communities make Racial Justice a priority
- Teacher: “A student told me I couldn’t understand because I was a white lady – here’s what I did then”
- What should white people do for racial justice?
- What to do when your child comments on a stranger’s physical appearance in public
- What I Told My White Friend When He Asked For My Black Opinion On White Privilege
- Color brave space – how to run an equity focused meeting