Culturally & Linguistically Responsive Initiatives

Recommended Reading and Videos

Emancipation Lesson Reading Resources:

• A Band of Angels 
• Let’s Talk About Race
• Beautiful Blackbird 
• All Because You Matter 
• The Encounter 
• Little Leaders: Bold Women in Black History 
• Daddy Calls Me Man 
• The Heritage 
• Brilliant Brown Babies 
• Traffic 1619
• Hair Love
• Bobby Pig
• A Kindergarten Song
• Wind Flyers
• Phyllis Wheatley Poem 1619
• Henry’s Freedom Box
• Cendrillon: A Caribbean Cinderella
• How the Turtle Got Its Marks
• I Am Enough
• Wealth Gap 1619
• A Girl’s Will
• E Pluribus Unum
• America’s First Martyr-Patriot
• The First American Martyr-Patriot
• Mass Incarceration 1619
• Medical Inequality 1619
• The Howl Wind
• Wealth Gap 1619 
• A Story of a Former Slave Boy

Diverse Book Lists:

• Diverse Book List: PreK-2
• Diverse Book List: 3-5
• Diverse Book List: 6-8
• Diverse Book List: 9-12

Articles:

• What If We... Don't Return to School as Usual
• Black Lives Matter: Anti Racist Resources
• Culturally Responsive Sustaining Education Family Engagement 
• Resources for Coping With and Addressing Racial Trauma & Oppression
• Traumatic Impact of Racism on Young People
• Dear White People: Let's not continue to be our ancestors

Videos:

• Documentary: True Justice by Bryan Stevenson
• Documentary: 13th
• Documentary: Trail of Tears
• Documentary: Black Panther Party

District Book Studies:

2022 - 2023

Four Hundred Souls edited by Ibram X. Kendi & Keisha N. Blain, 2021

2022 - 2023

Culturally Responsive School Leadership by Muhammad Khalifa, 2021

2021 - 2022

Caste by Isabel Wilkerson, 2020

2020 - 2021

Stamped From the Beginning: The Definitive History of Racist Ideas in America by Ibram X. Kendi, 2017

2020 - 2021

Punished by Victor Rios, 2011

2020 - 2021

Cultivating Genius by Gholdy Muhammad, 2020

2019 - 2020

Black Male(d) by Tyrone C. Howard, 2014

2018 - 2019

"Multiplication is for White People" Raising Expectations for Other People's Children by Lisa Delpit, 2012

2017 - 2018

For White Folks Who Teach in the Hood ...and the Rest of Y'all Too by Christopher Emdin, 2016

2016 - 2017

The Dreamkeepers by Gloria Ladson-Billings, 2009