Black Lives Matter and Civil Rights

By the Editors of Rethinking Schools

Talking with students about race.

A crowdsourced syllabus about race, African American history, civil rights, and policing (see also #fergusonsyllabus on Twitter)

5 questions faculty members should ask themselves before they weave a recent controversy into their courses

90 page report from the Perception Institute. From the authors: "This report, released in the fall of 2014, details the social science that can help us
understand the day-to-day dynamics of race and how to alter the circumstances that too
often culminate in tragedy."

Collaborative document created by mostly K-12 teachers.

Suggestions for teaching about police brutality, the history of racism, international human rights, militarization of the police, student fear and resilience, and housing inequality

Collection of links from Teaching for Tolerance.

Lesson planning from the Anti-Defamation League's Current Events Classroom.

From the Summer 2014 Issue of NAIS' Independent School magazine.