Resources
Our collection of resources is designed to equip parents, educators, administrators, and practitioners with tools and guidance to promote diversity, foster school integration, and nurture inclusivity.
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National Education Policy Center
Description: The mission of the National Education Policy Center is to provide high-quality information in support of democratic deliberation about education policy. We are guided by the belief that the democratic governance of public education is strengthened when policies are based on sound evidence and support a multiracial society that is inclusive, kind, and just.
Source: University of Colorado School of Education
NEA Shares Guidance as Immigration Changes Create Uncertainty
Description: Learn how educators can prepare amid threats of mass deportation and policy rollbacks.
Source: National Education Association (NEA)
Never too early to learn: Antibias education for young children
Description: We've compiled these resources to help educators of all ages talk about race and racism in the classroom. We start with overarching resources that we think could be useful across the age spectrum. We then organize resources loosely by age (early childhood, elementary, middle/high school). Included in this list are links to relevant CECR research and past events, as well as resources by other organizations whose work has proven valuable to us. We invite your contributions to this ongoing list; to find our contact information, please see the beginning of the document.
Source: Jennifer Hooven, Katherine Runkle, Laurie Strouse, Misty Woods, Erica Frankenberg for Kappan
One Question: How Can We Talk to Kids About Race?
Description: Early childhood education professor Fabienne Doucet answers in 90 seconds.
Source: Fabienne Doucet, NYU
Parent’s Guide Beyond the Golden Rule:
Description: A Parent’s Guide to Preventing and Responding to Prejudice (PDF). Whether your child is a curious preschooler, a middle schooler facing discrimination, or a teen navigating social cliques, this book helps parents teach respect, celebrate differences, and confront prejudice. With real-life stories from families, expert advice from psychologists and educators, and age-specific strategies, it offers practical tools for raising inclusive, empathetic children. A final section also encourages parents to reflect on their own biases and how these shape their parenting.
Source: Learning for Justice & Southern Poverty Law Center
Penn Staters were brought to tears as they listened to King 50 years ago.
Description: Dr. Martin Luther King came to Penn State and addressed more than 8,000 spectators who packed Recreation Hall to hear the Nobel Peace Prize winner. King used the speaking engagement to make the argument for civil rights through legislation and was also laying the foundation for the Selma march that would take place later that year. | 2015 Video
Source: Penn State
Pennsylvania Center for the Book
Description: The mission of the Pennsylvania Center for the Book is to study, honor, celebrate, and promote books, reading, libraries, and literacy to the residents of the Commonwealth of Pennsylvania.
Source: Penn State University Libraries
Picture Books Tell Children the Harsh Stories of Migrants and Refugees
Description: Whether they are nostalgic reveries of those who came long ago to this nation of immigrants, or the brutal nightmares of worldwide millions fleeing war, violence and persecution today, memories of migration matter. Telling these stories seems more important than ever — even, and some might say especially, to children. A wave of picture books has arrived to help with this difficult task.
Source: Monica Edinger for the New York Times
Positive Racial Identity Development in Early (PRIDE) Education
Description: The University of Pittsburgh School of Education’s Office of Child Development, Center for Urban Education, and the Supporting Early Education and Development (SEED) Lab partnered to conduct an environmental scan to identify promising practices that support positive racial identity development in early education (PRIDE). The scan sought information from national literature, experts in the field, and local stakeholders, including parents,* teachers, educators, and funders, with the goal of developing recommendations for implementation in Pittsburgh that could be used as a model for other cities nationally. (2016)
Source: Aisha White, Ph.D. and Colleen Young, MSW
Protecting Access to Education for Unaccompanied Children
Description: A Resource for Families and Educators produced by the U.S. Department of Education and the U.S. Department of Justice Civil Rights Division.
Source: U.S. Department of Education
Protecting our Students and Families Toolkit
Description: Know your rights: Information for students and families. Updated March 17, 2025.
Source: American Federation of Teachers
Raising Antibias and Antiracist Kids
Description: This powerpoint was part of our brown bag discussion on raising anti-racist, anti-biased children.
Source: Center for Education and Civil Rights, Penn State
Reading Picture Books with Children through a Race-Conscious Lens
Description: Webinar by EmbraceRace. A community conversation with Sarah Hannah Gómez and Megan Dowd Lambert. | 60 min.
Source: EmbraceRace
Resources for Educators and Community Allies
Description: After the rescission of the Deferred Action for Childhood Arrivals (DACA) program on September 5, 2017, the Center for Immigrants' Rights Clinic at Penn State crafted this toolkit to help guide K-12 and post-secondary educators working to support their immigrant students and their families.
Source: Center for Immigrants' Rights Clinic at Penn State
Resources for Teaching About Race and Racism
Description: We've compiled these resources to help educators of all ages talk about race and racism in the classroom. We start with overarching resources that we think could be useful across the age spectrum. We then organize resources loosely by age (early childhood, elementary, middle/high school). Included in this list are links to relevant CECR research and past events, as well as resources by other organizations whose work has proven valuable to us. We invite your contributions to this ongoing list; to find our contact information, please see the beginning of the document.
Source: Center for Education and Civil Rights
Rethinking Early Childhood Education
Description: Rethinking Early Childhood Education is alive with the conviction that teaching young children involves values and vision. This anthology collects inspiring stories about social justice teaching with young children. Included here is outstanding writing from childcare teachers, early-grade public school teachers, scholars, and parents.
Source: Ann Pelo
Rethinking Schools: Resources
Description: Resources related to immigration, migration, and citizenship curriculum areas.
Source: Rethinking Schools
Same/Same/but Different. Creating an inclusive kindergarten
Description: Early childhood educators can intentionally teach young children about diversity, identity, and respect. Children notice differences from a young age, and without guided conversations, they may develop biases. In her kindergarten classroom, Rogin introduces concepts like melanin, diverse family structures, and gender inclusivity through stories and discussions, fostering empathy and encouraging students to become changemakers who stand against injustice.
Source: Madeleine Rogin for Medium
School-to-Deportation Pipeline
Description: Punitive discipline practices can lead to vulnerable students being pushed out of school and into the criminal justice system—but what happens when those students are undocumented? In “The School-to-Deportation Pipeline,” writer Coshandra Dillard explains how zero-tolerance discipline can devastate the futures of students who may end up in immigrant detention centers—or even deported—for minor infractions. (Page 42).
Source: Coshandra Dillard
Schooltalk: Rethinking What We Say About—and To—Students Every Day
Description: Mica Pollock, editor of Everyday Antiracism—the progressive teacher’s must-have resource—now turns to what it takes for those working in schools to match their speech to their values, giving all students an equal opportunity to thrive. By juxtaposing common scenarios with useful exercises, concrete actions, and resources, Schooltalk describes how the devil is in the oft-dismissed details: the tossed-off remark to a student or parent about the community in which she lives; the way groups—based on race, ability, and income—are discussed in faculty meetings about test scores and data; the assumptions and communication breakdowns between counselors, teachers, and other staff that cause kids to fall needlessly through the cracks; or the deflating comment to a young person about her college or career prospects.
Source: Mica Pollock
Schooltalking
Description: This Schooltalking Facebook community supports educators and others in equity-oriented, antiracist, and anti-hate dialogue and action in schools. Mica launched this group after working on Schooltalk, Everyday Antiracism, #USvsHate, and work at UC San Diego’s CREATE, but we seek ideas and tools created by lots of people in communities across the country
Source: Mica Pollock, Facebook
SPEAK UP! Responding to Everyday Bigotry
Description: In the making of this book, the Southern Poverty Law Center gathered hundreds of stories of everyday bigotry from people across the United States. They told their stories through email, personal interviews and at roundtable discussions in four cities: Baltimore, Md.; Columbia, S.C.; Phoenix, Ariz.; and Vancouver, Wash.
Source: Brian Willoughby, Southern Law Poverty Center
Still Looking to the Future: Voluntary K-12 Integration
Description: A Manual for Parents, Educators, and Advocates. | This Manual, a joint project of the NAACP Legal Defense Fund (LDF) and the Civil Rights Project/Proyecto Derechos Civiles (CRP), provides valuable guidance and information about how communities and school districts can promote racial diversity and address racial isolation in schools nationwide. This Second Edition of the Manual is being issued on the heels of the Supreme Court's June 2007 decision in Parents Involved in Community Schools v. Seattle School District No. 1, which limited the ability of school districts to take race into account in achieving these goals. More information is available on the NAACP Legal Defense Fund's website at http://www.naacpldf.org/. (2008)
Source: NAACP Legal Defense
Strategies to Work with Students With Misconceptions About US History
Description: Teaching Tolerance responds to a reader question, “What are some strategies for working with students who come to my class with ingrained political ideologies and misconceptions about U.S. history?” (Page 9).
Source: Ask Teaching Tolerance