OVERVIEW & PURPOSE

Each child will demonstrate empowerment and the skills to act, with others or alone, against prejudice and/or discriminatory actions. (Derman-Sparks & Olsen, 2010)

EDUCATION STANDARDS

1. Students will express empathy when people are excluded or mistreated because of their identities and concern when they themselves experience bias.
2. Students will recognize their own responsibility to stand up to exclusion, prejudice and injustice.
3. Studentswillspeakupwithcourageand respect when they or someone else has been hurt or wronged by bias.
4. Students will make principled decisions about when and how to take a stand against bias and injustice in their everyday lives and will do so despite negative peer or group pressure.
5. Students will plan and carry out collective action against bias and injustice in the world and will evaluate what strategies are most e ective.

(Teraching Tolerance, 2016)

RESOURCES

1. Early Childhood
2. First – Fourth Grades
3. Middle School
4. High School

REFERENCES

Derman Sparks and Olsen’s Four Core Goals of Anti-Bias Education

Teaching Toleramnce Anti-Bias Framework

SAMPLE IDENTITY-RELATED LESSONS

1. Fours
2. Kindergarten
3. First
4. Second
5. Third
6. Fourth
7. Fifth
8. Sixth
9. Seventh
10. Eighth
11. Ninth
12. Tenth
13. Eleventh
14. Twelfth