OVERVIEW & PURPOSE

Each child will demonstrate self-awareness, confidence, family pride, and positive social identities. (Derman-Sparks & Olsen, 2010)

EDUCATION STANDARDS

1. Students will develop positive social identities based on their membership in multiple groups in society.
2. Students will develop language and historical and cultural knowledge that affirm and accurately describe their membership in multiple identity groups.
3. Students will recognize that peoples’ multiple identities interact and create unique and complex individuals.
4. Students will express pride, confidence and healthy self-esteem without denying the value and dignity of other people.
5. Students will recognize traits of the dominant culture, their home culture and other cultures and understand how they negotiate their own identity in multiple spaces.

(Teraching Tolerance, 2016)

RESOURCES

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

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