Black and Indigenious Lives Matter
Kirkland Preschool firmly believes that Black and Indigenious Lives Matter. We also recognize that just believing in things is not enough to dismantle white supremacy and systems of oppression. Please read on for resources or visit the Take Action page:
Non-Exhaustive List of Resources for Parents/Children:
https://www.theconsciouskid.org/, @theconsciouskid
○ “The Conscious Kid is an education, research and policy organization dedicated to reducing bias and promoting positive identity development in youth.”
○ Sesame Street explains Black Lives Matter
○ “At EmbraceRace, we identify, organize – and, as needed, create – the tools, resources, discussion spaces, and networks we need…” | @embracerace |
○ “The Children’s Community School is working to promote the values of economic and racial justice.”
○ “The Many Ways White Parents Benefit From White Privilege—and How That Can Change”
http://weac.org/wp-content/uploads/2018/02/kid-friendly-language.pdf
○ “How to talk to young children about the Black Lives Matter Guiding Principles by Laleña Garcia”
https://www.lsumoa.org/inside-lsu-moa/beginning-the-conversation
○ Resources and books to help start open conversations about race, privilege, and injustice with children.
○ “The primary purpose of Raising Race Conscious Children is to support parents and teachers who are trying to talk about race and diversity with young children.”
○ “D.C. Area Educators for Social Justice is a network of educators who seek to strengthen and deepen social justice teaching.”
https://www.zinnedproject.org/materials/?cond[6]=levels_str:Grades+Pre-K-2, @zinneducationproject
○ “The Zinn Education Project promotes and supports the teaching of people’s history in classrooms across the country.”
○ "Anti-Racism over 'Tradition': Alternatives to Dr. Seuss and Racism" This article
○ MMIW Toolkit for Understanding and Responding to Missing and Murdered Indigenous Women for Families and Communities is designed to assist families, communities and advocacy organizations in understanding and responding to a case of a missing or murdered Native woman
○ What's the Difference Between Predjudice, Discrimination, and Oppression? A comic from Everyday Feminism (Content Warning: anti-black racism, ableism, fat shaming, anti-Muslim rhetoric, anti-queer rhetoric)
“Multiculturalism compels educators to recognize the narrow boundaries that have shaped the way knowledge is shared in the classroom. It forces us all to recognize our complicity in accepting and perpetuating biases of any kind.”
—bell hooks