Start or continue your changemaker journey with inspiring resources that spark conversation + action, and watch events that are proof we are living history.

Recommended Resources

Learning for Justice

Teaching for Change

BLM at School

Edutopia

Education Week

¡Colorín Colorado!

Understood

National Education Association (NEA)

American Educational Research Association (AERA)

Video Gallery

The Invention of Thanksgiving

Watch and listen as Paul Chaat Smith from the Comanche tribe reveals how Thanksgiving was invented in this video from the Smithsonian’s National Museum of the American Indian exhibition “Americans.”

TED Talks

Trailblazers + Changemakers

Victor Rios, a former gang member turned award-winning educator, author, and speaker shares his experience as an inner-city youth. Rios urges fellow educators to shift the language from “at-risk” to “at-promise” to recognize the potential of all students.
Chimamanda Adichie warns of “the danger of a single story” and emphasizes the need for multiple stories, or counterstories, in this captivating TED Talk.
Rita Pierson, a teacher of forty years, calls on all educators to believe in their students and connect with them on a personal level because “Every kid needs a champion.”
Kimberlé Crenshaw discusses “intersectionality” and how race and gender bias can lead to multiple forms of exclusion, prejudice, and injustice.
The founders of Black Lives Matter talk about the birth of the movement that has sparked conversations about race and inequality all over the world.

Events

2020 AERA Brown Lecture

In its 17th year, the AERA held the annual Brown Lecture virtually. The lecture was appropriately suited to a topic on which the whole world can relate–a pandemic. Lecture speaker William F. Tate IV argues the pandemic of segregation and racial superiority has “infected” the world. Tate’s talk begs the question through its title, The Segregation Pandemic: Brown as treatment or placebo?

2019 AERA Brown Lecture

The 16th annual American Educational Research Association (AERA) Brown Lecture in Educational Research featured Dr. Prudence L. Carter of the University of California, Berkeley. This year’s lecture was titled “‘A Shade Less Offensive’: School Integration as Radical Inclusion in the Pursuit of Educational Equity.”

Podcasts

Stories That Will Challenge Your Thoughts on Education

This American Life – “A Not-So-Simple Majority”

This 56-minute episode covers a story about an unprecedented school board war between the East Ramapo, NY school district and the growing Hasidic majority in the community. Listen to find out how it all plays out.

Episodes For Every Educator

Cult of Pedagogy

National Board Certified teacher Jennifer Gonzalez has curated over 100 podcast episodes on topics ranging from social justice issues and education reform to instructional strategies and classroom management tips.

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