Anti-racism and anti-oppression work
Anti-Black and anti-Indigenous racism is deeply rooted in our country, society, institutions and our history, and much work needs to be done to address this systemic racism. As an educational community we have a responsibility to identify and describe racism and oppression and then work to dismantle it. The Upper Grand District School Board is committed to disrupting systemic racism and oppression in all of its forms. We will implement ongoing mandatory anti-racism and anti-oppression training for all staff, review our protocols and policies, including our hiring practices, and be fully transparent and accountable to all Upper Grand students, staff, families, and stakeholders in an ongoing manner.
Resources for Educators
- Anti-Racist Educator Reads – A podcast for educators who understand that we need to be talking about race and racism in schools now
- Talking to students about racialized violence
- Resources for talking to children about race
- Anti-racism additional reading, video, learning and teaching resources
- Annotated Bibliography – A resource for Ontario educators learning about racism, 2020
- Teaching Tolerance Guide – Difficult Conversations
- Framing brave conversations about race and ethnicity
- Supporting Black History Month in the Early Years
- Black History resources compilation from the Terry James Resource Centre
- Black History in Canada – Educators Guide from Historica Canada
Books
- Policing Black Lives: State Violence in Canada from Slavery to the Present by Robyn Maynard
- Me and White Supremacy: Combat Racism, Change the World, and Become a Good Ancestor by Layla F. Saad
- Decolonizing Education: Nourishing the Learning Spirit by Marie Battiste
- Pushout: The Criminalization of Black Girls in Schools by Monique W. Morris
- We Want to Do More Than Survive: Abolitionist Teaching and the Pursuit of Educational Freedom by Bettina L. Love
- Dying of Whiteness: How the Politics of Racial Resentment is Killing America’s Heartland by Jonathan M. Metzl
- How to Be an Antiracist by Ibram X. Kendi
- Why Are All the Black Kids Sitting Together in the Cafeteria? by Beverly Tatum