Resources
The resources below are drawn from our community of partners, facilitators, and supporters. These include primary source materials, sample lesson plans, and links to additional materials. Please feel free to save the sources that are most useful for you in your planning and instruction. All materials are completely free.
Looking for resources on a specific topic? Check out our Resource Finding Aid, a list of our curriculum pieces organized by topic with their locations and associated learning standards for quick reference.
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Classroom practices mirror the controlled social engagement found in our nation’s carceral system in more ways than we fully comprehend. This virtual conversation with Christopher “Talib” Charriez, Christopher Etienne, and Lacey Hunter discussed how to recognize and challenge these patterns and foster learning through new strategies. To watch the conversation, visit the event page.
Resources:
Teaching While Muslim, a network for Muslim educators and platform for the fight against discrimination, implicit bias, and institutional racism in public schools
Abolitionist Teaching Network, an organization to support educational liberation and utilize the intellectual work and direct action in the classroom
Implicit bias video (Vox), a video highlighting the implicit bias that exists in classroom behavior management practices
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In the Using Poetry to Teach Black Queer History workshop, participants explored poetry as historical text and history as poetic text. The workshop focused on helping students critically and closely read poetry through reading exercises that encourage thoughtful dialog. This session also emphasized active listening as a method for creating and utilizing oral history in classroom content. Please feel free to download the sources and activity guide for inclusion in your classroom.
Articles and Essays
Works from scholars about the importance and pedagogy of poetry:
Audre Lorde–Poetry is Not a Luxury
John Keene–What Can Black Studies Teach Creative Writing?
Sheila Maldonado–Teaching with Blues Poems
Finding the Poetry by Dmae Roberts
Classroom Activities and Readings
Giving Poems a Voice is a classroom exercise to help students analyze poems through personal, literary, and historic lenses.
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In these workshops, participants explored Queer Newark Oral History Project as a useful resource for implementing New Jersey’s LGBTQ+ curriculum mandate. Queer Newark’s repository is an asset for LGBTQ+ historical inclusion that provides many thematic inroads into local, state, and national history. This workshop included focused activity ideas that take advantage of the project’s free online archive.
Articles and Essays
Selected chapters from the book Understanding and Teaching U.S. Lesbian, Gay, Bisexual, and Transgender History:
Daniel Hurewitz–Putting Ideas into Practice
Catherine Jaquet–Queer History Goes Digital
Susan K. Freeman and Leila J. Rupp–The Ins and Outs of History
Classroom Activities and Readings
Learning About the HIV/AIDS Epidemic Through Oral History is a history lesson plan that helps students explore the AIDS epidemic through a variety of primary sources.
- Lesson Plan
- Timeline Activity Template
- Primary Sources
Queer Newark Educator Hub provides lesson plans and other resources for educators looking to use local oral histories in the classroom.
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In the Courageous Conversations workshop, participants explored supportive non-fiction, secondary, resources for guiding and engaging students in conversations about marginalization and discrimination. This session emphasized strategies that help students develop the knowledge, skills, and dispositions to effectively discuss and analyze social injustice.
Articles and Essays
Recommendations and scholarship for teaching about marginalization and discrimination:
Education Resource List for Talking About Race 2022-2023 (NJ Bar Assoc)
Ereka Willams–A Critical Conversation Remembering Culture in the Teaching of the Whole Child
Brenda Campbell Jones et. al–Prepare to Engage
Classroom Activities and Readings
Talking About Race is a series of lesson plans that help guide classroom conversations about race and racism through literature, videos, cartoons, and other media.
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The Difference of Disability
Why is disability so often left out of the curriculum— and what difference does this make? How can disability studies engender transformative teaching and learning for all? In this session participants learned about the field of disability studies, its connections to related justice movements, and discussed demonstration lessons for your own classroom instruction.
Articles and Essays
Scholarship about disability in the classroom:
DAN GOODLEY–Thinking about Schooling through Disability
JENENE BURKE–NOT JUST FOR THE FUN OF IT Children’s Constructions of Disability
Compliance or Culture
This session, focused on classroom culture, encouraged participants to broaden their focus from legal compliance to understand accessibility and disability as complex and central to collective liberation.
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In this workshop, participants explored the rhythms of resistance and resilience with songs that encouraged marginalized people to continue their fight for social justice and change.
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In this workshop, participants explored diverse methodologies using spoken word and performance poetics through the Nuyorican poetry school to encourage students’ creative critical thinking and engagement.
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This workshop provided strategies and resources for implementing lessons on indigenous worldviews and land education into social studies, science, and literacy classes to tell a more balanced history and the presence of the Lunaape/Lenape of New Jersey.
Other Resources
- Indigenous History and Culture Primary and Secondary Sources List
- Dakota Waterways Map
- Academic Articles
- “Cherokee Women and the Trail of Tears by Theda Perdue, Journal of Women’s History
- “She Saves Us from Monsters The Navajo Creation Story and Modern Tribal Justice” by Heidi J. Todacheene, Tribal Law Journal
- “Indigenous Women, Feminism, and the Environmental Humanities” by Gerta Gaard, Resilience: A Journal of the Environmental Humanities
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Lesson Plans
Countering Antisemitism Lesson Plan
Countering Islamophobia and Anti-Arab Racism Lesson Plan
Media Literacy Lesson Plans
Bias
- Google Docs: Lesson Plan, Appendix A, Appendix B, Appendix C, Appendix D, Appendix E
Misinformation
Breaking News
Centering Humanity While Following News of the Israel-Hamas War (Facing History & Ourselves)
Peaceful Protest Lesson Plan
Articles
Jewish and Israeli Perspectives
- “‘Never Again’ After October 7th” by Linda Kinstler (Jewish Currents)
- “The Abolitionist Logic of Everyone for Everyone” by Dan Berger (Jewish Currents)
- “How October 7 has changed us all — and what it signals for our struggle” by Haggai Matar (+972 Magazine)
- “Risking arrest and assault, Israelis begin protesting Gaza war” by Oren Ziv (+972 Magazine)
- “‘The hostages weren’t our top priority’: How Israel’s bombing frenzy endangered captives in Gaza” by Yuval Abraham (972 Magazine)
- “A Dangerous Conflation: An Open Letter from Jewish Writers” with full list of writers at link (n+1)
- “How Anti-Zionist American Jews Are Organizing For a Ceasefire in Gaza” by Sophie Hurwitz (Teen Vogue)
- “‘We can’t stop’ – the Israeli woman still helping sick Palestinians” by Caroline Hawley (BBC News)
- “Captives mistakenly killed by Israeli troops left SOS signs in Hebrew” (Al Jazeera)
Palestinian Perspectives
- “Dispatches from the West Bank” by Mustafa, Luna, Mariam, Ghassan Najjar, and Sabri, as told to Maya Rosen and Shira Wolkenfeld (Jewish Currents)
- “Genocide in Gaza: Global Culpability and Ways Forward” by Yara Hawari, Tariq Kenney-Shawa, Fathi Nimer, and Alaa Tartir (Al Shabaka)
- “Have We Learned Nothing?” by David Klion (n+1)
- Stories Make Us by Refaat Alareer (TED)
- “‘We are dying here’: Terror in Gaza amid Israeli communications blackouts” by Mohammed R. Mhawish (Al Jazeera)
- “Human Rights Watch says Israel is using starvation as a weapon in Gaza” by Matthew Mpoke Bigg (New York Times)
Intersectional Perspectives
- “Imprisoning Palestine: Zionist Colonialism Through an Abolitionist Lens” by Rawan Masri and Fathi Nemer (Scalawag Magazine)
- “From Black Atlanta to Palestine: A statement of connection, solidarity, and survival” by Da’Shaun Harrison and Eva Dickerson (Scalawag Magazine)
- “Gaza’s Queer Palestinians Fight to Be Remembered” by Sarah O’Neal (The Nation)
- “Why Palestinian Liberation Is Disability Justice” by Alice Wong (Disability Visibility Project)
Academic Articles
Other Resources
Teaching About the Violence in Palestine and Israel (Zinn Education Project)
Congress Ceasefire Tracker (Working Families Party)
Free Palestinian E-Books (Haymarket Books)
Palestinian Literature and Film List
Rutgers Teach-Ins
The Center for Security, Race and Rights hosted a Teach-In on Gaza that centered the experiences of Palestinians in Gaza who have lived under Israeli occupation since 1967. The Teach In provides the political, economic and social context leading up to Hamas’ terrorist attacks in Israel and the Israeli government’s indiscriminate and disproportionate military response that thus far has killed more than 6000 Palestinian civilians, of which over 3000 are Palestinian children, and injured more than 15,000 Palestinian civilians. To request a Teach In at your institution, please contact us at csrr@law.rutgers.edu.
September 13, 2023: Punishing Atrocities and Fair Trials
October 10, 2023: Psychoanalysis Under Occupation
October 16, 2023: Teach-In on Gaza
November 2, 2023: Muslim Prisoner Litigation
November 14, 2023: The New Crusades
November 21, 2023: Palestine 101 with Dr. Zachary Foster
December 5, 2023: The West Bank and Jerusalem with Dr. Zachary Foster
December 8, 2023: Israeli Settlements in the Occupied Territories
Sawyer Seminar Afterlives of Liberation Teach-In on Gaza
Race, Liberation, Palestine: A Conversation with Noura Erakat, Nick Estes, & Marc Lamont Hill
Other Teach-Ins
University of Winnipeg – Presentation
University of Winnipeg – Round Table
American Civil Liberties Union – The Unconstitutional Silencing of Pro-Palestinian Student Groups
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This kick-off seminar for the 2022-2023 Mellon Sawyer Seminar, “Natives and Nativists, Migrants and Immigrants in an American City,” drew together prominent scholars, activists, and educators to trace the origins of today’s anti-Asian hate, grapple with its continuing legacies, and envision ways to fight it in the present moment.
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These resources were developed by Teaching Against Erasure contributors in response to the requests of educators.
William Dorsey Swann: The First Drag Queen is a history lesson plan that connects the story of William Dorsey Swann with the tradition of Black queer resistance.
Queer Before the Civil War is a list of important figures and moments from queer history before 1861 and suggested activities to incorporate these stories in the classroom.
Incorporating Disability into the Classroom is a list of important figures and moments from disability history and culture and suggested activities to incorporate these stories in the classroom.