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. We hope to see you at one of our upcoming events!
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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
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 EXERCISE INSTRUCTIONS
Giving Poems a Voice (selected poems)
Claude McKay–Six Poems from Harlem Shadows
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In the Teaching with Local Stories workshop, 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
Daniel Hurewitz–Putting Ideas into Practice
Catherine Jaquet–Queer History Goes Digital
Susan K. Freeman–The Ins and Outs of History
Classroom Activities and Readings
Queer Newark Oral History Project Archival Transcript (Gwen Davis)
History Timeline Template for In-class Activity
Queer Newark Oral History Project Archival Transcript (Aaron Frazier)
First Report on What Would Be Known as AIDS
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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
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 Exploring Race in the Classroom Lessons Plans
Talking-About-Race-Handout-Fillable
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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
DAN GOODLEY–Thinking about Schooling through Disability
JENENE BURKE–NOT JUST FOR THE FUN OF IT Children’s Constructions of Disability