RACIAL LITERACY LESSON PLANS FOR EDUCATORS

In the summer of 2019, we launched the CHOOSE Champions: Educator Fellowship to bring together a passionate team of U.S. educators committed to developing racial literacy curriculum throughout all K-12 subject areas. Click below to view educators' profiles and lesson plans!

LESLYE FOLMAR HARRIS

Every time my students read something they’ll say, “Whose voice is missing? Why is it missing? Whose perspective is this?”

MARIE DEANGELO

You can have an entire high school lesson plan based on one picture book.

JANICE MARSILI

Racial literacy is not an upward climb, there are peaks and valleys.

PATRICIA M. EWALD

We're all racist, especially White people.

ASHLEY INGRAM

Race is what raises a child of color living in the United States.

KEVIN ADAMS

To really tell the story of the United States, to tell any history, we have to explore all the people in that history.

CORINNA OTT

Why is it easier to come up with examples of racism that we see in everyday life, but not of justice?

SARA MINGIONE

Young students were already having experiences around race and intersectionality, and they needed to know how to name it.

PREYA KRISHNA-KENNEDY

I always felt like an outsider, and that’s why I became an educator, eventually.

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Profiles & Lessons

WHAT HAVE THE CHOOSE Champions DONE?

CollaborateD with like-minded educators

We’re here to learn from and support each other. Throughout the school year, we discussed ideas in both large and small teams.

CreateD (and TAUGHT) Racial Literacy Lessons

Every educator wrote and implemented racial literacy curriculum for their own classroom, incorporating Tell Me Who You Are and other resources.

TestED the book: Tell Me Who You Are

Via conversations and surveys over the phone, we wanted to know how teachers and students are responding to this racial literacy toolkit.

Published their work for free download

Above are the racial literacy lesson plans the CHOOSE Champs made, now free to download for classrooms everywhere. Please credit fairly if you use this work in any way!

Have a lesson plan you'd like us to feature?

Email your racial literacy lesson plans to team@chooseorg.org

We are looking for plans of any size and for any subject, especially but not limited to the use of Tell Me Who You Are.

Selected lesson plans will be featured on the CHOOSE website later this year.

EDUCATOR GUIDE

Created in collaboration with

In addition to the extensive work that the CHOOSE Champions have done, we created a smaller Tell Me Who You Are "Educator's Companion Guide," specifically for educators who care about bringing social justice to their classroom. We envision the toolkit for educators of all subjects and age levels, though we think the book's content makes it most suitable for students in middle school and up.

View our guide on Issuu here.