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BROWSE RESOURCES
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Units
Exploring Common Roots
Early childhood educators explore the concept of belonging in their classrooms through analysis of research articles, children’s literature, texts from The 1619 Project, and personal reflections.
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Units
Creating Communities
Students discover how the experience of enslavement informed culture and community for Black Americans, inspiring a legacy of resistance and responsibility today.
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Students explore how they can use their voices to address ways in which people are marginalized through silence, and develop a deep understanding of where genius has been found in history.
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Students apply literacy and writing skills to investigate the impact of the Columbian Exchange, colonization, and Transatlantic slave trade on the world’s economy and culture.
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Kindergarten and first grade students explore concepts of enslavement, resistance, and racial justice through an analysis of primary source documents reflecting resistance to slavery in Lowell, MA.
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Students learn and write about Black history and culture through the lens of Afrofuturism, which creatively illuminates past and present realities, and imagines liberated Black futures.
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Students consider whether the United States is undergoing a third Reconstruction by analyzing key events, figures and movements from the past.
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Kindergarten students use the Whole Book Approach to analyze Born on the Water to understand the system of enslavement and how people who were enslaved engaged resistance, resilience and hope.
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Students contrast the histories of migration by African Americans to Hawaiʻi and within the continental US and apply their analysis to a socratic seminar and written work.