NOTE TO TEACHERS
This site provides an easy way to engage your students in learning something about racism and anti-racism. You could:
- Simply ask your students to go to the site, browse and read, and then write down something they learned.
- Direct your students to go to the "Mailbox" page where students are invited to send in their answers to questions or bits of research they've done for possible addition to the site. Ask them to write something to us.
- Have your students log on once a month to learn the "Specials of the Month" and take the self-quiz.
- Develop some brief "site search" questions yourself that would direct them to search the site for the information that you'd like them to learn.
- Assign students to research an historical figure who worked against racism and send us a brief summary of their work.
- Whenever one of your students or your class notices something that is connected to racism or anti-racism (in the news, in your curriculum, in interactions among students) please encourage them to write a brief summary of it and send it to us to add to the site.
- Teach your students to do Listening Exchanges and use the list of Topics.
- Try the Strategies for Introducing This Web Site to Students, which includes a checklist that students could be assigned to use.
We hope you will involve your class in using this site regularly. We think that it will benefit students of all backgrounds to make a commitment to help end racism, to learn more about anti-racism and its history, to gain useful perspectives on racism, and to find some way to take some action.
Wouldn’t your students love to see something they had written appear on a web site that is about eliminating racism?
Please don't urge your students to take the pledge against racism that the site invites them to make. That should be a completely free choice, without any pressure of any kind.
We want this to be a collaborative project. Please tell us what you'd like to see added to, or changed on, the site. We welcome questions, feedback, suggestions. We hope you and your class will join with us in developing and improving the site.
