“The challenges of our current environment will leave a lasting and painful impression on our children, families, and educators unless we all decide to move forward… together. Kansas PTA will continue working from our values in an effort to listen more than we will speak. We encourage all stakeholders to actively educate yourself alongside us on issues related to anti-racism and to use your privilege (whatever privilege that may be) to serve and advocate on behalf of our young people. In the end, we will provide education and support efforts in areas of diversity, belonging, equity and inclusion – addressing issues of social injustice and institutional racism along the way.”
Brian Brown | Diversity & Inclusion Chair, 20-21
KANSAS PTA TO ADDRESS NEED FOR INCREASED DIVERSITY AND INCLUSION EFFORTS
Basic Definitions to Navigate a Diversity and Inclusion Discussion
Flyers
Recommended Books about Diversity and Inclusion
Adult
- Why Are All the Black Kids Sitting Together in the Cafeteria? – Dr. Beverly Tatum
- Can We Talk About Race – Dr. Beverly Tatum
- White Fragility – Robin Diangelo
- So You Want To Talk About Race – Ijeoma Oluo
- The Right to Be Out: Sexual Orientation and Gender Identity in America’s Public
Schools – Stuart Biegel - LGBT Youth in America’s Schools – Sean Cahill and Jason Cianciotto
- Stamped: Racism, Anti-racism, and you – Jason Reynolds and Ibram Kendi
- March – John Lewis and Andrew Aydin
- This Book is Anti-Racist: 20 Lessons on how to wake up, take action, and do the work – Tiffany Jewell
Youth
- Uniquely Wired: A Story About Autism and Its Gifts – Julia Cook
- A Rainbow of Friends – P.K. Hallinan
- Whose Knees Are These? – Jabari Asim
- Bad Hair Does Not Exist [iPelo Malo No Existe] – Sulma Arzu-Brown
- Alma and How She Got Her Name – Juana Martinez-Neal
- Same, Same But Different – Jenny Sue Kostecki-Shaw
- Black Lives Matter | Instructional Library – Various Authors [Video Book Readings]
- Anti-Racism For Kids 101: Starting To Talk About Race
- How to talk to your kids about Racism, Race, and Activism
Websites
- Dig Deep for Equity
- National Museum of African American History and Culture
- Haas Institute for a Fair and Inclusive Society
- Teaching Tolerance
- Embrace Race
- Equal Justice Initiative
- Alliance for Resource Equity
- National Hispanic Heritage Month
Podcasts
Podcast – Nice White Parents
Videos
- United School Administrators – Kansas Equity Series – Part I [6/23/20]
- United School Administrators – Kansas Equity Series – Part II [7/7/20]
- Understanding Implicit Bias
- Implicit Bias in the Classroom
- Institutional Racism – Explained
- What is Systemic Racism
- CNN / Sesame Street Racism Town Hall
- Nick News Presents: Kids, Race, and Unity | Hosted By Alicia Keys
Blogs
- The Benefits of Teachers of Color in P-12 Classrooms
- School to Prison Pipeline – Explained
- How to Help You Child on the Spectrum Navigate a Bullying Situation
- How to Change the Story About Students of Color
- 4 Ways Racial Inequity Harms American Schoolchildren
- More US schools teach in English and Spanish, but not enough to help Latino kids
Additional National PTA Resources