Free and Low-Cost Self-Paced Mini-Courses from the Equity Learning Institute

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• Understanding Equity and Inequity (or, What the Heck-uity is Equity?) - FREE

• An Introduction to Equity Literacy - FREE

• Ditching Deficit Ideology: The First Step toward Embracing Equity 

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Free Downloadable Handouts and Resources

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Feel free to download, copy, and distribute these handouts. No special permission is needed.

  

•  Equity Literacy: Definition and Abilities

• Basic Principles of Equity Literacy

• Equity Literacy: Principles on Students Experiencing Poverty

• Ten Commitments for Equity-Literate Educators

• Five Approaches to Equity: Toward a Transformative Orientation

• The Trouble with Grit

• Five Paradigm Shifts for Equitable Educators

• Paradigm Adjustments for Well-Intended White Educators

• Teacher Activist Collectives (find educators doing good work in your region)

• Taco Night (a brief satirical essay on the trouble with "celebrating diversity")

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Find more free handouts and resources here.

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Download our articles for free here.​

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Fabulous Equity Resources from Other Organizations

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• Calling Out Ableism from the Invisible Disability Project

• Classroom Resources from Teaching Tolerance

• Curricula from NYCoRE

• EdLib Lab - database of liberatory educational materials from Education for Liberation Network

• Educator Resources from GLSEN

• Lesson Plans from the Freire Project

• Lessons & Resources from Teaching for Change

• The Red Folder - a short video by Ben Kallam

• Revolutionizing the Classroom from NYCoRE

• Training Guides from United for a Fair Economy

• Zinn Education Project from Rethinking Schools and Teaching for Change

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Our Favorite Equity Web Sites

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• Chicago Grassroots Curriculum

• Education for Liberation Network

• EduColor

• Free Minds Free People

• The Freire Project

• GLSEN

• International Association for Intercultural Education

• Invisible Disability Project

• Minnesota-NAME

• Multicultural Pavilion

• National Association for Multicultural Education

• New York Collective of Radical Educators

• Northwest Teachers for Social Justice

• Rethinking Schools

• Science Educators for Equity, Diversity, and Social Justice

• Teachers for Social Justice - Chicago

• Teaching Economics as though People Mattered

• Teaching for Change

• Teaching Social Justice Resource Exchange (Facebook Group)

• Teaching Tolerance

• United for a Fair Economy

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