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href=\"http://www.routledge.com/stenhouse-publishing\">Stenhouse Publishers\u003c/a>. Reproduced with permission.\u003cbr>\n\u003c/em>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>I have been building my Black history library since my junior year of college, when I taught third and fourth graders about the Harlem Renaissance. My library has been growing ever since, but \u003ca href=\"https://www.kqed.org/mindshift/57026/diversifying-your-classroom-book-collections-avoid-these-7-pitfalls\">whether you have a large collection of books or are just starting out\u003c/a>, there are always new titles for you to discover. Here are a few tips for getting started building your own collection of Black history-focused books.\u003c/p>\n\u003ch2>\u003cstrong>Choose a Black history that interest\u003c/strong>\u003cstrong>s y\u003c/strong>\u003cstrong>ou\u003c/strong>\u003c/h2>\n\u003cp>As I am writing this right now, I cannot choose a single Black history that interests me the most; there are so many to choose from! \u003ca href=\"https://www.kqed.org/arts/13903957/a-new-doc-shows-how-oaklands-black-cowboys-keep-history-alive\">Cowboys\u003c/a> were my obsession last summer, and now it’s cuisine. But I also love learning about Black \u003ca href=\"https://www.chalkbeat.org/detroit/2023/11/21/former-cass-tech-teachers-rescued-leroy-foster-artwork-now-displayed-cranbrook/\">artists\u003c/a>, and \u003ca href=\"https://www.kqed.org/mindshift/60885/how-to-create-a-stem-dream-culture-for-all-students\">inventions and inventors\u003c/a> will always be an all-time fave. I also want to know everything I can about Africa. Do you get my point?\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Whatever \u003ca href=\"https://www.kqed.org/mindshift/62588/how-two-teachers-spark-a-love-of-history-with-their-wardrobes\">history you feel drawn to\u003c/a>, find those books. Reading multiple books about a historical figure or event or theme helps us layer and add nuance to our thinking about Black history. Just the act of reading about multiple Black histories or seeking out several resources around a particular part of history is a way of saying that \u003ca href=\"https://www.kqed.org/mindshift/61095/how-a-virginia-educator-teaches-black-history-with-joy\">Black histories are important\u003c/a>, worthy of our attention and \u003ca href=\"https://www.kqed.org/mindshift/61220/illinois-teachers-create-black-history-courses-to-fill-in-gaps-in-u-s-history-for-students\">worth digging into\u003c/a>.\u003c/p>\n\u003ch2>\u003cstrong>Find the commonality among books\u003c/strong>\u003c/h2>\n\u003cp>As you begin to read and select books, you may start to see common themes or ideas emerging. For example, after reading \u003ca href=\"https://www.agatepublishing.com/9781572842243/crown/\">\u003cem>Crown\u003c/em>\u003c/a>, I remembered that I had two books written and illustrated by Sharee Miller that celebrate hair, \u003ca href=\"https://www.hachettebookgroup.com/titles/sharee-miller/dont-touch-my-hair/9780316562584/?lens=little-brown-books-for-young-readers\">\u003cem>Don’t Touch My Hair\u003c/em>\u003c/a> and\u003ca href=\"https://www.hachettebookgroup.com/titles/sharee-miller/princess-hair/9780316441223/\"> \u003cem>Princess Hair\u003c/em>\u003c/a>. These books became the beginning of a text set around hair (as part of a study of \u003ca href=\"https://www.kqed.org/mindshift/62672/using-picture-books-and-classroom-dialogue-to-honor-and-respect-students-name\">identity\u003c/a>) and were a hit with \u003cimg decoding=\"async\" loading=\"lazy\" class=\"wp-image-62779 alignleft\" src=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/23/2023/11/dawnavyn-1.png\" alt=\"\" width=\"223\" height=\"278\" srcset=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/23/2023/11/dawnavyn-1.png 445w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/23/2023/11/dawnavyn-1-160x200.png 160w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 223px) 100vw, 223px\">students, who all found ways of connecting to this set.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>[ad fullwidth]\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>A single title may end up being a part of multiple text sets around different topics or themes. For example, I sometimes read\u003ca href=\"https://www.harpercollins.com/products/let-the-children-march-monica-clark-robinson?variant=39936194609186\"> \u003cem>Let the Children March\u003c/em>\u003c/a> alongside books about Martin Luther King Jr. because he is featured in that book and the book is set during the Civil Rights Movement. But other times I read it when we learn about Ruby Bridges so that my students can better understand the ways children participated in the Civil Rights Movement. As you begin to see similarities and connections among books, start creating your own collections lists.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>It is important to note that the resources that make up your collections may not always be picture books. Sometimes you may want to include a cookbook, chapter book, piece of art or song. Whatever the topic, educate yourself and then find the resources to educate your students.\u003c/p>\n\u003ch2>\u003cstrong>Keep an eye out for new favorites\u003c/strong>\u003c/h2>\n\u003cp>As you read and share books, you and your students will notice some of the same authors and illustrators who have worked on multiple books about Black histories. For example, I had a class of kindergartners and first graders who could spot illustrations by \u003ca href=\"https://www.instagram.com/kadirnelson/\">Kadir Nelson\u003c/a> from a mile away. And as a teacher, I know that I can truly depend on books written by \u003ca href=\"https://cbweatherford.com/books/\">Carole Boston Weatherford\u003c/a> to deliver accurate information about different Black histories, whether about people or events. Keep an eye out for these authors and illustrators via their websites or social media accounts to see what they are currently working on and to get updates on book release dates. There are also great social media accounts that share a wide variety of diverse picture books, including books about Black histories. Social media and book creators’ own websites are great ways to find and stay connected with the latest titles from our favorite authors and illustrators.\u003c/p>\n\u003ch2>\u003cstrong>Share Black stories\u003c/strong>\u003c/h2>\n\u003cp>There is a true love for Black history-focused books in my classroom. My students can access them on the shelf, read them with a buddy and refer to them when making connections to other books we read\u003cem>.\u003c/em>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003ca href=\"https://www.penguinrandomhouse.com/books/594506/i-am-every-good-thing-by-derrick-barnes-illustrated-by-gordon-c-james/\">\u003cem>I Am Every Good Thing\u003c/em>\u003c/a> is one such book that means a lot to my class. This is a book from our Black joy collection, one we read at the beginning of the year, on a rainy day, during morning meetings, in the middle of the year, during our unit on community, and at the very end of the year as a farewell and affirmation. I have found it in the writing center, a student’s mailbox and in the arms of a sleeping kindergartner in our classroom’s safe place. It’s a book in which my students see themselves and see their classmates, and they see Black histories. It is a book that affirms us, comforts us and challenges us to remember who we are.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>I’d love to be able to list every single book that highlights, celebrates, honors or features Black histories, but that is the work of a lifetime. My hope is that you can find those books, create those collections and read the books that benefit the education of your students, yourself and the community of your classroom. Books expose students to a fuller narrative of Black history. Not just the tragedy and the hardships but also the resistance. Not just the struggle and enslavement but the triumphs and successes, the innovation, brilliance, ingenuity, courage, intellect and dignity. Books that center Black history aren’t just for Black children; they are books for all children.\u003c/p>\n\u003ch2>\u003cstrong>Dawnavyn’s ultimate Black history book collection\u003c/strong>\u003c/h2>\n\u003cp>This is the collection I’ve been building since my junior year of college, and it is constantly growing. I have used these children’s books again and again with students to teach Black histories. See what collections you can create from this list!\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003ca href=\"https://www.harpercollins.com/products/the-undefeated-kwame-alexander?variant=39935132336162\">\u003cstrong>\u003cem>The Undefeated\u003c/em>\u003c/strong>\u003c/a>, written by Kwame Alexander and illustrated by Kadir Nelson\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003ca href=\"https://www.hachettebookgroup.com/titles/vashti-harrison/little-legends-exceptional-men-in-black-history/9780316475143/?lens=little-brown-books-for-young-readers\">\u003cstrong>\u003cem>Little Legends: Exceptional Men in Black History\u003c/em>\u003c/strong>\u003c/a> by Vashti Harrison with Kwesi Johnson\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003ca href=\"https://www.hachettebookgroup.com/titles/vashti-harrison/little-leaders-bold-women-in-black-history/9780316475105/\">\u003cstrong>\u003cem>Little Leaders: Bold Women in Black History\u003c/em>\u003c/strong>\u003c/a> by Vashti Harrison\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003ca href=\"https://us.macmillan.com/books/9781596438200/28days\">\u003cstrong>\u003cem>28 Days: Moments in Black History that Changed the World\u003c/em>\u003c/strong>\u003c/a>, written by Charles R. Smith Jr. and illustrated by Shane W. Evans\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cem>\u003ca href=\"https://www.simonandschuster.com/books/The-Roots-of-Rap/Carole-Boston-Weatherford/9781499812046\">\u003cstrong>The Roots of Rap: 16 Bars on the 4 Pillars of Hip Hop\u003c/strong>\u003c/a>\u003c/em>, written by Carole Boston Weatherford and illustrated by Frank Morrison\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003ca href=\"https://www.albertwhitman.com/book/seven-spools-of-thread/\">\u003cstrong>\u003cem>Seven Spools of Thread: A Kwanzaa Story\u003c/em>\u003c/strong>\u003c/a>, written by Angela Shelf Medearis and illustrated by Daniel Minter\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003ca href=\"https://www.harpercollins.com/products/heart-and-soul-kadir-nelson?variant=33007958949922\">\u003cstrong>\u003cem>Heart and Soul: The Story of America and African Americans\u003c/em>\u003c/strong>\u003c/a> by Kadir Nelson\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003ca href=\"https://www.harpercollins.com/products/coretta-scott-ntozake-shange?variant=32122923909154\">\u003cstrong>\u003cem>Coretta Scott\u003c/em>\u003c/strong>\u003c/a>, written by Ntozake Shange and illustrated by Kadir Nelson\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003ca href=\"https://www.simonandschuster.com/books/Black-Heroes-A-Black-History-Book-for-Kids/Arlisha-Norwood/People-and-Events-in-History/9781638788232\">\u003cstrong>\u003cem>Black Heroes: A Black History Book for Kids\u003c/em>\u003c/strong>\u003c/a> by Arlisha Norwood\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003ca href=\"https://www.lesaclineransome.com/the-power-of-her-pen\">\u003cstrong>\u003cem>The Power of Her Pen: The Story of Groundbreaking Journalist Ethel L. Payne\u003c/em>\u003c/strong>\u003c/a>, written by Lesa Cline-Ransome and illustrated by John Parra\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003ca href=\"https://www.albertwhitman.com/book/sugar-hill/\">\u003cstrong>\u003cem>Sugar Hill: Harlem’s Historic Neighborhood\u003c/em>\u003c/strong>\u003c/a>, written by Carole Boston Weatherford and illustrated by R. Gregory Christie\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003ca href=\"https://www.hachettebookgroup.com/titles/kadir-nelson/we-are-the-ship/9780786808328/?lens=little-brown-books-for-young-readers\">\u003cstrong>\u003cem>We Are the Ship: The Story of Negro League Baseball\u003c/em>\u003c/strong>\u003c/a> by Kadir Nelson\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003ca href=\"https://www.tilburyhouse.com/product-page/have-i-ever-told-you-black-lives-matter\">\u003cstrong>\u003cem>Have I Ever Told You Black Lives Matter\u003c/em>\u003c/strong>\u003c/a>, written by Shani Mahiri King and illustrated by Bobby C. Martin Jr.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003ca href=\"https://blueapplebooks.com/book/let-freedom-sing/\">\u003cstrong>\u003cem>Let Freedom Sing\u003c/em>\u003c/strong>\u003c/a> by Vanessa Newton\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003ca href=\"https://www.penguinrandomhouse.com/books/678949/evicted-by-alice-faye-duncan-illustrated-by-charly-palmer/\">\u003cstrong>\u003cem>Evicted! The Struggle for the Right to Vote\u003c/em>\u003c/strong>\u003c/a>, written by Alice Faye Duncan and illustrated by Charly Palmer\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003ca href=\"https://www.hachettebookgroup.com/titles/dinah-johnson/h-is-for-harlem/9780316322379/\">\u003cstrong>\u003cem>H Is for Harlem\u003c/em>\u003c/strong>\u003c/a>, written by Dinah Johnson and illustrated by April Harrison\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003ca href=\"https://shop.scholastic.com/parent-ecommerce/books/stand-up-10-mighty-women-who-made-a-change-9781338763850.html\">\u003cstrong>\u003cem>Stand Up! 10 Mighty Women Who Made a Change\u003c/em>\u003c/strong>\u003c/a>, written by Brittney Cooper and illustrated by Cathy Ann Johnson\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003ca href=\"https://www.harpercollins.com/products/the-people-remember-ibi-zoboi?variant=33051647442978\">\u003cstrong>\u003cem>The People Remember\u003c/em>\u003c/strong>\u003c/a>, written by Ibi Zoboi and illustrated by Loveis Wise\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cem>\u003cimg decoding=\"async\" loading=\"lazy\" class=\"wp-image-62780 alignright\" src=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/23/2023/11/dawnavyn2.png\" alt=\"\" width=\"238\" height=\"357\" srcset=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/23/2023/11/dawnavyn2.png 368w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/23/2023/11/dawnavyn2-160x240.png 160w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 238px) 100vw, 238px\">\u003c/em>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cem>\u003ca href=\"https://twitter.com/queendomteachin\">Dawnavyn M. James\u003c/a> is an early childhood, elementary and Black history educator and researcher from Kansas City, Missouri. She has given presentations and led workshops promoting Black history teaching in early childhood and elementary classrooms. Through consulting, Dawnavyn has supported teachers in numerous school districts as they work to teach Black history year-round through the use of picture books. She believes that picture books centering Black history are one of the greatest ways to bring Black histories into the classroom. She has taught students from kindergarten to fifth grade in Columbia, Missouri, but her favorite years of teaching were her three years with kindergartners. She received her teaching degree from Stephens College and is currently pursuing her doctorate at the University at Buffalo and is a fellow at the Center for K-12 Black History and Racial Literacy Education. Dawnavyn is also the founder of The Black History Club, an organization that empowers and equips teachers and students with information and resources that will benefit themselves, their families and the community through engaging with Black histories.\u003c/em>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>[ad floatright]\u003c/p>\n\u003cp> \u003c/p>\n\n","blocks":[],"excerpt":"Children's books are a great way to learn Black histories. These tips will guide you in building your library.","status":"publish","parent":0,"modified":1701725896,"stats":{"hasAudio":false,"hasVideo":false,"hasChartOrMap":false,"iframeSrcs":[],"hasGoogleForm":false,"hasGallery":false,"hasHearkenModule":false,"hasPolis":false,"paragraphCount":34,"wordCount":1441},"headData":{"title":"How to build a Black history children's book collection for your classroom | KQED","description":"Children's books are a great way to learn Black histories. 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Reproduced with permission.\u003cbr>\n\u003c/em>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>I have been building my Black history library since my junior year of college, when I taught third and fourth graders about the Harlem Renaissance. My library has been growing ever since, but \u003ca href=\"https://www.kqed.org/mindshift/57026/diversifying-your-classroom-book-collections-avoid-these-7-pitfalls\">whether you have a large collection of books or are just starting out\u003c/a>, there are always new titles for you to discover. Here are a few tips for getting started building your own collection of Black history-focused books.\u003c/p>\n\u003ch2>\u003cstrong>Choose a Black history that interest\u003c/strong>\u003cstrong>s y\u003c/strong>\u003cstrong>ou\u003c/strong>\u003c/h2>\n\u003cp>As I am writing this right now, I cannot choose a single Black history that interests me the most; there are so many to choose from! \u003ca href=\"https://www.kqed.org/arts/13903957/a-new-doc-shows-how-oaklands-black-cowboys-keep-history-alive\">Cowboys\u003c/a> were my obsession last summer, and now it’s cuisine. But I also love learning about Black \u003ca href=\"https://www.chalkbeat.org/detroit/2023/11/21/former-cass-tech-teachers-rescued-leroy-foster-artwork-now-displayed-cranbrook/\">artists\u003c/a>, and \u003ca href=\"https://www.kqed.org/mindshift/60885/how-to-create-a-stem-dream-culture-for-all-students\">inventions and inventors\u003c/a> will always be an all-time fave. I also want to know everything I can about Africa. Do you get my point?\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Whatever \u003ca href=\"https://www.kqed.org/mindshift/62588/how-two-teachers-spark-a-love-of-history-with-their-wardrobes\">history you feel drawn to\u003c/a>, find those books. Reading multiple books about a historical figure or event or theme helps us layer and add nuance to our thinking about Black history. Just the act of reading about multiple Black histories or seeking out several resources around a particular part of history is a way of saying that \u003ca href=\"https://www.kqed.org/mindshift/61095/how-a-virginia-educator-teaches-black-history-with-joy\">Black histories are important\u003c/a>, worthy of our attention and \u003ca href=\"https://www.kqed.org/mindshift/61220/illinois-teachers-create-black-history-courses-to-fill-in-gaps-in-u-s-history-for-students\">worth digging into\u003c/a>.\u003c/p>\n\u003ch2>\u003cstrong>Find the commonality among books\u003c/strong>\u003c/h2>\n\u003cp>As you begin to read and select books, you may start to see common themes or ideas emerging. For example, after reading \u003ca href=\"https://www.agatepublishing.com/9781572842243/crown/\">\u003cem>Crown\u003c/em>\u003c/a>, I remembered that I had two books written and illustrated by Sharee Miller that celebrate hair, \u003ca href=\"https://www.hachettebookgroup.com/titles/sharee-miller/dont-touch-my-hair/9780316562584/?lens=little-brown-books-for-young-readers\">\u003cem>Don’t Touch My Hair\u003c/em>\u003c/a> and\u003ca href=\"https://www.hachettebookgroup.com/titles/sharee-miller/princess-hair/9780316441223/\"> \u003cem>Princess Hair\u003c/em>\u003c/a>. These books became the beginning of a text set around hair (as part of a study of \u003ca href=\"https://www.kqed.org/mindshift/62672/using-picture-books-and-classroom-dialogue-to-honor-and-respect-students-name\">identity\u003c/a>) and were a hit with \u003cimg decoding=\"async\" loading=\"lazy\" class=\"wp-image-62779 alignleft\" src=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/23/2023/11/dawnavyn-1.png\" alt=\"\" width=\"223\" height=\"278\" srcset=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/23/2023/11/dawnavyn-1.png 445w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/23/2023/11/dawnavyn-1-160x200.png 160w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 223px) 100vw, 223px\">students, who all found ways of connecting to this set.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003c/p>\u003c/div>","attributes":{"named":{},"numeric":[]}},{"type":"component","content":"","name":"ad","attributes":{"named":{"label":"fullwidth"},"numeric":["fullwidth"]}},{"type":"contentString","content":"\u003cdiv class=\"post-body\">\u003cp>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>A single title may end up being a part of multiple text sets around different topics or themes. For example, I sometimes read\u003ca href=\"https://www.harpercollins.com/products/let-the-children-march-monica-clark-robinson?variant=39936194609186\"> \u003cem>Let the Children March\u003c/em>\u003c/a> alongside books about Martin Luther King Jr. because he is featured in that book and the book is set during the Civil Rights Movement. But other times I read it when we learn about Ruby Bridges so that my students can better understand the ways children participated in the Civil Rights Movement. As you begin to see similarities and connections among books, start creating your own collections lists.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>It is important to note that the resources that make up your collections may not always be picture books. Sometimes you may want to include a cookbook, chapter book, piece of art or song. Whatever the topic, educate yourself and then find the resources to educate your students.\u003c/p>\n\u003ch2>\u003cstrong>Keep an eye out for new favorites\u003c/strong>\u003c/h2>\n\u003cp>As you read and share books, you and your students will notice some of the same authors and illustrators who have worked on multiple books about Black histories. For example, I had a class of kindergartners and first graders who could spot illustrations by \u003ca href=\"https://www.instagram.com/kadirnelson/\">Kadir Nelson\u003c/a> from a mile away. And as a teacher, I know that I can truly depend on books written by \u003ca href=\"https://cbweatherford.com/books/\">Carole Boston Weatherford\u003c/a> to deliver accurate information about different Black histories, whether about people or events. Keep an eye out for these authors and illustrators via their websites or social media accounts to see what they are currently working on and to get updates on book release dates. There are also great social media accounts that share a wide variety of diverse picture books, including books about Black histories. Social media and book creators’ own websites are great ways to find and stay connected with the latest titles from our favorite authors and illustrators.\u003c/p>\n\u003ch2>\u003cstrong>Share Black stories\u003c/strong>\u003c/h2>\n\u003cp>There is a true love for Black history-focused books in my classroom. My students can access them on the shelf, read them with a buddy and refer to them when making connections to other books we read\u003cem>.\u003c/em>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003ca href=\"https://www.penguinrandomhouse.com/books/594506/i-am-every-good-thing-by-derrick-barnes-illustrated-by-gordon-c-james/\">\u003cem>I Am Every Good Thing\u003c/em>\u003c/a> is one such book that means a lot to my class. This is a book from our Black joy collection, one we read at the beginning of the year, on a rainy day, during morning meetings, in the middle of the year, during our unit on community, and at the very end of the year as a farewell and affirmation. I have found it in the writing center, a student’s mailbox and in the arms of a sleeping kindergartner in our classroom’s safe place. It’s a book in which my students see themselves and see their classmates, and they see Black histories. It is a book that affirms us, comforts us and challenges us to remember who we are.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>I’d love to be able to list every single book that highlights, celebrates, honors or features Black histories, but that is the work of a lifetime. My hope is that you can find those books, create those collections and read the books that benefit the education of your students, yourself and the community of your classroom. Books expose students to a fuller narrative of Black history. Not just the tragedy and the hardships but also the resistance. Not just the struggle and enslavement but the triumphs and successes, the innovation, brilliance, ingenuity, courage, intellect and dignity. Books that center Black history aren’t just for Black children; they are books for all children.\u003c/p>\n\u003ch2>\u003cstrong>Dawnavyn’s ultimate Black history book collection\u003c/strong>\u003c/h2>\n\u003cp>This is the collection I’ve been building since my junior year of college, and it is constantly growing. I have used these children’s books again and again with students to teach Black histories. See what collections you can create from this list!\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003ca href=\"https://www.harpercollins.com/products/the-undefeated-kwame-alexander?variant=39935132336162\">\u003cstrong>\u003cem>The Undefeated\u003c/em>\u003c/strong>\u003c/a>, written by Kwame Alexander and illustrated by Kadir Nelson\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003ca href=\"https://www.hachettebookgroup.com/titles/vashti-harrison/little-legends-exceptional-men-in-black-history/9780316475143/?lens=little-brown-books-for-young-readers\">\u003cstrong>\u003cem>Little Legends: Exceptional Men in Black History\u003c/em>\u003c/strong>\u003c/a> by Vashti Harrison with Kwesi Johnson\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003ca href=\"https://www.hachettebookgroup.com/titles/vashti-harrison/little-leaders-bold-women-in-black-history/9780316475105/\">\u003cstrong>\u003cem>Little Leaders: Bold Women in Black History\u003c/em>\u003c/strong>\u003c/a> by Vashti Harrison\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003ca href=\"https://us.macmillan.com/books/9781596438200/28days\">\u003cstrong>\u003cem>28 Days: Moments in Black History that Changed the World\u003c/em>\u003c/strong>\u003c/a>, written by Charles R. Smith Jr. and illustrated by Shane W. Evans\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cem>\u003ca href=\"https://www.simonandschuster.com/books/The-Roots-of-Rap/Carole-Boston-Weatherford/9781499812046\">\u003cstrong>The Roots of Rap: 16 Bars on the 4 Pillars of Hip Hop\u003c/strong>\u003c/a>\u003c/em>, written by Carole Boston Weatherford and illustrated by Frank Morrison\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003ca href=\"https://www.albertwhitman.com/book/seven-spools-of-thread/\">\u003cstrong>\u003cem>Seven Spools of Thread: A Kwanzaa Story\u003c/em>\u003c/strong>\u003c/a>, written by Angela Shelf Medearis and illustrated by Daniel Minter\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003ca href=\"https://www.harpercollins.com/products/heart-and-soul-kadir-nelson?variant=33007958949922\">\u003cstrong>\u003cem>Heart and Soul: The Story of America and African Americans\u003c/em>\u003c/strong>\u003c/a> by Kadir Nelson\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003ca href=\"https://www.harpercollins.com/products/coretta-scott-ntozake-shange?variant=32122923909154\">\u003cstrong>\u003cem>Coretta Scott\u003c/em>\u003c/strong>\u003c/a>, written by Ntozake Shange and illustrated by Kadir Nelson\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003ca href=\"https://www.simonandschuster.com/books/Black-Heroes-A-Black-History-Book-for-Kids/Arlisha-Norwood/People-and-Events-in-History/9781638788232\">\u003cstrong>\u003cem>Black Heroes: A Black History Book for Kids\u003c/em>\u003c/strong>\u003c/a> by Arlisha Norwood\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003ca href=\"https://www.lesaclineransome.com/the-power-of-her-pen\">\u003cstrong>\u003cem>The Power of Her Pen: The Story of Groundbreaking Journalist Ethel L. Payne\u003c/em>\u003c/strong>\u003c/a>, written by Lesa Cline-Ransome and illustrated by John Parra\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003ca href=\"https://www.albertwhitman.com/book/sugar-hill/\">\u003cstrong>\u003cem>Sugar Hill: Harlem’s Historic Neighborhood\u003c/em>\u003c/strong>\u003c/a>, written by Carole Boston Weatherford and illustrated by R. Gregory Christie\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003ca href=\"https://www.hachettebookgroup.com/titles/kadir-nelson/we-are-the-ship/9780786808328/?lens=little-brown-books-for-young-readers\">\u003cstrong>\u003cem>We Are the Ship: The Story of Negro League Baseball\u003c/em>\u003c/strong>\u003c/a> by Kadir Nelson\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003ca href=\"https://www.tilburyhouse.com/product-page/have-i-ever-told-you-black-lives-matter\">\u003cstrong>\u003cem>Have I Ever Told You Black Lives Matter\u003c/em>\u003c/strong>\u003c/a>, written by Shani Mahiri King and illustrated by Bobby C. Martin Jr.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003ca href=\"https://blueapplebooks.com/book/let-freedom-sing/\">\u003cstrong>\u003cem>Let Freedom Sing\u003c/em>\u003c/strong>\u003c/a> by Vanessa Newton\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003ca href=\"https://www.penguinrandomhouse.com/books/678949/evicted-by-alice-faye-duncan-illustrated-by-charly-palmer/\">\u003cstrong>\u003cem>Evicted! The Struggle for the Right to Vote\u003c/em>\u003c/strong>\u003c/a>, written by Alice Faye Duncan and illustrated by Charly Palmer\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003ca href=\"https://www.hachettebookgroup.com/titles/dinah-johnson/h-is-for-harlem/9780316322379/\">\u003cstrong>\u003cem>H Is for Harlem\u003c/em>\u003c/strong>\u003c/a>, written by Dinah Johnson and illustrated by April Harrison\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003ca href=\"https://shop.scholastic.com/parent-ecommerce/books/stand-up-10-mighty-women-who-made-a-change-9781338763850.html\">\u003cstrong>\u003cem>Stand Up! 10 Mighty Women Who Made a Change\u003c/em>\u003c/strong>\u003c/a>, written by Brittney Cooper and illustrated by Cathy Ann Johnson\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003ca href=\"https://www.harpercollins.com/products/the-people-remember-ibi-zoboi?variant=33051647442978\">\u003cstrong>\u003cem>The People Remember\u003c/em>\u003c/strong>\u003c/a>, written by Ibi Zoboi and illustrated by Loveis Wise\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cem>\u003cimg decoding=\"async\" loading=\"lazy\" class=\"wp-image-62780 alignright\" src=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/23/2023/11/dawnavyn2.png\" alt=\"\" width=\"238\" height=\"357\" srcset=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/23/2023/11/dawnavyn2.png 368w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/23/2023/11/dawnavyn2-160x240.png 160w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 238px) 100vw, 238px\">\u003c/em>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cem>\u003ca href=\"https://twitter.com/queendomteachin\">Dawnavyn M. James\u003c/a> is an early childhood, elementary and Black history educator and researcher from Kansas City, Missouri. She has given presentations and led workshops promoting Black history teaching in early childhood and elementary classrooms. Through consulting, Dawnavyn has supported teachers in numerous school districts as they work to teach Black history year-round through the use of picture books. She believes that picture books centering Black history are one of the greatest ways to bring Black histories into the classroom. She has taught students from kindergarten to fifth grade in Columbia, Missouri, but her favorite years of teaching were her three years with kindergartners. She received her teaching degree from Stephens College and is currently pursuing her doctorate at the University at Buffalo and is a fellow at the Center for K-12 Black History and Racial Literacy Education. Dawnavyn is also the founder of The Black History Club, an organization that empowers and equips teachers and students with information and resources that will benefit themselves, their families and the community through engaging with Black histories.\u003c/em>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003c/p>\u003c/div>","attributes":{"named":{},"numeric":[]}},{"type":"component","content":"","name":"ad","attributes":{"named":{"label":"floatright"},"numeric":["floatright"]}},{"type":"contentString","content":"\u003cdiv class=\"post-body\">\u003cp>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp> \u003c/p>\n\n\u003c/div>\u003c/p>","attributes":{"named":{},"numeric":[]}}],"link":"/mindshift/62778/how-to-build-a-black-history-childrens-book-collection-for-your-classroom","authors":["4354"],"categories":["mindshift_21491","mindshift_21014","mindshift_194"],"tags":["mindshift_21534","mindshift_21516","mindshift_999","mindshift_21455","mindshift_21524","mindshift_1013","mindshift_21423","mindshift_20615"],"featImg":"mindshift_62781","label":"mindshift"},"mindshift_62588":{"type":"posts","id":"mindshift_62588","meta":{"index":"posts_1591205157","site":"mindshift","id":"62588","score":null,"sort":[1698019208000]},"guestAuthors":[],"slug":"how-two-teachers-spark-a-love-of-history-with-their-wardrobes","title":"How Two Teachers Spark a Love of History with Their Wardrobes","publishDate":1698019208,"format":"standard","headTitle":"How Two Teachers Spark a Love of History with Their Wardrobes | KQED","labelTerm":{"site":"mindshift"},"content":"\u003cp>\u003cspan style=\"font-weight: 400\">On a February morning in 2012, \u003c/span>\u003ca href=\"https://www.instagram.com/goodeteaching/\">\u003cspan style=\"font-weight: 400\">Jazzi Goode\u003c/span>\u003c/a>\u003cspan style=\"font-weight: 400\">, an elementary and middle school STEM educator in North Carolina, was having a hard time getting ready for work. With a closet that seemed devoid of suitable school attire, she surveyed her options: sweatshirts, button downs and lots of jeans. Rather than resigning herself to the ordinary, Goode was struck by an idea that would transform her approach to teaching. “I should dress up as Rosa Parks today,” she thought. \u003c/span>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cspan style=\"font-weight: 400\">Goode put on a button down white shirt, a gray skirt and even a makeshift “prison tag” number to step into the persona of the iconic civil rights activist. After seeing how her spontaneous decision delighted her students, who listened attentively as they read books and learned about Parks’ role in history, Goode started to dress up as prominent figures more often. “It became an everyday thing,” said Goode, who transitioned out of the classroom to work at an education nonprofit this year. “I started to put more energy into it the following year and it just kept going.” Some years she dressed up every day for the month of February, while other years she dressed up three times a week. \u003c/span>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cspan style=\"font-weight: 400\">Goode eventually inspired third grade teacher \u003c/span>\u003ca href=\"https://www.instagram.com/learningwithlafayette\">\u003cspan style=\"font-weight: 400\">Tracey-Ann Lafayette\u003c/span>\u003c/a>\u003cspan style=\"font-weight: 400\"> to do the same. “I started [dressing up] because I saw Jazzi do it on Instagram,” said Lafayette, who teaches in Connecticut. She began to dress up once a week so her students could guess who she was and read a relevant book. She continues to dress up for the entirety of Black History and Women’s History Month and use it as a springboard for getting students interested in independent reading and exploring iconic figures in more depth. At the University at Buffalo’s \u003c/span>\u003ca href=\"https://ed.buffalo.edu/black-history-ed/programs/conference.html\">\u003cspan style=\"font-weight: 400\">Teaching Black History Conference\u003c/span>\u003c/a>\u003cspan style=\"font-weight: 400\"> last summer, Goode and Lafayette shared how teachers can use this powerful blend of education and theatricality to make learning come alive for their students. \u003c/span>\u003c/p>\n\u003ch2>\u003cb>Engage students with current events and books \u003c/b>\u003c/h2>\n\u003cp>\u003cspan style=\"font-weight: 400\">For Goode and Lafayette, dressing up has been a surefire way to spark their students’ fascination with historical figures. “Third graders are just interested in the fact that I’m at school in an astronaut costume,” said Lafayette about when she dresses up as Mae Jemison, the first Black woman to travel into space. The anticipation of who she’s going to dress up as next and their historical significance excites her students. \u003c/span>\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_62625\" class=\"wp-caption alignleft\" style=\"max-width: 206px\">\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\" wp-image-62625\" src=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/23/2023/10/IMG_2002-scaled-e1697568818544-800x1067.jpeg\" alt=\"\" width=\"206\" height=\"275\" srcset=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/23/2023/10/IMG_2002-scaled-e1697568818544-800x1067.jpeg 800w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/23/2023/10/IMG_2002-scaled-e1697568818544-1020x1360.jpeg 1020w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/23/2023/10/IMG_2002-scaled-e1697568818544-160x213.jpeg 160w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/23/2023/10/IMG_2002-scaled-e1697568818544-768x1024.jpeg 768w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/23/2023/10/IMG_2002-scaled-e1697568818544-1152x1536.jpeg 1152w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/23/2023/10/IMG_2002-scaled-e1697568818544-1536x2048.jpeg 1536w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/23/2023/10/IMG_2002-scaled-e1697568818544.jpeg 1920w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 206px) 100vw, 206px\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">Teacher Jazzi Goode reads \u003cem>When the Beat Was Born: DJ Kool Herc and the Creation of Hip Hop\u003c/em> by Laban Carrick Hill and Theodore Taylor III while dressed as Clive “Herc” Campbell.\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>\u003cspan style=\"font-weight: 400\">Soon after she started, students began putting in requests. Lafayette told them that she couldn’t fulfill every request, but she tried to incorporate more modern luminaries to make learning more relatable. “It doesn’t all need to be people from Martin Luther King’s time and before,” said Lafayette. “As different things popped up throughout the year last year, I would just write down the person’s name.” For example, one year she had a lot of students who were interested in football, so she came to school dressed up as Autumn Lockwood, the first Black woman to \u003ca href=\"https://billypenn.com/2023/02/09/autumn-lockwood-first-black-woman-coach/\">coach in the NFL Super Bowl\u003c/a>. When Goode came to school dressed as Misty Copeland, the first African American female principal dancer with the American Ballet Theatre, a student that she had been struggling to build a relationship with danced with her in the hallway. \u003c/span>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>[ad fullwidth]\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cspan style=\"font-weight: 400\">Coupled with costumes, Goode and Lafayette said books provide more context about the stories and accomplishments of current and historical figures. When Goode dressed as Ann Cole Lowe, the first \u003ca href=\"https://www.newyorker.com/magazine/2021/03/29/ann-lowes-barrier-breaking-mid-century-couture\">noted Black fashion designer\u003c/a>, she read \u003c/span>\u003ca href=\"https://www.simonandschuster.com/books/Fancy-Party-Gowns/Deborah-Blumenthal/9781499802399\">\u003ci>\u003cspan style=\"font-weight: 400\">Fancy Party Gowns\u003c/span>\u003c/i>\u003c/a> \u003cspan style=\"font-weight: 400\">by Deborah Blumenthal and Laura Freeman to her students. \u003c/span>\u003ca href=\"https://www.penguinrandomhouse.com/books/722322/all-rise-the-story-of-ketanji-brown-jackson-by-carole-boston-weatherford-illustrated-by-ashley-evans/\">\u003ci>\u003cspan style=\"font-weight: 400\">All Rise: The Story of Ketanji Brown Jackson\u003c/span>\u003c/i>\u003c/a>\u003cspan style=\"font-weight: 400\"> by Carole Boston Weatherford and Ashley Evans paired perfectly with Lafayette dressing as the first Black Supreme Court justice last year.\u003c/span>\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_62623\" class=\"wp-caption alignright\" style=\"max-width: 242px\">\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\" wp-image-62623\" src=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/23/2023/10/image2-800x800.jpg\" alt=\"Lafayette holds up Patricia's Vision: The Doctor Who Saved Sight while she is dressed as Dr. Patricia Bath, a groundbreaking ophthalmologist who pioneered laser surgery.\" width=\"242\" height=\"242\" srcset=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/23/2023/10/image2-800x800.jpg 800w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/23/2023/10/image2-1020x1020.jpg 1020w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/23/2023/10/image2-160x160.jpg 160w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/23/2023/10/image2-768x768.jpg 768w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/23/2023/10/image2.jpg 1440w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 242px) 100vw, 242px\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">Teacher Tracey-Ann Lafayette displays Patricia’s Vision: The Doctor Who Saved Sight by Michelle Lord and Alleanna Harris while dressed as Dr. Patricia Bath, a groundbreaking ophthalmologist who pioneered laser surgery.\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>\u003cspan style=\"font-weight: 400\">Lafayette recommended using anthologies like \u003c/span>\u003ca href=\"https://www.rebelgirls.com/products/good-night-stories-for-rebel-girls\">\u003cspan style=\"font-weight: 400\">\u003cem>Goodnight Stories for Rebel Girls\u003c/em>\u003c/span>\u003c/a>\u003cspan style=\"font-weight: 400\"> as a source of ideas and a way to quickly share biographies. Additionally, she uses a program called Flip (formerly Flipgrid) to record videos of herself reading picture books about famous figures while dressed up so that students can engage with the stories at home, too.\u003c/span>\u003c/p>\n\u003ch2>\u003cb>Keep costs low with planning\u003c/b>\u003c/h2>\n\u003cp>\u003cspan style=\"font-weight: 400\">Goode and Lafayette try not to spend too much money putting together their outfits. Goode was able to keep costs low by involving students in creating her outfits, which also increased their engagement. “My students were in the classroom during their lunchtime and recess time, helping me actually physically build and make these costumes,” said Goode. When her students learned about George Crum, who popularized the potato chip, Goode dressed as a chip bag. Her students spent a week collecting chip bags and used them to create a floor length skirt that Goode wore all day. Parents and colleagues, who see how the outfits captivated students, are similarly invested. They lend objects whenever a specific item is needed, such as a tennis racket for Serena Williams or a hot comb to complete a look as Madam C.J. Walker or Annie Turnbo Malone.\u003c/span>\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_62622\" class=\"wp-caption alignright\" style=\"max-width: 184px\">\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\" wp-image-62622\" src=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/23/2023/10/IMG_3875-scaled-e1697567666313-800x1067.jpeg\" alt=\"\" width=\"184\" height=\"246\" srcset=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/23/2023/10/IMG_3875-scaled-e1697567666313-800x1067.jpeg 800w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/23/2023/10/IMG_3875-scaled-e1697567666313-1020x1360.jpeg 1020w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/23/2023/10/IMG_3875-scaled-e1697567666313-160x213.jpeg 160w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/23/2023/10/IMG_3875-scaled-e1697567666313-768x1024.jpeg 768w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/23/2023/10/IMG_3875-scaled-e1697567666313-1152x1536.jpeg 1152w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/23/2023/10/IMG_3875-scaled-e1697567666313-1536x2048.jpeg 1536w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/23/2023/10/IMG_3875-scaled-e1697567666313.jpeg 1920w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 184px) 100vw, 184px\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">When her students learned about George Crum, who popularized the potato chip, Goode dressed as a chip bag. Her students spent a week collecting chip bags and used them to create a floor length skirt that Goode wore all day.\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>\u003cspan style=\"font-weight: 400\">Additionally, Goode used an Amazon wishlist so community members, colleagues and friends could help her purchase more expensive items. That’s how she got her Mae Jemison astronaut jumpsuit and her Jackie Robinson jersey. “Now I have them in my trunk at my house for me to be able to use for the future,” she said. Lafayette accepts donations. She got a lab coat from a friend who didn’t need it after she completed a college chemistry class and used it to be Kizzmekia Corbett, a Black immunologist who worked on the coronavirus vaccine.\u003c/span>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cspan style=\"font-weight: 400\">“My outfits a lot of times are things that I just have in my closet that I arrange in very strategic ways,” Lafayette added. For instance, a blazer, button down shirt and a name tag can be used to embody numerous historical men. She uses her Cricut machine to add small flourishes like Autumn Lockwood’s NFL pass. “If I buy something, I make sure it’s something that could be applicable to multiple people and think about all the different ways that I could use a particular item to get the best bang for my buck,” Lafayette said. \u003c/span>\u003c/p>\n\u003ch2>\u003cb>Start small and stay in your lane\u003c/b>\u003c/h2>\n\u003cp>\u003cspan style=\"font-weight: 400\">For teachers who want to engage their students by dressing up, Goode and Lafayette recommended starting small. “The internet, especially ‘teacher-gram,’ can be such an intimidating place for educators, especially new educators,” said Goode, referring to instagram accounts where teachers post about how they are innovating in the classroom. Each teacher has different capacity and different needs in their classroom, she said. “You are the secret sauce to making whatever you want to happen in your classroom.”\u003c/span>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cspan style=\"font-weight: 400\">Lafayette advised teachers to set realistic expectations for themselves by dressing up once a month or once a week. Honing in on a specific category can make things easier too. For example, if a teacher wants to focus on STEM they may dress up as inventions or renowned inventors. \u003c/span>\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_62626\" class=\"wp-caption alignleft\" style=\"max-width: 227px\">\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\" wp-image-62626\" src=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/23/2023/10/image0-800x1067.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"227\" height=\"303\" srcset=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/23/2023/10/image0-800x1067.jpg 800w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/23/2023/10/image0-1020x1360.jpg 1020w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/23/2023/10/image0-160x213.jpg 160w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/23/2023/10/image0-768x1024.jpg 768w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/23/2023/10/image0-1152x1536.jpg 1152w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/23/2023/10/image0-1536x2048.jpg 1536w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/23/2023/10/image0-scaled.jpg 1920w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 227px) 100vw, 227px\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">Lafayette dressed as André Leon Talley, a fashion journalist and the first Black male creative director for Vogue magazine.\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>\u003cspan style=\"font-weight: 400\">They caution against being too reductive or wearing people’s culture as a costume. A good rule of thumb is if a teacher feels any uncertainty, don’t do it. There are ways to highlight diverse people without being offensive. “I’m not going to come to school in a hijab,” said Lafayette. “But I can make those books available for my kids and have conversations with them all throughout the year.”\u003c/span>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cspan style=\"font-weight: 400\">Goode said wearing t-shirts with figures on them is a low-stress way to introduce certain figures without dressing up. “I had a Tupac shirt. I had a Nina Simone shirt,” said Goode, who wore these when she wasn’t feeling up to creating an entire themed outfit. \u003c/span>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>[ad floatright]\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cspan style=\"font-weight: 400\">For Goode and Lafayette, students’ curiosity about historical and current figures continues beyond the days that they dress up. Lafayette typically packs away her outfits after Black History Month and Women’s History Month. “April 1st is the first time, after a solid eight weeks of wearing all these different outfits, that I come to school dressed like myself again,” she said. Students are usually surprised and disappointed to see her more typical garb. Their reactions tell her that they really care about this activity. She often goes into the next month thinking, “This really made an impact on them.”\u003c/span>\u003c/p>\n\n","blocks":[],"excerpt":"Two teachers demonstrate the impact of dressing up play in the classroom. Explore their creative teaching methods and tips for making learning come alive.","status":"publish","parent":0,"modified":1713291361,"stats":{"hasAudio":false,"hasVideo":false,"hasChartOrMap":false,"iframeSrcs":[],"hasGoogleForm":false,"hasGallery":false,"hasHearkenModule":false,"hasPolis":false,"paragraphCount":17,"wordCount":1579},"headData":{"title":"How Two Teachers Spark a Love of History with Their Wardrobes | KQED","description":"For Jazzi Goode and Tracey-Ann Lafayette, dressing up has been a surefire way to spark their students’ fascination with historical figures.","ogTitle":"","ogDescription":"","ogImgId":"","twTitle":"","twDescription":"","twImgId":"","socialDescription":"For Jazzi Goode and Tracey-Ann Lafayette, dressing up has been a surefire way to spark their students’ fascination with historical figures."},"sticky":false,"excludeFromSiteSearch":"Include","articleAge":"0","path":"/mindshift/62588/how-two-teachers-spark-a-love-of-history-with-their-wardrobes","audioTrackLength":null,"parsedContent":[{"type":"contentString","content":"\u003cdiv class=\"post-body\">\u003cp>\u003cp>\u003cspan style=\"font-weight: 400\">On a February morning in 2012, \u003c/span>\u003ca href=\"https://www.instagram.com/goodeteaching/\">\u003cspan style=\"font-weight: 400\">Jazzi Goode\u003c/span>\u003c/a>\u003cspan style=\"font-weight: 400\">, an elementary and middle school STEM educator in North Carolina, was having a hard time getting ready for work. With a closet that seemed devoid of suitable school attire, she surveyed her options: sweatshirts, button downs and lots of jeans. Rather than resigning herself to the ordinary, Goode was struck by an idea that would transform her approach to teaching. “I should dress up as Rosa Parks today,” she thought. \u003c/span>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cspan style=\"font-weight: 400\">Goode put on a button down white shirt, a gray skirt and even a makeshift “prison tag” number to step into the persona of the iconic civil rights activist. After seeing how her spontaneous decision delighted her students, who listened attentively as they read books and learned about Parks’ role in history, Goode started to dress up as prominent figures more often. “It became an everyday thing,” said Goode, who transitioned out of the classroom to work at an education nonprofit this year. “I started to put more energy into it the following year and it just kept going.” Some years she dressed up every day for the month of February, while other years she dressed up three times a week. \u003c/span>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cspan style=\"font-weight: 400\">Goode eventually inspired third grade teacher \u003c/span>\u003ca href=\"https://www.instagram.com/learningwithlafayette\">\u003cspan style=\"font-weight: 400\">Tracey-Ann Lafayette\u003c/span>\u003c/a>\u003cspan style=\"font-weight: 400\"> to do the same. “I started [dressing up] because I saw Jazzi do it on Instagram,” said Lafayette, who teaches in Connecticut. She began to dress up once a week so her students could guess who she was and read a relevant book. She continues to dress up for the entirety of Black History and Women’s History Month and use it as a springboard for getting students interested in independent reading and exploring iconic figures in more depth. At the University at Buffalo’s \u003c/span>\u003ca href=\"https://ed.buffalo.edu/black-history-ed/programs/conference.html\">\u003cspan style=\"font-weight: 400\">Teaching Black History Conference\u003c/span>\u003c/a>\u003cspan style=\"font-weight: 400\"> last summer, Goode and Lafayette shared how teachers can use this powerful blend of education and theatricality to make learning come alive for their students. \u003c/span>\u003c/p>\n\u003ch2>\u003cb>Engage students with current events and books \u003c/b>\u003c/h2>\n\u003cp>\u003cspan style=\"font-weight: 400\">For Goode and Lafayette, dressing up has been a surefire way to spark their students’ fascination with historical figures. “Third graders are just interested in the fact that I’m at school in an astronaut costume,” said Lafayette about when she dresses up as Mae Jemison, the first Black woman to travel into space. The anticipation of who she’s going to dress up as next and their historical significance excites her students. \u003c/span>\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_62625\" class=\"wp-caption alignleft\" style=\"max-width: 206px\">\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\" wp-image-62625\" src=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/23/2023/10/IMG_2002-scaled-e1697568818544-800x1067.jpeg\" alt=\"\" width=\"206\" height=\"275\" srcset=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/23/2023/10/IMG_2002-scaled-e1697568818544-800x1067.jpeg 800w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/23/2023/10/IMG_2002-scaled-e1697568818544-1020x1360.jpeg 1020w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/23/2023/10/IMG_2002-scaled-e1697568818544-160x213.jpeg 160w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/23/2023/10/IMG_2002-scaled-e1697568818544-768x1024.jpeg 768w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/23/2023/10/IMG_2002-scaled-e1697568818544-1152x1536.jpeg 1152w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/23/2023/10/IMG_2002-scaled-e1697568818544-1536x2048.jpeg 1536w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/23/2023/10/IMG_2002-scaled-e1697568818544.jpeg 1920w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 206px) 100vw, 206px\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">Teacher Jazzi Goode reads \u003cem>When the Beat Was Born: DJ Kool Herc and the Creation of Hip Hop\u003c/em> by Laban Carrick Hill and Theodore Taylor III while dressed as Clive “Herc” Campbell.\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>\u003cspan style=\"font-weight: 400\">Soon after she started, students began putting in requests. Lafayette told them that she couldn’t fulfill every request, but she tried to incorporate more modern luminaries to make learning more relatable. “It doesn’t all need to be people from Martin Luther King’s time and before,” said Lafayette. “As different things popped up throughout the year last year, I would just write down the person’s name.” For example, one year she had a lot of students who were interested in football, so she came to school dressed up as Autumn Lockwood, the first Black woman to \u003ca href=\"https://billypenn.com/2023/02/09/autumn-lockwood-first-black-woman-coach/\">coach in the NFL Super Bowl\u003c/a>. When Goode came to school dressed as Misty Copeland, the first African American female principal dancer with the American Ballet Theatre, a student that she had been struggling to build a relationship with danced with her in the hallway. \u003c/span>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003c/p>\u003c/div>","attributes":{"named":{},"numeric":[]}},{"type":"component","content":"","name":"ad","attributes":{"named":{"label":"fullwidth"},"numeric":["fullwidth"]}},{"type":"contentString","content":"\u003cdiv class=\"post-body\">\u003cp>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cspan style=\"font-weight: 400\">Coupled with costumes, Goode and Lafayette said books provide more context about the stories and accomplishments of current and historical figures. When Goode dressed as Ann Cole Lowe, the first \u003ca href=\"https://www.newyorker.com/magazine/2021/03/29/ann-lowes-barrier-breaking-mid-century-couture\">noted Black fashion designer\u003c/a>, she read \u003c/span>\u003ca href=\"https://www.simonandschuster.com/books/Fancy-Party-Gowns/Deborah-Blumenthal/9781499802399\">\u003ci>\u003cspan style=\"font-weight: 400\">Fancy Party Gowns\u003c/span>\u003c/i>\u003c/a> \u003cspan style=\"font-weight: 400\">by Deborah Blumenthal and Laura Freeman to her students. \u003c/span>\u003ca href=\"https://www.penguinrandomhouse.com/books/722322/all-rise-the-story-of-ketanji-brown-jackson-by-carole-boston-weatherford-illustrated-by-ashley-evans/\">\u003ci>\u003cspan style=\"font-weight: 400\">All Rise: The Story of Ketanji Brown Jackson\u003c/span>\u003c/i>\u003c/a>\u003cspan style=\"font-weight: 400\"> by Carole Boston Weatherford and Ashley Evans paired perfectly with Lafayette dressing as the first Black Supreme Court justice last year.\u003c/span>\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_62623\" class=\"wp-caption alignright\" style=\"max-width: 242px\">\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\" wp-image-62623\" src=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/23/2023/10/image2-800x800.jpg\" alt=\"Lafayette holds up Patricia's Vision: The Doctor Who Saved Sight while she is dressed as Dr. Patricia Bath, a groundbreaking ophthalmologist who pioneered laser surgery.\" width=\"242\" height=\"242\" srcset=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/23/2023/10/image2-800x800.jpg 800w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/23/2023/10/image2-1020x1020.jpg 1020w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/23/2023/10/image2-160x160.jpg 160w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/23/2023/10/image2-768x768.jpg 768w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/23/2023/10/image2.jpg 1440w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 242px) 100vw, 242px\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">Teacher Tracey-Ann Lafayette displays Patricia’s Vision: The Doctor Who Saved Sight by Michelle Lord and Alleanna Harris while dressed as Dr. Patricia Bath, a groundbreaking ophthalmologist who pioneered laser surgery.\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>\u003cspan style=\"font-weight: 400\">Lafayette recommended using anthologies like \u003c/span>\u003ca href=\"https://www.rebelgirls.com/products/good-night-stories-for-rebel-girls\">\u003cspan style=\"font-weight: 400\">\u003cem>Goodnight Stories for Rebel Girls\u003c/em>\u003c/span>\u003c/a>\u003cspan style=\"font-weight: 400\"> as a source of ideas and a way to quickly share biographies. Additionally, she uses a program called Flip (formerly Flipgrid) to record videos of herself reading picture books about famous figures while dressed up so that students can engage with the stories at home, too.\u003c/span>\u003c/p>\n\u003ch2>\u003cb>Keep costs low with planning\u003c/b>\u003c/h2>\n\u003cp>\u003cspan style=\"font-weight: 400\">Goode and Lafayette try not to spend too much money putting together their outfits. Goode was able to keep costs low by involving students in creating her outfits, which also increased their engagement. “My students were in the classroom during their lunchtime and recess time, helping me actually physically build and make these costumes,” said Goode. When her students learned about George Crum, who popularized the potato chip, Goode dressed as a chip bag. Her students spent a week collecting chip bags and used them to create a floor length skirt that Goode wore all day. Parents and colleagues, who see how the outfits captivated students, are similarly invested. They lend objects whenever a specific item is needed, such as a tennis racket for Serena Williams or a hot comb to complete a look as Madam C.J. Walker or Annie Turnbo Malone.\u003c/span>\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_62622\" class=\"wp-caption alignright\" style=\"max-width: 184px\">\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\" wp-image-62622\" src=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/23/2023/10/IMG_3875-scaled-e1697567666313-800x1067.jpeg\" alt=\"\" width=\"184\" height=\"246\" srcset=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/23/2023/10/IMG_3875-scaled-e1697567666313-800x1067.jpeg 800w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/23/2023/10/IMG_3875-scaled-e1697567666313-1020x1360.jpeg 1020w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/23/2023/10/IMG_3875-scaled-e1697567666313-160x213.jpeg 160w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/23/2023/10/IMG_3875-scaled-e1697567666313-768x1024.jpeg 768w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/23/2023/10/IMG_3875-scaled-e1697567666313-1152x1536.jpeg 1152w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/23/2023/10/IMG_3875-scaled-e1697567666313-1536x2048.jpeg 1536w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/23/2023/10/IMG_3875-scaled-e1697567666313.jpeg 1920w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 184px) 100vw, 184px\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">When her students learned about George Crum, who popularized the potato chip, Goode dressed as a chip bag. Her students spent a week collecting chip bags and used them to create a floor length skirt that Goode wore all day.\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>\u003cspan style=\"font-weight: 400\">Additionally, Goode used an Amazon wishlist so community members, colleagues and friends could help her purchase more expensive items. That’s how she got her Mae Jemison astronaut jumpsuit and her Jackie Robinson jersey. “Now I have them in my trunk at my house for me to be able to use for the future,” she said. Lafayette accepts donations. She got a lab coat from a friend who didn’t need it after she completed a college chemistry class and used it to be Kizzmekia Corbett, a Black immunologist who worked on the coronavirus vaccine.\u003c/span>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cspan style=\"font-weight: 400\">“My outfits a lot of times are things that I just have in my closet that I arrange in very strategic ways,” Lafayette added. For instance, a blazer, button down shirt and a name tag can be used to embody numerous historical men. She uses her Cricut machine to add small flourishes like Autumn Lockwood’s NFL pass. “If I buy something, I make sure it’s something that could be applicable to multiple people and think about all the different ways that I could use a particular item to get the best bang for my buck,” Lafayette said. \u003c/span>\u003c/p>\n\u003ch2>\u003cb>Start small and stay in your lane\u003c/b>\u003c/h2>\n\u003cp>\u003cspan style=\"font-weight: 400\">For teachers who want to engage their students by dressing up, Goode and Lafayette recommended starting small. “The internet, especially ‘teacher-gram,’ can be such an intimidating place for educators, especially new educators,” said Goode, referring to instagram accounts where teachers post about how they are innovating in the classroom. Each teacher has different capacity and different needs in their classroom, she said. “You are the secret sauce to making whatever you want to happen in your classroom.”\u003c/span>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cspan style=\"font-weight: 400\">Lafayette advised teachers to set realistic expectations for themselves by dressing up once a month or once a week. Honing in on a specific category can make things easier too. For example, if a teacher wants to focus on STEM they may dress up as inventions or renowned inventors. \u003c/span>\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_62626\" class=\"wp-caption alignleft\" style=\"max-width: 227px\">\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\" wp-image-62626\" src=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/23/2023/10/image0-800x1067.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"227\" height=\"303\" srcset=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/23/2023/10/image0-800x1067.jpg 800w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/23/2023/10/image0-1020x1360.jpg 1020w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/23/2023/10/image0-160x213.jpg 160w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/23/2023/10/image0-768x1024.jpg 768w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/23/2023/10/image0-1152x1536.jpg 1152w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/23/2023/10/image0-1536x2048.jpg 1536w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/23/2023/10/image0-scaled.jpg 1920w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 227px) 100vw, 227px\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">Lafayette dressed as André Leon Talley, a fashion journalist and the first Black male creative director for Vogue magazine.\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>\u003cspan style=\"font-weight: 400\">They caution against being too reductive or wearing people’s culture as a costume. A good rule of thumb is if a teacher feels any uncertainty, don’t do it. There are ways to highlight diverse people without being offensive. “I’m not going to come to school in a hijab,” said Lafayette. “But I can make those books available for my kids and have conversations with them all throughout the year.”\u003c/span>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cspan style=\"font-weight: 400\">Goode said wearing t-shirts with figures on them is a low-stress way to introduce certain figures without dressing up. “I had a Tupac shirt. I had a Nina Simone shirt,” said Goode, who wore these when she wasn’t feeling up to creating an entire themed outfit. \u003c/span>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003c/p>\u003c/div>","attributes":{"named":{},"numeric":[]}},{"type":"component","content":"","name":"ad","attributes":{"named":{"label":"floatright"},"numeric":["floatright"]}},{"type":"contentString","content":"\u003cdiv class=\"post-body\">\u003cp>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cspan style=\"font-weight: 400\">For Goode and Lafayette, students’ curiosity about historical and current figures continues beyond the days that they dress up. Lafayette typically packs away her outfits after Black History Month and Women’s History Month. “April 1st is the first time, after a solid eight weeks of wearing all these different outfits, that I come to school dressed like myself again,” she said. Students are usually surprised and disappointed to see her more typical garb. Their reactions tell her that they really care about this activity. She often goes into the next month thinking, “This really made an impact on them.”\u003c/span>\u003c/p>\n\n\u003c/div>\u003c/p>","attributes":{"named":{},"numeric":[]}}],"link":"/mindshift/62588/how-two-teachers-spark-a-love-of-history-with-their-wardrobes","authors":["11721"],"categories":["mindshift_21357","mindshift_20579","mindshift_194","mindshift_193"],"tags":["mindshift_21534","mindshift_999","mindshift_21479","mindshift_21371","mindshift_1013","mindshift_21423","mindshift_498","mindshift_20616","mindshift_20557","mindshift_21007"],"featImg":"mindshift_62621","label":"mindshift"},"mindshift_61856":{"type":"posts","id":"mindshift_61856","meta":{"index":"posts_1591205157","site":"mindshift","id":"61856","score":null,"sort":[1687272556000]},"guestAuthors":[],"slug":"the-tennessee-3-created-a-historic-teachable-moment-will-schools-be-allowed-to-teach-it","title":"The ‘Tennessee 3’ created a historic teachable moment. Will schools be allowed to teach it?","publishDate":1687272556,"format":"standard","headTitle":"The ‘Tennessee 3’ created a historic teachable moment. Will schools be allowed to teach it? | KQED","labelTerm":{"site":"mindshift"},"content":"\u003cp>\u003cem>This story was \u003ca href=\"https://tn.chalkbeat.org/2023/6/16/23763698/tennessee-three-schools-justin-pearson-jones-crt-law-legislature\" rel=\"canonical\">originally published\u003c/a> by Chalkbeat. Sign up for their newsletters at \u003ca class=\"Link\" href=\"https://ckbe.at/newsletters\">\u003cu>ckbe.at/newsletters\u003c/u>\u003c/a>.\u003c/em>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>When Wyatt Bassow and Ava Buxton missed classes one morning this spring to see democracy in action in Tennessee, they witnessed history that they acknowledged probably wouldn’t be fully taught at their high school less than a mile away.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Justin Pearson, one of two young Democratic lawmakers who were dramatically \u003ca class=\"Link\" href=\"https://tn.chalkbeat.org/2023/4/6/23672653/tennessee-legislature-gun-protest-expulsion-vote-pearson-jones-johnson\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">expelled from office\u003c/a> just a week earlier by the Republican-controlled House of Representatives, was taking his oath of office again that day outside the state Capitol in Nashville after being voted back in by officials in Shelby County.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>A few days earlier, Rep. Justin Jones of Nashville had been reinstated after a similar vote by his city’s council.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Both men had been ousted from the legislature for staging a protest on the House floor urging gun reforms after a mass school shooting in Nashville. The votes temporarily robbed some 140,000 Tennesseans in the state’s two largest cities of their representation.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>[ad fullwidth]\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“What I’ve learned these last few weeks is that democracy is incredibly fragile,” said Bassow, a senior at Nashville’s Hume-Fogg High School, as he cheered Pearson’s reinstatement in the shadow of the Capitol building.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“But because of the power of the people,” he added, “we were able to fix this.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Less certain, the students said, is whether the controversial ouster of the two young Black Democrats by the House’s all-white GOP supermajority would be fully discussed at their school, or any public Tennessee school, as part of a course in U.S. government, civics, history, contemporary issues, or social studies.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>While Republican leaders maintain the ouster was not racially motivated, the racial optics were undeniable, as was the supermajority’s suppression of legislative voices with whom they disagreed.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Meanwhile, Tennessee is at the front of a \u003ca class=\"Link\" href=\"https://projects.chalkbeat.org/2022/age-appropriate-books-critical-race-theory-tennessee-curriculum/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">conservative-driven wave of censorship\u003c/a> about what can and cannot be taught in K-12 schools.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>A \u003ca class=\"Link\" href=\"https://tn.chalkbeat.org/2021/5/24/22452478/tennessee-governor-signs-bill-restricting-how-race-and-bias-can-be-taught-in-schools\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">2021 state law\u003c/a> restricts classroom discussions about systemic racism, white privilege, and the ongoing legacy of slavery. Republican Gov. Bill Lee, who signed the law, has \u003ca class=\"Link\" href=\"https://tn.chalkbeat.org/2022/2/7/22922717/hillsdale-college-tennessee-governor-charter-schools\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">championed civics education that emphasizes American exceptionalism\u003c/a> and plays down the origins of present-day U.S. injustices.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>School libraries are under scrutiny too, especially for materials that have to do with race and gender. A \u003ca class=\"Link\" href=\"https://tn.chalkbeat.org/2022/4/28/23047535/book-ban-tennessee-textbook-commission-legislation-age-appropriate\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">2022 law\u003c/a> gives the state unprecedented authority to overrule local school boards and remove certain materials from libraries statewide. And a 2023 law puts book distributors and publishers at risk of criminal prosecution if materials they provide to Tennessee schools are deemed obscene.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“We definitely have noticed that a silencing is happening in our schools,” said Buxton, also a senior at Hume-Fogg, when asked whether the expulsions of Jones and Pearson had been discussed in her classes.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“Thankfully, our teachers are wonderful and intelligent educators who do their best to give students the space we need to have important conversations,” she continued. “But I think these conversations would go much deeper if our teachers didn’t have the fear of these new laws hanging over them.”\u003c/p>\n\u003ch2 id=\"MjTSFl\">The rise, fall, and rise of the Tennessee Three\u003c/h2>\n\u003cp>The expulsions of the two Black lawmakers came during the dramatic last weeks of a tumultuous legislative session gripped by large citizen protests over \u003ca class=\"Link\" href=\"https://tn.chalkbeat.org/2023/3/28/23661164/nashville-school-shooting-tennessee-covenant-gun-policy-protest-legislature\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Tennessee’s lax gun laws\u003c/a>, after an armed intruder \u003ca class=\"Link\" href=\"https://tn.chalkbeat.org/2023/3/27/23658910/the-covenant-school-school-shootings-assault-weapons-metropolitan-nashville-police-department\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">killed three children and three adults at The Covenant School\u003c/a> in Nashville on March 27.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Frustrated that House Speaker Cameron Sexton was not allowing them to voice the concerns of demonstrators during debates, Pearson, Jones, and Rep. Gloria Johnson of Knoxville took their protest to the House floor, where Jones and Pearson alternately used a bullhorn to shout “Gun control now!” and “Power to the people!”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>In the process, the trio broke the chamber’s rules of decorum. GOP-sponsored ouster resolutions accused the so-called Tennessee Three of “knowingly and intentionally bringing disorder and dishonor to the House of Representatives.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Ultimately, Republican representatives voted overwhelmingly to kick out the two young Black men, while Johnson, who is older and white and was less vocal during the protest, kept her seat by a single vote.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The last time the House had expelled multiple members was in 1866, when six representatives were thrown out for conspiring to deprive the chamber of a quorum during a special session to ratify the 14th Amendment to the U.S. Constitution. Two others have been expelled in more recent times, one for soliciting a bribe, and the other for sexual misconduct.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>By contrast, the ousters of Jones and Pearson over their peaceful protest of gun violence — \u003ca class=\"Link\" href=\"https://www.poynter.org/fact-checking/2023/leading-cause-death-young-people-us-firearms/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">now the No. 1 killer of children and teens in America\u003c/a> — seemed heavy-handed to their supporters. The House could have chosen simply to censure them for breaking House rules of decorum instead of kicking them out altogether.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>In a subsequent four-page rebuke, the nation’s professional organization for social studies teachers denounced Tennessee’s House as attacking foundational principles of democratic and republican norms. Intentionally or not, the state was sending Tennessee students a message that the rights to free speech, peaceful protest, and holding their elected officials accountable are “reserved for those who have a specific view or perspective,” the National Council for the Social Studies wrote.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“Just as disturbing,” the group continued, “this action sends a message to the larger community that civil discourse and active citizenship will result in punishment rather than in finding consensus in ways that uphold the principles of democracy and the functioning of our republic … (which) will have a long-term impact on our students’ faith in the democratic process and our constitutional principles.”\u003c/p>\n\u003ch2 id=\"WBWFyU\">Tennessee’s living history drama was filled with teachable moments\u003c/h2>\n\u003cp>Political science and social studies experts say it’s hard to narrow down the events in Tennessee this spring to one teachable moment.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Tens of thousands of citizens descending on the Capitol to protest gun violence after a school shooting and the subsequent expulsions and reinstatements of Jones and Pearson are rich runways for academic inquiry. Among the issues: freedom of speech, legislative rules of decorum, the enduring influence of racism on public policy, and — as Bassow, the Nashville student, articulated — the fragility of democracy.\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_61858\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\" style=\"max-width: 1680px\">\u003cimg decoding=\"async\" loading=\"lazy\" class=\"size-full wp-image-61858\" src=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/23/2023/06/protest.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"1680\" height=\"1120\" srcset=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/23/2023/06/protest.jpg 1680w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/23/2023/06/protest-800x533.jpg 800w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/23/2023/06/protest-1020x680.jpg 1020w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/23/2023/06/protest-160x107.jpg 160w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/23/2023/06/protest-768x512.jpg 768w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/23/2023/06/protest-1536x1024.jpg 1536w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 1680px) 100vw, 1680px\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">Students protest outside the Tennessee State Capitol on April 3, 2023, during a demonstration against gun violence and the state’s lax gun laws after a deadly school shooting at The Covenant School in Nashville. \u003ccite>(Marta W. Aldrich / Chalkbeat)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>John Geer, a political science professor who helped to launch the Vanderbilt Project on Unity and American Democracy, heartily agrees with Bassow.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“The teachable moment is that democracy fundamentally rests on genuine competition among political parties,” said Geer. “But because of supermajorities in our state legislatures, the minority party has no real influence and is left to scream or complain. They’re not part of the governing process. There’s no give and take, no compromise. Meanwhile, the majority party has so much power that they don’t need to negotiate, and that leads to excesses.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>It didn’t take long for resources to become available to help teachers broach the controversies in Tennessee as well as in Montana, where that state’s House speaker silenced \u003ca class=\"Link\" href=\"https://apnews.com/article/montana-trans-lawmaker-silenced-zooey-zephyr-d398d442537a595bf96d90be90862772\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Democratic Rep. Zooey Zephyr,\u003c/a> a transgender lawmaker who refused to apologize for telling colleagues they would have “blood” on their hands if they supported a ban on gender-affirming care for youths.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003ca class=\"Link\" href=\"https://tn.chalkbeat.org/2023/2/10/23593288/memphis-shelby-county-schools-tyre-nichols-police-brutality-facing-history-ourselves\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Facing History and Ourselves,\u003c/a> a nonprofit group that creates resources about current events to spawn thoughtful classroom discussions, zeroed in on two issues in its \u003ca class=\"Link\" href=\"https://www.facinghistory.org/resource-library/decorum-sanctioning-representatives-jones-pearson-zephyr\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">lessons\u003c/a>: how to discuss politics in non-polarizing ways and the implications of using rules of decorum to censure legislators.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“What norms should guide our conversations about political issues?” asks the group’s lessons designed for middle and high school students.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“How could rules around speech be used to silence people?”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The availability of resources doesn’t mean such questions are being regularly asked in Tennessee classrooms, however.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The state’s public school teachers don’t have much wiggle room on what they’re allowed to teach. They’re also under \u003ca class=\"Link\" href=\"https://tn.chalkbeat.org/2022/9/1/23331530/school-library-law-stresses-teachers-classroom-books\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">increased scrutiny over the resources they can use.\u003c/a>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Teachers are guided by hundreds of \u003ca class=\"Link\" href=\"https://www.tn.gov/education/districts/academic-standards.html\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">state-approved academic standards\u003c/a> that set learning goals by subject and grade, and that dictate decisions around curriculum and testing. And social studies teachers already are hard-pressed to cover \u003ca class=\"Link\" href=\"https://www.tn.gov/content/dam/tn/education/standards/ss/Social_Studies_Standards.pdf\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">all of the standards for their subjects\u003c/a> during a single school year. Even if they do, only a few courses offered in grades five, eight, and 12 include standards that might lend themselves to discussions about the Tennessee Three.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“Tennessee civics is really nowhere in the standards,” said Bill Carey, who sells resources for educators through his nonprofit \u003ca class=\"Link\" href=\"https://www.tnhistoryforkids.org/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Tennessee History for Kids\u003c/a>. “And if something isn’t in the standards, it’s probably not going to be taught.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Social studies lessons, in particular, are monitored closely by parents and activists.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>In 2015, some complained that some Tennessee teachers were “indoctrinating” students into Islam in their seventh-grade world history classes, \u003ca class=\"Link\" href=\"https://tn.chalkbeat.org/2016/1/22/21101546/tennessee-launches-review-of-social-studies-standards-amid-concerns-over-world-religion-studies\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">prompting state officials to order an early review of those standards.\u003c/a>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>More recently, amid a conservative backlash to anti-racism protests after a white policeman killed Black American George Floyd in Minneapolis (an incident that prompted a \u003ca class=\"Link\" href=\"https://apnews.com/article/george-floyd-minneapolis-police-investigation-19d384c2d90b186b627f9d8cf1d5be2e\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">federal investigation into systemic racism on the police force\u003c/a>), Tennessee was among the first states to \u003ca class=\"Link\" href=\"https://www.chalkbeat.org/22525983/map-critical-race-theory-legislation-teaching-racism\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">enact a law\u003c/a> intended to restrict K-12 classroom discussions about race, racism, and gender.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Specifically, the 2021 law prohibits teachers from discussing \u003ca class=\"Link\" href=\"https://s3.documentcloud.org/documents/20697058/tn-hb0580-amendment.pdf\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">14 concepts\u003c/a> that the state has deemed divisive, including that the United States is fundamentally or irredeemably sexist or racist, or that an individual is inherently privileged, racist, sexist, or oppressive because of their race or gender.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Educators have complained that the law and the state’s \u003ca class=\"Link\" href=\"https://tn.chalkbeat.org/2021/11/19/22792435/crt-tennessee-rules-prohibited-racial-concepts-schwinn\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">rules for enforcing the statute\u003c/a> aren’t clear about exactly what teachings cross the line. But teachers found in violation could have their licenses suspended or revoked, while their school districts could face financial penalties.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The potential fallout has \u003ca class=\"Link\" href=\"https://www.chalkbeat.org/2021/12/17/22840317/crt-laws-classroom-discussion-racism\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">influenced small but pivotal decisions that educators make every day\u003c/a> in Tennessee and in other states that have passed similar laws targeting so-called critical race theory: how to answer a student’s question, which articles to read as a class, how to prepare for a lesson, which examples to use.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>That includes whether to discuss the Tennessee legislature’s vote to expel Jones and Pearson, which made \u003ca class=\"Link\" href=\"https://www.nytimes.com/2023/04/06/us/tennessee-house-democrats-expelled.html\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">national headlines\u003c/a>.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“To be honest, I just didn’t mention this in class,” said one Tennessee social studies teacher who asked not to be identified, for fear of retribution. “I am just overly cautious with what I cover in class for now.”\u003c/p>\n\u003ch2 id=\"xNloLY\">Students ‘come up with all these great questions’\u003c/h2>\n\u003cp>Mark Finchum, executive director of the Tennessee Council for the Social Studies, says the law — and a related climate of fear — has had a chilling effect on teachers who might normally contemplate lessons about the Tennessee Three, or perhaps about the insurrection at the Capitol in Washington on Jan. 6, 2021. But it also depends on the teacher.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“If you’re a new teacher who is teaching in an area of the state where you feel insecure, you may not want to go there,” Finchum said. “But if you’re an experienced teacher and feel strongly about these events and how your students can learn from them, you may go ahead.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Erika Sugarmon falls in the latter category.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>One Friday at White Station High School in Memphis, students showed up to Sugarmon’s weekly current events discussion with lots of questions about the expulsion. The day before the legislative vote, many White Station students had walked out of school to show support for gun reforms called for by the Tennessee Three.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“The kids come up with all these great questions. Sometimes there’s not an answer,” said Sugarmon, a veteran educator who teaches courses in U.S. government.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>But it’s important to give students a safe and constructive space to discuss hard things, added Sugarmon, who is also an elected official on the Shelby County Commission, where she cast a vote to reinstate Pearson to his seat.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>One student in her class brought up racism, she said, prompting a conversation about why Tennessee lawmakers have sought to ban some books and squelch classroom discussions about racism.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“Students have been very vocal about not just what happened with Pearson, but with state laws in general,” said Sugarmon.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>She encourages them to explore source documents to formulate their own options.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Evidence-based discussions are the way that teachers should take up politically charged topics with their students, Vanderbilt’s Geer said.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“The evidence should be your guidepost,” he said, “while avoiding injecting ideology into the classroom.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“Yes, facts need to be interpreted,” Geer added. “But if we can agree on a basic set of evidence, we can have a conversation. And that’s an important part of democracy.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Maya Logan, a rising senior in Memphis at Germantown High School, talked about the lawmakers’ expulsions with her friends, but didn’t discuss the event as part of her 11th-grade American history class. Just the same, the deadly shooting at Nashville’s Covenant School, which prompted the protest and led to the expulsions, was a big deal to her. And as a young Black person, she related to Pearson and Jones, who are among the youngest members of the House.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Logan hopes this year’s events at the state Capitol will resurface as discussion topics during her senior year when she takes a U.S. government class. She has important questions. And she’s looking for answers.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“These are people,” she explained, “that are setting things up for us for our futures.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003ci>Marta Aldrich is a senior correspondent and covers the statehouse for Chalkbeat Tennessee. Contact her at \u003c/i>\u003ca class=\"Link\" href=\"mailto:maldrich@chalkbeat.org\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">\u003ci>maldrich@chalkbeat.org\u003c/i>\u003c/a>\u003ci>. \u003c/i>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003ci>Laura Testino is a reporter for Chalkbeat Tennessee, where she covers K-12 education in Memphis. Contact her at \u003c/i>\u003ca class=\"Link\" href=\"mailto:ltestino@chalkbeat.org\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">\u003ci>ltestino@chalkbeat.org\u003c/i>\u003c/a>\u003ci>.\u003c/i>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>[ad floatright]\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Chalkbeat is a nonprofit news site covering educational change in public schools.\u003c/p>\n\n","blocks":[],"excerpt":"Tennessee was a hotbed for real world civics lessons this spring. It’s also at the front of a conservative-driven wave of censorship about what can and cannot be taught in K-12 schools.","status":"publish","parent":0,"modified":1687272754,"stats":{"hasAudio":false,"hasVideo":false,"hasChartOrMap":false,"iframeSrcs":[],"hasGoogleForm":false,"hasGallery":false,"hasHearkenModule":false,"hasPolis":false,"paragraphCount":62,"wordCount":2466},"headData":{"title":"The ‘Tennessee 3’ created a historic teachable moment. Will schools be allowed to teach it? | KQED","description":"Tennessee students were among those who showed up to witness civics lessons in action this spring. Their teachers might not be able to discuss it, though.","ogTitle":"","ogDescription":"","ogImgId":"","twTitle":"","twDescription":"","twImgId":"","socialDescription":"Tennessee students were among those who showed up to witness civics lessons in action this spring. Their teachers might not be able to discuss it, though."},"nprByline":"Marta W. Aldrich, Laura Testino, Chalkbeat Tennessee","excludeFromSiteSearch":"Include","showOnAuthorArchivePages":"No","articleAge":"0","path":"/mindshift/61856/the-tennessee-3-created-a-historic-teachable-moment-will-schools-be-allowed-to-teach-it","audioTrackLength":null,"parsedContent":[{"type":"contentString","content":"\u003cdiv class=\"post-body\">\u003cp>\u003cp>\u003cem>This story was \u003ca href=\"https://tn.chalkbeat.org/2023/6/16/23763698/tennessee-three-schools-justin-pearson-jones-crt-law-legislature\" rel=\"canonical\">originally published\u003c/a> by Chalkbeat. Sign up for their newsletters at \u003ca class=\"Link\" href=\"https://ckbe.at/newsletters\">\u003cu>ckbe.at/newsletters\u003c/u>\u003c/a>.\u003c/em>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>When Wyatt Bassow and Ava Buxton missed classes one morning this spring to see democracy in action in Tennessee, they witnessed history that they acknowledged probably wouldn’t be fully taught at their high school less than a mile away.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Justin Pearson, one of two young Democratic lawmakers who were dramatically \u003ca class=\"Link\" href=\"https://tn.chalkbeat.org/2023/4/6/23672653/tennessee-legislature-gun-protest-expulsion-vote-pearson-jones-johnson\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">expelled from office\u003c/a> just a week earlier by the Republican-controlled House of Representatives, was taking his oath of office again that day outside the state Capitol in Nashville after being voted back in by officials in Shelby County.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>A few days earlier, Rep. Justin Jones of Nashville had been reinstated after a similar vote by his city’s council.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Both men had been ousted from the legislature for staging a protest on the House floor urging gun reforms after a mass school shooting in Nashville. The votes temporarily robbed some 140,000 Tennesseans in the state’s two largest cities of their representation.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003c/p>\u003c/div>","attributes":{"named":{},"numeric":[]}},{"type":"component","content":"","name":"ad","attributes":{"named":{"label":"fullwidth"},"numeric":["fullwidth"]}},{"type":"contentString","content":"\u003cdiv class=\"post-body\">\u003cp>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“What I’ve learned these last few weeks is that democracy is incredibly fragile,” said Bassow, a senior at Nashville’s Hume-Fogg High School, as he cheered Pearson’s reinstatement in the shadow of the Capitol building.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“But because of the power of the people,” he added, “we were able to fix this.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Less certain, the students said, is whether the controversial ouster of the two young Black Democrats by the House’s all-white GOP supermajority would be fully discussed at their school, or any public Tennessee school, as part of a course in U.S. government, civics, history, contemporary issues, or social studies.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>While Republican leaders maintain the ouster was not racially motivated, the racial optics were undeniable, as was the supermajority’s suppression of legislative voices with whom they disagreed.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Meanwhile, Tennessee is at the front of a \u003ca class=\"Link\" href=\"https://projects.chalkbeat.org/2022/age-appropriate-books-critical-race-theory-tennessee-curriculum/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">conservative-driven wave of censorship\u003c/a> about what can and cannot be taught in K-12 schools.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>A \u003ca class=\"Link\" href=\"https://tn.chalkbeat.org/2021/5/24/22452478/tennessee-governor-signs-bill-restricting-how-race-and-bias-can-be-taught-in-schools\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">2021 state law\u003c/a> restricts classroom discussions about systemic racism, white privilege, and the ongoing legacy of slavery. Republican Gov. Bill Lee, who signed the law, has \u003ca class=\"Link\" href=\"https://tn.chalkbeat.org/2022/2/7/22922717/hillsdale-college-tennessee-governor-charter-schools\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">championed civics education that emphasizes American exceptionalism\u003c/a> and plays down the origins of present-day U.S. injustices.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>School libraries are under scrutiny too, especially for materials that have to do with race and gender. A \u003ca class=\"Link\" href=\"https://tn.chalkbeat.org/2022/4/28/23047535/book-ban-tennessee-textbook-commission-legislation-age-appropriate\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">2022 law\u003c/a> gives the state unprecedented authority to overrule local school boards and remove certain materials from libraries statewide. And a 2023 law puts book distributors and publishers at risk of criminal prosecution if materials they provide to Tennessee schools are deemed obscene.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“We definitely have noticed that a silencing is happening in our schools,” said Buxton, also a senior at Hume-Fogg, when asked whether the expulsions of Jones and Pearson had been discussed in her classes.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“Thankfully, our teachers are wonderful and intelligent educators who do their best to give students the space we need to have important conversations,” she continued. “But I think these conversations would go much deeper if our teachers didn’t have the fear of these new laws hanging over them.”\u003c/p>\n\u003ch2 id=\"MjTSFl\">The rise, fall, and rise of the Tennessee Three\u003c/h2>\n\u003cp>The expulsions of the two Black lawmakers came during the dramatic last weeks of a tumultuous legislative session gripped by large citizen protests over \u003ca class=\"Link\" href=\"https://tn.chalkbeat.org/2023/3/28/23661164/nashville-school-shooting-tennessee-covenant-gun-policy-protest-legislature\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Tennessee’s lax gun laws\u003c/a>, after an armed intruder \u003ca class=\"Link\" href=\"https://tn.chalkbeat.org/2023/3/27/23658910/the-covenant-school-school-shootings-assault-weapons-metropolitan-nashville-police-department\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">killed three children and three adults at The Covenant School\u003c/a> in Nashville on March 27.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Frustrated that House Speaker Cameron Sexton was not allowing them to voice the concerns of demonstrators during debates, Pearson, Jones, and Rep. Gloria Johnson of Knoxville took their protest to the House floor, where Jones and Pearson alternately used a bullhorn to shout “Gun control now!” and “Power to the people!”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>In the process, the trio broke the chamber’s rules of decorum. GOP-sponsored ouster resolutions accused the so-called Tennessee Three of “knowingly and intentionally bringing disorder and dishonor to the House of Representatives.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Ultimately, Republican representatives voted overwhelmingly to kick out the two young Black men, while Johnson, who is older and white and was less vocal during the protest, kept her seat by a single vote.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The last time the House had expelled multiple members was in 1866, when six representatives were thrown out for conspiring to deprive the chamber of a quorum during a special session to ratify the 14th Amendment to the U.S. Constitution. Two others have been expelled in more recent times, one for soliciting a bribe, and the other for sexual misconduct.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>By contrast, the ousters of Jones and Pearson over their peaceful protest of gun violence — \u003ca class=\"Link\" href=\"https://www.poynter.org/fact-checking/2023/leading-cause-death-young-people-us-firearms/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">now the No. 1 killer of children and teens in America\u003c/a> — seemed heavy-handed to their supporters. The House could have chosen simply to censure them for breaking House rules of decorum instead of kicking them out altogether.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>In a subsequent four-page rebuke, the nation’s professional organization for social studies teachers denounced Tennessee’s House as attacking foundational principles of democratic and republican norms. Intentionally or not, the state was sending Tennessee students a message that the rights to free speech, peaceful protest, and holding their elected officials accountable are “reserved for those who have a specific view or perspective,” the National Council for the Social Studies wrote.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“Just as disturbing,” the group continued, “this action sends a message to the larger community that civil discourse and active citizenship will result in punishment rather than in finding consensus in ways that uphold the principles of democracy and the functioning of our republic … (which) will have a long-term impact on our students’ faith in the democratic process and our constitutional principles.”\u003c/p>\n\u003ch2 id=\"WBWFyU\">Tennessee’s living history drama was filled with teachable moments\u003c/h2>\n\u003cp>Political science and social studies experts say it’s hard to narrow down the events in Tennessee this spring to one teachable moment.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Tens of thousands of citizens descending on the Capitol to protest gun violence after a school shooting and the subsequent expulsions and reinstatements of Jones and Pearson are rich runways for academic inquiry. Among the issues: freedom of speech, legislative rules of decorum, the enduring influence of racism on public policy, and — as Bassow, the Nashville student, articulated — the fragility of democracy.\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_61858\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\" style=\"max-width: 1680px\">\u003cimg decoding=\"async\" loading=\"lazy\" class=\"size-full wp-image-61858\" src=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/23/2023/06/protest.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"1680\" height=\"1120\" srcset=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/23/2023/06/protest.jpg 1680w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/23/2023/06/protest-800x533.jpg 800w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/23/2023/06/protest-1020x680.jpg 1020w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/23/2023/06/protest-160x107.jpg 160w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/23/2023/06/protest-768x512.jpg 768w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/23/2023/06/protest-1536x1024.jpg 1536w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 1680px) 100vw, 1680px\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">Students protest outside the Tennessee State Capitol on April 3, 2023, during a demonstration against gun violence and the state’s lax gun laws after a deadly school shooting at The Covenant School in Nashville. \u003ccite>(Marta W. Aldrich / Chalkbeat)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>John Geer, a political science professor who helped to launch the Vanderbilt Project on Unity and American Democracy, heartily agrees with Bassow.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“The teachable moment is that democracy fundamentally rests on genuine competition among political parties,” said Geer. “But because of supermajorities in our state legislatures, the minority party has no real influence and is left to scream or complain. They’re not part of the governing process. There’s no give and take, no compromise. Meanwhile, the majority party has so much power that they don’t need to negotiate, and that leads to excesses.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>It didn’t take long for resources to become available to help teachers broach the controversies in Tennessee as well as in Montana, where that state’s House speaker silenced \u003ca class=\"Link\" href=\"https://apnews.com/article/montana-trans-lawmaker-silenced-zooey-zephyr-d398d442537a595bf96d90be90862772\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Democratic Rep. Zooey Zephyr,\u003c/a> a transgender lawmaker who refused to apologize for telling colleagues they would have “blood” on their hands if they supported a ban on gender-affirming care for youths.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003ca class=\"Link\" href=\"https://tn.chalkbeat.org/2023/2/10/23593288/memphis-shelby-county-schools-tyre-nichols-police-brutality-facing-history-ourselves\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Facing History and Ourselves,\u003c/a> a nonprofit group that creates resources about current events to spawn thoughtful classroom discussions, zeroed in on two issues in its \u003ca class=\"Link\" href=\"https://www.facinghistory.org/resource-library/decorum-sanctioning-representatives-jones-pearson-zephyr\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">lessons\u003c/a>: how to discuss politics in non-polarizing ways and the implications of using rules of decorum to censure legislators.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“What norms should guide our conversations about political issues?” asks the group’s lessons designed for middle and high school students.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“How could rules around speech be used to silence people?”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The availability of resources doesn’t mean such questions are being regularly asked in Tennessee classrooms, however.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The state’s public school teachers don’t have much wiggle room on what they’re allowed to teach. They’re also under \u003ca class=\"Link\" href=\"https://tn.chalkbeat.org/2022/9/1/23331530/school-library-law-stresses-teachers-classroom-books\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">increased scrutiny over the resources they can use.\u003c/a>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Teachers are guided by hundreds of \u003ca class=\"Link\" href=\"https://www.tn.gov/education/districts/academic-standards.html\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">state-approved academic standards\u003c/a> that set learning goals by subject and grade, and that dictate decisions around curriculum and testing. And social studies teachers already are hard-pressed to cover \u003ca class=\"Link\" href=\"https://www.tn.gov/content/dam/tn/education/standards/ss/Social_Studies_Standards.pdf\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">all of the standards for their subjects\u003c/a> during a single school year. Even if they do, only a few courses offered in grades five, eight, and 12 include standards that might lend themselves to discussions about the Tennessee Three.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“Tennessee civics is really nowhere in the standards,” said Bill Carey, who sells resources for educators through his nonprofit \u003ca class=\"Link\" href=\"https://www.tnhistoryforkids.org/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Tennessee History for Kids\u003c/a>. “And if something isn’t in the standards, it’s probably not going to be taught.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Social studies lessons, in particular, are monitored closely by parents and activists.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>In 2015, some complained that some Tennessee teachers were “indoctrinating” students into Islam in their seventh-grade world history classes, \u003ca class=\"Link\" href=\"https://tn.chalkbeat.org/2016/1/22/21101546/tennessee-launches-review-of-social-studies-standards-amid-concerns-over-world-religion-studies\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">prompting state officials to order an early review of those standards.\u003c/a>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>More recently, amid a conservative backlash to anti-racism protests after a white policeman killed Black American George Floyd in Minneapolis (an incident that prompted a \u003ca class=\"Link\" href=\"https://apnews.com/article/george-floyd-minneapolis-police-investigation-19d384c2d90b186b627f9d8cf1d5be2e\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">federal investigation into systemic racism on the police force\u003c/a>), Tennessee was among the first states to \u003ca class=\"Link\" href=\"https://www.chalkbeat.org/22525983/map-critical-race-theory-legislation-teaching-racism\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">enact a law\u003c/a> intended to restrict K-12 classroom discussions about race, racism, and gender.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Specifically, the 2021 law prohibits teachers from discussing \u003ca class=\"Link\" href=\"https://s3.documentcloud.org/documents/20697058/tn-hb0580-amendment.pdf\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">14 concepts\u003c/a> that the state has deemed divisive, including that the United States is fundamentally or irredeemably sexist or racist, or that an individual is inherently privileged, racist, sexist, or oppressive because of their race or gender.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Educators have complained that the law and the state’s \u003ca class=\"Link\" href=\"https://tn.chalkbeat.org/2021/11/19/22792435/crt-tennessee-rules-prohibited-racial-concepts-schwinn\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">rules for enforcing the statute\u003c/a> aren’t clear about exactly what teachings cross the line. But teachers found in violation could have their licenses suspended or revoked, while their school districts could face financial penalties.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The potential fallout has \u003ca class=\"Link\" href=\"https://www.chalkbeat.org/2021/12/17/22840317/crt-laws-classroom-discussion-racism\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">influenced small but pivotal decisions that educators make every day\u003c/a> in Tennessee and in other states that have passed similar laws targeting so-called critical race theory: how to answer a student’s question, which articles to read as a class, how to prepare for a lesson, which examples to use.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>That includes whether to discuss the Tennessee legislature’s vote to expel Jones and Pearson, which made \u003ca class=\"Link\" href=\"https://www.nytimes.com/2023/04/06/us/tennessee-house-democrats-expelled.html\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">national headlines\u003c/a>.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“To be honest, I just didn’t mention this in class,” said one Tennessee social studies teacher who asked not to be identified, for fear of retribution. “I am just overly cautious with what I cover in class for now.”\u003c/p>\n\u003ch2 id=\"xNloLY\">Students ‘come up with all these great questions’\u003c/h2>\n\u003cp>Mark Finchum, executive director of the Tennessee Council for the Social Studies, says the law — and a related climate of fear — has had a chilling effect on teachers who might normally contemplate lessons about the Tennessee Three, or perhaps about the insurrection at the Capitol in Washington on Jan. 6, 2021. But it also depends on the teacher.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“If you’re a new teacher who is teaching in an area of the state where you feel insecure, you may not want to go there,” Finchum said. “But if you’re an experienced teacher and feel strongly about these events and how your students can learn from them, you may go ahead.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Erika Sugarmon falls in the latter category.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>One Friday at White Station High School in Memphis, students showed up to Sugarmon’s weekly current events discussion with lots of questions about the expulsion. The day before the legislative vote, many White Station students had walked out of school to show support for gun reforms called for by the Tennessee Three.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“The kids come up with all these great questions. Sometimes there’s not an answer,” said Sugarmon, a veteran educator who teaches courses in U.S. government.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>But it’s important to give students a safe and constructive space to discuss hard things, added Sugarmon, who is also an elected official on the Shelby County Commission, where she cast a vote to reinstate Pearson to his seat.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>One student in her class brought up racism, she said, prompting a conversation about why Tennessee lawmakers have sought to ban some books and squelch classroom discussions about racism.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“Students have been very vocal about not just what happened with Pearson, but with state laws in general,” said Sugarmon.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>She encourages them to explore source documents to formulate their own options.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Evidence-based discussions are the way that teachers should take up politically charged topics with their students, Vanderbilt’s Geer said.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“The evidence should be your guidepost,” he said, “while avoiding injecting ideology into the classroom.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“Yes, facts need to be interpreted,” Geer added. “But if we can agree on a basic set of evidence, we can have a conversation. And that’s an important part of democracy.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Maya Logan, a rising senior in Memphis at Germantown High School, talked about the lawmakers’ expulsions with her friends, but didn’t discuss the event as part of her 11th-grade American history class. Just the same, the deadly shooting at Nashville’s Covenant School, which prompted the protest and led to the expulsions, was a big deal to her. And as a young Black person, she related to Pearson and Jones, who are among the youngest members of the House.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Logan hopes this year’s events at the state Capitol will resurface as discussion topics during her senior year when she takes a U.S. government class. She has important questions. And she’s looking for answers.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“These are people,” she explained, “that are setting things up for us for our futures.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003ci>Marta Aldrich is a senior correspondent and covers the statehouse for Chalkbeat Tennessee. Contact her at \u003c/i>\u003ca class=\"Link\" href=\"mailto:maldrich@chalkbeat.org\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">\u003ci>maldrich@chalkbeat.org\u003c/i>\u003c/a>\u003ci>. \u003c/i>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003ci>Laura Testino is a reporter for Chalkbeat Tennessee, where she covers K-12 education in Memphis. Contact her at \u003c/i>\u003ca class=\"Link\" href=\"mailto:ltestino@chalkbeat.org\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">\u003ci>ltestino@chalkbeat.org\u003c/i>\u003c/a>\u003ci>.\u003c/i>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003c/p>\u003c/div>","attributes":{"named":{},"numeric":[]}},{"type":"component","content":"","name":"ad","attributes":{"named":{"label":"floatright"},"numeric":["floatright"]}},{"type":"contentString","content":"\u003cdiv class=\"post-body\">\u003cp>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Chalkbeat is a nonprofit news site covering educational change in public schools.\u003c/p>\n\n\u003c/div>\u003c/p>","attributes":{"named":{},"numeric":[]}}],"link":"/mindshift/61856/the-tennessee-3-created-a-historic-teachable-moment-will-schools-be-allowed-to-teach-it","authors":["byline_mindshift_61856"],"categories":["mindshift_194","mindshift_21604"],"tags":["mindshift_20533","mindshift_21585","mindshift_21466","mindshift_1013","mindshift_21677","mindshift_20615","mindshift_20624","mindshift_21586","mindshift_21676"],"featImg":"mindshift_61857","label":"mindshift"},"mindshift_61750":{"type":"posts","id":"mindshift_61750","meta":{"index":"posts_1591205157","site":"mindshift","id":"61750","score":null,"sort":[1685721191000]},"guestAuthors":[],"slug":"when-she-won-the-first-national-spelling-bee-marie-c-bolden-dealt-a-blow-to-racism","title":"When she won the first national spelling bee, Marie C. Bolden dealt a blow to racism","publishDate":1685721191,"format":"standard","headTitle":"When she won the first national spelling bee, Marie C. Bolden dealt a blow to racism | KQED","labelTerm":{"site":"mindshift"},"content":"\u003cp>If you haven’t heard about the Black girl who won the first national spelling bee in the U.S. 115 years ago, you’re not alone: even many in her family didn’t know about Marie C. Bolden’s feat until after she died, decades later.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“It’s astounding to me” that she never talked about winning a gold medal in front of thousands of people, Bolden’s grandson, Mark Brown, told NPR.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>But back in 1908, Bolden’s victory made national news and upended racist stereotypes, less than 50 years after the Civil War. The 14-year-old did it by being perfect, spelling 500 words flawlessly to lead her hometown team, Cleveland, Ohio, to victory in the city’s then-new Hippodrome Theater.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“She never talked about this award, this amazing accomplishment,” Brown said. “But even Booker T. Washington mentioned [it] in his speeches.”\u003c/p>\n\u003ch3>Bolden’s win was a national sensation\u003c/h3>\n\u003cp>Boleden’s win was dramatic and unprecedented: Cleveland’s team was trailing in a field that included teams from New Orleans, Pittsburgh and Erie, Pa., near the end of the contest, according to contemporary accounts. But then Bolden vaulted her team to the top prize.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>[ad fullwidth]\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>She never showed off the gold medal she won — in fact, her family isn’t sure what became of it — but in interviews after her win, Bolden told reporters she had studied hard for the competition, saying she wanted to help her city win, and that her mother and father wanted her to win.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“When I felt nervous at the Hippodrome, it steadied me to think of these things,” she was quoted telling \u003ca href=\"https://www.cleveland.com/metro/2017/05/cleveland_was_center_of_spelli.html\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">\u003cem>The Plain Dealer\u003c/em>\u003c/a>. “I just kind of gritted my teeth and made up my mind that I wouldn’t miss a word.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>It was only after Bolden died that her family realized her place in history. Going through a box of her belongings, Brown says, they found a newspaper clipping from \u003cem>The Plain Dealer\u003c/em> relating the story of the Black mail carrier’s daughter who out-spelled hundreds of white kids.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>After her stunning victory, Bolden was hailed by “a storm of applause” and congratulations from hundreds of people, including members of the team from New Orleans, according to Indiana’s \u003ca href=\"https://www.newspapers.com/article/32979712/marie-bolden-marie-c-bolden-wins/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">\u003cem>South Bend Tribune\u003c/em>\u003c/a>.\u003c/p>\n\u003ch3>Bolden’s story has only emerged in recent years\u003c/h3>\n\u003cp>Cleveland hosted the spelling contest in June 1908, using it as a marquee event to kick off the National Education Association’s conference. The contest is recognized as the first nationwide spelling bee by \u003ca href=\"https://www.guinnessworldrecords.com/world-records/629750-first-use-of-the-term-spelling-bee\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Guinness World Records\u003c/a> — which also notes Bolden’s role.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The famous Scripps National Spelling Bee, which began in 1925, \u003ca href=\"https://www.npr.org/2023/06/02/1179601438/and-the-winning-word-is-a-14-year-old-from-florida-wins-the-national-spelling-be\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">held its finals this week\u003c/a>. Bolden’s accomplishment drew renewed attention in 2021, when Zaila Avant-garde became the \u003ca href=\"https://www.npr.org/2021/07/17/1017366768/zaila-avant-garde-talks-success-following-historic-spelling-bee-win\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">first African American\u003c/a> to win the Scripps contest.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Bolden’s story then drew the interest of \u003ca href=\"https://www.babbel.com/en/magazine/first-spelling-bee-champion-marie-c-bolden-lost-medal\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Babbel\u003c/a>, the language-learning software company, which contacted Brown after researching his grandmother’s win.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“Her parents and friends helped her memorize words, and she read a newspaper each day to perfect her spelling,” said Malcolm Massey, a language expert at Babbel. “It’s a blueprint for today’s would-be Spelling Bee champions.”\u003c/p>\n\u003ch3>The 1908 bee also became a magnet for racism\u003c/h3>\n\u003cp>Marie Bolden knew prejudice well; in fact, it was one of the words contestants \u003ca href=\"https://www.nola.com/entertainment_life/vintage/p-r-e-j-u-d-i-c-e-and-s-c-a-n-d/article_b888349d-43b9-556d-8568-f51aa774bbb3.html\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">were asked to spell\u003c/a>. Her spelling rivals included a team from New Orleans, a squad that nearly didn’t compete at all, as its segregationist leaders balked at the inclusion of a Black student.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>New Orleans officials knew there was a chance that an integrated team might compete at the spelling bee. As \u003ca href=\"https://www.nola.com/entertainment_life/vintage/p-r-e-j-u-d-i-c-e-and-s-c-a-n-d/article_b888349d-43b9-556d-8568-f51aa774bbb3.html\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">NOLA.com has reported\u003c/a>, when one school board member considered how the team might respond to such circumstances, he replied, “Go ahead and knock the n—– out.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Of such sentiments, Brown says, “It’s like, holy crap, these are young kids. What are you doing?” He added, “It’s hard to fathom now, that people would be treated like that.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>After Bolden’s win, furious members of the school board of New Orleans voted to censure its superintendent, Warren Easton. As the Black newspaper \u003ca href=\"https://chroniclingamerica.loc.gov/lccn/sn84025811/1908-07-24/ed-1/seq-5/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">\u003cem>The Seattle Republican\u003c/em>\u003c/a> reported, the board passed a resolution stating in part, “we deeply deplore and regret the unfortunate occurrence at Cleveland and the pitting of our children against a Negro.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Weeks later, Black residents of New Orleans were set to host a spelling bee in Bolden’s honor, but \u003ca href=\"https://chroniclingamerica.loc.gov/lccn/sn2001063112/1908-09-18/ed-1/seq-12/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">the mayor ordered it canceled\u003c/a>.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The treatment of Black people in the U.S. eventually prompted Bolden and her family to move to Canada, Brown said. That process started with his grandfather telling his father to fight for Canada in World War II, rather than for the U.S., “because they didn’t treat colored soldiers very well,” Brown said.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Brown, 68, currently lives just outside of Hamilton, Ontario. As for how his family now views Bolden, who died in 1981, Brown said his adult daughters, Jackie and Stacey, are “amazed at the strength of this great-grandmother of theirs.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“I think there’s a great sense of pride in the fact that our family history is based on sacrifice and people being adventurous, and taking on a new life, and not letting things hold them back.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cdiv class=\"fullattribution\">Copyright 2023 NPR. 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Bolden’s feat until after she died, decades later.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“It’s astounding to me” that she never talked about winning a gold medal in front of thousands of people, Bolden’s grandson, Mark Brown, told NPR.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>But back in 1908, Bolden’s victory made national news and upended racist stereotypes, less than 50 years after the Civil War. The 14-year-old did it by being perfect, spelling 500 words flawlessly to lead her hometown team, Cleveland, Ohio, to victory in the city’s then-new Hippodrome Theater.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“She never talked about this award, this amazing accomplishment,” Brown said. “But even Booker T. Washington mentioned [it] in his speeches.”\u003c/p>\n\u003ch3>Bolden’s win was a national sensation\u003c/h3>\n\u003cp>Boleden’s win was dramatic and unprecedented: Cleveland’s team was trailing in a field that included teams from New Orleans, Pittsburgh and Erie, Pa., near the end of the contest, according to contemporary accounts. But then Bolden vaulted her team to the top prize.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003c/p>\u003c/div>","attributes":{"named":{},"numeric":[]}},{"type":"component","content":"","name":"ad","attributes":{"named":{"label":"fullwidth"},"numeric":["fullwidth"]}},{"type":"contentString","content":"\u003cdiv class=\"post-body\">\u003cp>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>She never showed off the gold medal she won — in fact, her family isn’t sure what became of it — but in interviews after her win, Bolden told reporters she had studied hard for the competition, saying she wanted to help her city win, and that her mother and father wanted her to win.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“When I felt nervous at the Hippodrome, it steadied me to think of these things,” she was quoted telling \u003ca href=\"https://www.cleveland.com/metro/2017/05/cleveland_was_center_of_spelli.html\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">\u003cem>The Plain Dealer\u003c/em>\u003c/a>. “I just kind of gritted my teeth and made up my mind that I wouldn’t miss a word.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>It was only after Bolden died that her family realized her place in history. Going through a box of her belongings, Brown says, they found a newspaper clipping from \u003cem>The Plain Dealer\u003c/em> relating the story of the Black mail carrier’s daughter who out-spelled hundreds of white kids.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>After her stunning victory, Bolden was hailed by “a storm of applause” and congratulations from hundreds of people, including members of the team from New Orleans, according to Indiana’s \u003ca href=\"https://www.newspapers.com/article/32979712/marie-bolden-marie-c-bolden-wins/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">\u003cem>South Bend Tribune\u003c/em>\u003c/a>.\u003c/p>\n\u003ch3>Bolden’s story has only emerged in recent years\u003c/h3>\n\u003cp>Cleveland hosted the spelling contest in June 1908, using it as a marquee event to kick off the National Education Association’s conference. The contest is recognized as the first nationwide spelling bee by \u003ca href=\"https://www.guinnessworldrecords.com/world-records/629750-first-use-of-the-term-spelling-bee\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Guinness World Records\u003c/a> — which also notes Bolden’s role.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The famous Scripps National Spelling Bee, which began in 1925, \u003ca href=\"https://www.npr.org/2023/06/02/1179601438/and-the-winning-word-is-a-14-year-old-from-florida-wins-the-national-spelling-be\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">held its finals this week\u003c/a>. Bolden’s accomplishment drew renewed attention in 2021, when Zaila Avant-garde became the \u003ca href=\"https://www.npr.org/2021/07/17/1017366768/zaila-avant-garde-talks-success-following-historic-spelling-bee-win\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">first African American\u003c/a> to win the Scripps contest.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Bolden’s story then drew the interest of \u003ca href=\"https://www.babbel.com/en/magazine/first-spelling-bee-champion-marie-c-bolden-lost-medal\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Babbel\u003c/a>, the language-learning software company, which contacted Brown after researching his grandmother’s win.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“Her parents and friends helped her memorize words, and she read a newspaper each day to perfect her spelling,” said Malcolm Massey, a language expert at Babbel. “It’s a blueprint for today’s would-be Spelling Bee champions.”\u003c/p>\n\u003ch3>The 1908 bee also became a magnet for racism\u003c/h3>\n\u003cp>Marie Bolden knew prejudice well; in fact, it was one of the words contestants \u003ca href=\"https://www.nola.com/entertainment_life/vintage/p-r-e-j-u-d-i-c-e-and-s-c-a-n-d/article_b888349d-43b9-556d-8568-f51aa774bbb3.html\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">were asked to spell\u003c/a>. Her spelling rivals included a team from New Orleans, a squad that nearly didn’t compete at all, as its segregationist leaders balked at the inclusion of a Black student.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>New Orleans officials knew there was a chance that an integrated team might compete at the spelling bee. As \u003ca href=\"https://www.nola.com/entertainment_life/vintage/p-r-e-j-u-d-i-c-e-and-s-c-a-n-d/article_b888349d-43b9-556d-8568-f51aa774bbb3.html\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">NOLA.com has reported\u003c/a>, when one school board member considered how the team might respond to such circumstances, he replied, “Go ahead and knock the n—– out.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Of such sentiments, Brown says, “It’s like, holy crap, these are young kids. What are you doing?” He added, “It’s hard to fathom now, that people would be treated like that.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>After Bolden’s win, furious members of the school board of New Orleans voted to censure its superintendent, Warren Easton. As the Black newspaper \u003ca href=\"https://chroniclingamerica.loc.gov/lccn/sn84025811/1908-07-24/ed-1/seq-5/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">\u003cem>The Seattle Republican\u003c/em>\u003c/a> reported, the board passed a resolution stating in part, “we deeply deplore and regret the unfortunate occurrence at Cleveland and the pitting of our children against a Negro.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Weeks later, Black residents of New Orleans were set to host a spelling bee in Bolden’s honor, but \u003ca href=\"https://chroniclingamerica.loc.gov/lccn/sn2001063112/1908-09-18/ed-1/seq-12/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">the mayor ordered it canceled\u003c/a>.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The treatment of Black people in the U.S. eventually prompted Bolden and her family to move to Canada, Brown said. That process started with his grandfather telling his father to fight for Canada in World War II, rather than for the U.S., “because they didn’t treat colored soldiers very well,” Brown said.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Brown, 68, currently lives just outside of Hamilton, Ontario. As for how his family now views Bolden, who died in 1981, Brown said his adult daughters, Jackie and Stacey, are “amazed at the strength of this great-grandmother of theirs.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“I think there’s a great sense of pride in the fact that our family history is based on sacrifice and people being adventurous, and taking on a new life, and not letting things hold them back.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cdiv class=\"fullattribution\">Copyright 2023 NPR. To see more, visit https://www.npr.org.\u003cimg decoding=\"async\" src=\"https://www.google-analytics.com/__utm.gif?utmac=UA-5828686-4&utmdt=When+she+won+the+first+national+spelling+bee%2C+Marie+C.+Bolden+dealt+a+blow+to+racism&utme=8(APIKey)9(MDAxOTAwOTE4MDEyMTkxMDAzNjczZDljZA004)\">\u003c/div>\n\n\u003c/div>\u003c/p>","attributes":{"named":{},"numeric":[]}}],"link":"/mindshift/61750/when-she-won-the-first-national-spelling-bee-marie-c-bolden-dealt-a-blow-to-racism","authors":["byline_mindshift_61750"],"categories":["mindshift_194"],"tags":["mindshift_21655","mindshift_1013","mindshift_21654","mindshift_21317","mindshift_21653"],"featImg":"mindshift_61751","label":"mindshift"},"mindshift_61220":{"type":"posts","id":"mindshift_61220","meta":{"index":"posts_1591205157","site":"mindshift","id":"61220","score":null,"sort":[1678937744000]},"guestAuthors":[],"slug":"illinois-teachers-create-black-history-courses-to-fill-in-gaps-in-u-s-history-for-students","title":"Illinois teachers create Black history courses to fill in gaps in U.S. history for students","publishDate":1678937744,"format":"standard","headTitle":"MindShift | KQED News","labelTerm":{"site":"mindshift"},"content":"\u003cp>\u003cem>This story was \u003ca href=\"https://chicago.chalkbeat.org/2023/3/13/23638675/illinois-african-american-history-curriculum-debate-black-church-great-migration-civil-rights\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"canonical noopener\">originally published\u003c/a> by Chalkbeat. Sign up for their newsletters at \u003ca href=\"https://www.chalkbeat.org/newsletters\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">ckbe.at/newsletters\u003c/a>.\u003c/em>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Ashley Kannan, an eighth grade history teacher at Oak Park Elementary School in District 97, had long thought about piloting a Black studies course. He even created a lesson plan during the summer of 2020. Then, a conversation with a student convinced him to take the leap.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The student liked his lectures, she told him, but thought the history class that Kannan normally teaches was boring.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>That inspired Kannan to run with the course that fall. Students in his Black Studies course learn about topics such as the Black church, the Great Migration — when Black Americans migrated from the South to the North for jobs and other opportunities — and Black political figures such as Fannie Lou Hamer, a civil rights activist from Mississippi.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Not long after he started to teach the class during the 2020-21 school year, Kannan said, he noticed his students were more engaged with the material.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>[ad fullwidth]\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“I have much more buy-in. I love how my Black students, in particular, can’t tell the difference between my African American studies class and my American history class,” said Kannan, who teaches a diverse group of students. “Like they just see it as one in the same and it’s so beautiful.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>In Illinois, a 1990 state law requires schools to teach a unit of African American history. But more than 30 years after the Illinois law passed, gaps in the teaching of Black history remain. The law lacks an enforcement mechanism, and does not include a way to track when Black history is taught during the school year and what students are learning about it; there are no required textbooks or curriculum.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>All that has left teachers like Kannan to create their own lesson plans and to push their districts to strengthen the curriculum to include key points in Black history.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Still, the Illinois law represents a sharp contrast to what is happening in Republican-led states such as \u003ca class=\"Link\" href=\"https://www.vice.com/en/article/wxdbwb/stope-woke-act-florida-crt-bill\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Florida\u003c/a>, \u003ca class=\"Link\" href=\"https://tn.chalkbeat.org/2023/1/12/23552718/implicit-bias-tennessee-school-employee-training-legislature\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Tennessee\u003c/a>, and \u003ca class=\"Link\" href=\"https://www.texastribune.org/2021/12/02/texas-critical-race-theory-law/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Texas\u003c/a>, where legislators have passed so-called “anti-critical race theory” bills that limit how race and gender issues are taught in classrooms.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Florida Gov. Ron DeSantis, for example, has spoken out against the College Board’s new Advanced Placement course on African American studies, calling it “indoctrination.” DeSantis has labeled plans to incorporate topics such as Black queer studies, the abolition of prisons, and intersectionality \u003ca class=\"Link\" href=\"https://www.pbs.org/newshour/show/desantis-defends-blocking-african-american-studies-course-in-florida-schools\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">“a political agenda.”\u003c/a>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>In his \u003ca class=\"Link\" href=\"https://chicago.chalkbeat.org/2023/2/15/23601493/illinois-pritzker-2024-budget-education-child-care\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">State of the State address in February\u003c/a>, Illinois Gov. J.B. Pritzker pushed back against DeSantis and others seeking to limit the teaching of African American history. Pritzker said a virulent strain of nationalism across the country is leading to pushes for censorship and attacks on school board members and librarians.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“It’s an ideological battle by the right-wing hiding behind the claim that they would protect our children,” said Pritzker, “but whose real intention is to marginalize people and ideas they don’t like.”\u003c/p>\n\u003ch3>Illinois requires Black history in schools\u003c/h3>\n\u003cp>In Illinois, the teaching of Black history has been encouraged rather than limited. In 2021, the state updated its law on Black history to include topics such as the history of Black people before enslavement, the reasons why Black people were enslaved, and the American civil rights movement.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The \u003ca class=\"Link\" href=\"https://www.isbe.net/blackhistorycurriculum\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Black History Curriculum Task Force\u003c/a> — created by the Illinois general assembly in 2018 — also recommended in 2021 that Black history be woven into U.S. history courses, and asked for clear guidelines on what should be included in a mandated curriculum.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>In addition, the task force asked the state to find a way to enforce the mandate without standardized tests, and to set up a committee of educators from every grade level to create an assessment.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Task force member Bryen Johnson, the state affiliate political organizer with the Illinois Federation of Teachers, said ensuring that districts comply with curriculum mandates has to be a priority.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The \u003ca class=\"Link\" href=\"https://www.isbe.net/Documents_BlackHistoryCurr/Black-History-Curriculum-Task-Force-Final-Report.pdf\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">report from the task force\u003c/a> in April 2021, features survey results asking districts to report how they are teaching Black history. Out of the 617 districts in the state that completed the survey, 77% reported complying with the state law requiring a unit on Black history.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“The topics included in history courses shouldn’t be dependent on where you live or what district you attend,” said Johnson. “Complying with this law isn’t optional and those tasked with making sure districts are in compliance should reflect that.”\u003c/p>\n\u003ch3>Champaign teacher turns to The 1619 Project\u003c/h3>\n\u003cp>For Kim Tate, a fifth grade teacher in the Champaign Unit 4 school district in central Illinois,\u003cb> \u003c/b>the importance of teaching Black history came into greater focus in 2020, due to the coronavirus pandemic and the uprising against police brutality following the murder of George Floyd in Minneapolis, Minnesota, and the death of Breonna Taylor in Louisville, Kentucky.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>As a Black woman watching the Black Lives Matter protests during the summer of 2020, Tate felt people devalued Black life because they do not understand the history of Black people in America.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>During 2020, Tate had informal conversations with her colleagues about developing a Black studies curriculum for her students; while the state requires a unit of study, there isn’t a guideline for what students should know. One of their main debates: “What should Black studies include?”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The uprisings against police brutality that took place across the country, and Tate’s district’s plans to update social science curriculum in the fall of 2020, motivated her to apply to write a unit on Black history. She applied to be a part of \u003ca class=\"Link\" href=\"https://1619education.org/1619-community/1619-education-network\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">The 1619 Project Education Network by the Pulitzer Center\u003c/a> in 2022.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>During Tate’s time in the program, she wrote a lesson plan based on \u003ca class=\"Link\" href=\"https://www.nytimes.com/interactive/2019/08/14/magazine/1619-america-slavery.html\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">The 1619 Project\u003c/a>, an examination of the legacy of slavery by New York Times reporter Nikole Hannah-Jones.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The project, which takes its name from the date the first enslaved African arrived in the British colony that is now Virginia, has become a flashpoint in the conservative attacks on the teaching of race and Black history.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“I really thought her work was so powerful for really offering a different narrative than we had typically heard about history and the importance of black people to this nation’s story,” Tate said.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Tate started to teach the curriculum to her fifth grade class early this year. The unit she developed is called “No Longer Silent: The Genius Within Us.” In the unit, Tate’s students read books by Zora Neale Hurston, a Black American writer, anthropologist, and filmmaker who wrote about issues facing Black people, and became a key figure in the Harlem Renaissance.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Hurston’s work especially resonated with Black girls in Tate’s classroom.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“My Black girls last year connected with Hurston’s work during the Harlem Renaissance and her colorful personality,” said Tate.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>But Tate has noticed all of her students engaging more in the material.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“I’ve noticed that the students’ ability to engage in perspective-taking and to have empathy has increased,” Tate said. “So I have fewer conflicts and personal conflicts and fewer behavior issues.”\u003c/p>\n\u003ch3>Chicago teacher struggles to use district’s history curriculum\u003c/h3>\n\u003cp>While Tate had a smooth transition teaching Black history, some Illinois teachers struggle to incorporate Black history into a strict district curriculum.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The National Teachers Academy in Chicago had a robust Black history curriculum for several years, according to sixth grade social science teacher Jessica Kibblewhite. The curriculum examined Black history in America and across the globe by including topics such as how African explorers contributed to the creation of currency in the Middle East.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>However, after Chicago Public Schools rolled out the $135 million \u003ca class=\"Link\" href=\"https://chicago.chalkbeat.org/2021/6/17/22538834/cps-new-curriculum-skyline-135-million-mcdade-jackson-culturally-relevant\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Skyline curriculum in 2021\u003c/a> and created new standards for each grade and subject, Kibblewhite said her school’s lesson plans have taken a back seat.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Kibblewhite, who sits on the district’s Skyline social science review committee, said she thinks Skyline’s Black history unit lacks depth and breadth.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>As a white teacher who works with Black students, Kibblewhite said it’s important for students to see themselves in history books.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“Students don’t learn anything unless they’re deeply engaged,” said Kibblewhite. “If students don’t see themselves in characters in text or historical figures that look different from them, they’ll be less likely to be engaged.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>In a statement to Chalkbeat Chicago, Chicago Public Schools said it is committed to providing a culturally responsive social science education throughout the school year. The district said Black history is taught across all subjects, not just in history.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“This work is also at the core of CPS’ Three-Year Blueprint which aims to ensure that CPS students are not only academically prepared to succeed after high school, but also socially, emotionally, and culturally prepared to be successful members of our Democracy,” said a spokesperson for Chicago Public Schools.\u003c/p>\n\u003ch3>What’s next for Black history in Illinois\u003c/h3>\n\u003cp>Next year, Oak Park and River Forest High School will be one of the first high schools in Illinois to pilot the AP African American studies course, as part of the College Board’s national rollout of the program.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>But in the meantime, teachers such as Kannan are finding ways to teach Black history in their classrooms.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Kannan, in his 26th year as a teacher, said it was easier for him to create a curriculum than other teachers because of a supportive school district and his lengthy experience. However, he said it would be more difficult for younger teachers who lack professional development and mentoring.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“The state needs to make a considerable financial commitment to investing in induction paths that lead to mentoring and that allow our teachers of color to not only be not only be recruited but to thrive,” said Kannan. “I don’t think there’s any other way for this to happen.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Tate, the teacher in Champaign, has heard from white colleagues who feel uncomfortable teaching Black history. Since the state’s teacher workforce is over 80% white, Tate said that the state will need to find a way to support teachers in educating students about Black history.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“We got to figure out a way to bridge that gap, because each year we’re not teaching students about Black history and about the legacy of Black people in this country,” said Tate. “We are really robbing all students of important knowledge that can help them be better citizens.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003ci>Samantha Smylie is the state education reporter for Chalkbeat Chicago, covering school districts across the state, legislation, special education, and the state board of education. Contact Samantha at \u003c/i>\u003ca class=\"Link\" href=\"mailto:ssmylie@chalkbeat.org\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">\u003ci>ssmylie@chalkbeat.org\u003c/i>\u003c/a>\u003ci>.\u003c/i>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>[ad floatright]\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003ca href=\"https://chicago.chalkbeat.org/2023/3/13/23638675/illinois-african-american-history-curriculum-debate-black-church-great-migration-civil-rights\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"canonical noopener\">Chalkbeat\u003c/a> is a nonprofit news site covering educational change in public schools.\u003c/p>\n\n","blocks":[],"excerpt":"Republican-led states such as Florida, Tennessee, and Texas, are restricting what can be taught about race in schools. In Illinois, a decades-old law requires the teaching of Black history, but there's no required curriculum or tracking of when it's taught. ","status":"publish","parent":0,"modified":1678937744,"stats":{"hasAudio":false,"hasVideo":false,"hasChartOrMap":false,"iframeSrcs":[],"hasGoogleForm":false,"hasGallery":false,"hasHearkenModule":false,"hasPolis":false,"paragraphCount":48,"wordCount":1870},"headData":{"title":"Illinois teachers create Black history courses to fill in gaps in U.S. history for students | KQED","description":"A decades-old law requires the teaching of Black history, but there's no required curriculum or tracking of when and how it's taught.","ogTitle":"","ogDescription":"","ogImgId":"","twTitle":"","twDescription":"","twImgId":""},"nprByline":"Samantha Smylie, \u003ca href=\"https://chicago.chalkbeat.org//\" target=\"_blank\">Chalkbeat Chicago\u003c/a>","excludeFromSiteSearch":"Include","showOnAuthorArchivePages":"No","articleAge":"0","path":"/mindshift/61220/illinois-teachers-create-black-history-courses-to-fill-in-gaps-in-u-s-history-for-students","audioTrackLength":null,"parsedContent":[{"type":"contentString","content":"\u003cdiv class=\"post-body\">\u003cp>\u003cp>\u003cem>This story was \u003ca href=\"https://chicago.chalkbeat.org/2023/3/13/23638675/illinois-african-american-history-curriculum-debate-black-church-great-migration-civil-rights\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"canonical noopener\">originally published\u003c/a> by Chalkbeat. Sign up for their newsletters at \u003ca href=\"https://www.chalkbeat.org/newsletters\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">ckbe.at/newsletters\u003c/a>.\u003c/em>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Ashley Kannan, an eighth grade history teacher at Oak Park Elementary School in District 97, had long thought about piloting a Black studies course. He even created a lesson plan during the summer of 2020. Then, a conversation with a student convinced him to take the leap.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The student liked his lectures, she told him, but thought the history class that Kannan normally teaches was boring.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>That inspired Kannan to run with the course that fall. Students in his Black Studies course learn about topics such as the Black church, the Great Migration — when Black Americans migrated from the South to the North for jobs and other opportunities — and Black political figures such as Fannie Lou Hamer, a civil rights activist from Mississippi.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Not long after he started to teach the class during the 2020-21 school year, Kannan said, he noticed his students were more engaged with the material.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003c/p>\u003c/div>","attributes":{"named":{},"numeric":[]}},{"type":"component","content":"","name":"ad","attributes":{"named":{"label":"fullwidth"},"numeric":["fullwidth"]}},{"type":"contentString","content":"\u003cdiv class=\"post-body\">\u003cp>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“I have much more buy-in. I love how my Black students, in particular, can’t tell the difference between my African American studies class and my American history class,” said Kannan, who teaches a diverse group of students. “Like they just see it as one in the same and it’s so beautiful.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>In Illinois, a 1990 state law requires schools to teach a unit of African American history. But more than 30 years after the Illinois law passed, gaps in the teaching of Black history remain. The law lacks an enforcement mechanism, and does not include a way to track when Black history is taught during the school year and what students are learning about it; there are no required textbooks or curriculum.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>All that has left teachers like Kannan to create their own lesson plans and to push their districts to strengthen the curriculum to include key points in Black history.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Still, the Illinois law represents a sharp contrast to what is happening in Republican-led states such as \u003ca class=\"Link\" href=\"https://www.vice.com/en/article/wxdbwb/stope-woke-act-florida-crt-bill\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Florida\u003c/a>, \u003ca class=\"Link\" href=\"https://tn.chalkbeat.org/2023/1/12/23552718/implicit-bias-tennessee-school-employee-training-legislature\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Tennessee\u003c/a>, and \u003ca class=\"Link\" href=\"https://www.texastribune.org/2021/12/02/texas-critical-race-theory-law/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Texas\u003c/a>, where legislators have passed so-called “anti-critical race theory” bills that limit how race and gender issues are taught in classrooms.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Florida Gov. Ron DeSantis, for example, has spoken out against the College Board’s new Advanced Placement course on African American studies, calling it “indoctrination.” DeSantis has labeled plans to incorporate topics such as Black queer studies, the abolition of prisons, and intersectionality \u003ca class=\"Link\" href=\"https://www.pbs.org/newshour/show/desantis-defends-blocking-african-american-studies-course-in-florida-schools\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">“a political agenda.”\u003c/a>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>In his \u003ca class=\"Link\" href=\"https://chicago.chalkbeat.org/2023/2/15/23601493/illinois-pritzker-2024-budget-education-child-care\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">State of the State address in February\u003c/a>, Illinois Gov. J.B. Pritzker pushed back against DeSantis and others seeking to limit the teaching of African American history. Pritzker said a virulent strain of nationalism across the country is leading to pushes for censorship and attacks on school board members and librarians.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“It’s an ideological battle by the right-wing hiding behind the claim that they would protect our children,” said Pritzker, “but whose real intention is to marginalize people and ideas they don’t like.”\u003c/p>\n\u003ch3>Illinois requires Black history in schools\u003c/h3>\n\u003cp>In Illinois, the teaching of Black history has been encouraged rather than limited. In 2021, the state updated its law on Black history to include topics such as the history of Black people before enslavement, the reasons why Black people were enslaved, and the American civil rights movement.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The \u003ca class=\"Link\" href=\"https://www.isbe.net/blackhistorycurriculum\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Black History Curriculum Task Force\u003c/a> — created by the Illinois general assembly in 2018 — also recommended in 2021 that Black history be woven into U.S. history courses, and asked for clear guidelines on what should be included in a mandated curriculum.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>In addition, the task force asked the state to find a way to enforce the mandate without standardized tests, and to set up a committee of educators from every grade level to create an assessment.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Task force member Bryen Johnson, the state affiliate political organizer with the Illinois Federation of Teachers, said ensuring that districts comply with curriculum mandates has to be a priority.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The \u003ca class=\"Link\" href=\"https://www.isbe.net/Documents_BlackHistoryCurr/Black-History-Curriculum-Task-Force-Final-Report.pdf\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">report from the task force\u003c/a> in April 2021, features survey results asking districts to report how they are teaching Black history. Out of the 617 districts in the state that completed the survey, 77% reported complying with the state law requiring a unit on Black history.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“The topics included in history courses shouldn’t be dependent on where you live or what district you attend,” said Johnson. “Complying with this law isn’t optional and those tasked with making sure districts are in compliance should reflect that.”\u003c/p>\n\u003ch3>Champaign teacher turns to The 1619 Project\u003c/h3>\n\u003cp>For Kim Tate, a fifth grade teacher in the Champaign Unit 4 school district in central Illinois,\u003cb> \u003c/b>the importance of teaching Black history came into greater focus in 2020, due to the coronavirus pandemic and the uprising against police brutality following the murder of George Floyd in Minneapolis, Minnesota, and the death of Breonna Taylor in Louisville, Kentucky.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>As a Black woman watching the Black Lives Matter protests during the summer of 2020, Tate felt people devalued Black life because they do not understand the history of Black people in America.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>During 2020, Tate had informal conversations with her colleagues about developing a Black studies curriculum for her students; while the state requires a unit of study, there isn’t a guideline for what students should know. One of their main debates: “What should Black studies include?”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The uprisings against police brutality that took place across the country, and Tate’s district’s plans to update social science curriculum in the fall of 2020, motivated her to apply to write a unit on Black history. She applied to be a part of \u003ca class=\"Link\" href=\"https://1619education.org/1619-community/1619-education-network\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">The 1619 Project Education Network by the Pulitzer Center\u003c/a> in 2022.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>During Tate’s time in the program, she wrote a lesson plan based on \u003ca class=\"Link\" href=\"https://www.nytimes.com/interactive/2019/08/14/magazine/1619-america-slavery.html\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">The 1619 Project\u003c/a>, an examination of the legacy of slavery by New York Times reporter Nikole Hannah-Jones.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The project, which takes its name from the date the first enslaved African arrived in the British colony that is now Virginia, has become a flashpoint in the conservative attacks on the teaching of race and Black history.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“I really thought her work was so powerful for really offering a different narrative than we had typically heard about history and the importance of black people to this nation’s story,” Tate said.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Tate started to teach the curriculum to her fifth grade class early this year. The unit she developed is called “No Longer Silent: The Genius Within Us.” In the unit, Tate’s students read books by Zora Neale Hurston, a Black American writer, anthropologist, and filmmaker who wrote about issues facing Black people, and became a key figure in the Harlem Renaissance.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Hurston’s work especially resonated with Black girls in Tate’s classroom.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“My Black girls last year connected with Hurston’s work during the Harlem Renaissance and her colorful personality,” said Tate.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>But Tate has noticed all of her students engaging more in the material.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“I’ve noticed that the students’ ability to engage in perspective-taking and to have empathy has increased,” Tate said. “So I have fewer conflicts and personal conflicts and fewer behavior issues.”\u003c/p>\n\u003ch3>Chicago teacher struggles to use district’s history curriculum\u003c/h3>\n\u003cp>While Tate had a smooth transition teaching Black history, some Illinois teachers struggle to incorporate Black history into a strict district curriculum.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The National Teachers Academy in Chicago had a robust Black history curriculum for several years, according to sixth grade social science teacher Jessica Kibblewhite. The curriculum examined Black history in America and across the globe by including topics such as how African explorers contributed to the creation of currency in the Middle East.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>However, after Chicago Public Schools rolled out the $135 million \u003ca class=\"Link\" href=\"https://chicago.chalkbeat.org/2021/6/17/22538834/cps-new-curriculum-skyline-135-million-mcdade-jackson-culturally-relevant\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Skyline curriculum in 2021\u003c/a> and created new standards for each grade and subject, Kibblewhite said her school’s lesson plans have taken a back seat.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Kibblewhite, who sits on the district’s Skyline social science review committee, said she thinks Skyline’s Black history unit lacks depth and breadth.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>As a white teacher who works with Black students, Kibblewhite said it’s important for students to see themselves in history books.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“Students don’t learn anything unless they’re deeply engaged,” said Kibblewhite. “If students don’t see themselves in characters in text or historical figures that look different from them, they’ll be less likely to be engaged.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>In a statement to Chalkbeat Chicago, Chicago Public Schools said it is committed to providing a culturally responsive social science education throughout the school year. The district said Black history is taught across all subjects, not just in history.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“This work is also at the core of CPS’ Three-Year Blueprint which aims to ensure that CPS students are not only academically prepared to succeed after high school, but also socially, emotionally, and culturally prepared to be successful members of our Democracy,” said a spokesperson for Chicago Public Schools.\u003c/p>\n\u003ch3>What’s next for Black history in Illinois\u003c/h3>\n\u003cp>Next year, Oak Park and River Forest High School will be one of the first high schools in Illinois to pilot the AP African American studies course, as part of the College Board’s national rollout of the program.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>But in the meantime, teachers such as Kannan are finding ways to teach Black history in their classrooms.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Kannan, in his 26th year as a teacher, said it was easier for him to create a curriculum than other teachers because of a supportive school district and his lengthy experience. However, he said it would be more difficult for younger teachers who lack professional development and mentoring.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“The state needs to make a considerable financial commitment to investing in induction paths that lead to mentoring and that allow our teachers of color to not only be not only be recruited but to thrive,” said Kannan. “I don’t think there’s any other way for this to happen.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Tate, the teacher in Champaign, has heard from white colleagues who feel uncomfortable teaching Black history. Since the state’s teacher workforce is over 80% white, Tate said that the state will need to find a way to support teachers in educating students about Black history.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“We got to figure out a way to bridge that gap, because each year we’re not teaching students about Black history and about the legacy of Black people in this country,” said Tate. “We are really robbing all students of important knowledge that can help them be better citizens.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003ci>Samantha Smylie is the state education reporter for Chalkbeat Chicago, covering school districts across the state, legislation, special education, and the state board of education. Contact Samantha at \u003c/i>\u003ca class=\"Link\" href=\"mailto:ssmylie@chalkbeat.org\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">\u003ci>ssmylie@chalkbeat.org\u003c/i>\u003c/a>\u003ci>.\u003c/i>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003c/p>\u003c/div>","attributes":{"named":{},"numeric":[]}},{"type":"component","content":"","name":"ad","attributes":{"named":{"label":"floatright"},"numeric":["floatright"]}},{"type":"contentString","content":"\u003cdiv class=\"post-body\">\u003cp>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003ca href=\"https://chicago.chalkbeat.org/2023/3/13/23638675/illinois-african-american-history-curriculum-debate-black-church-great-migration-civil-rights\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"canonical noopener\">Chalkbeat\u003c/a> is a nonprofit news site covering educational change in public schools.\u003c/p>\n\n\u003c/div>\u003c/p>","attributes":{"named":{},"numeric":[]}}],"link":"/mindshift/61220/illinois-teachers-create-black-history-courses-to-fill-in-gaps-in-u-s-history-for-students","authors":["byline_mindshift_61220"],"categories":["mindshift_21357"],"tags":["mindshift_21534","mindshift_999","mindshift_21356","mindshift_21455","mindshift_21569","mindshift_648","mindshift_1013","mindshift_21568","mindshift_21537"],"featImg":"mindshift_61224","label":"mindshift"},"mindshift_61095":{"type":"posts","id":"mindshift_61095","meta":{"index":"posts_1591205157","site":"mindshift","id":"61095","score":null,"sort":[1676785736000]},"guestAuthors":[],"slug":"how-a-virginia-educator-teaches-black-history-with-joy","title":"How a Virginia educator teaches Black history with joy","publishDate":1676785736,"format":"standard","headTitle":"MindShift | KQED News","labelTerm":{"site":"mindshift"},"content":"\u003cp>For De'Ana Forbes, it started with crayons, teddy bears, her baby sister and a baseboard-turned-chalkboard in Danville, Virginia.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Though today she's a social studies teacher at Freedom High, a predominantly Black and brown public school in Woodbridge, Virginia, Forbes has been educating for as long as she can remember.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\"Ever since I was 5 I felt like there was something that was in me to teach,\" she says. \"And not just to impart knowledge, but to nurture, to encourage, to support.\"\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>According to Forbes, that nature is essential to navigating this month as a Black educator.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Black History Month poses a challenge to some.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>[ad fullwidth]\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The tradition–a contemporary evolution of Carter G. Woodson's \"Negro History Week\"–could be seen as an opportunity to spotlight the solemn tale of Black American struggles. As such, February could lead way to a hurried, 28-day scramble to discuss all that's happened to Black folks in America, from the transatlantic slave trade, to the Jim Crow South, to the Civil Rights Movement and the untimely death of too many Black lives to count.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>For Forbes, however, February is a time for celebration.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\"The most important thing for me and my colleagues is that the kids feel seen, celebrated, appreciated, and allowed to be unapologetically Black,\" she says.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>That is why, this year at Freedom, they're turning it up a notch.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Forbes has worked alongside other teachers to pack this February with an ambitious series of events that honor Blackness through revelry. Among them, a Black history bingo game, talent show, non-alcoholic paint n' sip, a spirit day dedicated to cultural dress, another to HBCUs, an assembly dedicated to go-go music, a Black history parade, and finally, a black-out, where the charge is simple: wear all black.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The impulse to center jubilation comes from Felicia Edmunds, Forbes' elementary school gym teacher who devoted the month of February to extracurricular activities that went beyond traditional lesson plans: dancing, singing, reading poetry and more.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>In part, it's Ms. Edmunds' example that motivates Forbes today.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\"There's so many ways to bring joy out of the curriculum,\" she says. \"You just have to be willing to see it and be willing to do it.\"\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Josephine Bangura is a senior at Freedom who is enrolled in the African-American studies elective that Forbes teaches upperclassmen.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>She says that the class is a welcome departure from what it's usually like to learn Black history in school.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\"She genuinely makes it fun,\" Bangura says of her teacher. \"It's like, wow, I really get to learn about this history and enjoy it.\"\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The way Forbes teaches leads to a richer understanding of where the country is today.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\"Not only are we learning about certain history, we're learning about exactly why these things happened and how they contribute to America as a whole,\" she continued.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>As the child of Sierra Leonean immigrants, Bangura also says it means a lot that Forbes highlights stories from the entire Black diaspora. The same goes for this February's Black History Month programming.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\"Everyone was included,\" she says about a parade that Forbes organized to punctuate the first Friday of the month. \"Seeing so many different cultures being represented at a big parade and celebrating within the whole diaspora was really nice.\"\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>As a teacher, Forbes says ensuring that students are enjoying their experience is the whole point. This goes for everything that she teaches, not just Black history.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\"It's really hard to teach a child when you push their identity off and don't allow them to just be and to speak and to share and to celebrate,\" she says.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>She knows because this was the experience that she had in middle school.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\"I remember sitting in the classroom with so many questions because it felt like there were so many gaps in the curriculum,\" she says.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>When it came to slavery, the Civil War, or even Reconstruction, she learned bullet points, not real stories about the real lives that Black Americans lived throughout history.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>But Forbes has made space for exactly that in her own classroom. Every day. All year long.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>That is why a Black History Month grounded in activities and events does not feel like a missed opportunity.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\"All year, we're already teaching Black history and incorporating it into our curriculum,\" she says. So, when Black History Month comes, \"We want to focus on the joy, the stories, the culture, the celebration. ... That's it.\"\u003c/p>\n\u003cdiv class=\"fullattribution\">Copyright 2023 NPR. 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Woodson's \"Negro History Week\"–could be seen as an opportunity to spotlight the solemn tale of Black American struggles. As such, February could lead way to a hurried, 28-day scramble to discuss all that's happened to Black folks in America, from the transatlantic slave trade, to the Jim Crow South, to the Civil Rights Movement and the untimely death of too many Black lives to count.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>For Forbes, however, February is a time for celebration.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\"The most important thing for me and my colleagues is that the kids feel seen, celebrated, appreciated, and allowed to be unapologetically Black,\" she says.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>That is why, this year at Freedom, they're turning it up a notch.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Forbes has worked alongside other teachers to pack this February with an ambitious series of events that honor Blackness through revelry. Among them, a Black history bingo game, talent show, non-alcoholic paint n' sip, a spirit day dedicated to cultural dress, another to HBCUs, an assembly dedicated to go-go music, a Black history parade, and finally, a black-out, where the charge is simple: wear all black.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The impulse to center jubilation comes from Felicia Edmunds, Forbes' elementary school gym teacher who devoted the month of February to extracurricular activities that went beyond traditional lesson plans: dancing, singing, reading poetry and more.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>In part, it's Ms. Edmunds' example that motivates Forbes today.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\"There's so many ways to bring joy out of the curriculum,\" she says. \"You just have to be willing to see it and be willing to do it.\"\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Josephine Bangura is a senior at Freedom who is enrolled in the African-American studies elective that Forbes teaches upperclassmen.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>She says that the class is a welcome departure from what it's usually like to learn Black history in school.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\"She genuinely makes it fun,\" Bangura says of her teacher. \"It's like, wow, I really get to learn about this history and enjoy it.\"\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The way Forbes teaches leads to a richer understanding of where the country is today.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\"Not only are we learning about certain history, we're learning about exactly why these things happened and how they contribute to America as a whole,\" she continued.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>As the child of Sierra Leonean immigrants, Bangura also says it means a lot that Forbes highlights stories from the entire Black diaspora. The same goes for this February's Black History Month programming.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\"Everyone was included,\" she says about a parade that Forbes organized to punctuate the first Friday of the month. \"Seeing so many different cultures being represented at a big parade and celebrating within the whole diaspora was really nice.\"\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>As a teacher, Forbes says ensuring that students are enjoying their experience is the whole point. This goes for everything that she teaches, not just Black history.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\"It's really hard to teach a child when you push their identity off and don't allow them to just be and to speak and to share and to celebrate,\" she says.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>She knows because this was the experience that she had in middle school.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\"I remember sitting in the classroom with so many questions because it felt like there were so many gaps in the curriculum,\" she says.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>When it came to slavery, the Civil War, or even Reconstruction, she learned bullet points, not real stories about the real lives that Black Americans lived throughout history.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>But Forbes has made space for exactly that in her own classroom. Every day. All year long.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>That is why a Black History Month grounded in activities and events does not feel like a missed opportunity.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\"All year, we're already teaching Black history and incorporating it into our curriculum,\" she says. So, when Black History Month comes, \"We want to focus on the joy, the stories, the culture, the celebration. ... That's it.\"\u003c/p>\n\u003cdiv class=\"fullattribution\">Copyright 2023 NPR. To see more, visit https://www.npr.org.\u003cimg decoding=\"async\" src=\"https://www.google-analytics.com/__utm.gif?utmac=UA-5828686-4&utmdt=From+a+day+at+Freedom%3A+How+one+Virginia+educator+teaches+Black+history+with+joy&utme=8(APIKey)9(MDAxOTAwOTE4MDEyMTkxMDAzNjczZDljZA004)\">\u003c/div>\n\n\u003c/div>\u003c/p>","attributes":{"named":{},"numeric":[]}}],"link":"/mindshift/61095/how-a-virginia-educator-teaches-black-history-with-joy","authors":["byline_mindshift_61095"],"categories":["mindshift_21357","mindshift_193"],"tags":["mindshift_21534","mindshift_999","mindshift_648","mindshift_1013","mindshift_20615"],"featImg":"mindshift_61120","label":"mindshift"},"mindshift_60733":{"type":"posts","id":"mindshift_60733","meta":{"index":"posts_1591205157","site":"mindshift","id":"60733","score":null,"sort":[1671044770000]},"guestAuthors":[],"slug":"banned-books-author-ashley-hope-perez-on-writing-honest-history-in-ya-fiction","title":"Banned Books: Author Ashley Hope Pérez on writing honest history in YA fiction","publishDate":1671044770,"format":"standard","headTitle":"MindShift | KQED News","labelTerm":{"site":"mindshift"},"content":"\u003cp>\u003cem>This discussion with Ashley Hope Pérez is part of a series of interviews with — and \u003ca href=\"https://www.npr.org/2022/12/14/1142428557/ashley-hope-perez-on-out-of-darkness-book-ban\">essays\u003c/a> by — authors who are finding their books being challenged and banned in the U.S.\u003c/em>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Ashley Hope Pérez is the author of the award-winning \u003cem>Out of Darkness\u003c/em>, a young adult novel that has faced challenges and bans in the U.S. in recent years.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Pérez — who is a comparative literature professor at The Ohio State University in addition to having authored three novels — centers her writing on Latin American narratives, making space for young Latino readers to see themselves in her work. She published \u003cem>Out of Darkness in\u003c/em> 2015, a year that invoked a national conversation surrounding issues of race, environmental racism, racialized violence and police brutality.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cem>Out of Darkness\u003c/em> is based on a true-events: In 1937, a natural gas explosion at a school in New London, Texas, killed nearly 300 students and teachers — one of the deadliest school disasters in U.S. history. This historical context is foregrounded by the fictional love story between an African American boy and a Mexican American girl. The characters cross color lines and navigate familial tensions and traumas.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The novel re-contextualizes contemporary issues of race, providing a historical framework in a not-so-post-racial America. After many years on bookshelves, in 2021 this frank portrayal earned the book a spot on the \u003ca href=\"https://www.npr.org/2022/04/04/1090067026/efforts-to-ban-books-jumped-an-unprecedented-four-fold-in-2021-ala-report-says\">American Library Association (ALA) Banned Book List\u003c/a> for \"depictions of abuse and because it was considered to be sexually explicit.\"\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>[ad fullwidth]\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cem>The interview below has been edited for length and clarity. \u003c/em>\u003c/p>\n\u003chr>\n\u003ch3>\u003cstrong>Interview highlights\u003c/strong>\u003c/h3>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>On writing about the human experience, even the hard parts\u003c/strong>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cem>\u003cimg class=\"alignright wp-image-60734 size-thumbnail\" src=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/23/2022/12/out-of-darkness_custom-fc6bb3f47feb57907f20c82c46c8e4d8edc302c2-1-160x227.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"160\" height=\"227\" srcset=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/23/2022/12/out-of-darkness_custom-fc6bb3f47feb57907f20c82c46c8e4d8edc302c2-1-160x227.jpg 160w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/23/2022/12/out-of-darkness_custom-fc6bb3f47feb57907f20c82c46c8e4d8edc302c2-1-800x1136.jpg 800w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/23/2022/12/out-of-darkness_custom-fc6bb3f47feb57907f20c82c46c8e4d8edc302c2-1-1020x1448.jpg 1020w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/23/2022/12/out-of-darkness_custom-fc6bb3f47feb57907f20c82c46c8e4d8edc302c2-1-768x1091.jpg 768w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/23/2022/12/out-of-darkness_custom-fc6bb3f47feb57907f20c82c46c8e4d8edc302c2-1-1082x1536.jpg 1082w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/23/2022/12/out-of-darkness_custom-fc6bb3f47feb57907f20c82c46c8e4d8edc302c2-1-1442x2048.jpg 1442w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/23/2022/12/out-of-darkness_custom-fc6bb3f47feb57907f20c82c46c8e4d8edc302c2-1.jpg 1745w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 160px) 100vw, 160px\">Out of Darkness\u003c/em>, like many works of literature, engages with all kinds of aspects of human experience. And as a literature professor myself, I can tell you that literature from the Bible to Chaucer to Shakespeare to Faulkner deals with difficult topics because those aspects of life are the materials literature... it's not to be provocative or to distress anyone, but because when we want to write about human experience honestly and completely, we have to include the pain of being a person. And so I think that \u003cem>Out of Darkness\u003c/em> is literature. And in many ways, what book banners in the present moment are suggesting is that literature that honestly engages human experience is somehow inappropriate for teenagers. And when we hear things like 'there is pornographic content in school libraries,' what we're really hearing is engagement with human experience, such as sexual experience — we're hearing that being portrayed as pornographic. But that's not that's not that's not true of \u003cem>Out of Darkness\u003c/em> or the other books that have been vilified in this movement any more than it's true of the Bible being pornographic because it has sexual content.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>On books about the past being resonant in the present \u003c/strong>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>With \u003cem>Out of Darkness\u003c/em> I was trying to do something a little bit different, which was to write the historical novel that readers like my students wouldn't be able to put down. A historical novel that, though being about the past, would seem powerfully resonant with their lives. In \u003cem>Out of Darkness\u003c/em>, for example, I engaged the histories of school segregation in Texas, not just the ways that schools were segregated to separate Black Americans and white American students, but also what happened to Mexican American kids or anyone who was didn't fit into those categories. Texas had \"Mexican schools\" that were unequal in different ways and in some ways more damaging. And my students didn't know that history. So I thought with \u003cem>Out of Darkness\u003c/em> about what my former students would want in a book about the past so that it would speak to them now. And a lot of what they wanted was honesty, not to see things sugarcoated or sanitized.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>On bans overwhelmingly targeting authors who are marginalized\u003c/strong>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>There will be people who buy the book because of hearing this interview. But for the hundreds of authors whose works have been banned but who haven't been interviewed on NPR, this can be career ending. I mean, losing access to school and library markets can be career ending for authors. And since these bans are overwhelmingly targeting people — authors of color and authors with other marginalized identities, this is a real threat to the modest progress we've made in diversifying children's literature and literature for young adults.\u003c/p>\n\u003chr>\n\u003cp>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cem>Claire Murashima produced the broadcast version of this story. Meghan Collins Sullivan edited this story for the web. \u003c/em>\u003c/p>\n\u003cdiv class=\"fullattribution\">Copyright 2022 NPR. To see more, visit https://www.npr.org.\u003cimg src=\"https://www.google-analytics.com/__utm.gif?utmac=UA-5828686-4&utmdt=Banned+Books%3A+Author+Ashley+Hope+P%C3%A9rez+on+finding+humanity+in+the+%27darkness%27&utme=8(APIKey)9(MDAxOTAwOTE4MDEyMTkxMDAzNjczZDljZA004)\">\u003c/div>\n\n","blocks":[],"excerpt":"Ashley Hope Pérez published \"Out of Darkness\" in 2015 to critical acclaim. 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She published \u003cem>Out of Darkness in\u003c/em> 2015, a year that invoked a national conversation surrounding issues of race, environmental racism, racialized violence and police brutality.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cem>Out of Darkness\u003c/em> is based on a true-events: In 1937, a natural gas explosion at a school in New London, Texas, killed nearly 300 students and teachers — one of the deadliest school disasters in U.S. history. This historical context is foregrounded by the fictional love story between an African American boy and a Mexican American girl. The characters cross color lines and navigate familial tensions and traumas.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The novel re-contextualizes contemporary issues of race, providing a historical framework in a not-so-post-racial America. After many years on bookshelves, in 2021 this frank portrayal earned the book a spot on the \u003ca href=\"https://www.npr.org/2022/04/04/1090067026/efforts-to-ban-books-jumped-an-unprecedented-four-fold-in-2021-ala-report-says\">American Library Association (ALA) Banned Book List\u003c/a> for \"depictions of abuse and because it was considered to be sexually explicit.\"\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003c/p>\u003c/div>","attributes":{"named":{},"numeric":[]}},{"type":"component","content":"","name":"ad","attributes":{"named":{"label":"fullwidth"},"numeric":["fullwidth"]}},{"type":"contentString","content":"\u003cdiv class=\"post-body\">\u003cp>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cem>The interview below has been edited for length and clarity. \u003c/em>\u003c/p>\n\u003chr>\n\u003ch3>\u003cstrong>Interview highlights\u003c/strong>\u003c/h3>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>On writing about the human experience, even the hard parts\u003c/strong>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cem>\u003cimg class=\"alignright wp-image-60734 size-thumbnail\" src=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/23/2022/12/out-of-darkness_custom-fc6bb3f47feb57907f20c82c46c8e4d8edc302c2-1-160x227.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"160\" height=\"227\" srcset=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/23/2022/12/out-of-darkness_custom-fc6bb3f47feb57907f20c82c46c8e4d8edc302c2-1-160x227.jpg 160w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/23/2022/12/out-of-darkness_custom-fc6bb3f47feb57907f20c82c46c8e4d8edc302c2-1-800x1136.jpg 800w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/23/2022/12/out-of-darkness_custom-fc6bb3f47feb57907f20c82c46c8e4d8edc302c2-1-1020x1448.jpg 1020w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/23/2022/12/out-of-darkness_custom-fc6bb3f47feb57907f20c82c46c8e4d8edc302c2-1-768x1091.jpg 768w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/23/2022/12/out-of-darkness_custom-fc6bb3f47feb57907f20c82c46c8e4d8edc302c2-1-1082x1536.jpg 1082w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/23/2022/12/out-of-darkness_custom-fc6bb3f47feb57907f20c82c46c8e4d8edc302c2-1-1442x2048.jpg 1442w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/23/2022/12/out-of-darkness_custom-fc6bb3f47feb57907f20c82c46c8e4d8edc302c2-1.jpg 1745w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 160px) 100vw, 160px\">Out of Darkness\u003c/em>, like many works of literature, engages with all kinds of aspects of human experience. And as a literature professor myself, I can tell you that literature from the Bible to Chaucer to Shakespeare to Faulkner deals with difficult topics because those aspects of life are the materials literature... it's not to be provocative or to distress anyone, but because when we want to write about human experience honestly and completely, we have to include the pain of being a person. And so I think that \u003cem>Out of Darkness\u003c/em> is literature. And in many ways, what book banners in the present moment are suggesting is that literature that honestly engages human experience is somehow inappropriate for teenagers. And when we hear things like 'there is pornographic content in school libraries,' what we're really hearing is engagement with human experience, such as sexual experience — we're hearing that being portrayed as pornographic. But that's not that's not that's not true of \u003cem>Out of Darkness\u003c/em> or the other books that have been vilified in this movement any more than it's true of the Bible being pornographic because it has sexual content.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>On books about the past being resonant in the present \u003c/strong>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>With \u003cem>Out of Darkness\u003c/em> I was trying to do something a little bit different, which was to write the historical novel that readers like my students wouldn't be able to put down. A historical novel that, though being about the past, would seem powerfully resonant with their lives. In \u003cem>Out of Darkness\u003c/em>, for example, I engaged the histories of school segregation in Texas, not just the ways that schools were segregated to separate Black Americans and white American students, but also what happened to Mexican American kids or anyone who was didn't fit into those categories. Texas had \"Mexican schools\" that were unequal in different ways and in some ways more damaging. And my students didn't know that history. So I thought with \u003cem>Out of Darkness\u003c/em> about what my former students would want in a book about the past so that it would speak to them now. And a lot of what they wanted was honesty, not to see things sugarcoated or sanitized.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>On bans overwhelmingly targeting authors who are marginalized\u003c/strong>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>There will be people who buy the book because of hearing this interview. But for the hundreds of authors whose works have been banned but who haven't been interviewed on NPR, this can be career ending. I mean, losing access to school and library markets can be career ending for authors. And since these bans are overwhelmingly targeting people — authors of color and authors with other marginalized identities, this is a real threat to the modest progress we've made in diversifying children's literature and literature for young adults.\u003c/p>\n\u003chr>\n\u003cp>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cem>Claire Murashima produced the broadcast version of this story. Meghan Collins Sullivan edited this story for the web. \u003c/em>\u003c/p>\n\u003cdiv class=\"fullattribution\">Copyright 2022 NPR. To see more, visit https://www.npr.org.\u003cimg src=\"https://www.google-analytics.com/__utm.gif?utmac=UA-5828686-4&utmdt=Banned+Books%3A+Author+Ashley+Hope+P%C3%A9rez+on+finding+humanity+in+the+%27darkness%27&utme=8(APIKey)9(MDAxOTAwOTE4MDEyMTkxMDAzNjczZDljZA004)\">\u003c/div>\n\n\u003c/div>\u003c/p>","attributes":{"named":{},"numeric":[]}}],"link":"/mindshift/60733/banned-books-author-ashley-hope-perez-on-writing-honest-history-in-ya-fiction","authors":["byline_mindshift_60733"],"categories":["mindshift_21445","mindshift_21517","mindshift_21014"],"tags":["mindshift_21519","mindshift_21516","mindshift_20997","mindshift_1013","mindshift_21397","mindshift_21158"],"featImg":"mindshift_60738","label":"mindshift"},"mindshift_60442":{"type":"posts","id":"mindshift_60442","meta":{"index":"posts_1591205157","site":"mindshift","id":"60442","score":null,"sort":[1669802424000]},"guestAuthors":[],"slug":"heres-how-these-colorado-students-learn-about-the-states-deadliest-day","title":"Here’s how these Colorado students learn about the state’s deadliest day","publishDate":1669802424,"format":"standard","headTitle":"MindShift | KQED News","labelTerm":{"site":"mindshift"},"content":"\u003cp>\u003cem>This story was \u003ca href=\"https://co.chalkbeat.org/2022/11/29/23483214/sand-creek-massacre-kiowa-high-school-coloradol-lessons-native-american-history\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"canonical noopener noreferrer\">originally published\u003c/a> by Chalkbeat. Sign up for their newsletters at \u003ca class=\"Link\" href=\"https://ckbe.at/newsletters\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">\u003cu>ckbe.at/newsletters\u003c/u>\u003c/a>\u003c/em>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Teacher Sarah Malerich read a letter to the students gathered in her history classroom in the southeastern Colorado town of Kiowa.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The eyewitness account described how U.S. soldiers attacked a peaceful creekside camp at daybreak, killing more than 230 Cheyenne and Arapaho villagers.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“It was hard to see little children on their knees have their brains beat out by men professing to be civilized,” Malerich said, quoting the letter.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Students murmured “oh my God” and “geez” as Malerich read about the atrocities — the most graphic of which she’d excised. In that moment, the horrors of the Sand Creek Massacre, which unfolded on Colorado’s Eastern Plains more than 150 years ago, became uncomfortably real.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>[ad fullwidth]\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“I’m so upset with history,” said Mariah Vigil-Gonzales, a 17-year-old junior at Kiowa High School. “I wish we had a time machine.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Other students quickly chimed in, imagining how they could change the events of that long-ago November day. A girl said, “Expose Chivington,” referring to the colonel who led the attack.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>So much about the classroom scene was unusual. Few Colorado students learn much about the Sand Creek Massacre — the deadliest day in Colorado history — and even fewer spend several days studying the topic \u003ca class=\"Link\" href=\"https://www.cpr.org/2021/09/30/colorado-students-arent-supposed-to-graduate-without-learning-about-indigenous-history-and-culture-are-they/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">as part of a Native American history class\u003c/a> as Malerich’s students did.\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure class=\"wp-caption alignright\" style=\"max-width: 840px\">\u003cimg src=\"https://chalkbeat.brightspotcdn.com/dims4/default/98653a5/2147483647/strip/true/crop/2400x3600+0+0/resize/840x1260!/quality/90/?url=https%3A%2F%2Fcdn.vox-cdn.com%2Fthumbor%2FQuJQdIwshUJKVrVweP-DG9pmk14%3D%2F0x0%3A2400x3600%2F2400x3600%2Ffilters%3Afocal%281200x1800%3A1201x1801%29%2Fcdn.vox-cdn.com%2Fuploads%2Fchorus_asset%2Ffile%2F24216772%2FColorado_20221121_SandCreek_GlennPayne_008.JPG\" alt=\"A man and a little girl in a pink dress walk through a museum exhibit\" width=\"840\" height=\"1260\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">Visitors at the opening of the Sand Creek Massacre exhibit at the History Colorado museum in Denver. | Carl Glenn Payne II for Chalkbeat\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>The new course is timely, coming as efforts to commemorate and elevate the Sand Creek Massacre are gaining steam across the state. Colorado’s history museum in Denver \u003ca class=\"Link\" href=\"https://www.historycolorado.org/exhibit/sand-creek-massacre-betrayal-changed-cheyenne-and-arapaho-people-forever\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">unveiled an exhibit on the massacre\u003c/a> this month, and earlier this fall, federal officials announced a major expansion of the \u003ca class=\"Link\" href=\"https://www.nps.gov/places/sand-creek-massacre-national-historic-site.htm\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">national historic site marking the massacre\u003c/a> — about a two-hour drive from Kiowa. In addition, \u003ca class=\"Link\" href=\"https://co.chalkbeat.org/2022/11/10/23452416/social-studies-standards-inclusive-pass-colorado-state-board-education-lgbtq-holocaust-race-ethnic\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">new social studies standards\u003c/a> include the Sand Creek Massacre on a list of genocides that Colorado students should study before graduation.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The Sand Creek Massacre occurred on Nov. 29, 1864, when U.S. troops attacked a camp of Native Americans who’d been assured by territorial officials that they’d be safe at that site. Many Cheyenne and Arapaho chiefs who’d sought peace with the U.S. government were among the murdered, upending the tribal power structure and fueling decades of war in the West.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“It’s a story that needs to be told. It’s a story that needs to be respected,” said Gail Ridgely, a Northern Arapaho tribal elder who lives on the Wind River Reservation in Wyoming.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Ridgely, who is the great-great-grandson of Little Raven, a \u003ca class=\"Link\" href=\"https://www.coloradovirtuallibrary.org/digital-colorado/colorado-histories/beginnings/chief-little-raven-peacemaker/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">peace chief \u003c/a>who survived the massacre, said the episode contributed to the displacement of the Cheyenne and Arapaho from their homeland in Colorado.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“After the massacre, we were hunted,” he said.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>It was only last year that the state \u003ca class=\"Link\" href=\"https://drive.google.com/file/d/1wfwd2woflVMtyPZOVSyArHMNzCnp0HTx/view\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">formally rescinded\u003c/a> the 1864 proclamation that allowed settlers to “kill and destroy” Native Americans and steal their property.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Malerich believes there’s lots of good things to highlight in American history, but that it’s important to teach about shameful episodes like the Sand Creek Massacre, too.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“What can we learn from that?” she said. “We can’t go back and save those peoples’ lives or anything, but what sort of ways can we kind of atone for that?”\u003c/p>\n\u003ch2>Mascot law begets new class\u003c/h2>\n\u003cp>Malerich’s Native American history class exists largely because of a \u003ca class=\"Link\" href=\"https://leg.colorado.gov/sites/default/files/2021a_116_signed.pdf\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">2021 state law banning Native American mascots\u003c/a> in Colorado schools — a measure lawmakers saw as a step toward “justice and healing to the descendants of the survivors of the Sand Creek Massacre, most notably the Cheyenne and Arapaho tribes.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure class=\"wp-caption alignleft\" style=\"max-width: 840px\">\u003cimg src=\"https://chalkbeat.brightspotcdn.com/dims4/default/70770ee/2147483647/strip/true/crop/2664x3790+0+0/resize/840x1195!/quality/90/?url=https%3A%2F%2Fcdn.vox-cdn.com%2Fthumbor%2FlB1l9URehdeEXnQPWQxc2UJloU8%3D%2F0x0%3A2664x3790%2F2664x3790%2Ffilters%3Afocal%281332x1895%3A1333x1896%29%2Fcdn.vox-cdn.com%2Fuploads%2Fchorus_asset%2Ffile%2F24235676%2FMany_leaders_died_panel.jpg\" alt=\"A museum panel describing how many Native American chiefs died in the Sand Creek Massacre.\" width=\"840\" height=\"1195\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">A panel at the new Sand Creek Massacre exhibit at the History Colorado museum in Denver. | Ann Schimke/Chalkbeat\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>Following the law’s passage, the 318-student Kiowa district, which is crisscrossed by streets with names like Ute Avenue and Comanche Street, sought to retain its Indians nickname. Leaders there asked the Kiowa Tribe of Oklahoma to approve continued use of the name and mascot, a scenario allowed under the law. The tribe \u003ca class=\"Link\" href=\"https://www.kiowaschool.org/files/user/3/file/21-22%20Board%20Packets/April%2019%2C%202022/18%20Memorandum%20of%20Understanding%20concerning%20Kiowa%20Schools_Ryland.pdf\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">agreed to the request\u003c/a>, updating a 2005 agreement, as long as the district met certain conditions, including providing “a curriculum that teaches American Indian History.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003ca class=\"Link\" href=\"https://www.cpr.org/2022/05/05/rural-strasburg-high-school-teaches-indigenous-traditions-from-northern-arapaho-tribe/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">Strasburg High School\u003c/a>, which also uses the Indians nickname, and Arapahoe High School in Centennial, which uses the Warriors nickname, have similar agreements with the Northern Arapaho tribe.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The agreement to keep the mascot was “a gigantic win for our community,” said Kiowa district Superintendent Travis Hargreaves. “Teachers are coming with more and more ideas of how we can honor that.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>One of those ideas was the new semester-long history course, which will be a graduation requirement for district students starting with the class of 2025. Malerich said she was excited to launch the class this fall, but also nervous because she wanted to do it justice and couldn’t find many resources designed for high school students.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Students started out by learning about the many tribes that have called Colorado home over the centuries, making maps outlining where each lived. They also discussed the culture and traditions of those tribes, and more broadly, the influence of Native Americans during colonial times and beyond.\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure class=\"wp-caption alignnone\" style=\"max-width: 840px\">\u003cimg src=\"https://chalkbeat.brightspotcdn.com/dims4/default/26d99ff/2147483647/strip/true/crop/4032x3024+0+0/resize/840x630!/quality/90/?url=https%3A%2F%2Fcdn.vox-cdn.com%2Fthumbor%2FxdiDzsnHcquC9bIE6YkD1S-zCYw%3D%2F0x0%3A4032x3024%2F4032x3024%2Ffilters%3Afocal%282016x1512%3A2017x1513%29%2Fcdn.vox-cdn.com%2Fuploads%2Fchorus_asset%2Ffile%2F24235500%2FKiowa_High_student_explains_during_class.jpg\" alt=\"A teenage students gestures as she talks with the teacher during a class discussion.\" width=\"840\" height=\"630\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">Brooke Mills, left, a junior at Kiowa High School, talks with teacher Sarah Malerich and classmates during an October lesson on the Sand Creek Massacre. | Ann Schimke/Chalkbeat\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>“It’s really cool to think about the roots of the land,” said ninth grader Alyssa Edwards, “like, what was here before.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Several of the 11 students in Malerich’s class — a typical class size at the rural high school — signed up for the new course because they wanted to, not because they had to.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Mariah, who started at Kiowa High this year, said her family is Apache, and she wanted to learn more Native American history. “There’s just a lot of Indians that came through Colorado and so it’s like, a lot of this originated here … and no one ever really talks about that.”\u003c/p>\n\u003ch2 id=\"uHAmwM\">Who learns about the Sand Creek Massacre?\u003c/h2>\n\u003cp>It’s not clear how many Colorado students learn about the Sand Creek Massacre at school — either during their Colorado history unit in fourth grade or any other time.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Representatives from the Colorado Council of Social Studies and the History Colorado museum in Denver, where the new Sand Creek exhibit opened earlier this month, both guessed the numbers are relatively small.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Hargreaves, who used to be a fourth grade teacher in the Cherry Creek district, said the textbook he used at the time included about a half page on the Sand Creek Massacre.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“It was about a day dedicated to it,” he said.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Malerich, who teaches in the same Kiowa High School history classroom where she once sat as a student, said her first distinct memories of learning about the massacre were not from school but from the TNT miniseries, “Into the West,” which she watched before sixth grade.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Some students in Malerich’s Native American history class said they’d learned a little about the Sand Creek Massacre in other classes. Others never had.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Josie Chang-Order, school programs manager at History Colorado, said there are no children’s books about the massacre and few materials designed for older students either.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“Teachers coming to Indigenous history when we ourselves didn’t get very much of it in schools is a huge challenge,” she said.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>She and other museum staff hope the new exhibit will help turn the tide. They’re creating special lessons for fourth- to 12-graders who take field trips to the exhibit and an online list of Sand Creek Massacre resources for educators.\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure class=\"wp-caption alignnone\" style=\"max-width: 840px\">\u003cimg src=\"https://chalkbeat.brightspotcdn.com/dims4/default/365dbeb/2147483647/strip/true/crop/3600x2400+0+0/resize/840x560!/quality/90/?url=https%3A%2F%2Fcdn.vox-cdn.com%2Fthumbor%2FTmnHX5PJ-vpJyg6EhB8Yep9x6BU%3D%2F0x0%3A3600x2400%2F3600x2400%2Ffilters%3Afocal%281800x1200%3A1801x1201%29%2Fcdn.vox-cdn.com%2Fuploads%2Fchorus_asset%2Ffile%2F24216765%2FColorado_20221121_SandCreek_GlennPayne_001.JPG\" alt=\"Two white teepees sit net to a stage during a public event marking the opening of a new exhibit.\" width=\"840\" height=\"560\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">The opening day of the Sand Creek Massacre exhibit at the History Colorado museum in Denver. | Carl Glenn Payne II for Chalkbeat\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>Elishama Goldfarb, whose class at Denver’s Lincoln Elementary includes fourth-, fifth-, and sixth-graders, covers the Sand Creek Massacre at least every three years, interspersing primary source accounts of the massacre with excerpts from a miniseries on Colorado history called “Centennial.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>He wants students to understand the massacre within the context of ongoing conflict, broken treaties, and mistrust between Native Americans and white settlers who wanted gold, land, or other resources.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Goldfarb, who plans to take his students to the new Sand Creek exhibit in January, also connects the prejudice that fueled the massacre to the human temptation to judge people or deem certain people superior to others.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>He wants to help students understand that “when we see each other as worthy of dignity and love and care,” horrific events like the Sand Creek Massacre don’t have to happen.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>History Colorado had a Sand Creek Massacre exhibit once before. It closed a decade ago after pressure from tribal leaders, who didn’t feel it accurately reflected their history.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“It was a fairytale, Barbie dolls, misprints,” Ridgely said.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>But the new Sand Creek Exhibit — subtitled “The betrayal that changed Cheyenne and Arapaho people forever” — has been done right, he said, with tribal leaders consulted extensively on the details.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“It’s a historic milestone for Colorado and it’s sacred,” he said. “Every time I go down to the museum, it’s a real good feeling because the victims are speaking.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The exhibit starts years before the massacre, grounding visitors in the tribes’ culture and way of life. Besides maps, timelines, and larger-than-life photos, the exhibit features oral histories from tribe members telling the stories of Sand Creek that have been passed down over generations. The exhibit incorporates Cheyenne and Arapaho language throughout.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Shannon Voirol, director of exhibit planning\u003cb> \u003c/b>at History Colorado, believes the new exhibit will help make the Sand Creek Massacre part of the state’s lexicon in the same way the museum’s Amache exhibit raised awareness about the southern Colorado camp where Japanese-Americans were imprisoned during World War II.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“More people now understand that we had Japanese internment camps in Colorado. We get more and more teachers asking about it. We get more students having some knowledge of it. It’s part of the canon as this will become,” she said, gesturing to the photos and artifacts, in the Sand Creek exhibit.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Ridgely, one of several tribe members who worked with museum officials on the exhibit thinks students will become more humble and respectful — “better citizens” — by learning about the Sand Creek Massacre.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>In October, Malerich began a series of lessons on the Sand Creek Massacre by discussing the history of the Cheyenne and Arapaho tribes — their traditions, language, and culture. During the third lesson, she and her students read five accounts of the massacre, including from Col. John Chivington; Silas Soule, an army captain who refused to fire on the Native Americans; and a survivor named Singing Under Water, whose oral account was written down by her grandson.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Malerich read aloud from Chivington’s 1865 testimony to Congress, which falsely portrayed the massacre as a battle where only a few women and no children were killed.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“I had no reason to believe that [Chief] Black Kettle and the Indians with him were in good faith at peace with the whites,” she read.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>But students were skeptical and indignant.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“Literally, [they] had the white flag up and the American flag up,” Mariah said of the tribes.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>She and her classmates concluded that Chivington knew the Arapaho and Cheyenne were camped peacefully but didn’t care. Other firsthand accounts didn’t support his claims, they said.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>After the lesson, Alyssa said knowing how and why the massacre happened might help prevent something similar from happening again.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“That was really inspirational,” responded Brooke Mills, a junior whose mother is partly descended from the Blackfoot tribe. “Like the saying that, if you don’t know your history, you’re doomed to repeat it. I feel like that’s a huge part of all of this, too.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003ci>Ann Schimke is a senior reporter at Chalkbeat, covering early childhood issues and early literacy. Contact Ann at aschimke@chalkbeat.org.\u003c/i>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>[ad floatright]\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cem>\u003ca href=\"https://co.chalkbeat.org/2022/11/29/23483214/sand-creek-massacre-kiowa-high-school-coloradol-lessons-native-american-history\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"canonical noopener noreferrer\">Chalkbeat\u003c/a> is a nonprofit news site covering educational change in public schools.\u003c/em>\u003c/p>\n\n","blocks":[],"excerpt":"In a new Native American history course, students in a Colorado school district learn about the cultures of the tribes that have called the land home over centuries. They also learn about the violence inflicted on them by U.S. soldiers.","status":"publish","parent":0,"modified":1669766886,"stats":{"hasAudio":false,"hasVideo":false,"hasChartOrMap":false,"iframeSrcs":[],"hasGoogleForm":false,"hasGallery":false,"hasHearkenModule":false,"hasPolis":false,"paragraphCount":58,"wordCount":2163},"headData":{"title":"Here’s how these Colorado students learn about the state’s deadliest day - MindShift","description":"Few students learn much about the Sand Creek Massacre. A new Native American history course is changing that.","ogTitle":"","ogDescription":"","ogImgId":"","twTitle":"","twDescription":"","twImgId":""},"disqusIdentifier":"60442 https://ww2.kqed.org/mindshift/?p=60442","disqusUrl":"https://ww2.kqed.org/mindshift/2022/11/30/heres-how-these-colorado-students-learn-about-the-states-deadliest-day/","disqusTitle":"Here’s how these Colorado students learn about the state’s deadliest day","nprByline":"Ann Schimke, \u003ca href=\"https://co.chalkbeat.org/\" target=\"_blank\">Chalkbeat Colorado\u003c/a>","excludeFromSiteSearch":"Include","showOnAuthorArchivePages":"No","path":"/mindshift/60442/heres-how-these-colorado-students-learn-about-the-states-deadliest-day","audioTrackLength":null,"parsedContent":[{"type":"contentString","content":"\u003cdiv class=\"post-body\">\u003cp>\u003cp>\u003cem>This story was \u003ca href=\"https://co.chalkbeat.org/2022/11/29/23483214/sand-creek-massacre-kiowa-high-school-coloradol-lessons-native-american-history\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"canonical noopener noreferrer\">originally published\u003c/a> by Chalkbeat. Sign up for their newsletters at \u003ca class=\"Link\" href=\"https://ckbe.at/newsletters\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">\u003cu>ckbe.at/newsletters\u003c/u>\u003c/a>\u003c/em>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Teacher Sarah Malerich read a letter to the students gathered in her history classroom in the southeastern Colorado town of Kiowa.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The eyewitness account described how U.S. soldiers attacked a peaceful creekside camp at daybreak, killing more than 230 Cheyenne and Arapaho villagers.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“It was hard to see little children on their knees have their brains beat out by men professing to be civilized,” Malerich said, quoting the letter.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Students murmured “oh my God” and “geez” as Malerich read about the atrocities — the most graphic of which she’d excised. In that moment, the horrors of the Sand Creek Massacre, which unfolded on Colorado’s Eastern Plains more than 150 years ago, became uncomfortably real.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003c/p>\u003c/div>","attributes":{"named":{},"numeric":[]}},{"type":"component","content":"","name":"ad","attributes":{"named":{"label":"fullwidth"},"numeric":["fullwidth"]}},{"type":"contentString","content":"\u003cdiv class=\"post-body\">\u003cp>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“I’m so upset with history,” said Mariah Vigil-Gonzales, a 17-year-old junior at Kiowa High School. “I wish we had a time machine.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Other students quickly chimed in, imagining how they could change the events of that long-ago November day. A girl said, “Expose Chivington,” referring to the colonel who led the attack.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>So much about the classroom scene was unusual. Few Colorado students learn much about the Sand Creek Massacre — the deadliest day in Colorado history — and even fewer spend several days studying the topic \u003ca class=\"Link\" href=\"https://www.cpr.org/2021/09/30/colorado-students-arent-supposed-to-graduate-without-learning-about-indigenous-history-and-culture-are-they/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">as part of a Native American history class\u003c/a> as Malerich’s students did.\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure class=\"wp-caption alignright\" style=\"max-width: 840px\">\u003cimg src=\"https://chalkbeat.brightspotcdn.com/dims4/default/98653a5/2147483647/strip/true/crop/2400x3600+0+0/resize/840x1260!/quality/90/?url=https%3A%2F%2Fcdn.vox-cdn.com%2Fthumbor%2FQuJQdIwshUJKVrVweP-DG9pmk14%3D%2F0x0%3A2400x3600%2F2400x3600%2Ffilters%3Afocal%281200x1800%3A1201x1801%29%2Fcdn.vox-cdn.com%2Fuploads%2Fchorus_asset%2Ffile%2F24216772%2FColorado_20221121_SandCreek_GlennPayne_008.JPG\" alt=\"A man and a little girl in a pink dress walk through a museum exhibit\" width=\"840\" height=\"1260\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">Visitors at the opening of the Sand Creek Massacre exhibit at the History Colorado museum in Denver. | Carl Glenn Payne II for Chalkbeat\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>The new course is timely, coming as efforts to commemorate and elevate the Sand Creek Massacre are gaining steam across the state. Colorado’s history museum in Denver \u003ca class=\"Link\" href=\"https://www.historycolorado.org/exhibit/sand-creek-massacre-betrayal-changed-cheyenne-and-arapaho-people-forever\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">unveiled an exhibit on the massacre\u003c/a> this month, and earlier this fall, federal officials announced a major expansion of the \u003ca class=\"Link\" href=\"https://www.nps.gov/places/sand-creek-massacre-national-historic-site.htm\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">national historic site marking the massacre\u003c/a> — about a two-hour drive from Kiowa. In addition, \u003ca class=\"Link\" href=\"https://co.chalkbeat.org/2022/11/10/23452416/social-studies-standards-inclusive-pass-colorado-state-board-education-lgbtq-holocaust-race-ethnic\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">new social studies standards\u003c/a> include the Sand Creek Massacre on a list of genocides that Colorado students should study before graduation.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The Sand Creek Massacre occurred on Nov. 29, 1864, when U.S. troops attacked a camp of Native Americans who’d been assured by territorial officials that they’d be safe at that site. Many Cheyenne and Arapaho chiefs who’d sought peace with the U.S. government were among the murdered, upending the tribal power structure and fueling decades of war in the West.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“It’s a story that needs to be told. It’s a story that needs to be respected,” said Gail Ridgely, a Northern Arapaho tribal elder who lives on the Wind River Reservation in Wyoming.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Ridgely, who is the great-great-grandson of Little Raven, a \u003ca class=\"Link\" href=\"https://www.coloradovirtuallibrary.org/digital-colorado/colorado-histories/beginnings/chief-little-raven-peacemaker/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">peace chief \u003c/a>who survived the massacre, said the episode contributed to the displacement of the Cheyenne and Arapaho from their homeland in Colorado.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“After the massacre, we were hunted,” he said.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>It was only last year that the state \u003ca class=\"Link\" href=\"https://drive.google.com/file/d/1wfwd2woflVMtyPZOVSyArHMNzCnp0HTx/view\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">formally rescinded\u003c/a> the 1864 proclamation that allowed settlers to “kill and destroy” Native Americans and steal their property.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Malerich believes there’s lots of good things to highlight in American history, but that it’s important to teach about shameful episodes like the Sand Creek Massacre, too.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“What can we learn from that?” she said. “We can’t go back and save those peoples’ lives or anything, but what sort of ways can we kind of atone for that?”\u003c/p>\n\u003ch2>Mascot law begets new class\u003c/h2>\n\u003cp>Malerich’s Native American history class exists largely because of a \u003ca class=\"Link\" href=\"https://leg.colorado.gov/sites/default/files/2021a_116_signed.pdf\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">2021 state law banning Native American mascots\u003c/a> in Colorado schools — a measure lawmakers saw as a step toward “justice and healing to the descendants of the survivors of the Sand Creek Massacre, most notably the Cheyenne and Arapaho tribes.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure class=\"wp-caption alignleft\" style=\"max-width: 840px\">\u003cimg src=\"https://chalkbeat.brightspotcdn.com/dims4/default/70770ee/2147483647/strip/true/crop/2664x3790+0+0/resize/840x1195!/quality/90/?url=https%3A%2F%2Fcdn.vox-cdn.com%2Fthumbor%2FlB1l9URehdeEXnQPWQxc2UJloU8%3D%2F0x0%3A2664x3790%2F2664x3790%2Ffilters%3Afocal%281332x1895%3A1333x1896%29%2Fcdn.vox-cdn.com%2Fuploads%2Fchorus_asset%2Ffile%2F24235676%2FMany_leaders_died_panel.jpg\" alt=\"A museum panel describing how many Native American chiefs died in the Sand Creek Massacre.\" width=\"840\" height=\"1195\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">A panel at the new Sand Creek Massacre exhibit at the History Colorado museum in Denver. | Ann Schimke/Chalkbeat\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>Following the law’s passage, the 318-student Kiowa district, which is crisscrossed by streets with names like Ute Avenue and Comanche Street, sought to retain its Indians nickname. Leaders there asked the Kiowa Tribe of Oklahoma to approve continued use of the name and mascot, a scenario allowed under the law. The tribe \u003ca class=\"Link\" href=\"https://www.kiowaschool.org/files/user/3/file/21-22%20Board%20Packets/April%2019%2C%202022/18%20Memorandum%20of%20Understanding%20concerning%20Kiowa%20Schools_Ryland.pdf\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">agreed to the request\u003c/a>, updating a 2005 agreement, as long as the district met certain conditions, including providing “a curriculum that teaches American Indian History.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003ca class=\"Link\" href=\"https://www.cpr.org/2022/05/05/rural-strasburg-high-school-teaches-indigenous-traditions-from-northern-arapaho-tribe/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">Strasburg High School\u003c/a>, which also uses the Indians nickname, and Arapahoe High School in Centennial, which uses the Warriors nickname, have similar agreements with the Northern Arapaho tribe.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The agreement to keep the mascot was “a gigantic win for our community,” said Kiowa district Superintendent Travis Hargreaves. “Teachers are coming with more and more ideas of how we can honor that.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>One of those ideas was the new semester-long history course, which will be a graduation requirement for district students starting with the class of 2025. Malerich said she was excited to launch the class this fall, but also nervous because she wanted to do it justice and couldn’t find many resources designed for high school students.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Students started out by learning about the many tribes that have called Colorado home over the centuries, making maps outlining where each lived. They also discussed the culture and traditions of those tribes, and more broadly, the influence of Native Americans during colonial times and beyond.\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure class=\"wp-caption alignnone\" style=\"max-width: 840px\">\u003cimg src=\"https://chalkbeat.brightspotcdn.com/dims4/default/26d99ff/2147483647/strip/true/crop/4032x3024+0+0/resize/840x630!/quality/90/?url=https%3A%2F%2Fcdn.vox-cdn.com%2Fthumbor%2FxdiDzsnHcquC9bIE6YkD1S-zCYw%3D%2F0x0%3A4032x3024%2F4032x3024%2Ffilters%3Afocal%282016x1512%3A2017x1513%29%2Fcdn.vox-cdn.com%2Fuploads%2Fchorus_asset%2Ffile%2F24235500%2FKiowa_High_student_explains_during_class.jpg\" alt=\"A teenage students gestures as she talks with the teacher during a class discussion.\" width=\"840\" height=\"630\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">Brooke Mills, left, a junior at Kiowa High School, talks with teacher Sarah Malerich and classmates during an October lesson on the Sand Creek Massacre. | Ann Schimke/Chalkbeat\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>“It’s really cool to think about the roots of the land,” said ninth grader Alyssa Edwards, “like, what was here before.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Several of the 11 students in Malerich’s class — a typical class size at the rural high school — signed up for the new course because they wanted to, not because they had to.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Mariah, who started at Kiowa High this year, said her family is Apache, and she wanted to learn more Native American history. “There’s just a lot of Indians that came through Colorado and so it’s like, a lot of this originated here … and no one ever really talks about that.”\u003c/p>\n\u003ch2 id=\"uHAmwM\">Who learns about the Sand Creek Massacre?\u003c/h2>\n\u003cp>It’s not clear how many Colorado students learn about the Sand Creek Massacre at school — either during their Colorado history unit in fourth grade or any other time.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Representatives from the Colorado Council of Social Studies and the History Colorado museum in Denver, where the new Sand Creek exhibit opened earlier this month, both guessed the numbers are relatively small.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Hargreaves, who used to be a fourth grade teacher in the Cherry Creek district, said the textbook he used at the time included about a half page on the Sand Creek Massacre.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“It was about a day dedicated to it,” he said.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Malerich, who teaches in the same Kiowa High School history classroom where she once sat as a student, said her first distinct memories of learning about the massacre were not from school but from the TNT miniseries, “Into the West,” which she watched before sixth grade.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Some students in Malerich’s Native American history class said they’d learned a little about the Sand Creek Massacre in other classes. Others never had.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Josie Chang-Order, school programs manager at History Colorado, said there are no children’s books about the massacre and few materials designed for older students either.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“Teachers coming to Indigenous history when we ourselves didn’t get very much of it in schools is a huge challenge,” she said.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>She and other museum staff hope the new exhibit will help turn the tide. They’re creating special lessons for fourth- to 12-graders who take field trips to the exhibit and an online list of Sand Creek Massacre resources for educators.\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure class=\"wp-caption alignnone\" style=\"max-width: 840px\">\u003cimg src=\"https://chalkbeat.brightspotcdn.com/dims4/default/365dbeb/2147483647/strip/true/crop/3600x2400+0+0/resize/840x560!/quality/90/?url=https%3A%2F%2Fcdn.vox-cdn.com%2Fthumbor%2FTmnHX5PJ-vpJyg6EhB8Yep9x6BU%3D%2F0x0%3A3600x2400%2F3600x2400%2Ffilters%3Afocal%281800x1200%3A1801x1201%29%2Fcdn.vox-cdn.com%2Fuploads%2Fchorus_asset%2Ffile%2F24216765%2FColorado_20221121_SandCreek_GlennPayne_001.JPG\" alt=\"Two white teepees sit net to a stage during a public event marking the opening of a new exhibit.\" width=\"840\" height=\"560\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">The opening day of the Sand Creek Massacre exhibit at the History Colorado museum in Denver. | Carl Glenn Payne II for Chalkbeat\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>Elishama Goldfarb, whose class at Denver’s Lincoln Elementary includes fourth-, fifth-, and sixth-graders, covers the Sand Creek Massacre at least every three years, interspersing primary source accounts of the massacre with excerpts from a miniseries on Colorado history called “Centennial.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>He wants students to understand the massacre within the context of ongoing conflict, broken treaties, and mistrust between Native Americans and white settlers who wanted gold, land, or other resources.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Goldfarb, who plans to take his students to the new Sand Creek exhibit in January, also connects the prejudice that fueled the massacre to the human temptation to judge people or deem certain people superior to others.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>He wants to help students understand that “when we see each other as worthy of dignity and love and care,” horrific events like the Sand Creek Massacre don’t have to happen.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>History Colorado had a Sand Creek Massacre exhibit once before. It closed a decade ago after pressure from tribal leaders, who didn’t feel it accurately reflected their history.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“It was a fairytale, Barbie dolls, misprints,” Ridgely said.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>But the new Sand Creek Exhibit — subtitled “The betrayal that changed Cheyenne and Arapaho people forever” — has been done right, he said, with tribal leaders consulted extensively on the details.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“It’s a historic milestone for Colorado and it’s sacred,” he said. “Every time I go down to the museum, it’s a real good feeling because the victims are speaking.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The exhibit starts years before the massacre, grounding visitors in the tribes’ culture and way of life. Besides maps, timelines, and larger-than-life photos, the exhibit features oral histories from tribe members telling the stories of Sand Creek that have been passed down over generations. The exhibit incorporates Cheyenne and Arapaho language throughout.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Shannon Voirol, director of exhibit planning\u003cb> \u003c/b>at History Colorado, believes the new exhibit will help make the Sand Creek Massacre part of the state’s lexicon in the same way the museum’s Amache exhibit raised awareness about the southern Colorado camp where Japanese-Americans were imprisoned during World War II.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“More people now understand that we had Japanese internment camps in Colorado. We get more and more teachers asking about it. We get more students having some knowledge of it. It’s part of the canon as this will become,” she said, gesturing to the photos and artifacts, in the Sand Creek exhibit.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Ridgely, one of several tribe members who worked with museum officials on the exhibit thinks students will become more humble and respectful — “better citizens” — by learning about the Sand Creek Massacre.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>In October, Malerich began a series of lessons on the Sand Creek Massacre by discussing the history of the Cheyenne and Arapaho tribes — their traditions, language, and culture. During the third lesson, she and her students read five accounts of the massacre, including from Col. John Chivington; Silas Soule, an army captain who refused to fire on the Native Americans; and a survivor named Singing Under Water, whose oral account was written down by her grandson.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Malerich read aloud from Chivington’s 1865 testimony to Congress, which falsely portrayed the massacre as a battle where only a few women and no children were killed.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“I had no reason to believe that [Chief] Black Kettle and the Indians with him were in good faith at peace with the whites,” she read.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>But students were skeptical and indignant.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“Literally, [they] had the white flag up and the American flag up,” Mariah said of the tribes.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>She and her classmates concluded that Chivington knew the Arapaho and Cheyenne were camped peacefully but didn’t care. Other firsthand accounts didn’t support his claims, they said.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>After the lesson, Alyssa said knowing how and why the massacre happened might help prevent something similar from happening again.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“That was really inspirational,” responded Brooke Mills, a junior whose mother is partly descended from the Blackfoot tribe. “Like the saying that, if you don’t know your history, you’re doomed to repeat it. I feel like that’s a huge part of all of this, too.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003ci>Ann Schimke is a senior reporter at Chalkbeat, covering early childhood issues and early literacy. Contact Ann at aschimke@chalkbeat.org.\u003c/i>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003c/p>\u003c/div>","attributes":{"named":{},"numeric":[]}},{"type":"component","content":"","name":"ad","attributes":{"named":{"label":"floatright"},"numeric":["floatright"]}},{"type":"contentString","content":"\u003cdiv class=\"post-body\">\u003cp>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cem>\u003ca href=\"https://co.chalkbeat.org/2022/11/29/23483214/sand-creek-massacre-kiowa-high-school-coloradol-lessons-native-american-history\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"canonical noopener noreferrer\">Chalkbeat\u003c/a> is a nonprofit news site covering educational change in public schools.\u003c/em>\u003c/p>\n\n\u003c/div>\u003c/p>","attributes":{"named":{},"numeric":[]}}],"link":"/mindshift/60442/heres-how-these-colorado-students-learn-about-the-states-deadliest-day","authors":["byline_mindshift_60442"],"categories":["mindshift_21357"],"tags":["mindshift_21496","mindshift_21495","mindshift_1013","mindshift_21497","mindshift_21025","mindshift_20615"],"featImg":"mindshift_60448","label":"mindshift"},"mindshift_57757":{"type":"posts","id":"mindshift_57757","meta":{"index":"posts_1591205157","site":"mindshift","id":"57757","score":null,"sort":[1620718972000]},"guestAuthors":[],"slug":"dr-sonja-cherry-paul-using-stamped-for-kids-to-have-age-appropriate-discussions-about-race","title":"Dr. Sonja Cherry-Paul: Using 'Stamped (For Kids)' to Have Age-Appropriate Discussions About Race","publishDate":1620718972,"format":"audio","headTitle":"Dr. Sonja Cherry-Paul: Using ‘Stamped (For Kids)’ to Have Age-Appropriate Discussions About Race | KQED","labelTerm":{"term":21847,"site":"mindshift"},"content":"\u003cp>\u003cspan style=\"font-weight: 400\">When you first hold “Stamped from the Beginning,” it’s heavy, even as a paperback. At almost 600 pages and dense with text, a person can tell at once that author Dr. Ibram X. Kendi wasn’t pulling any punches when he set out to write “The Definitive History of Racist Ideas in America.” “Stamped from the Beginning” has since been remixed as\u003c/span> \u003cspan style=\"font-weight: 400\">“\u003ca href=\"https://www.lbyr.com/titles/jason-reynolds/stamped-racism-antiracism-and-you/9780316453707/\">Stamped: Racism, Antiracism, and You\u003c/a>,” a version of the book that was re-written for teens by best-selling author \u003ca href=\"https://www.jasonwritesbooks.com/\">Jason Reynolds\u003c/a>. Now, we have “\u003ca href=\"https://www.lbyr.com/titles/jason-reynolds/stamped-for-kids/9780316167581/\">Stamped (For Kids): Racism, Antiracism, and You\u003c/a>,” an adaptation aimed at 7- to 12-year-olds. \u003c/span>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cspan style=\"font-weight: 400\">These youth-centered books about race\u003c/span> \u003cspan style=\"font-weight: 400\">do the research for teachers so they don’t have to spend huge amounts of time figuring out how to tackle units about American history and\u003c/span>\u003ca href=\"https://www.kqed.org/mindshift/54150/teaching-6-year-olds-about-privilege-and-power\">\u003cspan style=\"font-weight: 400\"> race in the classroom\u003c/span>\u003c/a>\u003cspan style=\"font-weight: 400\">, explains author \u003ca href=\"https://www.sonjacherrypaul.com/\">Dr. Sonja Cherry-Paul\u003c/a>. She is an educator and researcher who wrote “Stamped (For Kids)” as an adaptation of Kendi’s original book. She’s applying her 20 years of experience in middle school classrooms helping schools “shatter any kind of \u003c/span>\u003cspan style=\"font-weight: 400\">silence around race and \u003c/span>\u003cspan style=\"font-weight: 400\">racism.” \u003c/span>\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_57763\" class=\"wp-caption alignleft\" style=\"max-width: 195px\">\u003cimg decoding=\"async\" loading=\"lazy\" class=\"wp-image-57763 \" src=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/23/2021/04/STAMPED-Ch-5-.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"195\" height=\"197\" srcset=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/23/2021/04/STAMPED-Ch-5-.jpg 507w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/23/2021/04/STAMPED-Ch-5--160x161.jpg 160w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 195px) 100vw, 195px\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">(Rachelle Baker/ Little, Brown Books for Young Readers)\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>\u003cspan style=\"font-weight: 400\">With recent elections and a global pandemic, race is one of several real-world topics pressing for educators’ attention. In the aftermath of the widespread protests of George Floyd’s murder by a Minneapolis police officer, many institutions across the U.S. released statements against racism, often pledging to make strides to rectify wrongdoings and oversights. While the national reckoning around race feels relatively new, teachers have been wrestling with the best ways to teach about race and racism long before the summer of 2020. Fortunately, there are reliable ways to take on these topics. \u003c/span>\u003c/p>\n\u003ch2>\u003cb>Reckoning with conversations about race with kids\u003c/b>\u003c/h2>\n\u003cp>\u003cspan style=\"font-weight: 400\">Young children, especially children of color, perceive race a lot more than most people think. In fact, many kids are coming into schools already having experiences with racism, says \u003c/span>\u003cspan style=\"font-weight: 400\">Cherry-Paul, referring to the research that suggests initial \u003c/span>\u003ca href=\"https://www.utoronto.ca/news/racial-bias-may-begin-babies-six-months-u-t-research-reveals\">\u003cspan style=\"font-weight: 400\">awareness of race begins at six months of age\u003c/span>\u003c/a>\u003cspan style=\"font-weight: 400\">. While several research studies show that children recognize race at a young age, \u003c/span>\u003ca href=\"https://www.academia.edu/3094721/Children_Are_Not_Colorblind_How_Young_Children_Learn_Race\">\u003cspan style=\"font-weight: 400\"> Dr. Erin N. Winkler’s publications\u003c/span>\u003c/a>\u003cspan style=\"font-weight: 400\"> offer a digestible overview of how kids ages 3 to 5 years old use racial categories to make generalizations about behavior and express bias. Young children rely more on stereotyping because their cognitive abilities are usually not advanced enough to process multiple qualities at once. Additionally, Winkler’s research suggests children’s racial beliefs may not even be related to those of their parents, but instead reflect societal and social norms about how whiteness is normalized and privileged from books, songs and media. \u003c/span>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003ciframe loading=\"lazy\" title=\"Award-Winning PBS KIDS Talk About: Race & Racism | FULL EPISODE | PBS KIDS\" width=\"640\" height=\"360\" src=\"https://www.youtube.com/embed/_fbQBKwdWPg?feature=oembed\" frameborder=\"0\" allow=\"accelerometer; autoplay; clipboard-write; encrypted-media; gyroscope; picture-in-picture; web-share\" allowfullscreen>\u003c/iframe>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>[ad fullwidth]\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cspan style=\"font-weight: 400\">Although parents of color are more likely to have discussions about race with their children – since it is their lived experience – many\u003c/span>\u003cspan style=\"font-weight: 400\"> white caregivers and educators \u003ca href=\"https://www.sesameworkshop.org/what-we-do/research-and-innovation/sesame-workshop-identity-matters-study\">balk at the thought\u003c/a> of a conversation about race with elementary school age children,\u003c/span>\u003cspan style=\"font-weight: 400\"> even though research has shown children have already been processing race. Understandably, there are concerns about discouraging and disempowering young students with too much hard-to-process information. In response, Cherry-Paul says, “We often talk about the ways in which we want to educate kids so they become the change makers that our society needs. We can’t wait until they’re in high school for that to happen.” She notes psychologist Dr. Beverly Daniel Tatum’s research in her book about racial identity development “\u003ca href=\"https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/16280.Why_Are_All_The_Black_Kids_Sitting_Together_in_the_Cafeteria_\">Why are All the Black Kids Sitting Together in the Cafeteria?\u003c/a>” by remarking that children are better able to resist negative messages that are named and identifiable.\u003c/span>\u003c/p>\n\u003ch2>\u003cb>How parents, caregivers and educators equip themselves to guide conversations about race\u003c/b>\u003c/h2>\n\u003cp>\u003cspan style=\"font-weight: 400\">Like so many topics, caregivers and educators are entrusted with the\u003c/span>\u003ca href=\"https://www.npr.org/2019/04/24/716700866/talking-race-with-young-children\">\u003cspan style=\"font-weight: 400\"> tough task of figuring out what is age-appropriate.\u003c/span>\u003c/a>\u003cspan style=\"font-weight: 400\"> But when it comes to race and racism, many may find themselves dodging the topic altogether to avoid saying the wrong thing or feeling uncomfortable. However, according to Cherry-Paul, these conversations are worth having and they’re critical for adults to embrace.\u003c/span>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003ci>\u003cspan style=\"font-weight: 400\">“\u003c/span>\u003c/i>\u003cspan style=\"font-weight: 400\">What we need them to do is lean into those discomforts to reckon with the unsettling truths of race and racism in the United States and then to acquire racial literacy themselves and then to teach it to kids,” she says. Not teaching about race at all does a lot of harm to young students of color particularly because children experiencing racial bias and discrimination will try to fill in the gaps about their experiences without the right context and framing. Denying racism can make people feel gaslit.\u003c/span>\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_57764\" class=\"wp-caption alignright\" style=\"max-width: 215px\">\u003cimg decoding=\"async\" loading=\"lazy\" class=\" wp-image-57764\" src=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/23/2021/04/STAMPED-Ch-7-Sojourner-Truth.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"215\" height=\"235\" srcset=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/23/2021/04/STAMPED-Ch-7-Sojourner-Truth.jpg 492w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/23/2021/04/STAMPED-Ch-7-Sojourner-Truth-160x175.jpg 160w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 215px) 100vw, 215px\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">(Rachelle Baker/ Little, Brown Books for Young Readers)\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>\u003cspan style=\"font-weight: 400\">Racism is systemic, but too often people focus on racist acts of individuals, which can obscure larger issues at work. “What we need to do is shift to systems to help kids understand that there is a legacy of systems treating people unfairly, and giving them examples of that across time so that they can understand how we got here,” says Cherry-Paul. She also notes that books like “Stamped (For Kids)” or Reynolds and Kendi’s “Stamped: Racism, Antiracism, and You” can help teachers avoid teaching about racism as isolated incidents. “One of the most powerful things we can do is help young kids understand that we’re not just talking about name calling or unkindness that happens between individuals.” \u003c/span>\u003c/p>\n\u003ch2>\u003cb>How to “adapt” content for kids \u003c/b>\u003c/h2>\n\u003cp>\u003cspan style=\"font-weight: 400\">After creating a digestible way to have conversations about race and racism, Cherry-Paul shared a few ways to take into account kids’ developmental stage and cognitive ability when discussing tough topics.\u003c/span>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>Leave some things out\u003c/strong>\u003cspan style=\"font-weight: 400\">\u003cstrong>.\u003c/strong> Cherry-Paul approached adapting “Stamped: Racism, Antiracism, and You” with the nervousness many parents and educators feel when trying to convey a complicated topic to a young child. Her biggest challenge: how does one decide what to take out, and how do those decisions impact students’ understanding? She had to make difficult decisions when tailoring “Stamped (For Kids)” for young learners. “Reworking Jason’s writing and my own writing again and again was totally intimidating. Here’s this magnificent, powerful writing and I’m like, ‘This has to go. This has to go differently because an eight or a nine year old is not necessarily going to get it in this way.’” \u003c/span>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003c!-- iframe plugin v.4.3 wordpress.org/plugins/iframe/ -->\u003cbr>\n\u003ciframe loading=\"lazy\" frameborder=\"0\" height=\"200\" scrolling=\"no\" src=\"https://playlist.megaphone.fm?e=KQINC1225566275\" width=\"100%\" class=\"iframe-class\">\u003c/iframe>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cspan style=\"font-weight: 400\">Considering youth development and cognitive capability, broad strokes of nuanced ideas will do the trick for young learners. Instead of focusing on small details, concentrate on big picture ideas and how to stoke sustainable interest. \u003c/span>\u003ci>\u003cspan style=\"font-weight: 400\">“\u003c/span>\u003c/i>\u003cspan style=\"font-weight: 400\">I just had to remind myself that ‘Stamped (For Kids)’ is a start and not an end to the kind of reading that students should have access to across their lives about race and racism. And if I’ve done my job well, they’ll want to read more,\u003c/span>\u003ci>\u003cspan style=\"font-weight: 400\">” \u003c/span>\u003c/i>\u003cspan style=\"font-weight: 400\">says Cherry-Paul.\u003c/span>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>Take breaks\u003c/strong>\u003cspan style=\"font-weight: 400\">\u003cstrong>.\u003c/strong> Those who have had the pleasure of reading Kendi and Reynolds’ “Stamped: Racism, Antiracism, and You” are familiar with “time-outs” and “time-ins.” They’re opportunities for readers to take breaks after reading heavier content. “In ‘Stamped (For Kids),’ there are more moments for kids to do that, more moments for kids to pause and then unpause as we keep going,” she explains. Instead of powering through pages, she urges educators to anticipate moments when kids are going to need a break to process what they just read and give young learners ample time to absorb new information.\u003c/span>\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_57762\" class=\"wp-caption alignleft\" style=\"max-width: 192px\">\u003cimg decoding=\"async\" loading=\"lazy\" class=\"wp-image-57762 \" src=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/23/2021/04/STAMPED-Ch-7-Frederick-Douglass.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"192\" height=\"210\" srcset=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/23/2021/04/STAMPED-Ch-7-Frederick-Douglass.jpg 492w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/23/2021/04/STAMPED-Ch-7-Frederick-Douglass-160x175.jpg 160w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 192px) 100vw, 192px\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">(Rachelle Baker/ Little, Brown Books for Young Readers)\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>Remind, re-emphasize and reiterate important information.\u003c/strong> \u003cspan style=\"font-weight: 400\">Seek out moments to check for comprehension with reminders. Cherry-Paul tried to foresee where there might be some confusion and would prepare comparisons or new ways to explain the information. One technique she relies on is reminding kids about earlier ideas, which also helps string historical events together into a cohesive story that young learners are more likely to understand. \u003c/span>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>[ad floatright]\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cspan style=\"font-weight: 400\">“We have to find ways to talk about complex topics so we can help young learners make sense of the world that they live in. The truth is the truth, and children deserve the truth, and children want the truth and children can handle the truth,” says Cherry-Paul, referencing a quote from children’s literature author \u003c/span>\u003ca href=\"https://cbweatherford.com/\">\u003cspan style=\"font-weight: 400\">Carole Boston Weatherford\u003c/span>\u003c/a>\u003cspan style=\"font-weight: 400\">. The hope is that all of the children we nurture will be \u003c/span>\u003ca href=\"https://www.kqed.org/mindshift/57152/every-kid-is-motivated-action-oriented-ideas-to-revive-students-curiosity\">\u003cspan style=\"font-weight: 400\">equipped to express curiosity\u003c/span>\u003c/a>\u003cspan style=\"font-weight: 400\">, challenge when appropriate, and imagine new and better worlds. \u003c/span>\u003c/p>\n\n","blocks":[],"excerpt":"For parents and teachers looking for a resource on how to talk about race with kids, there's a new book called \"Stamped (For Kids): Racism, Antiracism, and You.\" It's written by educator Dr. Sonja Cherry Paul and is for 7 to 12 year old children. This book is an adaptation of Dr. Ibram X. 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Kendi wasn’t pulling any punches when he set out to write “The Definitive History of Racist Ideas in America.” “Stamped from the Beginning” has since been remixed as\u003c/span> \u003cspan style=\"font-weight: 400\">“\u003ca href=\"https://www.lbyr.com/titles/jason-reynolds/stamped-racism-antiracism-and-you/9780316453707/\">Stamped: Racism, Antiracism, and You\u003c/a>,” a version of the book that was re-written for teens by best-selling author \u003ca href=\"https://www.jasonwritesbooks.com/\">Jason Reynolds\u003c/a>. Now, we have “\u003ca href=\"https://www.lbyr.com/titles/jason-reynolds/stamped-for-kids/9780316167581/\">Stamped (For Kids): Racism, Antiracism, and You\u003c/a>,” an adaptation aimed at 7- to 12-year-olds. \u003c/span>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cspan style=\"font-weight: 400\">These youth-centered books about race\u003c/span> \u003cspan style=\"font-weight: 400\">do the research for teachers so they don’t have to spend huge amounts of time figuring out how to tackle units about American history and\u003c/span>\u003ca href=\"https://www.kqed.org/mindshift/54150/teaching-6-year-olds-about-privilege-and-power\">\u003cspan style=\"font-weight: 400\"> race in the classroom\u003c/span>\u003c/a>\u003cspan style=\"font-weight: 400\">, explains author \u003ca href=\"https://www.sonjacherrypaul.com/\">Dr. Sonja Cherry-Paul\u003c/a>. She is an educator and researcher who wrote “Stamped (For Kids)” as an adaptation of Kendi’s original book. She’s applying her 20 years of experience in middle school classrooms helping schools “shatter any kind of \u003c/span>\u003cspan style=\"font-weight: 400\">silence around race and \u003c/span>\u003cspan style=\"font-weight: 400\">racism.” \u003c/span>\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_57763\" class=\"wp-caption alignleft\" style=\"max-width: 195px\">\u003cimg decoding=\"async\" loading=\"lazy\" class=\"wp-image-57763 \" src=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/23/2021/04/STAMPED-Ch-5-.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"195\" height=\"197\" srcset=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/23/2021/04/STAMPED-Ch-5-.jpg 507w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/23/2021/04/STAMPED-Ch-5--160x161.jpg 160w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 195px) 100vw, 195px\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">(Rachelle Baker/ Little, Brown Books for Young Readers)\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>\u003cspan style=\"font-weight: 400\">With recent elections and a global pandemic, race is one of several real-world topics pressing for educators’ attention. In the aftermath of the widespread protests of George Floyd’s murder by a Minneapolis police officer, many institutions across the U.S. released statements against racism, often pledging to make strides to rectify wrongdoings and oversights. While the national reckoning around race feels relatively new, teachers have been wrestling with the best ways to teach about race and racism long before the summer of 2020. Fortunately, there are reliable ways to take on these topics. \u003c/span>\u003c/p>\n\u003ch2>\u003cb>Reckoning with conversations about race with kids\u003c/b>\u003c/h2>\n\u003cp>\u003cspan style=\"font-weight: 400\">Young children, especially children of color, perceive race a lot more than most people think. In fact, many kids are coming into schools already having experiences with racism, says \u003c/span>\u003cspan style=\"font-weight: 400\">Cherry-Paul, referring to the research that suggests initial \u003c/span>\u003ca href=\"https://www.utoronto.ca/news/racial-bias-may-begin-babies-six-months-u-t-research-reveals\">\u003cspan style=\"font-weight: 400\">awareness of race begins at six months of age\u003c/span>\u003c/a>\u003cspan style=\"font-weight: 400\">. While several research studies show that children recognize race at a young age, \u003c/span>\u003ca href=\"https://www.academia.edu/3094721/Children_Are_Not_Colorblind_How_Young_Children_Learn_Race\">\u003cspan style=\"font-weight: 400\"> Dr. Erin N. Winkler’s publications\u003c/span>\u003c/a>\u003cspan style=\"font-weight: 400\"> offer a digestible overview of how kids ages 3 to 5 years old use racial categories to make generalizations about behavior and express bias. Young children rely more on stereotyping because their cognitive abilities are usually not advanced enough to process multiple qualities at once. Additionally, Winkler’s research suggests children’s racial beliefs may not even be related to those of their parents, but instead reflect societal and social norms about how whiteness is normalized and privileged from books, songs and media. \u003c/span>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003ciframe loading=\"lazy\" title=\"Award-Winning PBS KIDS Talk About: Race & Racism | FULL EPISODE | PBS KIDS\" width=\"640\" height=\"360\" src=\"https://www.youtube.com/embed/_fbQBKwdWPg?feature=oembed\" frameborder=\"0\" allow=\"accelerometer; autoplay; clipboard-write; encrypted-media; gyroscope; picture-in-picture; web-share\" allowfullscreen>\u003c/iframe>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003c/p>\u003c/div>","attributes":{"named":{},"numeric":[]}},{"type":"component","content":"","name":"ad","attributes":{"named":{"label":"fullwidth"},"numeric":["fullwidth"]}},{"type":"contentString","content":"\u003cdiv class=\"post-body\">\u003cp>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cspan style=\"font-weight: 400\">Although parents of color are more likely to have discussions about race with their children – since it is their lived experience – many\u003c/span>\u003cspan style=\"font-weight: 400\"> white caregivers and educators \u003ca href=\"https://www.sesameworkshop.org/what-we-do/research-and-innovation/sesame-workshop-identity-matters-study\">balk at the thought\u003c/a> of a conversation about race with elementary school age children,\u003c/span>\u003cspan style=\"font-weight: 400\"> even though research has shown children have already been processing race. Understandably, there are concerns about discouraging and disempowering young students with too much hard-to-process information. In response, Cherry-Paul says, “We often talk about the ways in which we want to educate kids so they become the change makers that our society needs. We can’t wait until they’re in high school for that to happen.” She notes psychologist Dr. Beverly Daniel Tatum’s research in her book about racial identity development “\u003ca href=\"https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/16280.Why_Are_All_The_Black_Kids_Sitting_Together_in_the_Cafeteria_\">Why are All the Black Kids Sitting Together in the Cafeteria?\u003c/a>” by remarking that children are better able to resist negative messages that are named and identifiable.\u003c/span>\u003c/p>\n\u003ch2>\u003cb>How parents, caregivers and educators equip themselves to guide conversations about race\u003c/b>\u003c/h2>\n\u003cp>\u003cspan style=\"font-weight: 400\">Like so many topics, caregivers and educators are entrusted with the\u003c/span>\u003ca href=\"https://www.npr.org/2019/04/24/716700866/talking-race-with-young-children\">\u003cspan style=\"font-weight: 400\"> tough task of figuring out what is age-appropriate.\u003c/span>\u003c/a>\u003cspan style=\"font-weight: 400\"> But when it comes to race and racism, many may find themselves dodging the topic altogether to avoid saying the wrong thing or feeling uncomfortable. However, according to Cherry-Paul, these conversations are worth having and they’re critical for adults to embrace.\u003c/span>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003ci>\u003cspan style=\"font-weight: 400\">“\u003c/span>\u003c/i>\u003cspan style=\"font-weight: 400\">What we need them to do is lean into those discomforts to reckon with the unsettling truths of race and racism in the United States and then to acquire racial literacy themselves and then to teach it to kids,” she says. Not teaching about race at all does a lot of harm to young students of color particularly because children experiencing racial bias and discrimination will try to fill in the gaps about their experiences without the right context and framing. Denying racism can make people feel gaslit.\u003c/span>\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_57764\" class=\"wp-caption alignright\" style=\"max-width: 215px\">\u003cimg decoding=\"async\" loading=\"lazy\" class=\" wp-image-57764\" src=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/23/2021/04/STAMPED-Ch-7-Sojourner-Truth.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"215\" height=\"235\" srcset=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/23/2021/04/STAMPED-Ch-7-Sojourner-Truth.jpg 492w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/23/2021/04/STAMPED-Ch-7-Sojourner-Truth-160x175.jpg 160w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 215px) 100vw, 215px\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">(Rachelle Baker/ Little, Brown Books for Young Readers)\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>\u003cspan style=\"font-weight: 400\">Racism is systemic, but too often people focus on racist acts of individuals, which can obscure larger issues at work. “What we need to do is shift to systems to help kids understand that there is a legacy of systems treating people unfairly, and giving them examples of that across time so that they can understand how we got here,” says Cherry-Paul. She also notes that books like “Stamped (For Kids)” or Reynolds and Kendi’s “Stamped: Racism, Antiracism, and You” can help teachers avoid teaching about racism as isolated incidents. “One of the most powerful things we can do is help young kids understand that we’re not just talking about name calling or unkindness that happens between individuals.” \u003c/span>\u003c/p>\n\u003ch2>\u003cb>How to “adapt” content for kids \u003c/b>\u003c/h2>\n\u003cp>\u003cspan style=\"font-weight: 400\">After creating a digestible way to have conversations about race and racism, Cherry-Paul shared a few ways to take into account kids’ developmental stage and cognitive ability when discussing tough topics.\u003c/span>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>Leave some things out\u003c/strong>\u003cspan style=\"font-weight: 400\">\u003cstrong>.\u003c/strong> Cherry-Paul approached adapting “Stamped: Racism, Antiracism, and You” with the nervousness many parents and educators feel when trying to convey a complicated topic to a young child. Her biggest challenge: how does one decide what to take out, and how do those decisions impact students’ understanding? She had to make difficult decisions when tailoring “Stamped (For Kids)” for young learners. “Reworking Jason’s writing and my own writing again and again was totally intimidating. Here’s this magnificent, powerful writing and I’m like, ‘This has to go. This has to go differently because an eight or a nine year old is not necessarily going to get it in this way.’” \u003c/span>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003c!-- iframe plugin v.4.3 wordpress.org/plugins/iframe/ -->\u003cbr>\n\u003ciframe loading=\"lazy\" frameborder=\"0\" height=\"200\" scrolling=\"no\" src=\"https://playlist.megaphone.fm?e=KQINC1225566275\" width=\"100%\" class=\"iframe-class\">\u003c/iframe>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cspan style=\"font-weight: 400\">Considering youth development and cognitive capability, broad strokes of nuanced ideas will do the trick for young learners. Instead of focusing on small details, concentrate on big picture ideas and how to stoke sustainable interest. \u003c/span>\u003ci>\u003cspan style=\"font-weight: 400\">“\u003c/span>\u003c/i>\u003cspan style=\"font-weight: 400\">I just had to remind myself that ‘Stamped (For Kids)’ is a start and not an end to the kind of reading that students should have access to across their lives about race and racism. And if I’ve done my job well, they’ll want to read more,\u003c/span>\u003ci>\u003cspan style=\"font-weight: 400\">” \u003c/span>\u003c/i>\u003cspan style=\"font-weight: 400\">says Cherry-Paul.\u003c/span>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>Take breaks\u003c/strong>\u003cspan style=\"font-weight: 400\">\u003cstrong>.\u003c/strong> Those who have had the pleasure of reading Kendi and Reynolds’ “Stamped: Racism, Antiracism, and You” are familiar with “time-outs” and “time-ins.” They’re opportunities for readers to take breaks after reading heavier content. “In ‘Stamped (For Kids),’ there are more moments for kids to do that, more moments for kids to pause and then unpause as we keep going,” she explains. Instead of powering through pages, she urges educators to anticipate moments when kids are going to need a break to process what they just read and give young learners ample time to absorb new information.\u003c/span>\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_57762\" class=\"wp-caption alignleft\" style=\"max-width: 192px\">\u003cimg decoding=\"async\" loading=\"lazy\" class=\"wp-image-57762 \" src=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/23/2021/04/STAMPED-Ch-7-Frederick-Douglass.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"192\" height=\"210\" srcset=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/23/2021/04/STAMPED-Ch-7-Frederick-Douglass.jpg 492w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/23/2021/04/STAMPED-Ch-7-Frederick-Douglass-160x175.jpg 160w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 192px) 100vw, 192px\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">(Rachelle Baker/ Little, Brown Books for Young Readers)\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>Remind, re-emphasize and reiterate important information.\u003c/strong> \u003cspan style=\"font-weight: 400\">Seek out moments to check for comprehension with reminders. Cherry-Paul tried to foresee where there might be some confusion and would prepare comparisons or new ways to explain the information. One technique she relies on is reminding kids about earlier ideas, which also helps string historical events together into a cohesive story that young learners are more likely to understand. \u003c/span>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003c/p>\u003c/div>","attributes":{"named":{},"numeric":[]}},{"type":"component","content":"","name":"ad","attributes":{"named":{"label":"floatright"},"numeric":["floatright"]}},{"type":"contentString","content":"\u003cdiv class=\"post-body\">\u003cp>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cspan style=\"font-weight: 400\">“We have to find ways to talk about complex topics so we can help young learners make sense of the world that they live in. The truth is the truth, and children deserve the truth, and children want the truth and children can handle the truth,” says Cherry-Paul, referencing a quote from children’s literature author \u003c/span>\u003ca href=\"https://cbweatherford.com/\">\u003cspan style=\"font-weight: 400\">Carole Boston Weatherford\u003c/span>\u003c/a>\u003cspan style=\"font-weight: 400\">. 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