About This Webinar
Our school children need access to culturally diverse curricula and materials – windows and mirrors for our nation’s increasingly diverse student body – and to learn the full and accurate history and current realities of racism in our nation, so they can work to end racism. Some states and districts have made strides in that direction in recent years. However, many states and localities, rather than moving toward culturally-affirming, truthful education, are succumbing to growing efforts to squash diverse, anti-racism education in schools around the country – called “anti-Critical Race Theory” or “anti-CRT” efforts. These efforts began gaining momentum in Spring 2021 and have since been metastasizing in states and districts across the nation. These efforts are continuing to spread, with 2022 state legislative sessions as a focal point. How can educator voices be elevated in these discussions, to ensure educators can teach -- and students can learn -- the truth about racism in the past and present, to become the change agents our nation needs to combat racism in the future? Join the Education Civil Rights Alliance and the National Center for Youth Law for specific tools and advice for educators to speak out in favor of teaching the truth about racism.