Resources from the Equity Literacy Institute
Free and Low-Cost Self-Paced Mini-Courses from the Equity Learning Institute
- Understanding Equity and Inequity (or, What the Heck-uity is Equity?) – FREE
- An Introduction to Equity Literacy – FREE
- Ditching Deficit Ideology: The First Step toward Embracing Equity
Free Downloadable Handouts and Resources from EdChange and the Equity Literacy Institute
Feel free to download, copy, and distribute these handouts. No special permission is needed.
- Equity Literacy: Definition and Abilities
- Basic Principles of Equity Literacy
- Equity Literacy: Principles on Students Experiencing Poverty
- Ten Commitments for Equity-Literate Educators
- Five Approaches to Equity: Toward a Transformative Orientation
- The Trouble with Grit
- Five Paradigm Shifts for Equitable Educators
- Paradigm Adjustments for Well-Intended White Educators
- Teacher Activist Collectives (find educators doing good work in your region)
- Taco Night (a brief satirical essay on the trouble with “celebrating diversity”)
Find more free handouts and resources here.
Download our articles for free here.
More Equity Resources from EdChange
Items from EdChange or the Multicultural Pavilion can be used, copied, and distributed without permission. For other items, please follow whatever instructions are provided on the web sites where they are found.
- Awareness Activities from the Multicultural Pavilion
- Equity Awareness Quizzes from the Multicultural Pavilion
- Equity Case Studies from Paul Gorski and Seema Pothini
- Social Justice Song Index from SoJust and EdChange
Fabulous Equity Resources from Other Organizations
- Calling Out Ableism from the Invisible Disability Project
- Classroom Resources from Teaching Tolerance
- Curricula from NYCoRE
- EdLib Lab – database of liberatory educational materials from Education for Liberation Network
- Educator Resources from GLSEN
- Lesson Plans from the Freire Project
- Lessons & Resources from Teaching for Change
- The Red Folder – a short video by Ben Kallam
- Revolutionizing the Classroom from NYCoRE
- Training Guides from United for a Fair Economy
- Zinn Education Project from Rethinking Schools and Teaching for Change
Our Favorite Equity Web Sites
- Chicago Grassroots Curriculum
- EdChange
- Education for Liberation Network
- EduColor
- Free Minds Free People
- The Freire Project
- GLSEN
- International Association for Intercultural Education
- Invisible Disability Project
- Minnesota-NAME
- Multicultural Pavilion
- National Association for Multicultural Education
- New York Collective of Radical Educators
- Northwest Teachers for Social Justice
- Rethinking Schools
- Science Educators for Equity, Diversity, and Social Justice
- Teachers for Social Justice – Chicago
- Teaching Economics as though People Mattered
- Teaching for Change
- Teaching Social Justice Resource Exchange (Facebook Group)
- Teaching Tolerance
- United for a Fair Economy