Stand Against Racism
Summer 2020
Message from your LW Racial Equity Team
The LW Racial Equity Team wanted to take some time to share some resources with all of you for your own personal development during the summer. As educators, it simply does not feel right to stay silent. Conversations and personal learning need to happen and information must be shared. Lives depend on it. We must acknowledge and speak out against all of the atrocities that continue to happen to black and brown people in our country.
It is our immense privilege and paramount obligation to be teachers to our students. We need to be the example for our students and families. Thus we need to be brave and talk about historical and current brutalities of institutional racism that exists in our world. We urge you take some time to dive into the resources we have provided for you all. Make a commitment to read or watch something about how you can help end white supremacy. Diversify your social media accounts by following a person who navigates this world in an oppressed body and be open to listening and learning. Talk to your family and friends about privilege. Call out racism when you see it, even if it is hard or scary. Think about donating to organizations that are making a difference in the fight for equality.
-LW Racial Equity Team
LW Racial Equity Team Mission
The Lake Washington High School Racial Equity team will implement and provide a safe equitable educational environment for racial minority groups to address and eliminate institutional racism to reduce the racial achievement gap and decolonize curriculum to advance racial equity school-wide.
We have multiple focus groups within the team:
- Safety
- Discipline
- Curriculum
- Grading
- Differentiation including AP/Sped/ELL
- Professional Development
- Student Outreach
- Parent Outreach
- District/Community Outreach
What you can do...
People and Organizations to Follow on Social Media
- Desiree Adaway
- Rachel Cargle
- Austin Channing Brown
- Christian Fabien
- Erica Hines
- Ibram X. Kendi
- Nikkita Oliver
- Ijeoma Oluo
- Brittany Packnett Cunningham
- Sonya Renee Taylor
- The Conscious Kid
- ACLU
- Audre Lorde Project
- Black Lives Matter
- Equal Justice Initiative
Movies to Watch
- 13th (streaming on Netflix)
- Do the Right Thing (available to rent online)
- Dear White People (available through RedBox or to rent online)
- The Hate You Give (streaming on HBO)
- I Am Not Your Negro (streaming on Prime Video and Hoopla)
- Just Mercy (streaming on Prime Video)
- The Last Black Man in San Francisco (streaming on Prime Video)
- When They See Us (streaming on Netflix)
- Whose Streets? (streaming on Hulu)
If you have Netflix, check out the Black Lives Matter section
Organizations to Donate to Support Black Lives
Support Black Businesses
Young Adult Books to Read
Adult Books to Read
1. So You Want to Talk About Race? by Ijeoma Oluo
2. White Fragility by Robin DiAngelo
4. The Body is Not an Apology by Sonya Renee Taylor
5. The New Jim Crow: Mass Incarceration in the Age of Colorblindness by Michelle Alexander
6. Waking Up White by Debby Irving
7. Raising White Kids by Jennifer Harvey
8. How to be Anti-Racist by Ibram Kendi
9. The Color of Law by Richard Rothstein