Audience: Educator
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Talking With Children About Racism, Police Brutality And Protests
Article to help parents speak with their children about racism and current events
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Children And Racism
Facts for Families: Tips for parents on how to talk to children about racism
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The Sikh Coalition Website
Community, classroom and anti-racism resources to support and promote Sikh inclusion
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Support AAPI Educators And Students
Resources across the spectrum to support AAPI educators and students
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Asian American K-12 Education Curriculum
Through relevant and engaging lesson plans and activities, the resources developed will seek to inspire a deeper understanding of the history, current experience, and future trajectory of our nation’s fastest-growing demographic group. Important content and themes explored in the series will be used to teach concepts while meeting national content standards.
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Interpreter of Maladies
This short story collection by Jhumpa Lahiri is great for high school students and adults. Her stories talk about emotional journeys of characters seeking love beyond the barriers of nations and generations. In stories that travel from India to America and back again, Lahiri speaks with universal eloquence to everyone who has ever felt like…
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11 Resources for Teaching About AAPI Experiences
Check out the following resources from a host of cultural institutions including the Wing Luke Museum of the Asian American Experience, Japanese American National Museum, Smithsonian Institution, and California Museum to expand your pool of classroom offerings on the historical and contemporary experiences of AAPI peoples.
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Asia for Educators
East Asia history and resources for curriculum-building
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Learning Together Through Reflections on the 9/11 Anniversary
This year marks the 20th anniversary of the attacks on September 11, 2001. As we reflect on this time together, the Smithsonian Asian Pacific American Center is pleased to present new Learning Together resources about this anniversary, including two new videos in the We Are Not A Stereotype: Breaking down Asian Pacific American bias series.
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Lesson Plans: Untold Civil Rights Stories Online
Lesson plans for the following: George Takei: Leading Man, APPI Women Voices: Untold Stories Through Poetry; Freeing Ourselves From Prison Sweatshops: Thai Garment Workers Speak Out; United Farm Workers Movement: Philip Vera Cruz, Unsung Hero; Vincent Chin – Lily Chin: The Courage to Speak Out; A Family Educates to Prevent Hate Crimes: The Case of…
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K-12 Asian American Curriculum – Professional Development Workshops
Access to the following workshops: Citizenship, Civil Rights, Elementary Education, Identity, Immigration, Racism, South Asian Americans, Stand Against Hatred
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Teaching About Anti-Asian Racism and Xenophobia
There are an abundance of resources available for educators to use to talk in their classroom about anti-Asian racism and xenophobia. The majority of resources below discuss how the coronavirus has fueled racism against Asian Americans, but there is plenty of helpful information for teaching your students about this topic generally.