Lower School Social Justice & AntiRacism Scope and Sequence 2020-2021 School Year
Overview Four Philosophical Pillars
Objectives
• I feel positive about my own identity.
• To share stories of joy as well as struggle about a multitude of identities in age-appropriate ways.
• I feel positive identities.
about
others’
• I can see and name injustice. • I want to end injustice.
Teacher Essential Questions • Does this serve every child? • Am I specifically making sure my BIPOC students are being honored? • What are the Quaker testimonies that are reflected in this topic?
Affinity Groups Students in grades 2-5 have the option to attend the following affinity groups, led by school leaders: • Students of Color • Allies and Upstanders
• For every child to have ‘mirrors and windows’ (Rudine Sims Bishop) in texts. • For students to have words to respectfully communicate about identities and justice.
Cyclical Curriculum By teaching weekly from a shared bank of terms, ideas, and curated texts, students see that educators all share the same goals and gain cultural competency through long term practice. Concepts and ideas are cyclical and built upon during subsequent grades.
Quaker Link AFSC-Quaker Testimonies Quaker Testimonies & Social Justice Standards
By Grade Nursery
Pre-Primary
Kindergarten
Identity: Who am I?
Identity: Who am I? (Par t 2)
Identity: Who is My Family
Hair color and texture
Gender: how you feel about yourself and
Skin tone Likes and Dislikes Self-love Sample books (this list is not exhaustive) Hair Love
what you want people to call you (girl, boy, neither, both, other). in your skin comes from melanin. Almost everyone has some, some people have lots.
Family: the people close to you who love and care for you. Some examples are 2 moms, 2 dads, single parent, grandparents, blended family, adopted children.
Consent: asking for permission to cross
Choice: when you get to make a decision
Skin Tone: how much brown you have
someone’s personal bubble of space.
between different things.
Difference: when two things are not the
Stereotype: a guess you make about someone just by looking at them on the outside.
Shades of People
same.
It’s Okay to be Different
Similarity: something that is the same for
I Am Enough
Race: a way people are grouped by looking at things like hair, skin color, eye shape.
two objects or people.
Power: the ability to get what you want or make others do what you want.
Sample books (this list is not exhaustive) Sulwe
Sample books (this list is not exhaustive)
C is for Consent
What Can You Do With a Paleta?
Morris Micklewhite and the Tangerine Dress
And Tango Makes Three
I’m Your Peanut Butter Big Brother
First Grade
Second Grade
Third Grade
Identity: How Do I Fit Into My Community?
My Communities, Nearby Communities, and Power
How Do We Fit into the World? Who Holds Power?
Community: a group of people that work together for the same goal.
Ally: someone who asks what you need
when you have a problem and then helps you get it.
Service: when you help someone get what they need.
Consensus: when a group of people decide together using everyone’s ideas.
Assumption: an idea you have without getting all the information first, an unchecked guess. Privilege: something good or special some people have that others don’t get.
Justice: fairness, when everyone gets what they need.
Bias: to unfairly favor one group over another.
Religion: groups that help their followers
Perspective: a particular way of looking
find meaning in the world, sometimes related to worship a god or gods.
Community: a group of people that
work together for the same goal.
at or thinking about something.
Assumption: something you believe is true without proof or confirmation.
Ally: someone who asks what you need
Oppression: when a person or group of
when you have a problem and then helps you get it.
people are treated unjustly or cruelly by others with more power.
Stereotype: believing that all people in a certain group are the same, OR that you can tell something about a person just by looking on their outside.
Intersectionality: different parts of a person’s identity can affect their treatment in society.
Indigenous: a person whose ancestors were the first people ever to live in that area.
Sample books (this list is not exhaustive) This Book is Anti-Racist Not My Idea: A Book About Whiteness
Sample books (this list is not exhaustive) Chocolate Milk, Por Favor: Celebrating Diversity with Empathy
Sample books (this list is not exhaustive)
Race Cars
The Garden of Happiness
Sometimes People March Hands Up!
Young Water Protectors: A Story About Standing Rock
The Breaking News The One Day House
Speak Up! We Are Water Protectors A Scarf for Keiko
Fourth Grade
Fifth Grade
Identity: A Lens to Understand Others
Human Rights and Making Change
Class: the amount of resources someone has or seems to have, related to money and their education.
Segregation: separating groups of people so they have different
Gender / Gender Identity: how you feet about yourself (she,
Civil Disobedience: disobeying a law in a non-violent way to
Bias: to unfairly favor one group over another.
Social Justice: the idea that every person should have equal
he, both, neither).
Omission: someone or something that has been left out; the people
whose voices are not heard.
access to resources and experiences. send a message.
opportunities, such as going to school, getting food, living in a healthy community.
Perspective: a particular way of looking at or thinking about
Agency: your power to make effective change and your ability to
Indigenous: the first humans ever to live in a particular area of the
White Supremacy: the belief that white people are superior
something.
planet, and their ancestors.
Equity: everyone gets what they need to succeed, which is not necessarily the same thing for each person.
Intolerance: lack of respect for ideas that are different from your
own.
make choices and decisions.
to those who are Black, Brown, Indigenous, and Folx of the Global Majority because they are white.
Sample books (this list is not exhaustive) Malala’s Magic Pencil The Youngest Marcher
Sample books (this list is not exhaustive)
When Jackie and Hank Met
I Am Not A Number
That’s Not Fair! / ¡No Es Justo!
The People Shall Continue
Wangari’s Tree of Peace
Malala: Activist for Girls’ Education
This Book is Anti-Racist
Sit In: How Four Friends Stood Up By Sitting Down My name is Jorge on Both Sides of the River