Acknowledgements

These curated resources are a combination of our research, suggestions from webinars and other professional development, and the hard work of other ABAR educators who were already working to provide resources. We gratefully acknowledge their influence, contributions, and guidance as we collected and curated materials for this toolkit. Further, the writings in this toolkit are based in learnings from Lorena Germán’s “The Anti-Racist Teacher: Reading Instruction Workbook."

We also wish to recognize and thank Conscious Roots for the justice and equity-centered professional development sessions they created for us on how to build inclusive professional learning communities.

Special acknowledgement to the Lloyd A. Fry Foundation and Teach Plus Illinois, as well as the following:

Abolitionist Teaching Network

Amy L. Eva

BARWE (Building AntiRacist White Educators)

Britt Hawthorne

Chicago Public Schools

Clare de Leon

Deborah Menhart

Facing History and Ourselves

Josh Kaufmann

Keisha Rembert

Liberate & Chill

Lit C.I.R.C.L.E.

Liz Kleinrock

Lorena Germán

National Council of Teachers of English

NNSTOY

Paul Gorski

Learning for Justice

Tierionna Pinkston

Zinn Education Project