Educational Resources for Secondary Students and Families About Race and Racism

The Bellevue School District encourages discussions about race and racism at home with your children. Provided here are some resources that will support and encourage discussions about race and racism for middle and high school students. While there are many more resources out there, these can get discussions started. These resources provided below should support these valuable discussions.

• Equity Advisory Group
• Equity and Accountability Policy

Book Resources for Secondary

• The Hate U Give – Angie Thomas
• Separate is Never Equal: Sylvia Mendez and Her Family’s Fight for Desegregation – Duncan Tonatiuh
• This Book is Anti-Racist – Tiffany Jewell
• Stamped: Racism, Anti-Racism, and You – Jason Reynolds, Ibram X. Kendi
• March – John Lewis, Andrew Aydin, Nate Powell
• Black Enough (compilation of stories from youth about their experiences being black in American) – Edited by Ibi Zoboi

Online Resources to Help Families Talk About Race

• Your Kids Aren’t Too Young to Talk About Race: Resource Roundup (Pretty Good Design) 
• The Conscious Kid – Parenting and Education through a Critical Race Lens
• How to Talk to Your Kids About Anti-Racism: A List of Resources (PBS SOCAL)
• Talking to Young children About Race and Racism (PBS Kids for Parents)
• Beyond the Golden Rule – A Parent’s Guide to Preventing and Responding to Prejudice (A Teaching Tolerance Publication)
• Parents Need to Have Honest Conversations With Kids About Race and Racism, Starting Very Early (Good Housekeeping) 
• Talking to Kids About Race (National Geographic)
• Twelve Books to Help Children Understand Race, Anti-Racism and Protest (Smithsonian Magazine)