Equity & Diversity Guidance Documents

• Supporting Students and Staff Observing Ramadan (2022)

Links to Resources:

• Recording: LGBTQIA+ Pride Book Talk (6/8/21)

• Padlet: Book Talk List for Secondary Literature

• Book List Links:

  • ALA Rainbow Book List
  • Stonewall Award
  • Lambda Literary Awards
  • ADL Book List: LGBTQ People & Homophobia/Heterosexism
  • NCTE Post: Building an inclusive, thematic library of LGBTQ+ literature

Links to Resources:

• Recording: Standing Up to Anti-Asian Hate Webinar

• Recording: AAPI Heritage Book Talk

• Padlet Book List: AAPI Heritage Book Talk

Links to Resources:

• Recording: An Overview of Ramadan Webinar

• Understanding Muslim Students, Fostering an Inclusive Environment Workshop Materials

• Islamic Networks Group (ING): Educating for Cultural Literacy and Mutual Respect 

Links to Women’s History Month Resources:

• Recording: Women/Girls of Color Book Talk

• Book List (Padlet): Women/Girls of Color Book Talk

Links to Black History Month Resources:

• Recording: Black History Month Book Talk

• Book List: Black History Month Book Talk

• Recording: Black History Month Community Webinar

Hair Love is a 2019 American animated short film directed by Matthew A. Cherry, Everett Downing Jr., and Bruce W. Smith, and written by Cherry.

It follows the story of a man who must do his daughter’s hair for the first time, and it features Issa Rae as a voice of the mother.

Link to the short clip

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=kNw8V_Fkw28

Link to where you could find the book

https://www.amazon.com/Hair-Love-Matthew-Cherry/dp/0525553363

Links to Sikh Heritage Month Resources:

• Recording: Sikh Heritage Community Webinar

Hispanic/Latinx Heritage Month (Sept 15-Oct 15)

• Hispanic Heritage Community Webinar Recording: Teatro, the Chicano Movement, and Activism (10/6/20)

• Hispanic Heritage Book Talk Recording (10/13/20)

• Hispanic Heritage Book Talk Reading List