Equity Resource Library

Students in the grades are participating in story times & child-centered discussions led by faculty.  The story time topics include themes that reflect the various lenses that JeffCo Public Schools uses to support student and community engagement. These story times are being developed, along with resources for our school’s families and professional development for our faculty and staff.

The resources on this page are intended to support and supplement the equity story times that are held at MPCS.

Gender

• 8 Tips to Practice Gender Forward Parenting
• What is Gender?
• Talking to Young Kids About Gender
• “I Am Jazz” Event Book List for  2020

Race

I humbly do not know about any of this, and am ready to start learning.

• White Fragility: Why Its So Hard for White People to Talk About Racism (DiAngelo)
• So You Want to Talk About Race (Oluo)
• 1619 (New York Times) podcast – start here if overwhelmed
• Culturally Responsive Teaching and the Brain (Hammond)
• Unlocking Us with Brené Brown – podcast “conversations that unlock the deeply human part of who we are, so that we can live, love, parent, and lead with more courage and heart.”

I am a feminist but don’t really understand intersectionality.

• Me and White Supremacy (Saad)
• Eloquent Rage: A Black Feminist Discovers Her Superpower (Cooper)
• Hood Feminism: Notes From the Women that a Movement Forgot by Mikki Kendall

I am white, but walk my path as an ally to support dismantling systemic biases.

• How To Be Antiracist (Kendi)
• The Next American Revolution: Sustainable Activism for the Twenty First Century (Boggs)

I (or my loved ones) experience systemic biases based on race.

• Sister Outsider (Lorde)
• The Bridge Called My Back: Writings by Radical Women of Color (Moraga)
• Restorative Yoga for Ethnic and Race-based Stress and Trauma (Dr. Gail Parker)

I involve my kids in activist actions and I want to do a cluster with them and other families.

• Stamped (Reynolds and kendi) *tweens/teens
• This Book is Anti-Racist (Jewell) *Montessori author
• Not My Idea: A Book About Whiteness (Higgenbotham) *younger kids
• The Color of Law: A Forgotten history of How Our Government Segregated America by Richard Rothstein