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Diversity Resources

At EACMSI, we strive to create a community that affirms each individual’s identity.

Diversity Resources For Parents

100 RACE-CONSCIOUS THINGS YOU CAN SAY TO YOUR CHILD TO ADVANCE RACIAL JUSTICE
via Raising Race Conscious Kids

Teaching Tolerance: How white parents should talk to their young kids about race by Melinda Wenner Moyer

Even Babies Discriminate article by Po Bronson and Ashley Merryman

A Resource for Talking About Race with Young Children from Raising Race Conscious Children

Talking to Children about Racism & Diversity from the Leadership Conference, the nation’s premier civil and human rights coalition

Recommended Reading List; AWARE-LA recommended reading list from Alliance of Anti-Racists Everywhere

How silence can breed prejudice: A child development professor explains how and why to talk to kids about race, published by The Washington Post on July 6, 2015

It’s My Job to Raise Children Who Are Not Only Not Racist But Actively Anti-Racist, published by Huffington Post on July 1, 2015

The Hard Talk: White Parents Discussing Racism with White Children, published in Uprooting Criminology on June 20, 2015

Faculty/Staff DEI Training

Summer Work 2021

 

EACMSI faculty, staff and administration participated in a workshop with Rosetta Lee discussing a variety of topics, including cross cultural communication, identity development, and implicit and unconscious bias. Each staff member read “Stamped (For Kids): Racism, Antiracism and You” by Jason Reynolds in preparation for our end of summer Staff Development retreat. 

 

Summer Work 2019

Each member of the faculty, staff and administration participated in small group discussions and curriculum development based on our reading of, “Whistling Vivaldi, how stereotypes affect us and what we can do”, by Claude M. Steele.

 

Summer Work 2018

Each member of the faculty, staff and administration participated in small group discussions and curriculum development based on their choice from the following resources:

Professional Development Resources Used by EACMSI Faculty/Staff: