Becoming a Change Agent for Equity

At this time, when the racial injustice that has always been woven into the United States’ culture and economic system rears up and inspires all of us to help make change, I invite you to consider taking some of the following steps to use your privilege for action and social change, starting in your classroom, school or district. You don’t need to do all of these, but please do something. As Martin Luther King Jr said, “Our lives begin to end the day we become silent about the things that matter.”

Educate yourself - Educate your students - Listen to people of color - Talk with others - Donate to the cause - Protest

In this video, Sarah shares key anti-bias, anti-racist resources for educators in connection to her ongoing journey as a change agent for equity.

Featured Resources from Confianza and our Collaborators

• Identifying Our Circle of Influence as Change Agents for Equity, Language and Literacy

• Microaggressions: The New Hate Language

• Hate and Bias at School: What Happens Now

• Taking a Schoolwide Approach for Supporting English Learners

• We Must Always Look Inward

• Closing the Gap for ELLs Through Social Justice Education

• Honoring Students' Stories: Identity Texts to Write and Diverse Texts to Read

• Teaching Black Lives Matter from Teaching Tolerance

• Approaches to Equity: Towards Transformation from Equity Literacy Institute

Featured Services from Confianza

• Social Justice Education for EL Teachers and Leaders online course

• Change Agents for Equity, Language and Literacy Program

• ELL Summer Institute

• The Language Lens for Content Classrooms Guidebook and Related Resources