We have classroom-ready resources to help you teach Anti-Bias Education with film in schools, homeschooling, professional development, community education and other settings. These materials can help you boost cultural competence, reduce implicit and explicit bias, and broaden empathy and understanding in your learning environment.
Teach Anti-Bias Education with Film: Instructional Foundations
Anti-Bias Education Webinar
Our teacher training webinar about Anti-Bias Education: Using Media to Foster Critical Thinking and Combat Antisemitism and Islamophobia provides an overview of anti-bias teaching tools and strategies for dealing with difficult classroom situations around these topics. While the primary focus of this webinar is Antisemitism and Islamophobia, it is presented in a framework that educators may find helpful for a broad range of specific Anti-Bias Education topics. This webinar is available free and on-demand through Share My Lesson. Participants can quality for one hour of PD credit.
▶ Learn more about our Anti-Bias Education Webinar.
Facilitation Guidelines for Group Discussions
We also offer Facilitation Guidelines to create safe discussion spaces and lead productive explorations of difficult topics. The guidelines apply to a wide range of settings beyond the classroom and are useful for teaching Anti-Bias Education.
▶ Learn more about teaching with the Group Discussion Facilitation Guidelines.
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Media Literacy for Broadening Perspectives
Our Windows and Mirrors media literacy activity encourages learners to engage with a balanced variety of text and media perspectives. The activity also builds belonging and class community by expanding students’ understanding of people in their classroom and the broader world. For all ages.
▶ Learn more about teaching with Windows and Mirrors.
Teach Anti-Bias Education with Film: Recommended Films & Resources
Teach Anti-Bias Education with Film: Combating Antisemitism
Check out our collection of Anti-Bias Education Resources for Combating Antisemitism. For grades 6-12, adult/higher ed.
Teach Anti-Bias Education with Film: Disability Equity
Check out our resources for teaching about Disability and Disability Equity:
- Facilitation Guidelines for Talking about Disability, for all ages.
- Crip Camp: A Disability Revolution (Disability History, Disability Justice, Disability Rights, with multiple representations of disability), for grades 9-12, adult/higher ed.
- Gabby Giffords Won’t Back Down (aphasia/dysphasia, traumatic brain injury [TBI]), for grades 7-12, adult/higher ed.
- Like Stars on Earth (dyslexia/learning disabilities), for grades 3-12, adult/higher ed.
- The Power of Sports for Amputees (amputees, accessibility, inclusion), for grades 7-12, adult/higher ed.
- The Way Home (non-speaking [formerly mutism]), for grades 4-12.
Teach Anti-Bias Education with Film: Gender Equity
Check out our resources for teaching about Gender Equity and Women’s History, for grades 4-12, adult/higher ed.
Teach Anti-Bias Education with Film: Indigenous Peoples
Check out our resources for teaching about World Indigenous Peoples, for grades 5-12, adult/higher ed.
Teach Anti-Bias Education with Film: Combating Islamophobia
Check out our collection of Anti-Bias Education Resources for Combating Islamophobia. For grades 5-12, adult/higher ed.
Teach Anti-Bias Education with Film: LGBTQIA Equity
We recommend:
- The It Gets Better Project’s Finding Pride, for grades 8-12, adult/higher ed.
- My Music with Rhiannon Giddens, hosted by Rhiannon Giddens (lesbian) and featuring Mazz Swift (non-binary) in Episode 3, for grades 6-12, adult/higher ed.
- Resisterhood, featuring LGBTQ activist Joanna Lohman, for grades 10-12, adult/higher ed.
Teach Anti-Bias Education with Film: Immigrants & Refugees
Teaching about immigrants, refugees and displaced persons? Check out our collection of migrant stories.
Teach Anti-Bias Education with Film: Racial Equity
Check out our Black History Collection, for grades 4-12, adult/higher ed.
Teach Anti-Bias Education with Film: World Religions
Check out our resources for teaching with Religions from Around the World, for grades 4-12, adult/higher ed.
Anti-Bias Education Resources: Important Dates
Teachers may want to teach Anti-Bias Education lessons on these important dates:
- March 1 – Zero Discrimination Day
- Nov. 14 – International Day for Tolerance
- Dec. 9 – International Day of Commemoration and Dignity of the Victims of the Crime of Genocide and of the Prevention of this Crime
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