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Since the Summer of Hate, when white supremacists marched on campus, professors at the Curry School of Education have been thinking about how to promote unity through classroom conversations.
“We wanted to do something to respond to these events as educators, says Professor Derrick Alridge, an expert on African American history. We came up with the idea of developing a curriculum that would challenge this history of great white men.”
They started working on lesson plans that teachers could download from a website with materials suited to every age group according to Professor Johari Harris
“There wasn’t a large body of work really focused on the developmental science of how kids think about the issues that have emerged in history, she recalls. How does a kindergartener, versus a middle schooler, versus a high schooler think about issues of racism and issues of discrimination?”