Episode 20: Making Social Justice Action Visible at Your School
Social Justice is a commitment to challenge cultural, social, and economic inequality. Social Justice impacts everyone. Learning about all races, religions, and identities helps students and their communities embrace differences and be more inclusive. In this episode The Creativity Department speaks with Barbara Libby-Steinmann and Anna Rochester about why making Social Justice Action visible in your school and community is vitally important. Discover how the need to connect and understand and one idea sparked school and community-wide action to help students explore their concepts of identity, build empathy, and understand Social Justice in non-confrontational and enriching ways.
Resources
Use the following links to access resources shared by Barbara Libby-Steinmann (@BacichArt4Bears) and Anna Rochester (@RochesterAnna) during their Twitter chat and podcast discussion.
Read the Twitter Chat discussion.
Sites
Community Arts Kitchen
Community Arts Kitchen Activities on YouTube
Community Arts Kitchen Facebook
Exploratorium
Angélica Dass’s Humanae project, an internationally acclaimed project about reflections on skin color
Bacich Elementary Art Blog
Books
The Skin You Live In Readalong with author Michel Tyler
Purchase The Skin You Live In
Social Justice Standards on Learning for Justice Website
Six Elements of Social Justice
Lessons
SchoolArts magazine Community Issue – September 2020
SchoolArts magazine Compassion Issue – January 2021