Antiracism Front Desk Front Desk [https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/36127488-front-desk?from_search=true&from_srp=true&qid=8gCCUiQfWT&rank=1\] , by Kelly Yang, tells the story of ten year old Mia, a Chinese immigrant
Antiracism Prairie Lotus Prairie Lotus, written by Linda Sue Park, tells the story of Hanna, a girl who is half-Chinese and living on the American frontier in 1880. Hanna and her father settle in LaForge, hoping
Antiracism So You Want to Talk About Race So You Want to Talk About Race [https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/53249847-so-you-want-to-talk-about-race], written by Ijeoma Oluo, offers knowledge and tools to help people engage in conversations about race. Oluo teaches about
Antiracism New Kid and Not Talking About Race This year, I was able to teach my identity literature circle [https://teacherbees.ca/identity-literature-circle/] for the first time. Having put together the text sets before going on parental leave, I was excited
Education The Skin We're In/Policing Black Lives Counter-stories are important. Counter-storytelling is defined by Solórzano and Yosso as "a method of telling the stories of those people whose experiences are not often told (i.e. those on the margins of
Literature Circle Piecing Me Together Piecing Me Together [https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/25566675-piecing-me-together?ac=1&from_search=true&qid=T5AcnMoIGn&rank=1] , by Renée Watson, is a young adult novel that examines issues of race, privilege
Education A Mind Spread Out on the Ground When I write about books under the Education [https://teacherbees.ca/tag/education/] tag on my blog, I aim to recommend books I think teachers should read. Often I think these books give
Education Repeating the Mistakes of Underground to Canada: Examining my own Biases While I was in middle school, I only read one novel with Black characters for language arts class: Underground to Canada. This novel told the story of four Black people escaping from slavery
Young Adult Books Black Lives Matter Black Lives Matter. Some people view this as a controversial statement. It shouldn't be. Black people in Canada experience systemic racism [https://www.thestar.com/news/gta/2020/06/01/racism-exists-in-canada-these-are-the-stories-from-people-who-have-lived-it-as-eyes-turn-on-us-after-george-floyd-death-in-minneapolis.html] . It
Middle Grade Books Stamped: Racism, Antiracism, and You Stamped: Racism, Antiracism, and You [https://teacherbees.ca/this-place-150-years-retold/] is a remix of Ibram X. Kendi's book Stamped from the Beginning. Jason Reynolds, an acclaimed author for young people, remixes the content to
Education How to Be an Antiracist How to Be an Antiracist [https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/40265832-how-to-be-an-antiracist], by Ibram X. Kendi, is an essential book for people who want to better understand how racism is embedded in our
Education White Fragility and the Canadian Classroom Four months ago, I finished reading White Fragility: Why It's So Hard for White People to Talk About Racism [https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/43708708-white-fragility], by Robin DiAngelo. Appreciating this excellent book,
Indigenous Seven Fallen Feathers and Systemic Racism in Schools This week I finished reading Seven Fallen Feathers: Racism, Death, and Hard Truths in a Northern City [https://www.amazon.ca/gp/product/1487002262/ref=as_li_tl?ie=UTF8&camp=15121&creative=