Social Justice Standards
Resources for families
A Framework for Anti-bias Education
The Social Justice Standards are a road map for anti-bias education at every stage of K–12 instruction. Comprised of anchor standards and age-appropriate learning outcomes, the Standards provide a common language and organizational structure educators can use to guide curriculum development and make schools more just and equitable.
Divided into four domains—identity, diversity, justice and action (IDJA)—the Standards recognize that, in today’s diverse classrooms, students need knowledge and skills related to both prejudice reduction and collective action. Together, these domains represent a continuum of engagement in anti-bias, multicultural and social justice education. The IDJA domains are based on Louise Derman-Sparks’ four goals for anti-bias education in early childhood.
Each of the IDJA domains has learning outcomes and school-based scenarios organized by grades K–2, 3–5, 6–8 and 9–12.
Social justice education is essential in the current hostile learning environment created by censorship laws and policies aimed at prohibiting the teaching of honest history and further marginalizing LGBTQ+ students and educators. Helping children understand their own identities without devaluing others; encouraging them as they find the ways we’re all connected and deserving of respect; teaching them to recognize injustice and showing them how to act against it—this is the work of social justice education.
Learn more from the source: learningforjustice.org
Culturally Responsive read alouds
- A Big Mooncake for Little Star by Rukhsana Khan
- I Am Every Good Thing by Derrick Barnes
- Your Name is a Song by Jamila Thompkins
- The Proudest Blue by Ibihaj Muhammed
- Carmella Full of Wishes by Matt De La Pena
- I Can Write the World by Joshunda Sanders
- My Papi has a Motorcycle by Isabelle Quintero