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ICSD's Anti-marginalization curriculum: https://www.ithacacityschools.org/districtpage.cfm?pageid=1346​ 

As Americans, we are not just enduring a health pandemic but a racial pandemic reeled with deadly hate crimes and violence. Responding to the moment, districts across the country are accelerating the implementation of real instruction and conversations that will change their school culture around race, equity and inclusion with the goal of building antiracist school policies and curriculum that are sustainable. Just last week the California State Board of Education ended a years-long debate on Thursday becoming the first state to approve a statewide ethnic studies curriculum for high schools. The curriculum will guide how the histories, struggles, and contributions of Asian, Black, Latino, and Native Americans — and the racism and marginalization they have experienced in the United States — will be taught to millions of students. Other states have taken different approaches to teaching ethnic studies. Oregon is developing ethnic studies standards for its social studies curriculum, while Connecticut high schools will be required to offer courses in Black and Latino studies by the fall of 2022. The course materials in California include 33 lesson plans, which schools are not required to use but can pick from to fit their student communities. More than three-quarters of California’s 6.2 million K-12 students are non-white. Education is the vaccine to combat the virus of hate so in this episode, my guest Luvelle Brown Superintendent of Ithaca City School District in New York shares with us his experience prioritizing and implementing an anti marginalization curriculum for all students pre-k through 12th.