These teacher-designed materials are effective ESOL and AE teaching tools and will help provide a safe and welcoming classroom. They are associated with the “Talking about Race” issue of The Change Agent (Issue #42). 

 All the materials are freely provided.

• “Existing While Black”: A Worksheet for ESOL Learners by Lisa Gimbel
• “Best Practices for Talking about Race” by Lisa Gimbel and Riva Pearson
• “Teaching to Unlearn Racism” by Judy Hofer
• “Who Paved the Way?” by Kathleen Budway
• “Preparing My Students to Write about Race” by Hazel Robin
• “Exploring Racism: Police, Stereotypes, and the Possibility of a Better World” by Manny Reynoso
• “The Construction of Race in the U.S.: An Early History” by Cynthia Peters
• “Using Sources: Unpacking a Well-Researched Article” by Kathleen O’Connell
• “Race and Voting Rights in 2016: Lesson Ideas” — by Andy Nash and Cynthia Peters
• Two students discuss why we should talk about race in the adult education classroom:  Dalsaint Lavoir, an ESOL student at JVS Boston, MA and 

Matias Rodriguez, former GED student at Pima/El Rio Learning Center in Tucson, Arizona