Tools for Anti-Racist Teaching: Using Media to Know Better, Teach Better
by PBS Education
When conversations of racial injustice and equity arise, many educators find themselves reacting in the moment, without being prepared for these important conversations. In this series, we’ll introduce steps you can take to be proactive, starting with a focus on media literacy. In the second episode of our four part series, “Tools for Anti-Racist Teaching,” we’ll explore ways in which you can use media to know better and teach better. The current media landscape is oversaturated, and it’s sometimes hard to analyze which resources are best, especially around topics of racism and oppression. This conversation is designed to help educators analyze and evaluate media, and provide important context so you can meaningfully shape your anti-racist classroom planning and practices. We’ll also focus on ways in which you can use these media literacy tools to empower yourself and your students to change classroom and personal practice.
PBS Digital Innovator All Star/PBS KIDS Early Learning Champion Mike Lang and Roshanna Beard will be joined by Britt Hawthorne and Courtney Cook.
Britt Hawthorne is a nationally recognized anti-bias/anti-racist teacher-educator. Britt partners with action-orientated educators, helping them to plan their next steps for creating classroom environments that are inclusive and equitable for all learners. Her work seeks to move justice from being an idea to the accepted culture. You’ll also have the chance to meet peers throughout the country to discuss how educators can enact and embody anti-racist learning and practices.
Courtney Cook was born and raised in a rural South Georgia town and has over a decade of experience in the field of education. After teaching high school English in Georgia for two years, Courtney pursued her Master’s Degree in African American Studies at Boston University and continued to teach high school English, Journalism, and African American Studies in Massachusetts for four years before moving to Austin, TX to pursue her PhD in Curriculum and Instruction, with a specialization in Cultural Studies in Education, at the University of Texas at Austin.
