Find ideas & inspiration. Art lessons to help remove biases, stereotypes, and false narratives.
Before you begin to create lesson plans, it is important that you take the time to listen, learn, and reflect first.
"It's new to you, but it's not new. When you move too fast and you're moving with these still unexamined unconscious racist thoughts and beliefs, you're actually going to do more harm because you don't yet know what you don't know."
-LAYLA F. SAAD
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by Kara Beers
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by Abby Birhanu
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by Abby Birhanu
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