Our Anti-Racist, Inclusive Community
In our restorative school community at Prospect Hill Academy, we are a uniquely diverse community of belongingness and inclusiveness. While we embrace and build upon the collective strength of our differences, we fiercely reject racism, bigotry, and hate.
Our school community, our PHAmily:
- Is an inclusive and restorative practices school that allows our students to BREATHE while balancing high expectations, high accountability and high support for them.
- Respectfully and openly grapple with the issues of racism in our own institution.
- Lean into our own learning to continually pursue our cultural proficiency and our journeys to becoming antiracists.
- Eliminate structural and systemic barriers that prevent access to an equitable, excellent education for our black and brown students.
Anti-Racism Resources
How to talk to your children about racism
- Resources For Talking About Race, Racism And Racialized Violence With Kids
- Your Kids Aren't Too Young to Talk About Race
- Young People of Color Support Guide
- Black Lives Matter Instructional Library - Click on each book to hear a read-aloud
Anti-Racist Book List
- The New Jim Crow by Michelle Alexander
- How We Fight White Supremacy by Akiba Solomon and Kenrya Rankin
- Me and White Supremacy by Layla F. Saad
- How to be an Anti-Racist by Ibram Kendi
- Courageous Conversations about Race by Glenn Singleton
- For White Folks Who Teach in the Hood by Chris Emdin
- Everyday Anti-Racism by Mica Pollock
- White Fragility by Robin DiAngelo
- Whistling Vivaldi by Claude Steele
- Faces at the Bottom of the Well by Derek Bell
- Stamped From the Beginning by Ibram X. Kendi
- Between the World and Me by Ta Nehisi Coates
Resources recommended by the Boys & Girls Club
- Self-Care Tips for Black People Struggling With This Very Painful Week
- Filling our Cups: 4 Ways People of Color can Foster Mental Health and Practice Restorative Healing
- Resources for White People to Learn and Talk about Race and Racism
- Teaching Tolerance
- Young People of Color Support Guide
- Your Kids Aren’t Too Young to Talk About Race: Resource Roundup
Resources recommended by the YWCA of Cambridge