"As educators, we have the tremendous responsibility to work towards a future marked by empathy, love, and inclusion by committing to living and teaching anti-racism every single day."
~Phoenix Modern

Practices

Below are some suggestions on how to challenge the status quo and practice a lifetime of working towards a future marked by empathy, love, and inclusion.

Study

• Read Black authors
  
• Join a Teaching for Black Lives Study Group
• Write and document.
  
• Learn new skills and teach the ones you know.
  
• Read some more!
  

Solidarity

• Commit to an organization with shared principles, values, and ideology.
• Join and get involved in the union.
• Write to prisoners.
• Involve parents, caretakers, and families.
• Respond to calls made by marginalized people. 
• Organize for Ethnic Studies. It's the curriculum for learning solidarity.

Take Care

• Frame self-care as community care.
  
• Do the work of healing your hurt.
  
• Study your biases and self-awareness.
  
• Change the ways in which you consume/spend.
  
• Resist fear. Operate and do from love.
  

Share

• Use your voice. Attend and speak at school board and city council meetings.
• Invite friends into this work.
  
• Volunteer.
  
• Make zines and share them.