Lifespan Curriculum Introduction
Anti-Racism Resources for All Ages and Identities
This long term project, in response to the Commission on Institutional Change’s report, Widening the Circle of Concern, in which it is recommended that an “OWL–like" (lifespan) curriculum on antiracism is developed, will construct multimedia “playlists" for various age groups (K-adult).
Program Goals
- To collaboratively develop a series of modular playlist-formatted lessons for each age group.
- To create lessons that will be relevant to the aims of faith development for each age group, as well as to our growing understanding of best practices and justice centered parlance that arise out of BIPOC movements to decolonize and decenter whiteness.
- To create lessons with virtual, in-person, and hybrid learning environments in mind.
- To maintain a cohesion with the various other projects within the Mosaic brand.
How to Access
The entire curriculum will become available once you have completed the facilitator training. Free for Mosaic facilitators with coupon code: mosaic. (Note: you need to create a free user account before registering for the training.)
Available Lessons
K-1
- Race, Color and Nationality - What Does It Mean?
- I'm unique, you're unique and we are all beautiful
- Why it's okay to talk about race
2-3
- Identifying, Naming and Sharing our racial, skin colour, and cultural identities
- Identifying, Naming and Sharing our identities outside of race & skin colour
- Celebrating our differences
4-5
- Identifying, Naming and Sharing our racial, skin colour, and cultural identities
- Identifying, Naming and Sharing our identities outside of race & skin colour
- Celebrating our differences
Middle School
- What are the characteristics of white supremacy culture
- Recognizing racialized bullying
- When bias and stereotypes show up in people we love
- When one culture has more power than another
- What is colonialism & how do we decolonize?
- Power and democracy: grassroots organizing, media literacy, and the system (locally, nationally, internationally)
- The Paradox of Tolerance: Holding each other accountable with love
- Creative Jam: imagine the Beloved Community
High School
- White supremacy culture vs white supremacism
- How white supremacy culture shows up in ourselves and in our communities
- Finding allies and accomplices: don't do the work of anti-racism alone
- When one culture has more power than another
- What is colonialism & how is it alive today?
- Amen to uprising: advocacy and power for teens fighting racial injustice
- What is the history of policing and the carceral system? What ways can we reduce the power of policing?
- Creative Jam: imagine the Beloved Community
Emerging Adult
- What is the history of racism and anti-Blackness in Unitarian Universalism
- Mixing & huddling: the importance of racial identity spaces within Unitarian Universalism
- What would it take to co-create an explicitly anti-racist Unitarian Universalism?
BIPOC
- Mixing & huddling: the importance of racial identity spaces within Unitarian Universalism
- How has the history of white supremecy culture in Unitarian Universalist spaces continue to show up and impact IBPOC?
- What would it take for you to be able to bring your full self to Unitarian Universalist spaces?
- Are we able to recognize and identitfy when we as BIPoC are uplifting and holding onto white supremecy culture?
- How do we, as BIPOC, identify and center our own cultures and lived experiences & support one another?
- Confronting White Entitlement and Microaggressions
- History of anti-racism work within the UU Faith
- Creative Jam: imagine the Beloved Community
General Adults
- What is the history of policing and the carceral system, and why it conflicts with our UU values
- Confronting our fears about the abolition of policing
- Beyond policing and the carceral system: joining the struggle for a safer future for all
Future Full Curricula Release Dates
- September 13th- Middle School
- October 14th- General Adult
- November 15th- Kindergarten- 1st grades
- December 13th- 2nd- 3rd grades
- January 10th- 4th- 5th grades
- February 7th- Emerging Adult