Close the Gap: An Educator Guide

Table of Contents

Introduction

• Acknowledgments
• About the Partners
• What is the Educator Guide on Race, Class, and Place Disparities in the Twin Cities?
• How to Use this Guide
• Tips for Facilitators: Before Taking this Guide to the Class

Part I: Making the Case

• Making the Case

Part II: Race

• “Building Pride, Building Resilience”
• Legislative Racial Report Card
• “Telling our Stories”
• The Skin I'm In
• “The Browning of Minnesota”

Part III: Class

• "Not Those People"
• Justice for Janitors
• Diversity at Food Shelves
• Hope & Homelessness

Part IV: Place

• Access to Jobs
• Re-segregation: Fact Not Fiction
• “More Like America”
• Healing in Any Language

Part V: Making Change

• Hiring from the Heart
• E-mentoring, E-ffectiveness
• Community Garden Reunion
• Immersive Education
• Power of Parents in Education
• Origins of the African American Men Project
• The Church as a Gateway
• Impact of Minority Entrepreneurs

Annexes:

Annex 1, Human Rights Documents:

• Full text, plain-language text, and summary of the Universal Declaration of Human Rights
• International Covenant on Economic, Social, and Cultural Rights
• Convention on the Elimination of All Forms of Racial Discrimination
• Convention on the Rights of the Child

Annex 2, Tips for Facilitators

• What is a Facilitator?
• Ground Rules: RESPECT poster
• 20 Methods for Student Engagement

Annex 3, Glossary