Trainings
Weekly Virtual ICE Watch Trainings are available from Illinois Coalition for Immigrant and Refugee Rights:
- English: https://zoom.us/webinar/register/WN_VL_iwq0yQD6amZuuoAti4w#/registration
- Spanish: https://zoom.us/webinar/register/WN_IWfI8yHHQbKeWxqRuau-5w
What To Say To Kids About Ice
Updated October 2025
Resource for All Parents & Care-givers:
- ChildNet — What to Say to Kids About ICE. Age-appropriate ways to start and maintain conversations, with simple explanations and sample language: https://www.childnet.org/what-to-say-to-kids-about-ice
- National Domestic Workers Alliance — “It Takes a Village” Toolkit. Resources for families: talking with children, emergency plans, rights, and more: https://www.domesticworkers.org/resources/know-your-rights/immigrant-rights/take-action/it-takes-a-village-mobilization-toolkit
- Deepa Iyer — Social Change Ecosystem Map & “Social Change Now” workbook. A framework for figuring out how each of us can engage in social change in roles we feel capable of: https://www.socialchangemap.com/
Social Justice Books:
Titles recommended on immigration policy and politics, the immigrant experience, and human displacement due to many factors, including climate injustice, capitalism, and militarism, with a focus on the United States. https://socialjusticebooks.org/booklists/immigration/
See resources for teaching about immigration on the Zinn Education Project website and at TeachingCentralAmerica.org.
Children’s Books
Children’s Book Recommendations – crowd sourced from Peirce Survey October 2024
https://www.womenandchildrenfirst.com/peirce-rep – holds the list. “Recommended to start with books that center Black joy”
- Dim Sum for Everyone! – Grace Lin (ages 1-4)
- Our Skin: A First Conversation About Race – Megan Madison, Jessica Ralli, Isabel Roxas (ages 2+)
- It’s OK to be Different – Todd Parr (ages 2-5)
- Big Hair Don’t Care – Crystal Swain-Bates (ages 2-6)
- Hey Black Child – Useni Eugene Perkins (ages 2-6)
- Julian is a Mermaid – Jessica Love (ages 3-6)
- The Ugly Vegetables – Grace Lin (ages 3-7)
- I Am Enough – Grace Byers (3-7 years)
- Alma and How She Got Her Name – Juana Martinez-Neal (ages 3-8)
- Sulwe – Lupita Nyong’o (ages 3-8)
- Not My Idea: A Book About Whiteness – Anastasia Higginbotham (ages 4-9 years)
- Going to Ghana (Ana & Andrew)- Christine Platt (ages 4-9)
- A Walk in Harlem (Ana & Andrew) – Christine Platt, Anuki Lopez (ages 4-9)
- Something Happened in Our Town: A Child’s Story About Racial Injustice – Marianne Celano, Marietta Collins, Ann Hazzard, Jennifer Zivoin (ages 4 to 8)
- Born in the Water – Nikole Hannah Jones, Renee Watson, (ages 6-10)
- Four Feet, Two Sandals – Karen Lynn Williams, Khadra Mohammed (ages 7-10)
- Stamped (kids version): Racism, Antiracism and You – Jason Reynolds, Ibram X. Kendi, Sonja Cherry Paul (ages 7-11)
- IntersectionAllies: We Make Room for All – Chelsea Johnson,, LaToya Council, Carolyn Choi (ages 6-12)
- It’s Trevor Noah: Born a Crime: Stories from a South African Childhood (Adapted for Young Readers) – Trevor Noah (ages 10-15)
Social Justice Book List – https://socialjusticebooks.org
Do you have a book to recommend to the Peirce community? Send us your recommendation!
Videos
- Video: “Raising White Kids”Author talks about how to talk to your kids about race (5 mins)
- Video: How to talk to Kids about Racism
- Video: How to talk to Kids about Race and Racism (for White and non-white children)
- Video: How to Raise Kids to be Anti-Racist and Talk to Them About Racism (5 mins)
Resources for Supporting Kids in the Wake of Racialized Violence
- This list was emailed 2/2/23 from REP to the Peirce community via former Principal Zaimi’s newsletter
Resource for All Parents & Care-givers:
- https://www.embracerace.org/
- Explaining the “Why” Behind Police Violence Using Child-Friendly Language
Resource for White Parents of Children of Color
Resources for White Parents
- NPR’s “Talking Race with Young Children”
- Anti-Racism for Beginners: a Tool Kit
- Courageous Conversations About Race by Glenn E. Singleton
- “Talking to Your Kids About Racism: How to start the important conversation and keep it going.”
- Coretta Scott King Book Award Winners: books for children and young adults Common Sense Media
- “(divorcing) White Supremacy Culture: Coming home to who we truly are” a Tool Kit
- 12 Part Video Series: Facing Race
- Equity Vision – February 2022
Ensure families and caregivers have complete access to relevant information such as student achievement, program placement and participation in a language or form of communication that is meaningful to them.
https://www2.ed.gov/programs/slcp/2011progdirmtg/equityscale.pdf - REP Inspiration – January 2021
“The beauty of anti-racism is that you don’t have to pretend to be free of racism to be an anti-racist. Anti-racism is the commitment to fight racism wherever you find it, including in yourself. And it’s the only way forward,” Ijeoma Oluo - Events: https://www.dhs.state.il.us/page.aspx?item=128228
- Dismantling White Supremacy in your everyday Life: https://www.verywellmind.com/avoiding-racist-action-in-everyday-life-5072846
- Race Forward – Introduction to Racial Equity training Slides:
https://racc.org/wp-content/uploads/2015/12/An-Introduction-to-Racial-Equity-Assessment-Tools.pdf