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Taking action to build agency and belonging among high school students who want to make an impact in their communities
Founded in 2021
What Happens After RSDS?
At RSDS, we believe that student activism, involvement, and initiative should not stop with our conference. We hope that attending this conference has inspired or further driven the desire to make change, therefore, we have compiled a number of resources to help sustain that ambition. Even beyond the resources on this page, we hope that all participants will bring what they have learned to their own communities and promote social equity.
RESOURCES
These resources lead to a variety of organizations and efforts that you can complete with your school or by yourself.
FACING HISTORY AND OURSELVES
Facing History and Ourselves houses a variety of resources and lesson plans including race, anti-semitism, immigration issues, and other social justice issues. These resources are primarily for educators but can be easily transferred into a club setting or for personal education.
TEACHING AND LEARNING WHILE WHITE: ANTIRACISTS STRATEGIES FOR SCHOOL COMMUNITIES
Jenna Chandler-Ward, Co-Author of the book Learning and Teaching While White, and the Co-Founder and Co-Director of Teaching While White, a podcast and blog professional development site. She has been an educator in non-profits, schools, and colleges for over 20 years, working with students from kindergarten to college level. Jenna is also a founder and co-director of the Multicultural Teaching Institute, which produces workshops and a conference for educators on issues of equity in education. Jenna currently lives in Providence, RI on the Ancestral and Traditional land of the Nahaganset and the Wampanoag. She is an equity consultant, specializing in professional development for educators on issues of Whiteness and its impacts on teaching, curriculum and leadership, and has worked with over 150 schools and institutions across the country. She holds an M.Ed. from Pepperdine University and a bachelor’s degree from Marlboro College.
BIASED: UNCOVERING THE HIDDEN PREJUDICE THAT SHAPES WHAT WE SEE, THINK, AND DO
Dr. Jennifer Eberhardt offers us the language and courage we need to face one of the biggest and most troubling issues of our time. She exposes racial bias at all levels of society—in our neighborhoods, schools, workplaces, and criminal justice system. Yet she also offers us tools to address it. Eberhardt shows us how we can be vulnerable to bias but not doomed to live under its grip. Racial bias is a problem that we all have a role to play in solving.
HIP HOP’S LI’L SISTAS SPEAK: NEGOTIATING HIP HOP IDENTITIES AND POLITICS IN THE NEW SOUTH THE FOLEY ARTIST: STORIES
Through ethnographically informed interviews and observations conducted with six Black middle and high school girls, Hip Hop’s Li’l Sistas Speak explores how young women navigate the space of Hip Hop music and culture to form ideas concerning race, body, class, inequality, and privilege. The thriving atmosphere of Atlanta, Georgia serves as the background against which these youth consume Hip Hop, and the book examines how the city’s socially conservative politics, urban gentrification, race relations, Southern-flavored Hip Hop music and culture, and booming adult entertainment industry rest in their periphery.
THE INCONVENIENT INDIAN: A CURIOUS ACCOUNT OF NATIVE PEOPLE IN NORTH AMERICA
The Inconvenient Indian is an easy-entry history of indigenous life and oppression in North America (both the United States and Canada). The book examines the relationships between different Native tribes and non-Natives from first encounters to modern-day. It also discusses how various foreign constructs such as capitalism and religion have contributed to the persecution of Native Americans and First Nations in Canada.