Young Reader’s Editions of texts provide an incredible opportunity to teach students new ideas in developmentally appropriate ways; however, designing a unit is no small feat. Teachers rarely have time to innovate their lessons, let alone an entire unit of study…until now! This inaugural course in the Beyond the Book Series will walk you through the process of designing and creating an instructional unit for Stamped: Racism, Antiracism, and You by Jason Reynolds and Ibram X. Kendi. Using Backwards Design and Universal Design for Learning (UDL) best practices, you will create a variety of learning activities and a final project to create a dynamic, engaging unit! Identify key themes and quotes and explore multimedia resources to support further investigation of historical events and ideas. By the end of this course, you will have a completed unit of study, and feel energized, confident, and ready to teach Stamped: Racism, Antiracism, and You! 

This course format builds from module to module in a way that allows you to work through each of the essential ideas in smaller, more focused segments. You’ll find the same great resources and applicable assignments as our traditional 3 module course format, but distributed over 10 modules.