• Read: “Are Prisons Obsolete?” by Angela Davis

• Watch: Ruth Wilson Gilmore, “Don’t Reform Prisons, Abolish Them”

• Listen: (transcript available): Ruth Wilson Gilmore Makes The Case For Abolition

• Watch: Andrea Ritchie, “Building Alternatives is Everyone’s Job”

• Read: The CR Abolition Organizing Toolkit (especially pages 8-9 for a basic introduction to abolition’s relevance to schooling)

• Read: Abolition Is Not Merely a Demand, But a Long-Term Struggle by Barry Chin

• Read: A Fresh Framework: The Feminism of the Abolition Movement by Rayne Fisher-Quann

• Teach: The Institute for Anti-Racist Education’s Anti-Racist SEL 2.0 Mini-Lesson 5: What is Abolition?

  • NOTE: The above link will only provide access to those with a University of Michigan login. The Mini-Lesson can be purchased as a part of Anti-Racist SEL 2.0 . If cost is an issue, reach out to the organization on their “Contact Us” page.

Pedagogical Tools:

• Read: Guide for Racial Justice & Abolitionist Social and Emotional Learning from Abolitionist Teaching Network

• Read: Antiracist Social and Emotional Learning from Puget Sound Educational Service District

• Read: Educate to Liberate: Build an Anti-Racist Classroom by Joshua Block

• Read: How to Be an Antiracist Educator by Dena Simmons

• Read: From freedom dreams to realities: Adopting Transformative Abolitionist Social Emotional Learning (TASEL) in schools by Linsay DeMartino, Lisa Fetman, DeAnne Tucker-White, & Amanda Brown

• Teach with: Materials from The Institute for Anti-Racist Education’s mini-lessons available in their Anti-Racist SEL Guide and Anti-Racist SEL 2.0 virtual courses

  • NOTE: this is the only resource listed that asks for payment. If cost is an issue, reach out to the organization on their “Contact Us” page

  • Some samples available to University of Michigan EDUC 737 students only:

    • Anti-Racist SEL Guide Mini-Lesson: Boundaries (Slides only)

    • Anti-Racist SEL Guide Mini-Lesson: Intent & Impact (Slides only)

    • Anti-Racist SEL 2.0 Mini-Lesson 4: Leadership & Empathy (Slides only)

Important Cautions & Considerations from Wise People:

• Read: Through Abolitionist Teaching, American Educators Can Help Kids 'Do More Than Survive' by Leighton Rowell & Virginia Prescott

• Read: Dear White Teachers: You Can’t Love Your Black Students If You Don’t Know Them by Bettina L. Love

• Reference: The DEISEL Anti-Racist SEL Approach (Adapted from CASEL's SEL Framework) (Retrieved from The Institute for Anti-Racist Education)

• Read: Disrupting Systemic Whiteness in the Mindfulness Movement with Dr. Angela Rose Black

• Read: Social-Emotional Learning for Black Students is Ineffective When it is Culture-Blind by Donna Ford

• Read: What Happened When My School Started to Dismantle White Supremacy Culture by Joe Truss

• Read: Social-Emotional Learning or ‘White Supremacy with a Hug’? Yale Official’s Departure Sparks a Racial Reckoning by Linda Jacobson featuring Dena Simmons

• Read: Why We Can't Afford Whitewashed Social-Emotional Learning by Dena Simmons

• Read: Dena Simmons: Without Context, Social-Emotional Learning Can Backfire

• Read: When SEL is Used as Another Form of Policing by the Communities for Just Schools Fund

• Read: Compulsory: education and the dispossession of youth in a prison school by Sabina E. Vaught

• Read: First Strike: Educational Enclosures in Black Los Angeles by Damien M. Sojoyner

• Read: Dreaming of Abolitionist Futures, Reconceptualizing Child Welfare: Keeping Kids Safe in the Age of Abolition by Emma Peyton Williams

• Listen: “That There Isn’t A System At All”… Dorothy Roberts On Abolition In Child Welfare