We proudly offer a free video-based curriculum, featuring Maine students, designed to address racial harms in schools and empower students to interrupt them using a restorative model. Supported by a generous grant from the Nellie Mae Education Foundation, these lessons aim to foster dialogue, compassion, and education while promoting inclusion and racial awareness within educational settings everywhere, both within as well as outside of Maine.

The curriculum includes interactive activities based on compelling videos of Maine students recounting real-life scenarios in which they have experienced, observed, or interrupted racial microaggressions. Video hosts Jeet Patel and Anasstassia Baichorova of the Global Equity Collective, an international diversity, education, and inclusion consulting firm, contextualize the content and offer strategies for students to address racial harms in their own schools. 

• teaches "calling in" from hurtful racial comments or actions by checking peers' missteps with compassion and patience, even and especially by students who are not the ones being targeted.
• hopes to create meaningful learning moments by asking everyone to take responsibility for creating a just and inclusive school environment.
• supports students and teachers in both homogeneous and more diverse environments, while acknowledging that racial harm can be particularly isolating for students from marginalized groups in predominantly white settings.
• may be adaptable for use with elementary students, though the videos feature middle and high school students' experiences.

Please sign up below to receive access to our video links and Teacher's Instructions to use the materials with your students.