How to Be an Advocate for Your Black and Brown Students

The best ways to support Black and Brown students. Learn how to support your students.

With the new semester well underway, now is an ideal time to consider how your Black, Indigenous, and People of Color (BIPOC) students may have struggled during past school years. You can make 2023 different by taking specific steps now to support them more.

All educators can be advocates, even those without first-hand experience facing unfair challenges related to race and ethnicity. Advocacy requires humility, patience, decentering, and work. During this school year, you must actively develop the qualities, talents, and opportunities of Black and Brown students.

• What opportunities do you have for advocacy?
• What perspectives will help you overcome challenges?
• How can you develop and foster cultural competency?
• What equity-driven policies should you implement?
• How can you identify and overcome implicit and explicit bias?
• What anti-racist work can you do within and beyond the classroom?

We are offering a multi-part series of specific training sessions with unique strategies that every teacher and administrator in your school can use to help all students here.