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Anti-bias education is an educational approach, beginning as early as kindergarten, to teach children how to recognize their own biases as well as the biases or prejudices of others. Once these biases can be named, students can begin to move away from conditioned beliefs about marginalized groups of people.
Curricula like Teaching Tolerance’s Anti-Bias Framework offer age-appropriate standards that begin with self-identifying skills and end with actionable steps students can take to make change in the world.
S.E. Hinton’s novel The Outsiders provided an opportunity for my seventh-grade class to explore anti-bias education. The plot, centered around two groups of kids from opposing socioeconomic backgrounds, was a fitting template for the Teaching Tolerance framework. But before we began reading the novel, we needed to lay some groundwork.
