Our Work is Not Done
The volunteer team of story developers and producers behind the award winning Black women filmmakers of Color of Autumn, is now reaching out to those passionate about racial justice to help fund the creation of training materials to accompany the viewing and discussion of COA inside the classroom. Once created, these materials will provide teachers with age-appropriate ways to view COA inside the classroom, AND spark crucial and engaging empathy-based class discussions around race in America which will lead to action.
COA AS AN EDUCATIONAL TOOL
Listening to the response from focus groups, educators and DEI leaders, it became clear that the COA should be developed into a school curriculum so that it could have a broader reach. Our team realized this impactful short film could serve as an educational companion and tool to aid teachers and students in classroom discussions about race and racism, and what to do about it.
Specifically, COA will become an educational tool to empower teachers in the classroom who want training and support materials to engage younger students in empathy-led discussions around hate speech. We believe this is needed now, more than ever. We need your support to create this curriculum.
What Philanthropic Funding Will Support
We have been collaborating with our advisory board to create training materials for teachers and classroom curriculum materials for students, as a companion piece to view COA and engage in empathy-based discussion around its subject matter. This curriculum will be designed with young students in mind (4th-7th graders) and will be accessible to other age groups as well.
Once developed, these materials will be piloted in the SF Bay Area as well as some key target markets including Chicago (where the origin story takes place) Florida, Texas, etc.
