The CARE Framework

The Center for Anti-Racist Education (CARE) Framework is a resource that identifies the knowledge, skills, and dispositions of antiracist educators. Download the materials below to assess your own practice, and watch the videos below to learn more about how the framework can help you embody the best practices of antiracist education.

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Teaching Resources

The CARE Framework

A roadmap detailing the knowledge, skills, and behaviors necessary to embark on an antiracist educator journey.

The Reading
Guide

A resource to stimulate thinking and analysis of the CARE Framework, its potential uses, and its capacity to help improve antiracist practice.

The Self-Reflection Guide

A collection of prompts designed to challenge superficial understandings of antiracist teaching and encourage educators to interrogate their own thinking and experiences.

Becoming an Antiracist Educator

A companion guide to CARE’s four-part Educator Web Series (below), featuring educators from around the country in dialogue about what it means to be an antiracist educator.

CARE Educator Web Series

“No one is born fully-formed. It is through self-experience in the world that we become what we are.”

— Paulo Freire