As a community of educators, students, and lifelong learners, we're committed to a process of authentic self-reflection and a deeper pursuit of knowledge about how best to teach, learn, and engage with one another in a way that honors the values of diversity, equity, and inclusion. These resources — developed by HGSE and collaborators across Harvard — can support those goals.
Tools for Developing Inclusive Syllabi
This 9-page tool helps you examine the inclusivity of your syllabus along multiple dimensions and provides guidance for making it more inclusive.
- View or download the resource guide (pdf).
Teaching in Times of Strife and Trauma
This 2-page annotated and curated guide offers actionable ideas for teaching in traumatic times; teaching during elections; discussing difficult topics; and anti-racist, equitable teaching.
- View or download the curated resources (pdf).
Nurturing Voices that Challenge the Dominant Narrative
A video guide from HGSE's Instructional Moves helps teachers create safe and open environments in which to wrestle with difficult conversation topics.
Calling on Students in Equitable Ways
A video guide from Instructional Moves helps teachers ensure that their strategies of soliciting participation are fair, inclusive, and purposeful.
Resources for the Harvard Community
The Diversity, Inclusion, and Belonging Office works across the University with stakeholders and partners to guide Harvard’s culture toward sustainable and inclusive excellence.
Facilitating Hot Moments in Classroom Discussion
This 4-page resource provides guidance on how to facilitate difficult conversations, ranging from the big-picture view of how to prepare before the discussion begins to the details of how a particular intervention might look and sound.
- View or download the self assessment guide (pdf).
Black America and COVID-19
A collaboration between HGSE and the Harvard Library, this research guide seeks to document the experience of COVID-19 across Black communities in America, including ties to the historical legacy of race in America.
- Explore the research guide.
Gutman Library's Guide to Racial Justice Resources
A continuously growing archive of teaching and learning materials — books, videos, lesson plans, activist resources — about race, racial justice and anti-racism.
- Visit the Racial Justice Resources site.
Gender Pronoun Resource Guide
Recommendations on inclusivity of transgender and gender nonconforming students and staff, from the Harvard College Women’s Center.
- View or download the resource guide (pdf).
HGSE’s Teaching and Learning Lab (TLL) offers more resources on teaching for diversity, equity, and anti-racism.