Teaching Resources
This Teaching Resources page is a work in progress. Please send us your suggestions for useful teaching resources to the Critical Pedagogy Collective (CPC) at teachingcritcrim@gmail.com.
Teaching Tools & Professional Development
- The Critical Thinking Community: Professional development and teaching resources for teaching critical thinking
- Cult of Pedagogy: A collection of blogs, podcasts, and videos aimed at improving instruction and assessment
- Inside-Out Prison Exchange Program: Training and resources for teaching inside carceral facilities.
- Study Guides and Strategies: Guides on studying and instruction strategies
- Teaching a People’s History: Free lessons and resources organized by theme and time period (designed for K-12)
News Sources & Blogs
- Counterpunch: A left magazine; prints annual list of most censored news stories
- Cyborgology: A blog focused on the infiltration of technology in our everyday lives
- Dismantling Racism in Education: A blog focused on teaching anti-racism
- Feminist Reflections: A blog on various social issues written by feminist sociologists
- The Marshall Project: Clearinghouse of crime/criminal justice-related news from across the nation
- Social Justice Blog: The blog of the Social Justice journal
Films, Videos, & Images
- Freedocumentaries.org: Free documentaries
- Sociological Images: A collection of useful images organized by theme and type of course
- A Tube Catcher: A downloadable program that allows you to copy and save YouTube videos for future use
Comprehensive Resources
- Critical Criminology: Essays and resources for teaching critical criminology, organized by theme
- Imagining Justice: A critical social justice collective; Provides various essays and samples of classroom activities
- Online University of the Left: Blog and study guides focused on Marxist and progressive teaching
- The Society Page: An open-access source for sociological articles, blogs and podcasts organized by theme
Critical Activism
- Black Lives Matter: Black-centered liberation movement
- Color of Change: Racial justice organization
- Equal Justice Initiative: Various data and resources on racial justice in the US
- The Hampton Institute: A working-class think-tank that provides analysis and commentary on various issues
- LeftRoots: A national coalition of left organizers and activists
- The National Registry of Exonerations: Up-to-date data and stories of exoneration from across the nation
- Race Forward: Accessible research on pressing racial justice issues
- School of the Americas Watch: A non-profit working to close the School of the Americas
- Southern Poverty Law Center: Various resources on social justice issues and hate groups in the US
- United States Holocaust Memorial Museum: Resources on confronting hate and Antisemitism