Ernest Crim III

Resources

Everything I Give Away.

A full Black history curriculum, built the same way I built my lesson plans for twelve years. A guide for the day your child comes home and tells you what happened to them. A newsletter that six thousand people already read every week. A podcast and a reading list, if you want to keep going. All of it free, and all of it staying free, matta fact, if you wanna get right to it, just pick a chip below and go.

Everything on this page is free. His books and book clubs are on the shop page

For Educators

I Built a Full Curriculum, and I'm Not Charging You for It.

I built this as a certified secondary social science teacher with twelve years in the classroom, not as a content creator with a Canva template and a weekend to spare.

Printed curriculum pages and a worksheet laid flat on a table

Free · Grades [PENDING] · Digital Download

Black History Month Series

A complete Black History Month series with guided questions and daily scripts, the kind I used to write at my own kitchen table the night before. Every discussion opener is built to require a real answer from our kids, a topic sentence and two supporting details, minimum, because a question a kid can answer in three words hasn't taught them anything.

  • Daily scripts for every day of the series
  • Guided discussion questions that ask our kids for a real answer
  • Built for classrooms, and just as much for families at the kitchen table
Get the curriculum on Gumroad (opens in a new tab)

Written by a certified secondary social science educator · 12 years in the classroom · Contributing author, Illinois 6-12 Black Studies curriculum [WORDING PENDING]

If It's a Tool Our Kids Need, You Don't Charge for It.

A curriculum you have to pay for reaches the schools that could already afford one, and those are not the schools I taught in. I spent twelve years in two low-income Title I buildings, and I know exactly which classrooms get left out when the good material costs money. So this is free, and it's staying free.

“When you are a student of history, you understand that you get a limited amount of time here... I'm just doing a little bit.”
Ernest Crim III

For Families

For the Conversation You Didn't Plan on Having Tonight.

One of these is for a quiet Tuesday when you're just building up what your family reads together. The other is for the day somebody calls you at work and you have about an hour to figure out what to say to your child. Both of them, I made because I needed them myself.

Free · Immediate

What To Immediately Do If Your Child Is Targeted by Racism or Hate

I wrote this as somebody who has lived it and studied it, both: my wife and I were called the N-word and spat on in 2016, and I spent the years after learning what actually helps in the moment. What to do in the first hour, what to document, who to call, and what to say to your child that night so they know you're still the one who's got them. If something just happened, skip everything else on this page and start right here.

Get the guide on Gumroad (opens in a new tab)

For Families · On the Shop Page

The affirmation book and the kids' book club

The ABCs of Affirming Black Children (signed copies) and the live K-5 Black History Book Club, whose proceeds fund our kids' college scholarships. Both of those are paid, so I keep them where the shopping happens.

See them on the shop page

Ongoing

The Class Doesn't End When You Close the Download.

Three ways to keep this going after you've downloaded everything above, a newsletter, a podcast, and the books I'm reading myself right now. All of it free.

Free · 6,000+ Subscribers

Crim's Class, the newsletter

The untold Black history, the racial justice conversations, and the belief that this work can actually change a life, because it changed mine. Free to read, straight to your inbox.

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Free · YouTube

Crim's Class Podcast

The conversations that a thirty-second video never has room for, history, current events, and the questions our community actually sends me.

Watch on YouTube (opens in a new tab)

There's a paid book club too, on Substack, it's on the shop page

The Newsletter

Six Thousand People Already Let Me Into Their Inbox Every Week.

It's the untold Black history I wish somebody had taught me, the racial justice conversations I don't think we should be having only in February, and honestly, a lot of my own thinking as it happens. Free, and it's staying free.

No spam. Unsubscribe in one click. Hosted on Substack.

Take What You Need Here, Then Bring Me Into Your Building.

Everything on this page is what I give away, no charge, no strings. Keynotes, workshops, professional development, and consulting are what I bring in person, to schools, universities, companies, and communities that want to go further than a download.

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“History is not background. It is context.”