For Educators
Teach the Tough Plays.
Students already talk about sport. SportsCrit™ helps them talk about what sits underneath it — race, money, gender, power, and who gets a say. Ready-to-teach tools, built in a real classroom.
The SportsCrit™ Teaching Library
Everything You Need to Teach It
Instructor-ready resources built and tested in Dr. G’s classrooms. Instant digital downloads, plus the book that started it all.
SportsCrit™: Teaching the Tough Plays
The book behind the framework: nine tenets for teaching race, power, and justice through sport. Buy direct to support the author, or order desk and course copies.
SportsCrit™ Educator Guide Bundle
The companion instructor guide to Teaching the Tough Plays: syllabi and a 15-week sequence, 15 case studies, a midterm and master rubric, 20 responses to student pushback, plus a Student Worksheet Pack and Instructor Toolkit.
Launch offer: $10 off with code TOUGHPLAYS
Media Framing Theory Guide: More Than a Game
Race, media, and algorithmic bias in sports. The seven-stage SportsCrit™ Protest Cycle, case studies on Mexico City 1968 and In Whose Honor?, four worksheets, a 75-minute lab, and a three-week unit.
The Nine Tenets, on one page
Every tenet with its guiding question. Print it, project it, or pin it above your desk.
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FREE FOR YOUR CLASSROOM
The Nine Tenets, On One Page.
All nine tenets, each with its guiding question — organized from Read the Game to Teach the Tough Plays to Rewrite the Game. Print it, project it, or pin it above your desk.
See a Live Module: NAACP Out of Bounds →
How Dr. G teaches the tenets in KIN 4450: Social and Historical Perspectives in Sport at Cal Poly Pomona — a voting-rights campaign and a college-sports bill, read through the framework.
Free for classroom use with attribution. Want new lessons as they drop? Join Talking SportsCrit™ with Dr. G →
FREE CLASSROOM MODULES
See SportsCrit™ in Action.
LIVE MODULE · VOTING RIGHTS
NAACP Out of Bounds
Voting rights, college sport, and the Protect College Sports Act, read through the nine tenets.
PODCAST PAIRING · TENET 2
Whiteness as Property in Sport
Pairs with “Black Labor, White Legacy: Who Really Owns the Game?”
TWO-WEEK MODULE · TENETS 7–9
Power, Identity & Justice
From “Progress Is Made When Power Gets Paid” to “Justice Is Past, Present, and Futuristic.”
STUDENT WORK
See What Students Create
Podcast episodes researched, scripted, and produced by Dr. G’s students.
LA28 RESEARCH COMMONS
LA28 Through a Justice Lens
Student-written civic education guides and public research.
ADOPT FOR YOUR COURSE
Put It on the Syllabus
Desk copies for instructors, bulk and course orders, and institutional licensing — plus the SportsCrit™ Educator Guide Bundle for everything you need to teach it.
BRING IT TO YOUR CAMPUS
Train the Teachers
Faculty-development workshops, curriculum consultation, course and module design, and educator training with Dr. G.
FREQUENTLY ASKED QUESTIONS
Questions Educators Ask
What disciplines does SportsCrit™ fit?
SportsCrit™ is an interdisciplinary framework that can be used wherever people study sport, culture, power, identity, education, health, media, or institutions. It works especially well in:
Kinesiology and sport studies
Sport management
Ethnic studies
African American and Black studies
Education and teacher preparation
Media, journalism, and communication
Public health and health equity
Sociology
History
Gender and women’s studies
Disability studies
Psychology, counseling, and social work
Public policy and civic education
Coaching education
Athletic administration and student-athlete development
Olympic and Paralympic studies
SportsCrit™ can support an entire course, a single unit, a case-study assignment, or the analysis of a specific sporting event. It is designed to complement—not replace—the disciplinary knowledge educators already bring to their classrooms.
Can I use SportsCrit™ in K–12 education?
Yes—with age-appropriate adaptation.
SportsCrit™ works especially well in middle school and high school classrooms, athletic programs, after-school programs, youth leadership initiatives, and professional development for K–12 educators and coaches. Selected concepts can also be introduced in upper-elementary settings through accessible language, stories, sports examples, and guided conversations about fairness, identity, representation, voice, and belonging.
Educators should adjust the vocabulary, readings, media, activities, and depth of analysis to match students’ developmental levels and the needs of their learning environment. The goal is not to simplify questions of justice beyond recognition, but to give young people appropriate tools for asking better questions about the world of sport around them.
Do I need a background in Critical Race Theory to teach SportsCrit™?
No formal background in Critical Race Theory is required to begin.
SportsCrit™ was created to make critical analysis intellectually rigorous, accessible, and usable across educational settings. Educators can begin with SportsCrit™: Teaching the Tough Plays, the SportsCrit™ Nine Tenets one-pager, and a contemporary sporting moment that gives students something concrete to examine.
Helpful preparation includes:
Reading the introductory chapters of the book
Becoming familiar with the Nine Tenets
Reflecting on your own relationship to sport, identity, power, and spectatorship
Establishing classroom agreements for difficult conversations
Beginning with one case, media story, or sporting event rather than attempting to teach the entire framework at once
Participating in a SportsCrit™ workshop or educator-training session with Dr. G
You do not need to arrive as an expert. You do need curiosity, a willingness to engage in self-reflection, and a commitment to facilitating difficult conversations with care and intellectual honesty.
MORE QUESTIONS
Is there an instructor’s guide or slide deck?
Yes — the SportsCrit™ Educator Guide Bundle is available now. It includes the Educator Manual (lesson sequences, case studies, discussion prompts, assignments, rubrics, and a facilitation guide), an editable Student Worksheet Pack, and an Instructor Toolkit with lab worksheets and syllabus templates.
A Coach's Manual, the SportsCrit™ Vocab Lab, and media-framing resources are on the way.
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How do I request a desk copy or bulk pricing?
Information about desk copies, course adoption, bulk orders, and institutional purchasing is available on the Books page.
For larger orders, university adoption, professional-development programs, or institutional licensing, please submit an inquiry so the appropriate purchasing options can be discussed.
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Can Dr. G train our faculty, educators, coaches, or athletic staff?
Yes. Dr. Gyasmine George-Williams offers customized keynotes, workshops, faculty development, curriculum consultation, and institutional learning experiences. Training can be designed for:
Faculty and educators
Coaches and athletic staff
Student-athlete development teams
Academic departments
K–12 schools and districts
College and university programs
Professional associations
Community and nonprofit organizations
Media and storytelling teams
Each engagement can be adapted to the audience, institutional context, learning goals, and amount of time available. Topics may include the SportsCrit™ framework, the Nine Tenets, teaching difficult conversations, media framing, athlete activism, Conditions of Care, health equity, spectatorship, and institutional accountability.