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SAN FRANCISCO – Students in San Francisco’s public schools are learning that “Black Lives Matter” after several school employees developed materials for teachers to embrace the anti-police movement.

The San Francisco Examiner reports that five teacher librarians recently developed teaching resources centered on the “Black Lives Matter” movement spawned by recent grand jury decisions not to indict white police officers in the deaths of Eric Garner in New York and Michael Brown in Missouri.

School board member Matt Hanley told the news site the materials align with the district’s efforts to promote social justice, and he anticipates the classroom resources will be widely used.

“I think this is going to be used by a lot of teachers, and there’s going to be a lot of excitement about this resource,” he said. “I’m not sure if there are many other school districts that openly talk about social justice and equality as much as ours.”

The Black Lives Matter lessons dovetail with a unanimously approved school board resolution Dec. 9 to expand current ethnic studies courses to all high schools, and to incorporate multiethnic studies into middle schools, the Examiner reports.

Chalida Anusasananan, an Everett Middle School librarian who helped develop the Black Lives Matter materials, said she did so to help students make sense of the protests and anti-police marches that have taken place in the Bay Area in recent months.

“We wanted to make sure that teachers had a means to teach what students were talking about with their families, or seeing on the news, or feeling every day,” Anusasananan said.