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This weekend’s Super Bowl offers an opportunity to talk with students about appropriation and identity.

Go beyond trauma and struggle to examine the liberation, civic engagement, creativity and intersecting identities of Black people during Black History Month.

A recent New York Times article compares history textbooks to show the radical differences between California and Texas editions. It’s a great opportunity to encourage your students to think about the role politics plays in curriculum.

While Dr. Martin Luther King Jr.’s work is often sugarcoated, it’s important to teach that King championed economic justice and taught Black self-love while also pushing back against neutrality, imperialism and systemic racism.

Local history has a profound effect on our communities. It’s up to educators to learn and teach students about the hard history in their own backyards.

Educator Kiara Lee-Heart was often the only Black student in her high school honors classes. Here’s what she wishes her teachers—and all educators—knew about that experience.

How are you aligning the way you teach about the environment with the rest of your work as a social justice educator?

Many educators profess, as a virtue, that they treat all students the same. But when a student’s specific needs and story are erased, it’s not equitable—it’s damaging.

As a white educator who teaches about mass incarceration, I will not be using ‘When They See Us’ in my classroom. Here’s why—and what I’ll teach instead.