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The early grades are time when students gain significant personal experience grappling with their own ideas about right and wrong. This toolkit lets students work from experience to talk about knotty ethical issues.

Playing digital games can help students learn about social justice issues. Explore with students the value of digital games they already play, and then work with colleagues to research additional games.

Critical literacy is just as important for visual texts, such as cartoons, as it is for the written word. This toolkit will help your students read Sikhtoons while thinking about the social justice implications.

Students can learn about local struggles for justice through primary sources. This toolkit will help you collaborate with staff at a local library or archive to locate primary sources that teach your students about their community’s history.

This middle school teacher empowered his students to lift their voices in discussions about Ferguson and Eric Garner—by assigning them to tweet.

December started off right with expanded rights for transgender students attending public schools.

How do you respond to co-workers who do not recognize their own privileges? An after-school program staff member shares her experience.

This teacher believes it’s crucial for white teachers like her to seek out productive ways to talk about race and racism with students.

What is the fundamental outcome of educators growing their racial competence? Learning.

Four ways to include religiously unaffiliated students in classroom content about religion.