Webinars

Learning for Justice webinars offer helpful guidance and great ideas from our experienced teaching and learning specialists and from innovative educators in the Learning for Justice community. Watch these FREE on-demand webinars at your own pace and share them with colleagues!

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Justice in the Science Classroom

Join Learning for Justice and cohosts from the Smithsonian Science Education Center for a webinar on integrating social justice into your practice as a science educator!
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Painting a Just Picture: Art and Activism

Co-hosted by experts from the National Gallery of Art, this webinar will offer new understandings of American visual art and its role in helping us understand our history.
Combating Online Youth Radicalization.

Combating Online Youth Radicalization

Learning for Justice and cohosts from SPLC’s Intelligence Project and American University’s Polarization and Extremism Research Innovation Lab (PERIL) present a webinar on combating the radicalization of young people online.
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Bullying & Bias
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My School Votes

Tune in to this webinar to get your high school students ready to vote! Along with special guest and My School Votes Director Andrew Amore, we will go over strategies for building school-based voter registration campaigns.
Trauma Responsive Education Supporting Students and Yourself

Trauma-responsive Education: Supporting Students and Yourself

Co-hosted by former Learning for Justice Advisory Board members Kinette Richards, Ph.D., school psychologist, and Barbie Garayúa Tudryn, school counselor, this webinar will help you gain a common understanding of trauma and how it affects both learning and relationships at school—for students and educators alike.
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The Value of Educator Self-care

Join Learning for Justice for a webinar on the importance of educators practicing self-care. Featuring middle school literacy coach Geneviéve DeBose and school social worker Shoshana Brown.
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Student Mental Health Matters

Cohosted by Dr. Charles Barrett, Chair for the National Association of School Psychologists Multicultural Affairs Committee, this webinar focuses on challenges students face regarding mental health, including how those challenges can vary.
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The Color of Law

Join Learning for Justice and Director Maureen Costello as we explore the role of U.S. segregation in everything from housing to employment to wealth accumulation—and the policies that made it all happen. Tune in to learn why the “bootstraps theory” doesn’t hold up and gain some useful tools for your classroom practice.
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Race & Ethnicity Class
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Indigenous Peoples' History

Co-hosted by experts from the Smithsonian National Museum of the American Indian, this webinar will delve into the ways American history instruction often fails to acknowledge—and contributes to—the erasure of Indigenous stories and perspectives.
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Race & Ethnicity
THH K5 Webinar

Teaching Hard History in Grades K-5

Join Learning for Justice for a deep dive into our brand-new Teaching Hard History framework for grades K–5! Participants will learn how our elementary framework centers the stories of enslaved people to teach the history of American slavery in a way that is both age-appropriate and accessible.
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Slavery
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Teaching Asian American and Pacific Islander Heritage

In honor of Asian American and Pacific Islander (AAPI) Heritage Month, join LFJ in unpacking the origins, meaning and contemporary impact of the term "Asian American Pacific Islander." We will also break down the model minority myth and provide educators with resources to effectively teach AAPI history.
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Race & Ethnicity
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Latinx History Is Black History

This webinar will clarify the confusion between race and ethnicity, provide a historical primer on Afro-Latinx identities and review resources for teaching Elizabeth Acevedo’s poem “Afro-Latina.”
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Race & Ethnicity Class
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What Is White Privilege, Really?

What is white privilege, anyway? And do we really need to teach about it? Join former Teaching and Learning Specialist Stef Bernal-Martinez and anti-racist educator and scholar Ronda Taylor Bullock for this interactive, research-rich opportunity to explore white privilege and help you create a more racially just classroom and community.
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Race & Ethnicity Class
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Fun Social Justice Activities for Elementary Students

Help young students learn the meaning and value of Identity, Diversity, Justice and Action—the four domains of the Learning for Justice Social Justice Standards. Find out how to implement these activities in your classroom with this exciting webinar!
Speak Up with NEA

Speak Up at School

In the last webinar of our series on school climate, NEA and Learning for Justice will offer strategies for responding to biased remarks in a timely manner and helping students to do the same.
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Bullying & Bias Rights & Activism
Digital Literacy

Teaching Digital Literacy

Can your students tell the difference between real news and “fake” news? Do they have the tools to speak up when they witness offensive speech online? Learning for Justice is proud to introduce our newest collection of K–12 lessons to help students learn to be responsible digital citizens.
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Bullying & Bias Rights & Activism
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Responding to Hate and Bias at School

In this first of three school-climate webinars with NEA and Learning for Justice, you will reflect on your school's climate, identify existing policies and procedures for responding to incidents of hate and bias, and learn how to draft an action plan.
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Bullying & Bias
Young and Registered

The Young and the Registered

Mobilizing the next generation of voters and activists is critical to our country's electoral integrity.This hour-long webinar will offer ways to energize students regarding power politics and the role voting plays in representative democracy.
Topic
Rights & Activism
Equity Literacy

Equity Matters: Understanding Equity Literacy

The final webinar in the Equity Matters series will address how to move from a deficit-based approach to an equity-literacy framework for meeting the needs of students and families experiencing poverty.
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Class
Engaging Families

Equity Matters: Engaging Families Through Home Visits

In the second Equity Matters webinar, educators will discuss family engagement as one of many keys to student success. Find out how to implement home visits as a way to effectively and positively interact with students, families and communities.
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Class
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Let's Talk! Discussing Whiteness

In this interactive webinar, we'll discuss whiteness as a racial identity with the understanding that acknowledging whiteness and the privilege and power attached to it is a necessary step in working toward racial justice.
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Race & Ethnicity
Let's Talk: Discussing the 2016 Election

Let's Talk: Discussing the 2016 Election

In this second part of the Let's Talk! series, educators will learn how to lead powerful conversations about the 2016 election and consider the effects of political rhetoric on vulnerable students, civil discourse and school climate.
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Rights & Activism
Summer

Self-care for the Summer

View this webinar to learn relaxation strategies, planning tips for next year and ways to fill your "compassion tanks" over the break. Join us and give back to yourself! You deserve it.
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Intersectionality

Intersectionality has become a buzzword in education, but what does it mean and why is it important in schools? This webinar will help participants understand intersectionality and offer strategies for putting knowledge into practice.
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Race & Ethnicity
Extreme Prejudice

Extreme Prejudice

Join us and our friends from the Tanenbaum Center for Interreligious Understanding for this one-hour webinar, and learn try-tomorrow strategies that can help you teach about extremism accurately, responsibly and safely.
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Race & Ethnicity Religion
Gender Savvy

Gender Savvy: Creating an Inclusive School Climate

Join Learning for Justice as we address these concerns with the support of Johanna Eager, director of Welcoming Schools. During this informative, interactive and insightful conversation, she'll share her expertise in bias-based bullying in schools, with emphasis on intersectionality, gender and LGBT inclusivity.
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Gender & Sexual Identity
45 Days

The 45 Days of Black History

This webinar will prepare educators to use the approximately 45 days between the King holiday and the end of February to engage all students in recognizing and understanding how Black Americans have moved United States and world history forward. Join Learning for Justice as we share practices and strategies for celebrating the contributions of African Americans, whether they are household names or unsung heroes.
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Race & Ethnicity
Civil Rights and Analyzing Images

Civil Rights and Analyzing Images

Don't miss this webinar where you'll learn about nine essential areas to cover when the teaching and learning about the Civil Rights Act of 1964. Participants analyze an image from the Library of Congress' collections and discuss questioning techniques that help students build an understanding about the complexity of the Civil Rights Movement.
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Race & Ethnicity Rights & Activism
Michelle Alexander

An Evening With Michelle Alexander

Join Learning for Justice and Michelle Alexander, author of ‘The New Jim Crow: Mass Incarceration in the Age of Colorblindness’, to discuss her timely book and suggestions to introduce high school students to topics such as mass incarceration and racial caste.
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Race & Ethnicity Rights & Activism
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Applications Are Now Live for LFJ Teaching Hard History Fall 2022 Cohorts

Teaching Hard History Professional Learning Cohorts provide educators the chance to deeply engage with Learning for Justice Teaching Hard History: American Slavery framework, collaborate with LFJ staff and 25 other cohort members across the country, and gain insights and feedback on implementation—all at no cost. Submit your application today!

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