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Teaching 'The New Jim Crow' Assessments This teacher’s guide offers summative assessments that allow students to demonstrate their knowledge and defend their views after studying The New Jim Crow: Mass Incarceration in

Topic

Class Rights & Activism

July 6, 2017

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September 18, 2017

Honoring LGBTQ Voices During Hispanic Heritage Month

Too often, curricula and media position racial and sexual identities as either/ors. Hispanic Heritage Month is an opportunity to change that.

Topic

Gender & Sexual Identity

article

May 22, 2018

Love Your Magic Conference

Read about how one teacher used a Learning for Justice grant to help fund a daylong conference empowering girls of color in Boston.

Topic

Gender & Sexual Identity

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Issue 57, Fall 2017

What Is the “Alt-Right”?

White nationalism has come out of the basement and entered the mainstream. Would you recognize it if it came to your classroom?

Topic

Immigration Rights & Activism

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One Survivor Remembers

This Oscar-winning documentary presents Gerda Weissmann Klein’s account of surviving the Holocaust as a child. (Available for streaming only)

Grade Level

6-8 9-12

Topic

Religion Bullying & Bias

Subject

Social Studies

History

June 29, 2017

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Best Practices for Serving English Language Learners and Their Families

Are you looking for culturally responsive ways to support English language learners? Based on our recently updated ELL best practices guide, this webinar presents specific tools and strategies for supporting ELLs in instruction, family engagement, classroom culture and school policies.

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Immigration Rights & Activism

January 30, 2018

webinar

Teaching Hard History: Building Better Lessons About Slavery

Join Learning for Justice for a deep dive into our one-of-a-kind classroom resource A Framework for Teaching American Slavery.

Topic

Slavery Class Immigration

January 29, 2019

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Hayley Breden

For the past eight years, Hayley Breden has taught social studies courses at Denver South High School. Hayley attended Lawrence University, a liberal arts college in Wisconsin, to earn her B.A. in history with minors in ethnic studies and environmental studies, along with her teaching license. She earned an M.A. in Educational Foundations, Policy, and Practice from CU-Boulder in 2016. Breden completed her student teaching at a public high school on Chicago’s South Side. Her time teaching in Chicago also included participating in the organization Teachers for Social Justice (Chicago TSJ), which

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September 3, 2010

Focus on the Family Goes After LGBT Students

For the last few days, an “educational analyst” for Focus on the Family has been getting a lot of press. She’s been suggesting that anti-bullying efforts that draw attention to the harassment of lesbian, gay, bisexual and transgender (LGBT) students are part of a “gay agenda” to “sneak homosexuality lessons into classrooms.”

Topic

Bullying & Bias Gender & Sexual Identity

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April 24, 2014

Resist Telling a Simple Story

Telling only one story of civil rights marginalizes the voices we ignore. It also prevent us from doing exactly what the story of civil rights is supposed to teach us to do―fight for justice in our own communities as those before us did.

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Rights & Activism

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