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A District Profile | Black Lives Matter at School
Meet a school district that brought Black Lives Matter into the classroom—and learn how you could do it too.
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Celebrate Disability Pride Month
Celebrate Disability Pride Month by supporting and advocating for students with disabilities. These resources include real-life examples to model accessible learning environments for all students. Center the perspectives of people with disabilities to build students' understanding of the Americans with Disabilities Act. You can also print and display this beautiful poster with a quote by educator, activist and poet Kay Ulanday Barrett.
- Kay Ulanday Barrett
- Access for All
- Understanding the Americans with Disabilities Act
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An Angry Black Woman on the Subject of the Angry White Man
Jordan's poem takes on an sarcastic tone as she describes the duties, punishments, emotions and false promises endured by African Americans since slavery in response to Bill Clinton's description of affirmative action as "a psychologically difficult time for the so-called angry White man."
July 7, 2014
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Trivia and Civil Rights History
An after-school teacher uses trivia to get her elementary students thinking about the world around them—including civil rights history.
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Three Years Old, Black and Suspended
It’s time to intervene with alarmingly high preschool suspensions.
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Tour Brings American History To Life
Through a grant from Teaching American History, I was part of a group of teachers who spent months reading, listening and watching films and videos about the civil rights movement before we took a trip to the South. But still it was history—far away, untouchable and remote. That was until the first day in Sumner, Miss.
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Celebrating Arab American Heritage Month
During April, we uplift Arab American Heritage Month. These resources will help educators celebrate Arab identity, counter negative stereotypes, teach about Arab history and cultures, and ensure an inclusive environment that supports Arab American students this month and throughout the year.
- Supporting Arab American Students in the Classroom
- Presently Invisible: The Arab Plight in American Classrooms
- The New Kid in Class
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Designing Their Own Black Future
How Black students in a predominately white town are using their voices to lift their community.
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Explore the History of ‘Loving’
Learning for Justice produced this interdisciplinary teacher’s guide for The Loving Story, a documentary film about a couple’s fight to end the ban on interracial marriage.
June 24, 2022
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Put the Story in History
Put the Story in History asks students to demonstrate their writing skills when constructing an historical narrative.
July 19, 2014