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A Justice Educator’s New Year
This blogger suggests four strategies—or resolutions—that social justice educators and activists can use to protect their sanity and promote solidarity.
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Spotlight on Latinx Leaders Tomorrow
TT Educator Grants support social justice work in the classroom, as well as at the school and district levels. Latinx middle schoolers in California interviewed community leaders who reflected about the challenging and rewarding path to a thriving adulthood.
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Responding to Hate and Bias in the West
A Las Vegas school made headlines when hate shook its campus. Now a group of parents is fighting to ensure children learn in a safer and more equitable environment.
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Student Context Helps Resolve Conflict
The food justice unit was one of the most successful of the year. Until the meltdown. Students had watched Food, Inc., read several articles about food production and created masterful multimedia presentations on their learning. They were now presenting. Omar chose several pictures of his favorite dishes. He told us about them and how they were made. Then he interjected a seemingly innocent joke.
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Beauty is Skin Deep
During this lesson, students will reflect on the ways they have experienced or participated in bias based on physical size and appearance—and will discuss how society’s expectations about body image and appearance affect people. Students build on their media literacy skills as they examine media images for messages that consciously and unconsciously affect attitudes and behaviors toward others. Finally, the class will explore ways to get beyond appearance as a dominant force in their social lives.Note: This lesson has been adapted with permission from the original created by GLSEN for its program, No Name-Calling Week.
July 6, 2009
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Sexual Orientation and Gender Identity
Incidents based on sexual orientation or gender identity comprised 25 percent of those reported by educators but just 10 percent of those reported in the news media. Although we found a small number of incidents directed
May 1, 2019
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Social Justice Standards
Social Justice Standards: The Teaching Tolerance Anti-bias Framework is a set of 20 anchor standards and 80 grade-level outcomes organized into four domains—Identity, Diversity, Justice and Action—that reflect the desired impact of successful anti-bias and multicultural education on student personal and social development. The standards provide a common language and organizational structure: Teachers can use them to guide curriculum development, and administrators can use them to make schools more just, equitable and safe.
April 17, 2014
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Promote Healing
A hateful act has rocked the school, and the crisis-response effort continues to move forward. It’s easy to get so focused on specific tasks—investigating the incident, handling the press conference, addressing the
August 27, 2012
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Forging Partnerships With Our School Communities
Tapping into community resources conveys to students that their families, their neighbors and they themselves matter.